moved TM drive from local machine to another machine on network, TM creates brand new archive for same machine

[Neil Laubenthal]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 19:57, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> I moved my TM backup drive from my MBPro to an iMac on the same  
> network.  I launched TM and told it to use the remote drive (mounted  
> via sharing off iMac).
> TM is now creating an entirely new backup file.  Is there a way to  
> point to the existing backup?  I don't see any prefs allowing me to  
> point to the archive I'd like to continue using.

Nope . . . a network backup uses a .dmg file (actually a sparse image  
bundle composed of a whole bunch of .dmg files) instead of a normal  
file/folders structure.