I am running 5.0b14.  Had set up a dedicated disk with a TM share on it. Had one MAC backing up, and all was working well for the first few days. I then decided I would add another MAC to the same share...then everything stopped working.

 

When I now try to start a back up, I get the following error:

 

Something wrong with the volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNID DB instead.Check server messages for details. Switching to read-only mode.

 

And the back-up never starts.

 

I would like to remove the two sparsebundles from the share and start over, sticking with only one MAC back up to one share. I have tried to delete via Finder with no luck as well as at the command line (rm -rf) with no luck.

 

From the command line, here is a listing:

root@HAL_9000:/mnt/disk5/Jim_TM# ls -l

total 0

drwxrws--- 4 nobody users 248 Apr 30 09:25 Brenda\ Smith\342\200\231s\ iMac.sparsebundle/

drwxrws--- 4 nobody users 304 Apr 30 05:26 Jim\ Smith\342\200\231s\ iMac.sparsebundle/

root@HAL_9000:/mnt/disk5/Jim_TM#

 

 

In Finder, they show up as:

Brenda Smith's iMac.sparsebundle

Jim Smith’s iMac.sparsebundle

 

Thanks,

 

SH

I'd try turning off AFP, doing a clean reboot and then "rm -r Jim_TM/" from a SSH prompt.  If running the rm command as mentioned above doesn't let you remove the folders, then something still has a lock on them.  Maybe shutting down the Macs in question would work too, and then trying to remove the folders directly from the server console.

Remove the .Apple files. Enter "ls -l" to list them.

Did it all on the console with the system off the network. All good, can start over.