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Reviewing Time Machine Backups
After mounting the ReadyNAS share, does anyone know how I can review in detail what is in that image? I can't seem to browse via a terminal session (root acccess?) and mounting it etc doens't reveal the backups. I had two versions of the system backed up and I want to delete the backups from the other system but can't get to it. I DO NOT want to just delete the whole thing and start over as there are some recent backups that are imporant.
Thanks for any and all advice.
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Thank you but I"m aware how to do that. I need to access what is on this share not increase capacity (in fact, I have none less to increase anyway) And this share is not browseable in the Finder nor have I ever seen this to be the case with a ReadyNAS. The bundle that you can get to doens't give you access to the files. THere is some permission issue or such.
Hello ovrdrvn,
It only saves the disks image format of called sparsebundle that needs TimeMachine of your Mac to open.
Regards,
- I'm looking for some advanced help here to browse for backups from another version of the OS. This will not accomplish that.
Time Machine isn't really designed for browsing that way.
Have you considered using Migration Assistant to get what you need from the Time Machine backup?
- I'm looking for the proper terminal commands to reset the permissions and browse via this method. This issue requires something with advmaved experience in this area.
So what are the permissions set to for the sparsebundle now? Have you checked how much space it is using e.g. using du?
When you say you are using the Terminal are you using the local Terminal on your Mac to browse the mounted Time Machine backup destination or are you using the Terminal to SSH into the NAS and look that way?
If you suspect the permissions are messed up can you describe what happened to cause this?I'd love info on how to SSH in. I just mounted the ReadyNAS partition and tried Finder and Terminal commands (DU wasnt' working for me). I have a belief that the older backups are still there and if I could get to them, I could retrieve a file. I had seen some instructions onilne that were close to what I needed but more about repairing a bad backup. hoping to actually browse all that is stored in that partition.
This is a great article:
http://tonylawrence.com/2012/08/11/fixing-corrupted-time-machine-backups/
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