UPDATE: So I had an idea of my own, which was to create a hard-linked copy of the image outside of the Backups.backupdb folder, thinking perhaps that that may be mountable without issues, but this doesn't appear to be possible either. To be clear, and to disambiguate from similar questions the disk images I'm referring to are inside my Time Machine backup, they are not the Time Machine backup itself, i.e- I'm backing up to a directly attached drive, not a network disk. Is there a way that I can mount a sparse bundle from a Time Machine backup, without having to copy it in its entirety to somewhere else first?
#How to open a mac os sparsebundle password#
Enter your administrator password to continue. Now, I'm fairly certain this is an issue specific to mounting sparse bundles from a Time Machine backup, as I'm sure the images themselves are fully intact (I've shasumed all the contents and compared to the source). Click Firewall at the top, then click the Lock icon in the bottom-left. However this doesn't work either, producing the same error. Assuming the issue is that Time Machine volumes are effectively read-only, I tried the following command instead: hdiutil attach /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/MachineName/Latest/Path/To/Image.sparsebundle -readonly The problem is, none of my backed up sparse bundle images can be mounted from a Time Machine volume, all I get is a "no mountable filesystems" error. What I'd like to be able to do is mount a sparse bundle that's located on my Time Machine backup drive, so that I can copy data from inside it into its new location, without having to copy the disk image first (requiring double the storage). However, I'm planning to restructure my storage in the near future, and will likely be eliminating the use of these disk images. Select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box. In the Open With dialog box, click the program whith which you want the file to open, or click Browse to locate the program that you want. So in case of disaster, yes, you just recover the homefolder/Library/Application Support/3 and the folders on your external hard drive which contain the disk images, if any, and you should be fine.I have several sparse bundle disk images on my system, used for various purposes (mostly to prevent Time Machine from backing up the entirety of very large files). Right-click a file with the extension whose association you want to change, and then click Open With. This will copy the password into clipboard, and you record into some document, to which disk image it corresponds. If you really want to be able to unlock the disk images without Espionage, then you have to copy out the passwords for each folder you protect, by clicking onto small "i" near the folder name, and clicking the "copy password" button. Regarding the disk image passwords: as Greg said, as long as you have the Espionage database file (which will be backed up too, and which does backup copies on it's own, it is the Backup subfolder of the aforementioned folder), and you know the master password, you can always get to the disk image passwords. You can select any place you want, and then just make sure you backup that too. If you protect a folder which is on your external drive, then Espionage will ask you where to put the disk image. Just browse to the server, then to the share so that it mounts.
Just let TimeMachine backup your Mac, and the disk images will be saved too. First, you need to mount the Time Machine share using Finder. So if you use TimeMachine for example, there is no need to setup anything special, or to make duplicate of these disk images. If you do a backup of your Mac, then normally, this folder will be included in the backup automatically, because homefolder/Library is anyway a folder you want to backup as it contains various settings from applications and other data which is needed, like your emails. Homefolder/Library/Application Support/3/Data folder.
If you protect a folder which is on your internal disk, then the disk image will be placed in your
#How to open a mac os sparsebundle how to#
Im not sure exactly how to use it in this situation (hence this is a comment rather than an answer), but you probably need something like sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/Time Machine. TM sets special permissions (access control entries) on its backups to prevent this. Hello, I think there is a bit of a confusion here. Modifying a Time Machine backup using general tools (like rm) can corrupt it.