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How to RESTORE Time Machine sparsebundle to ReadyNAS?! HELP!
Hi Guys,
So after backing up our sparsebundle data from the RN104 (RN) to an external HD to enable a factory reset after upgrading to 6.1.5 we now need to restore that data to the RN!
Except when you go into the create a backup job to restore the data there is NO timemachine as a destination option from the pull down menu!! So you can backup but NOT restore.
Let me repeat that..... you can backup but NOT restore! WTF!
Referred this to our "friends" at Netgear support but as usual couldn't get a sensible answer as to why this is so or how to do a restore locally from the external HD to the RN!
I have tried to restore the sparsebundle data via SSH and the CP command with varying syntaxes like the folwowing however they all fail!
cp -r USB_HDD_1/MyMac.sparsebundle data/timemachine
cp: target `/timemachine' is not a directory
Would be grateful for any suggestions, ideas or solutions on how to locally restore the data to the RN.
Regards,
BB
So after backing up our sparsebundle data from the RN104 (RN) to an external HD to enable a factory reset after upgrading to 6.1.5 we now need to restore that data to the RN!
Except when you go into the create a backup job to restore the data there is NO timemachine as a destination option from the pull down menu!! So you can backup but NOT restore.
Let me repeat that..... you can backup but NOT restore! WTF!
Referred this to our "friends" at Netgear support but as usual couldn't get a sensible answer as to why this is so or how to do a restore locally from the external HD to the RN!
I have tried to restore the sparsebundle data via SSH and the CP command with varying syntaxes like the folwowing however they all fail!
cp -r USB_HDD_1/MyMac.sparsebundle data/timemachine
cp: target `/timemachine' is not a directory
Would be grateful for any suggestions, ideas or solutions on how to locally restore the data to the RN.
Regards,
BB
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- sparsbundle folder is located in /data/.timemachine,currently OS6 doesn't have restore option,you have to copy data in SSH.
you might need to change the owner after copying done.
example from my Ready104
root@Ready104:/data/.timemachine# ls -la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 1 ReadyNAS 96 100 Jan 15 16:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 198 Jan 2 15:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166 Jan 15 16:41 .AppleDB
drwx--S--- 1 ReadyNAS 96 294 Jan 15 2014 “support”“MacBook”.sparsebundle
to change permission of sparsbundle
chown ReadyNAS:96 -R /data/.timemachine/yoursparsbundlefolder
chmod 700 /data/.timemachine/yoursparsbundlefolder
chmod g+s /data/.timemachine/yoursparsbundlefolder - Does anyone know when OS6 is going to support restore?
This restore missing was surprise to me, I have restored Mac from Readynas, but that was OS4. - binaryboy is not about restoring your Time Machine backup to your Mac, but restoring a backup of your TM backup to your NAS.
- Sorry, didn't read that correctly.
I had in same time problems to restore TM backup to my Mac.
Wasn't able to mount it and Mac didn't found it automatically.
I finally disabled and enabled timemachine feature, that fixed the problem. - It's still not possible with 6.1.7!!
de niro's solution does work, but why should a Time MAchine user need a shell to do such a task. It's just amazing.
I wish I never spent so much money in an OS6 readyNAS system (I'm much happier with the older systems), the number of hours I lost trying to do basic tasks with it is enormous.
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