On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I might be misremembering…but 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 > > On Feb 18, 2013, at 8:29 PM, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > ----------------------------------------------- > There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking > stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. > > neil > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
