Mac – Mount sparse bundle with a WD My Cloud EX2 NAS

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I use Time Machine with a NAS. It works well and it mounts a disk image when doing backup or when I enter Time Machine.

When the disk image is mounted, I can access all the directories of my backups.

However, I can't mount the disk image from the sparse bundle. If I try to mount it, Finder shows an error after few minutes (I don't know what is the exact name of the error in English).

Is there a simple way to overcome this drawback?

I have a WD My Cloud EX2 NAS and a
MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Best Answer

To mount your .sparsebundle (requires command line), try

hdiutil mount /path/to/sparsebundle

Ensure that your EX2 is mounted as a network share on your Mac. Usually, this will involve mounting your Time Machine share to reveal your .sparsebundle.

Be aware that this will take a substantial amount of time depending on the size of your .sparsebundle.

side note: I tried mounting my sparsebundle on the WD My Cloud I backup to, and it seems that there isn't really much of an issue except for the sluggishness of browsing. Could you post the issue you're facing in your native language?

By the way, to find files in the sparsebundle, navigate to

*.sparsebundle/Backups.backupdb/[name of your computer]/Latest
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