Backup Time Machine Over Network

[Life,Death,Tech]

I'm trying to backup the contents of my MacBook Pro wirelessly to an external hard drive that is connected to a Mac Mini in my living room. All the tutorials I've read say to create a sparsebundle file with the same name as the one that's found in the folder of your Time Machine backup.

I've used these instructions in the past and they've worked:
http://www.xiotios.com/itimemachine.html

This all makes sense, but I can't find the sparsebundle file anywhere on my Time Machine drive.

Instead of a single sparsebundle file it's just a folder of my MacBook Pro's hard drive.

What's the deal?

 

[skorpien]

The deal is that Time Machine backs up differently to a network attached drive than to a drive connected directly. What you are seeing is the result of backing up to a directly connected drive. It creates folders and copies the files into them. Time Machine creates the sparsebundle image file when backing up to a network attached drive, for example a Time Capsule. You'll need to create your backup from scratch.