Restore timemachine sparsebundle to virtualbox
Hi !
First, sorry for my bad english, I'm from France ... ;-)
I'm on mac pro early 2009. I had an other mac in the past. I try since few days to convert this old mac timemachine sparsebundle to vdi.
This sparsebundle is password protect, but I remeber it :-) !
The sparsebundle is located on my synology NAS (outside the timemachine folder used now)
My old mac was a mini under Mavericks.
So I began the Mavericks installation on VirtualBox with hope my sparsebundle will be discover by time machine restauration utility (at the begining of the installation process).
I first convert my sparsebundle to dmg and attach this dmg as sata disc but this sata disc was not found (by time machine restauration utility or by drives utility).
Next, I convert this dmg to dvi : same result ( = no result !).
I decided to finish the instalaltion of Mavericks, just to try, and not to stay on a failure.
This way, when Mavericks was full usable, I discover my vdi file was unreadabled ... (Mavericks proposed me to initialise it).
My second try was a method I used on real mac with success ... but not here :-(
In my fully operational Maverick VM, I created a big new virtual vdi hard drive. I mounted my sparsebundled and I copied files & folders situated in the "Lastest" folder of the sparsebundled to the root of virtual hdd. I shut down the VM, put the new virtual hdd as the only sata hdd drive and charge in the optical one the Maverick installer dmg.
I started the VM (the hdd is not bootabled at this time) and lauch the install process on the vdi hdd. On real computer I had success with this methob but here, near the end of process this fail with an error message ("Contact the editor of the software").
I'm now lost and I don't have no more ideas ! Perhaps I failed in my process for the first method (why my vdi is not readabled ?). I prefer ask help here before try other actions beacause my sparsebundle is 40 Go and all try take a long time.
Thanks to people who can help me !
B.
