Time machine & buffalo linkstation

This is my configuration :
Imac mac os 10.7
mac book air 10.8
Buffalo link station duo firmware 1.64
I create a folder with time machine attribute, I can see the folder on the desktop but I can't use it for time machine backup.
Anyone has Buffalo linkstation working with time machine ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Angelo

http://www.mac-help.com/forums/showthread.php?t=840

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Currently have a Buffalo LinkStation 2TB hard drive on my home network. The Buffalo is connected to my router (Netgear WGR614v10). It is not physically connected to my iMac, but I do have a LinkStation icon on my desktop in order to add files to.
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Have been in and out of a local mac store to no avail.
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A few weeks ago I made a time machine backup of my Macbook on a Buffalo linkstation NAS. I followed instructions from the internet in which I made a sparsebundle image on local HD, move it to NAS, then tell Time machine where the new file is (or something very similar to that)
This was done and after waiting 14 or so hours it completed.
The next day I went into timemachine and could travel back through the 3 backups it had made.
All working fine
2 days later my laptop was stolen. This laptop has all of my teaching resources, all of my student marks on it. I felt relieved remembering that I had made my backup.
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I left it at that and decided I would take it into a local mac store to help.
When they plugged in and connected they could see the share point but there was no file in it. No sparsebundle image. Now I freaked at this moment thinking I had lost everything, but, when I looked at the info from the NAS it showed that 63gb were used in the timemachine sharepoint. But we couldn't see it. And have been unable to see it since connecting with a Mac to the NAS.
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Can someone please help. This backup is very important not only for my teaching resources but also a lot of student work.
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All you could hope to do is copy the sparsebundle to a work drive then use Disk Utility to see if you can mount it and repair it. Otherwise you are out of luck as far as I can tell. If the sparsebundle is damaged and cannot be repaired by DU or if the sparsebundle cannot be mounted, then there's nothing one can do to recover the data.
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