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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...
Hmmm.
Yes tried it several times.
I find I have to SSH into the NAS and "rm -rf /c/.timemachine/.Apple* mymac.sparsebundle", then turn on/off TM support in fronview every time I try it.
As I said, my USB drive volume currently has a sparsebundle of 750GB. The volume I created on the NAS (via frontview) is 1TB. So it is 250GB bigger than my USB based sparsebundle.
WIth this config, I start TM, login to user ReadyNAS, start a backup and then break out of it after say 50Mb has been copied and close down TM. I then unmount all my AFP drives and manually mount the ReadyNAS volume as user ReadyNAS. Then I start up disk Utility, I click the sparsebundle on the NAS and see that it is Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled). My USB sparsebundle is NOT case sensative so in disk Utility I chose to Erase the TM sparsebundle and reformat with Mac OS Extended (journaled). When I do this, disk Utility unmounts the TM volume and throws up an error message : Volume Erase Failed: POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted.
I then have to go back to the rm -rf as above and start over.
Yes tried it several times.
I find I have to SSH into the NAS and "rm -rf /c/.timemachine/.Apple* mymac.sparsebundle", then turn on/off TM support in fronview every time I try it.
As I said, my USB drive volume currently has a sparsebundle of 750GB. The volume I created on the NAS (via frontview) is 1TB. So it is 250GB bigger than my USB based sparsebundle.
WIth this config, I start TM, login to user ReadyNAS, start a backup and then break out of it after say 50Mb has been copied and close down TM. I then unmount all my AFP drives and manually mount the ReadyNAS volume as user ReadyNAS. Then I start up disk Utility, I click the sparsebundle on the NAS and see that it is Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled). My USB sparsebundle is NOT case sensative so in disk Utility I chose to Erase the TM sparsebundle and reformat with Mac OS Extended (journaled). When I do this, disk Utility unmounts the TM volume and throws up an error message : Volume Erase Failed: POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted.
I then have to go back to the rm -rf as above and start over.
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