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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1638744"><p>I think the issue is that when you use TM to backup to a network drive, TM creates a sparcebundle image to save space and network traffic. If the drive is directly mounted to the Mac, it saves as regular files, but on the Network, it shifts to spxrcebundle. So it's not misbehaving, it's acting as designed. To see what's in the spxrcebundle, you have to look at TM. You won't see backups.backupdb because it's not created for the network, the sparcebundle is.</p><p></p><p>So, did you have the drive previously directly hooked to the iMac and now moved it to the Network?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1638744"] I think the issue is that when you use TM to backup to a network drive, TM creates a sparcebundle image to save space and network traffic. If the drive is directly mounted to the Mac, it saves as regular files, but on the Network, it shifts to spxrcebundle. So it's not misbehaving, it's acting as designed. To see what's in the spxrcebundle, you have to look at TM. You won't see backups.backupdb because it's not created for the network, the sparcebundle is. So, did you have the drive previously directly hooked to the iMac and now moved it to the Network? [/QUOTE]
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