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Aspirant

Mar 04, 2016

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 ...

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JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Mar 04, 2016

Hello ovrdrvn,

Welcome to the community!

This article will show you not only how to increase the capacity of TimeMachine backup of the ReadyNAS but how to access the TimeMachine folder stored to the NAS.

Regards,

ovrdrvn

Aspirant

Mar 04, 2016

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.

JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 04, 2016
Hello ovrdrvn,

It only saves the disks image format of called sparsebundle that needs TimeMachine of your Mac to open.

Regards,
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Mar 06, 2016
  The "Enter Time Machine" option in the Menubar under Time Machine is the best way to look for contents of a Time Machine backup.