{"id":945,"date":"2017-04-12T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=945"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:57:54","slug":"time-machine-backup-failed-synology-backup-already-use","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/time-machine-backup-failed-synology-backup-already-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine Backup Failed Synology &#8211; The Backup is Already In Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When using a Synology NAS to backup from Time Machine you may see the following message:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-946\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The backup on&#8221;XXXX&#8221; is Already in Use<\/p>\n<p>(where XXXX is the name of the Synology Diskstation you are backing up to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clicking on details you will see further details such as these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-947\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-2.png 670w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-2-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Cause<\/h2>\n<p>Typically this can happen if the Synology Diskstation is performing an update at the time when Time machine is backing up.<\/p>\n<h2>Resolution<\/h2>\n<p>There are two ways to resolve the problem.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can restart the Synology Diskstation<\/li>\n<li>Log in to Diskstation and End the connection for the username set up to back up from Time Machine<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-948\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-3.png 334w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Time-Machine-In-Use-3-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using a Synology NAS to backup from Time Machine you may see the following message: The backup on&#8221;XXXX&#8221; is Already in Use (where XXXX is the name of the Synology Diskstation you are backing up to. Clicking on details you will see further details such as these: Cause Typically this can happen if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[725,726,724],"class_list":["post-945","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-synology-time-machine","article-tag-synology-time-machine-couldnt-complete-the-backup","article-tag-time-machine-backup-couldnt-complete"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":6,"sum_votes":20},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}