Whatever happened to Benjamin Ragheb? » drobo http://www.benzado.com/blog I apologize that this blog is using the default Wordpress template. Thu, 06 May 2010 16:33:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Time Machine automatically finds your sparse image http://www.benzado.com/blog/post/68/time-machine-automatically-finds-your-sparse-image http://www.benzado.com/blog/post/68/time-machine-automatically-finds-your-sparse-image#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:12:40 +0000 Benjamin http://www.benzado.com/blog/?p=68 Yesterday I followed Erik J. Barzeski’s instructions to configure Time Machine to backup to a sparse bundle disk image on my Drobo. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to tell Time Machine to use the disk image and not the whole disk; eventually I discovered that if you just select the disk, Time Machine finds the properly named disk image and automatically uses that. So, if you happen to think like me, I hope this note has saved you a few minutes of confusion.

Other things I’ve learned:

  • Changing the volume name of the backup disk during a backup will cause the backup to fail and start over again. Not a big deal.
  • If you want your backup disk to have a nice looking Time Machine icon, you can find it in the file GenericTimeMachineDiskIcon.icns in the folder /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources.
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