[Klug-general] sparsebundle on Linux

Stuart Brand stuart at stuartbrand.co.uk
Wed Sep 23 22:39:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 21:47 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Stuart Brand <stuart at stuartbrand.co.uk>:
> > Anyone know how to mount a sparsebundle on Linux?
> >
> 
> Never heard of them till I saw this mail :)
> 
> Google returned this:-
> 
> http://blog.dest-unreach.be/2008/12/09/time-machine-to-a-linux-server
> 
> Which has "I wrote a bash script to convert this sparsebundle format
> to a single dmg image. ".
> 
> http://blog.dest-unreach.be/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sparsebundle-to-dmg.sh
> 
> Dunno if that's of use. It doesn't look mac specific, using tools like
> sed and dd to do the legwork.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
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Nice, the script is running and seems to be working, 3G out of 500G so
far :)




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