The Disk Image ?joemac.sparsebundle Is In Use.

Oct 8, 2014 - Can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone a Time Machine backup? Apple relaxed some restrictions on sparsebundle disk images in macOS. Locates the folder of movies that she would like to copy to Bob and Joe's Mac. Create a disk image using Disk Utility on Mac. You can use Disk Utility to create a disk image, which is a file that contains other files and folders. Open Disk Utility for me. Note: You can burn information to a CD or DVD using the Burn command in the Finder. See Burn CDs and DVDs.

You can restore a disk image to a disk. To do this, you first need to erase the disk. If the disk image has multiple partitions, you must restore each partition individually.

Restore a disk image with a single volume to a disk

  1. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, select the volume that you want to restore in the sidebar, then click the Restore button .

    This is the volume that is erased and becomes the exact copy.

  2. Click the Restore pop-up menu, then choose the volume you want to copy.

    If you’re restoring from a disk image, click the Image button, then navigate to that disk image.

  3. Click Restore.

Restore a disk image with multiple volumes to a disk

To restore a disk image with multiple volumes to a disk, you must partition the destination disk, then restore each volume individually.

  1. In the Finder on your Mac, double-click the disk image to open it.

    The disk image’s volumes appear as disks in the Finder.

  2. In the Disk Utility app, select the disk in the sidebar, click the Partition button , then partition the destination disk.

    The destination disk must have as many partitions as the disk image, and each of the disk’s partitions must be at least as large as the corresponding partition in the disk image. See Partition a physical disk using Disk Utility on Mac.

  3. In the sidebar, select the volume that you want to restore, then click the Restore button .

    This is the volume that is erased and becomes the exact copy.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • Restore from a volume: Click the “Restore from” pop-up menu, then choose the volume you want to copy.

    • Restore from a disk image: Click Image, choose the disk image you want to copy, then click Open.

  5. Click Restore.

  6. Repeat steps 3–5 for each remaining partition.

See alsoCreate a disk image using Disk Utility on MacAdd a checksum to a disk image using Disk Utility on MacVerify that a disk image’s data isn’t corrupted using Disk Utility on Mac
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I have an airport extreme with a drive connected, and use it for backing up snow leopard macs. I have an occasional problem with one of them that says 'the backup disk image ... is already in use' and it fails to backup.

Any ideas?

Michael NealeMichael Neale

3 Answers

Purgeable Sparsebundle Is In Use

What worked for me in the end was to 'disconnect all users' from the Airport Utility - and then unplug/plugin the drive again (remount it) - it was then able to backup successfully.

Michael NealeMichael Neale

There isn't an .InProgress file still on the drive is there? That can cause problems.Just delete it to get the backup working again.

alimackalimack

The disconnect, power off/on works, but only temporarily. I think for me it hoses up if I close my macbook pro lid while its trying to backup.

The Disk Image Macbook Pro.sparsebundle Is In Use

mohrtmohrt

The Backup Disk Image Could Not Be Created Synology

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