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Delete Time Machine Sparsebundles
I have read numerous positngs regarding how to delete the Time Machine sparsebundles. Nothing works, including SSH. I enabled SSH on the NAS, rebooted, then used Mac Apple Terminal to SSH in to the s...
That truncate command is what you'd run if the sparsebundle is already very small. Check the PM I sent you. If the files are huge the whole point of the truncation method is to gradually reduce the file size.
If you want more space allocated for TM you'd simply go into the web admin interface of the NAS and increase the amount of space allocated to TM and apply your change.
My goal is to create a new Apple Mac Time Machine backup after deleting the existing sparsebundles that are too small. After the sparsebundles are deleted, do I then open FrontView to Backup, then open Time Machine, then increase the size of the existing TM setting or do I disable the TM and then renable it, thus creating a new partition?
Thanks in advance.
That truncate command is what you'd run if the sparsebundle is already very small. Check the PM I sent you. If the files are huge the whole point of the truncation method is to gradually reduce the file size.
If you want more space allocated for TM you'd simply go into the web admin interface of the NAS and increase the amount of space allocated to TM and apply your change.
Problem Solved. Thanks for your skillful advice.
Problem NOT solved. The sparsebundle files are still there. The instructions on this Netgear support page do not work.
https://kb.netgear.com/7053/ReadyNAS-Removing-Time-Machine-data
None of these methods work. Even SSH into the NAS does not work. I have been working on this problem for three days, about 24 hours of labor.
I do not recommend using the ReadyNAS for Mac Time Machine backups. NOT RECOMMENDED.
Mac users need to know that the following methods recommended by Netgear for removing sparsebundles does not work:
1. Removal via Time Machine AFP share (All firmwares) <does not work. files can be seen but cannot be deleted>
2. Removal via ReadyNAS OS integrated share browser (Firmware 6.0.0 and above): <does not work. logging in fails to display the Backup Share. This invisible share remains invisible to this browser login>
3. Removal via SSH console (All firmwares) <doesn't work unless you want to sit there for four days waiting for the files to delete>
Attached Image: It is impossiblre to actually log in to the NAS to display the Backup Share. This image, from Netgear Support, depicts an impossible action on my NAS.
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