Looking for some help recovering my time machine backup! I lost the HDD on my iMac and have now replaced it with a 4TB SSD. I tried to recover the backup from my NAS (Netgear) time machine, but it turned out to be corrupt and inaccessible.
I have managed to recover most of it using Disk Warrior 5 and can now mount the Time Machine Backup image and access the backup package. I can see numerous backups, but the ”Macintosh HD” folder is greyed out and no matter what I do I can’t seem to get access to them.
I have tried changing ownership, reseting ACL etc all to no avail! I copied the .sparsebundle to an external drive and reconnected to time machine and activated backups.
It has made some further backups today and when I mount the disk I can access the backup folders from today, but all previous folders are still greyed out!
I have managed to get one of the previous Macintosh HD folders accessible, but no idea how I did it!!
I have examined the folders in question and compared them to the working folders using ls -le and all the attributes look the same with the exception of the numbers listed after the permissions attributes.
So for the new accessible folders the attributes are: drwxr-xr-x@ 17 root wheel 884 “date” Macintosh HD
For the older greyed out inaccessible folders the attributes are: drwxr-xr-x@ 7 root wheel 374 “date” Macintosh HD
And for the folder I somehow managed to recover, the attributes are: drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 612 “date” Macintosh HD
Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree and I can’t recover the older backups this way? Any help appreciated
Regards
Philyerboots
