Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

objectwerks inc <chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:29:10 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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> 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.