I am trying to recover a nearly-2TB backup of a Mac, whose sparsebundle file was located on a NAS and suffered some corruption. I have followed the steps here, and the sparsebundle is now accessible by both Time Machine and Migration Assistant. However, they only show me one choice for recovering the backup (the most recent one).
Mounting the sparsebundle in Finder shows me backups from 4 dates, which is correct, and I am interested in any of the earlier 3. Additionally, here is the data from the file com.apple.TimeMachine.SnapshotHistory.plist
, which also shows the 4 backups:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Snapshots</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotCompletionDate</key>
<date>2013-11-21T17:37:20Z</date>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotName</key>
<string>2013-11-21-123720</string>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotTotalBytesCopied</key>
<integer>2011005404937</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotCompletionDate</key>
<date>2013-11-22T08:04:32Z</date>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotName</key>
<string>2013-11-22-030432</string>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotTotalBytesCopied</key>
<integer>7208602218</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotCompletionDate</key>
<date>2013-11-22T23:58:38Z</date>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotName</key>
<string>2013-11-22-185838</string>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotTotalBytesCopied</key>
<integer>111986052</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotCompletionDate</key>
<date>2013-12-04T21:16:16Z</date>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotName</key>
<string>2013-12-04-161616</string>
<key>com.apple.backupd.SnapshotTotalBytesCopied</key>
<integer>53164333190</integer>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
How do I go about repairing the sparsebundle so I can have Time Machine restore one of the earlier backups? My last resort would be copying everything over by hand, but this would be messy, as well as incredibly time-consuming due to the large amount of data. I have spent many hours on this and have had headache after headache, any help is extremely appreciated!