Can I turn a Time Machine backup into sparsebundle?

Hi,
I have a NAS device, and the first back-up to it takes soo long. Unfortunately, the back-up format to a NAS device is a sparsebundle, to a directly connected drive it is backup. Can I connect my drive directly to my laptop, make the first back-up, then change the format to sparsebundle?

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ivan wrote:
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tmutil compare | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
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Removed:
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Caution: Under some conditions, tmutil may falsely flag files as not having been backed up when in fact they have been. It can be confused by multi-linked files, or by files with a modification date earlier than the one in the snapshot. This will not be an issue for most users. If the results of the above procedure surprise you, inspect your snapshots directly.

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It looks like you want to have the whole backup restored. In this case, instead of using the Time Machine app and restoring files individually, you need to use Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities).
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My internal hard drive was full so I first ran a backup on time machine and reinstalled OSX 10.5.7. I then used time machine to restore my iphoto library, and a few documents. I still had backups going back a couple of months. Unfortunately the next time I backed up it erased all of my old backups and only saved the backup from yesterday. Is there a way to recover old backups from a time machine drive. I turned off time machine and have not written anything to that drive.
How can I recover those old Backups.backupdb.?

Wesley Groves1 wrote:
My internal hard drive was full so I first ran a backup on time machine and reinstalled OSX 10.5.7. I then used time machine to restore my iphoto library, and a few documents. I still had backups going back a couple of months. Unfortunately the next time I backed up it erased all of my old backups and only saved the backup from yesterday. Is there a way to recover old backups from a time machine drive.
no, they were overwritten by the new TM backups.
I turned off time machine and have not written anything to that drive.
How can I recover those old Backups.backupdb.?
you can't.

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