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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1927159" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>You MIGHT be able to use a Container as a backup and share the drive with the OTHER Container, but in the Container her machine is using there are two Volumes, Data (TM) and Track Data (TM). That is probably contributing to the issue, as Ian and I have both pointed out. TM takes control of the &quot;drive&quot; (Container) to which it is pointed and does not share well. So, having two Volumes in that Container could well be the issue here. And you can stop saying that her machine is backing up to a sparsebundle because it isn't. It's backing up to a Volume, using a sparsebundle format for data storage. TM uses that format to save space during transmission of the data over the network. I have found sparsebundle backups to be more fragile than backups done by direct attachment drives, so I don't use TM on a network storage any more. You might consider getting a dedicated drive for her Mac and direct attach it. Doesn't need to be either fast or terribly large. A rotating drive that is about twice the size of the amount of data on her system will do nicely.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1927159, member: 396914"] You MIGHT be able to use a Container as a backup and share the drive with the OTHER Container, but in the Container her machine is using there are two Volumes, Data (TM) and Track Data (TM). That is probably contributing to the issue, as Ian and I have both pointed out. TM takes control of the "drive" (Container) to which it is pointed and does not share well. So, having two Volumes in that Container could well be the issue here. And you can stop saying that her machine is backing up to a sparsebundle because it isn't. It's backing up to a Volume, using a sparsebundle format for data storage. TM uses that format to save space during transmission of the data over the network. I have found sparsebundle backups to be more fragile than backups done by direct attachment drives, so I don't use TM on a network storage any more. You might consider getting a dedicated drive for her Mac and direct attach it. Doesn't need to be either fast or terribly large. A rotating drive that is about twice the size of the amount of data on her system will do nicely. [/QUOTE]

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