Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

On Feb 19, 2013, at 1:04 AM, LuKreme <kremels-/[email protected]> wrote:

> In our previous episode (Monday, 18-Feb-2013), objectwerks inc said:
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>> 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.
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>> This is not the case.
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> It is.
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>> Time Machine backups to a network server get saved as a .sparsebundle =
image.
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> They are a sparse bundle, but they are NAMED .dmg. I have a passel of =
them on my server right now.

Not on my server they are not.  Seen with the remote server mounted on a =
Mac (I was root as I was repairing one of them):

[Sverige:/Volumes/backups] root# ls -al
total 14
drwx------  1 root  wheel   364 Feb 19 09:21 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 9 root  admin   306 Feb 19 09:24 ..
-r--------  1 root  wheel    16 May 14  2011 .001b6394338a
-rw-------@ 1 root  wheel  6148 Feb  8 22:14 .DS_Store
-rwxr-x---  1 root  wheel     0 Aug 16  2011 =
.com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   296 Feb 18 11:55 =CDsland.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   296 Feb 19 09:00 Japan.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   296 Feb 19 09:00 Japan.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   264 May 22  2012 Knarr.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   264 May 22  2012 Knarr.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   264 Oct  2  2011 =
Norge_001b6394338a.sparsebundle
drwx------@ 1 root  wheel   296 Feb 19 09:21 Sverige.sparsebundle
[Sverige:/Volumes/backups] root# ls Sverige.sparsebundle/
Info.bckup					=
com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.bckup		=
com.apple.TimeMachine.SnapshotHistory.plist
Info.plist					=
com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist		token
bands						=
com.apple.TimeMachine.Results.plist
[Sverige:/Volumes/backups] root#=20

Seen from inside the server:

# ls -al
total 30
drwxr-x---+ 12 timemach other   15 2013-02-19 09:21 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root     3 2011-08-16 16:59 ..
-r--------+  1 timemach staff   16 2011-05-14 14:33 .001b6394338a
drwxr-x---+  2 root     root    12 2013-02-16 22:31 .AppleDB
drwxr-x---+  2 root     staff    3 2011-08-16 21:54 .AppleDesktop
drwxr-x---+  2 timemach staff    6 2011-08-21 12:35 .AppleDouble
-rwxr-x---+  1 timemach other    0 2011-08-16 21:45 =
.com.apple.timemachine.supported
-rw-------+  1 timemach staff 6148 2013-02-08 22:14 .DS_Store
drwx--S---+  4 timemach staff   11 2013-02-18 11:55 =CDsland.sparsebundle
drwx--S---+  4 timemach staff   11 2013-02-19 09:00 Japan.sparsebundle
drwx--S---+  4 timemach staff    8 2012-05-22 12:48 Knarr.sparsebundle
drwxr-x---+  3 root     staff    3 2011-08-16 21:54 Network Trash Folder
drwx--S---+  4 timemach staff    7 2011-10-02 21:00 =
Norge_001b6394338a.sparsebundle
drwx--S---+  4 timemach other   11 2013-02-19 09:21 Sverige.sparsebundle
drwxr-x---+  3 root     staff    3 2011-08-16 21:54 Temporary Items
# ls -al Sverige.sparsebundle/
total 5681
drwx--S---+  4 timemach other    11 2013-02-19 09:21 .
drwxr-x---+ 12 timemach other    15 2013-02-19 09:21 ..
drwx--S---+  2 timemach other    10 2013-02-19 09:21 .AppleDouble
drwx--S---+  3 timemach other 72896 2013-02-19 09:18 bands
-rw-r--r--+  1 timemach other   519 2013-02-19 09:11 =
com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.bckup
-rw-r--r--+  1 timemach other   519 2013-02-19 09:11 =
com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist
-rw-r--r--+  1 timemach other  1451 2013-02-19 09:21 =
com.apple.TimeMachine.Results.plist
-rw-r--r--+  1 timemach other 14630 2013-02-19 09:21 =
com.apple.TimeMachine.SnapshotHistory.plist
-rw-r--r--+  1 timemach other   500 2013-02-19 09:13 Info.bckup
-rw-r--r--+  1 timemach other   500 2013-02-19 09:13 Info.plist
-rwx------+  1 timemach other     0 2012-12-16 19:13 token
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Not a .DMG to be seen




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> cerebus.dmg
> cerebus-2.dmg
> thanatos.dmg
> MBP6.dmg
> MBP7.dmg
> MBP8.dmg
> iBook.dmg (I should probably delete that one)
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