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ShadowOfGed
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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2008-12-21, 05:38

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Originally Posted by Gargoyle View Post
If the structure is indeed exactly the same, then you might be able to make a symlink so that Backups.backupdb on the root of the disk points to Backups.backupdb inside the sparse bundle.
This would likely fail for a number of reasons:
  • Disk image would always need to be mounted. Nigh impossible to guarantee.
  • Backups can run when no users are at the console, exacerbating the previous problem.
  • If backupd checks to make sure it never crosses device boundaries in its backups, this will always fail.
Or even if it works, I wouldn't tout it as a long-term solution…

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