Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?
objectwerks inc <chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:29:10 -0700
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On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> = wrote: >=20 > In any event; if you do this you'll have to start over with the = backups I think. Normal Time Machine backups to a shared network disk = get saved to a .dmg file. This is not the case. Time Machine backups to a network server get = saved as a .sparsebundle image. The end result may be the same, but I = am not sure you can just copy it off and use it as a .dmg > For an Airport Shared disk or a disk shared from a computer running = Server (I added this to the mini when I moved the drive back to it); the = backup gets stored as a Finder readable Time Machine backup just like it = would on a locally attached drive.