Time Machine: Using a storage attached to a dlink router

Hello,

I have a DIR-868L router and a Seagate 2Tb drive attached to it, and the storage is accessible in my MacBook Pro via SharePort Plus.

I created a sparsebundle via hdiutil (of course 123456789012 is not a macaddress 🙂):

sudo hdiutil create -size 400g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname "Backup of MyMac" -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -verbose ~/Desktop/MyMac_123456789012.sparsebundle

and then:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

cd /Volumes/Seagate_Desktop_DR3A2

mv ~/Desktop/MyMac_123456789012.sparsebundle .

$ ls -l

total 160

drwx------@ 1 zigzag staff 16384 Aug 10 10:33 mymac_123456789012.sparsebundle

When I start TimeMachine, it still doesn't show the sparsebundle (all it sees is a memory card attached to my laptop and "Other Time Capsule"). This post is not related to accessing a SMB storage, just a disk connected to a router.

Thoughts?

Thanks