Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

dtambre wrote:
Time machine is working as expected (aside from a permissions error on the share after updating to latest firmware which I figured out) but by me creating a sparse bundle with no size requirements will it work in the way that I described? Or will at some random point the sparsebunle nuke itself and my backups into oblivion?

In theory (ie I don't knwo of anyone who has tested this) the sparsebundle will only be restricted by the available space on your NAS - I'm not aware of any size limitations of sparsebundles.

One thing to note however: If your TM backup does become too large for any reason, deleting files/backups from a sparsebundle will NOT reduce its size. It will grow as you add data but space is not 'recovered' when data is removed. The utility 'hdiutil' does have the capability to manipulate sparsebundles, but I have not seen this work successfully when the sparsebundle is on the NAS (which is why the TM hack requires you to create the starting sparsebundle locally first)

///P