March 27Mar 27 Hi,Recently, I noticed many errors in logs from time machine backup:Mar 27 14:36:19 Tower smbd[1055097]: [2026/03/27 14:36:19.319563, 0] ../../source3/modules/vfs_fruit.c:5234(fruit_get_bandsize) Mar 27 14:36:19 Tower smbd[1055097]: fruit_get_bandsize: Didn't find band-size key in [/mnt/user/time_machine/iMac-XXXXX.sparsebundle/Info.plist] Mar 27 14:36:19 Tower smbd[1055097]: [2026/03/27 14:36:19.319690, 0] ../../source3/modules/vfs_fruit.c:5356(fruit_tmsize_do_dirent) Mar 27 14:36:19 Tower smbd[1055097]: fruit_tmsize_do_dirent: Processing sparsebundle [iMac-XXXXX.sparsebundle] failed
March 28Mar 28 Community Expert Solution The errors indicates the .sparsebundle is missing required metadata, suggesting it's corrupt, best bet IMO is:Delete:/mnt/user/time_machine/iMac-Krystian.sparsebundleRecreate backup from macOS
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