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"Virginizing" Time Machine
Hello fellow ReadyNAS users. I've been playing around with Time Machine on my ReadyNAS Duo for a while trying to correct my mistakes from my first set up. I.e. I initially didn't use the correct TM...
Hi, thanks for the answer!
You're right about the .Timemachine folder. I compared it with the contents of the sparsebundle and they were very similar.
I'll remove it entirely as you recommend, since I've only emptied the "bulk" data in the bands folder.
I removed the Mother.sparesbundle, reinstalled the OS and have now successfully made an entire backup.
As I have a 500GB laptop disk, I figured that since I'll probably never fill that disk entirely, a TM quota of about 505GB would be enough.
What size of the ReadyNAS quota do you recommend in my case? Twice the size of the disk just seems too much, if that's what you mean by "2 full copies". Aren't the backups incremental?
Many thanks again!
/P
You're right about the .Timemachine folder. I compared it with the contents of the sparsebundle and they were very similar.
I'll remove it entirely as you recommend, since I've only emptied the "bulk" data in the bands folder.
I removed the Mother.sparesbundle, reinstalled the OS and have now successfully made an entire backup.
As I have a 500GB laptop disk, I figured that since I'll probably never fill that disk entirely, a TM quota of about 505GB would be enough.
What size of the ReadyNAS quota do you recommend in my case? Twice the size of the disk just seems too much, if that's what you mean by "2 full copies". Aren't the backups incremental?
Many thanks again!
/P
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