finding hidden files

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somethingiswron wrote:

I was hoping I could locate a file name, then delete the file from the machine in the archive - I have no idea how to locate it. 

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The Apple Time Machine does make use of a proprietary spare bundles, kind of partial disk images, or archives if you want. (-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS) )

Locating the hidden (.xxxx) file using the ssh root access is possible of course - it's just a file from the ReadyNAS (or any other Linux or whatever OS NAS). 

Desperately want to file hidden files ... but that's not what you want I guess:

find /data/.timemachine/ -name ".*" -ls

The path you showed from the by far not perfect scanner is most likley a complete path, with xxxxxx being the username I guess, like this:

ls /data/.timemachine/xxxxxxxx/MacTower.sparsebundle/bands/271d8.

You can always cd to a hidden folder - the same way you would do on an OS X system btw:

cd /data/.timemachine/

The question is what you want to do with that "271d8." file - without breaking the logic and the integrity of your Time Machine backups. Believe me: Time Machine is snippy!

Further on, the question arises what value scanning these MacOS sparse bundle files have. And in the case the Time Machine backup is encrypted it's certainly obsolete.

No idea on how to create a relation between the Time Machine time browsing and the name of the sparse bundle file - only here you might be able to retrieve the file(s) in question - but there is no way to remove em (I've never tried...).