Time Machine needs a Teleporter

There’s a neat thing called “Time Capsule” which Apple started pushing recently… Problem is, if you’ve already got a backup disk, you probably would like to keep your backups in order without starting anew. After all, what if you DID delete something you’d like to get back someday already? As far as I know (and I did a lot of research, but several months ago) there’s no way to port a Time Machine Backup Disk to an Airdisk backup (they use sparseimages or something).

An interesting note is, if you connect an external drive (like this My Book, similar to the one I use) to an AirPort Extreme (I have the 100mbit one, sadly), start the backup, then cancel it and connect the disk to your Mac (like my MacBook), it will start to back up to that sparseimage.

The annoying thing is, I would really like to just convert my time machine backup into one of those sparseimages, so I could turn it into an AirPort Disk and back up wirelessly. I think someone could make a few bucks selling (or asking for donations for) an app that did just that.

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