Prerequisites: – admin account & password – AFP-share & server IP-address 1. Boot the Computer to Recovery Mode. 2. Open Terminal in the Utilities menu 3. At the prompt enter: `cd /Volumes` 4. Create a sub-directory in Volumes as a mount point for your time machine share: `mkdir TimeMachine` 5. Enter `cd TimeMachine` 6. Enter `pwd`. pwd should show /Volumes/TimeMachine 7. Mount the network share with your admin loginname & password: mount -t afp afp://adminname:password@ServerIPAddress/ShareName /Volumes/TimeMachine If your password contains wonky characters like :@\\/ use [URL encoding][1] to [protect][2] them 8. Enter: `ls -la`. Note the exact name of your sparsebundle. 9. Enter: `hdid /Volumes/TimeMachine/NameOfYourSparseBundle`. You may enter the first letters of the sparsebundle name and then hit <kbd>TAB</kbd>. Hitting tab should auto-complete the Time Machine sparsebundle name. It may not look the same as above as it escapes spaces and special characters. 10. After auto-completing the name, hit return. If you return to the prompt the sparsebundle has been opened. 11. Enter `exit` and <kbd>⏎</kbd> and quit Terminal. Example steps 3-11: ![enter image description here][3] 12. Select `Restore From Time Machine Backup` and click Continue. ![enter image description here][4] 13. After a search it should show you the Time Machine Backups directory as a volume that contains your backup. Select that (in my example 'Time Machine Backup') and click Continue. ![enter image description here][5] 14. In the next screen you will see all the backups that you can restore from listed by time and date. ![enter image description here][6] 15. Select the backup you want to restore and continue and finally choose your destination disk: ![enter image description here][7] [1]: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp [2]: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/162758/how-do-i-mask-forbidden-chars-in-passwords-in-the-mount-command [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/UVmbE.png [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/dqAXT.png [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/slj9T.png [6]: https://i.sstatic.net/jKnwo.png [7]: https://i.sstatic.net/MVSaX.png