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CubsFanRon
Jul 27, 2010Aspirant
Migrating TM backup from USB drive to ReadyNAS
I'm a new owner of a ReadyNAS NV+ and what I'm trying to do is move an existing TimeMachine backup from an external drive to the ReadyNAS. I've searched the forum and seen the page at http://www.re...
mdgm-ntgr
Jul 27, 2010NETGEAR Employee Retired
CubsFanRon wrote:
I don't see a sparsebundle on the external drive - I only see the drive itself. I was under the impression that there isn't a one on a regular drive, but there is one on a Time Capsule drive.
Ah, then I definitely agree with sphardy it's more trouble than what it's worth trying to move your existing TM backup onto the NAS.
CubsFanRon wrote:
you can use the URL tag but I can't. Is there some magic that I don't yet understand on how to enable that feature?
It's disabled for new members due to the occasional spammer. Contribute to the forum and it will be enabled for you automatically given time.
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