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How to move TM backups from Local drive to the NAS
I am trying to move my old backups from a local USB connected drive to my Mac to my Pro 6. But I cant erase/reformat the TM Share so that it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Frontview creates the shar...
The only reason it would not work is if the destination sparsebundle is configured to be too small for the amount of *data* to be transferred as disk utility effectively 'reformats' the sparsebundle. Therefore initial formats are irrelevant as is the physical size of the source volume.
You don't state how this failed to work - have you actually tried it?
FYI: I have 5 macs (3 Lion, 2 Snow Leopard) backing up to a ReadyNAS where all the sparsebundles were initialised using the method I linked to
You don't state how this failed to work - have you actually tried it?
FYI: I have 5 macs (3 Lion, 2 Snow Leopard) backing up to a ReadyNAS where all the sparsebundles were initialised using the method I linked to
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