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Wondering If Any Have Had Success With Time Machine To A NAS Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1825532" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Thanks for that summary Jake. That pretty well summarizes what I discovered what I used Time Machine on a network drive.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to using Time Machine over network be careful about the dates of the articles you read. If I remember correctly the first incarnation of Time Machine did not support network use. When it was first introduced things were shall we say a bit "twitchy". Although I currently have Time Machine on a directly-connected drive at the moment, Time Machine seems to be reliable over a network now.</p><p></p><p>Jake is right that Time Machine drives do not show in Disk Utility. In fact, these drives usually only show in utilities designed to address network drives. There is a work around for this though and fixes some of the errors that occur with Time Machine over a network.</p><p></p><p>1. Make sure that the Time Machine drive is mounted (shows in the Finder).</p><p>2. Double-click that drive so it opens and shows the sparsebundle file. Do not panic. This is one large file rather than the series of folders that Time Machine normally uses. That is normal.</p><p>3. Double-click the sparsebundle file which opens that file in the Finder just as an external drive does. <strong>That "drive" should show in Disk Utility. You can now use Disk Utility to perform tasks just as you would any other drive. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Do</strong> <strong>not</strong> use Finder or Disk Utility to delete folders or otherwise alter the contents of the sparsebundle file.</p><p></p><p>Note: I have not used this fix recently because my drive is currently directly connected to my Mac. AFAIK this still works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1825532, member: 131855"] Thanks for that summary Jake. That pretty well summarizes what I discovered what I used Time Machine on a network drive. When it comes to using Time Machine over network be careful about the dates of the articles you read. If I remember correctly the first incarnation of Time Machine did not support network use. When it was first introduced things were shall we say a bit "twitchy". Although I currently have Time Machine on a directly-connected drive at the moment, Time Machine seems to be reliable over a network now. Jake is right that Time Machine drives do not show in Disk Utility. In fact, these drives usually only show in utilities designed to address network drives. There is a work around for this though and fixes some of the errors that occur with Time Machine over a network. 1. Make sure that the Time Machine drive is mounted (shows in the Finder). 2. Double-click that drive so it opens and shows the sparsebundle file. Do not panic. This is one large file rather than the series of folders that Time Machine normally uses. That is normal. 3. Double-click the sparsebundle file which opens that file in the Finder just as an external drive does. [B]That "drive" should show in Disk Utility. You can now use Disk Utility to perform tasks just as you would any other drive. [/B] [B]Do[/B] [B]not[/B] use Finder or Disk Utility to delete folders or otherwise alter the contents of the sparsebundle file. Note: I have not used this fix recently because my drive is currently directly connected to my Mac. AFAIK this still works. [/QUOTE]
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