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.
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 Ísland.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# 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 Ísland.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 # Not a .DMG to be seen > > cerebus.dmg > cerebus-2.dmg > thanatos.dmg > MBP6.dmg > MBP7.dmg > MBP8.dmg > iBook.dmg (I should probably delete that one) > > -- > "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." > > _______________________________________________ > 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
