![]() Moreso, with your knowledgeable insights, my hope is that this posting will evoke a solution(s) that benefits everyone experiencing this issue.ģ. Now, I’m determined to gain an understanding as to why TimeMachine is not trimming sizable sparsebundles that reside on a M圜loud Home device (as distinct from an Apple Time Capsule). Until now, my fix to the “Oh great, M圜loud Home drive is full again” problem was to (with great irritation) reformat the M圜loud drive, reconfigure TimeMachine and try again. ![]() Yes, I invested hours searching for answers in this forum, Apple’s forums, and others before posting this request. It is my understanding that TimeMachine can only access M圜loud as a “Guest.” The source of this understanding? This article: My Cloud Home: Time Machine Backups with Registered User.TimeMachine’s failure to trim sizable sparsebundles manifested itself only when the M圜loud Home drive was provisioned as its repository. The Time Capsule had no problem trimming a sparsebundle. The M圜loud Home drive replaced a failed Apple Time Capsule.This is evidence that–for some reason(s)–TimeMachine is unable to trim the affected sparsebundle on the WD M圜loud Home drive.If there was something about this in the forum before, i didn't find it while searching.Every three weeks, or so, macOS Monterey (v12.4) TimeMachine reports that my M圜loud Home (firmware v8.5.1-102) is full and a backup cannot be completed. but my question here is more about the backup/recovery capabilities if i only have the sparse bundle from superduper. ![]() in the current instance, i have more options to explore since i moved drives around and still have access to the original drive. I am trying to figure out both my long term approaches and what i need to do to get things working in this instance. My question is how to backup and restore with APFS and sparsebundles made with superduper.ĭo i need to change something in SD when backing up so i can restore to APFS?ĭo i need to do something different to restore from a sparsebundle to an APFS formatted drive? It can only browse/extract, though, not actually mount into the native. It's downloaded as an 18Gb file named 'Sam's '. I no longer have access to the location where the NAS drive is located so have logged in and downloaded the backup file 'Sam's iMac.sparsebundle' via a windows PC. It appears that HFSExplorer gained support for sparsebundles in 0.22 (including encrypted ones). I've been backing up to a NAS drive (WD My Cloud) with time machine. However, no solution currently exists for mounting encrypted Mac sparse bundles. so the original and the new drives had the same format and same OSes. dmg files in Windows, and making it readable, you can always use MacDrive. the new SSD is also on 10.14.6 and is formatted as APFS. the original partition that i backed up was on 10.14.6 and the drive was formatted as APFS. I'd made the sparsebundle backup onto one of my external drives a week ago before having my internal drive swapped out for a new SSD. i didn't see anything else searching the forum that seemed relevant when searching for APFS. but i didn't see something that would help me there. I read the post on the forum "restoring to new APFS from HFS+ sparsebundl". i contacted apple support, but they won't help since my mac is passed the apple care date. when all is done try mounting the bundle again. again, the username will be the name of teh sprse bundle. chmod -R a r, X /Users/Deleted Users/username.sparsebundle. then enter the following terminal command. i didn't get a screenshot, but the error said something to the effect that it can't restore from an HFS+ disk image to an APFS volume. youll have to enter your admin password (which you wont see). When attempting to use disk utility to restore from a sparsebundle backup of my boot partition, i saw an error message. Even more scary when I went to the Xserve & looked at the TM Sparsebundle file it was not. I've run into an error message in trying to restore my OS from my SuperDuper backups that i could use some advice on. Disk Utility was completely unable to fix anything.
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