Moving from directly connected external drive to a network share.

I've looked around and can't find a page on how to do this. I have an external drive hooked up to my iMac. I am using it for TM backups, so I have this directory on it (Backups.backupdb). There are also 2 sparsebundle images due to 2 other people in the office using this drive for TM backups.
I am going to be moving this external drive to a mini we have here, which would mean I now need to take the Backups.backupdb directory and convert it into a sparsebundle image, since I'll now be backing up over the network.
Is there a way to do that? I would really like to preserve my backups since it's pretty important for my work.
Thanks.

the_0ne wrote:
I've looked around and can't find a page on how to do this. I have an external drive hooked up to my iMac. I am using it for TM backups, so I have this directory on it (Backups.backupdb). There are also 2 sparsebundle images due to 2 other people in the office using this drive for TM backups.
I am going to be moving this external drive to a mini we have here, which would mean I now need to take the Backups.backupdb directory and convert it into a sparsebundle image, since I'll now be backing up over the network.
Is there a way to do that?
no, there isn't. you'll have to start a new backup sequence using a sparse bundle when you move the TM drive to a remote computer.
I would really like to preserve my backups since it's pretty important for my work.
Thanks.

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