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- Nov 13, 2012
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Hello all,
A few apologies upfront. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. Not quite sure where it should go if not here. Also - this is likely an Apple specific issue (i.e. nothing to do with FreeNAS). However, I would think that folks here might have ran into this - and quite frankly there's likely more brainpower here than some of the other places I might post this. Again, I'm not assuming or blaming FreeNAS.
Okay - so my issue / question... I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac to do my backups. I backup to a sparse image that lives out on FreeNAS (via AFP sharing). For the longest time (as well as currently) this image is HFS formatted. My Mac is running the latest macOS, and my internal drive is APFS format as is the default now. No issues with any of this. If I need to restore, I can copy and/or mount the .sparseimage and pull files/directories over at my leisure.
I wanted to try doing all of the above - but changing the destination sparseimage to an APFS formatted one. For testing, I used Disk Utility and created a blank APFS formatted sparseimage on my desktop. I made the size 1 TB, and copied some files into it. All of this worked as expected.
If I copy this sparseimage over (I safely unmounted it first) to my FreeNAS share, and I try to mount from there - I get a 'no useable partitions" error in Finder. I also tried to create the sparseimage there directly from Disk Utility and this resulted in an error.
Has anyone ran into this ? Am I doing something wrong or is this expected behavior ?
Thanks in advance for any wisdom.
A few apologies upfront. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. Not quite sure where it should go if not here. Also - this is likely an Apple specific issue (i.e. nothing to do with FreeNAS). However, I would think that folks here might have ran into this - and quite frankly there's likely more brainpower here than some of the other places I might post this. Again, I'm not assuming or blaming FreeNAS.
Okay - so my issue / question... I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac to do my backups. I backup to a sparse image that lives out on FreeNAS (via AFP sharing). For the longest time (as well as currently) this image is HFS formatted. My Mac is running the latest macOS, and my internal drive is APFS format as is the default now. No issues with any of this. If I need to restore, I can copy and/or mount the .sparseimage and pull files/directories over at my leisure.
I wanted to try doing all of the above - but changing the destination sparseimage to an APFS formatted one. For testing, I used Disk Utility and created a blank APFS formatted sparseimage on my desktop. I made the size 1 TB, and copied some files into it. All of this worked as expected.
If I copy this sparseimage over (I safely unmounted it first) to my FreeNAS share, and I try to mount from there - I get a 'no useable partitions" error in Finder. I also tried to create the sparseimage there directly from Disk Utility and this resulted in an error.
Has anyone ran into this ? Am I doing something wrong or is this expected behavior ?
Thanks in advance for any wisdom.