Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> =
wrote:

> I might be misremembering=85but I do seem to recall that the backup to =
the shared Airport disk was different than that to the shared drive off =
the the server. I'm pretty sure the former was Finder readable and not a =
sparse image file but since the experiment failed and I erased the =
failure and returned to sharing the drive off of the mini server (albeit =
I added Server to the mix instead of using a normal OS X share point in =
System Preferences) I can't verify the details.

I don't know how it works to a real Time Capsule, but a network share =
that can be backed up to (selected in the Time Machine settings panel) =
is saved as a .sparsebundle image.  I am using Time Machine saving on a =
network share (ip based AppleTalk) on a Solaris machine and that is how =
they are stored.

It works quite well, too.  Some machines back up over WiFi, some over =
wired ethernet.  Machine is a basic "Pentium" labeled core3 type chip =
(the budget level of core3 above Celeron and below core3) with 2x 2 or =
3TB disks, with OpenIndiana (OpenSolaris) and ZFS mirroring and netatalk =
2.x of some sort [with the Lion+ login stuff enabled].  I have about 5 =
or so Macs regularly backing up to it including a development machine =
that is heavily used.  Every once in a while you  get a "your time =
machine backups could not be verified -- please start over".  There are =
some good blog pages on how to fix this when it happens. Has only =
happened to me 2x in over 6 months.

Cheers
Chad


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> On Feb 18, 2013, at 8:29 PM, objectwerks inc =
<chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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
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