On Feb 19, 2013, at 1:04 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > In our previous episode (Monday, 18-Feb-2013), objectwerks inc said: >> >> On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> This is not the case. > > It is. > >> Time Machine backups to a network server get saved as a .sparsebundle image. > > They are a sparse bundle, but they are NAMED .dmg. I have a passel of them on > my server right now. > > cerebus.dmg > cerebus-2.dmg > thanatos.dmg > MBP6.dmg > MBP7.dmg > MBP8.dmg > iBook.dmg (I should probably delete that one)
Strange, I've never seen them named anything but *.sparsebundle which is actually a folder, inside are additional files and folder called bands in which there are tens of thousands of 8MB files with random names. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
