Sparse images - do they expand? - Shirt Pocket Discussions

02-29-2008, 10:26 AM

sepstein

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian

Images expand to the point where they've reached their maximum size, which we set to the size of the source volume...

Sorry, that seems a little cryptic.

I have 1.5 TB available on my NAS to back up a 250 GB drive.

The smart backup failed, and seems to have occurred when it thought it ran out of space.

The sparse image is 232.57 GB, which is what Get Info in the finder reports is the actual size of the hard drive I'm backing up.

Any idea what might be going on?

Steve

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