Anyone know how to read from that backup now? I was able to write to the volume and create a sparse bundle, but suffered a hard drive failure and now I need to mount it and retrieve a file. Is there a script for that?
Depends on how you are trying to get to the data. If you are trying to browse the backup from another Mac on your network, mount the host drive and then look for a file in the root directory called
yourcomputername_
yourMACaddress.sparsebundle. If you doubleclick this sparse disk image, it will mount and you can surf through it to retrieve individual files.
If you are trying to do a full restore back onto your mac after the hd failed, you use the Time Machine backup in concert with your Leopard Install Disk.
1) Boot the Leopard Install Disk
2) Select Terminal from Utilities
3) ping your NAS box to make sure you have connectivity
4) Create a mount point for your NAS box, i.e "mkdir /Volumes/nas"
5) Mount your backup drive manually
For AFP, use "mount_afp afp://
username:
password@
NAS_IP_ADDRESS/
NAS_volume_name /Volumes/nas"
Presumably if you use Samba, you could mount with mount_smbfs instead. I use AFP and the above syntax worked.
6) Make sure the sparsebundle file mentioned above is in the root directory: "ls /Volumes/nas"
7) Exit terminal, "exit"
8) Select "Restore from Backup disk" from the Utilities (?) menu and you should see your backup listed
Paraphrased from somewhere else on the net.. I used this process for a restore and it worked for me! Good luck!
