Hey everyone,
I apologize if this topic has already been covered. But after an hour on the phone with Apple — with no solutions — I turn to the community for answers. I think it goes without saying, I am a Mac user (MacBook Pro). I primarily use my WD My Cloud (2TB) for two things: 1) Storing my music library, which my Sonos system reads from. 2) Wireless Time Machine backups.
For starters, I didn’t know that when you use a network attached drive with Time Machine, it stores backups as sparsbundles, as opposed to the standard folder structure that is used for locally attached hard drives. It works that way even using Apple’s own Time Capsule. So, that was news to me.
That said, the issue I have is that when using My Cloud for Time Machine backups, it is only holding onto the most recent backup created (in sparsbundle form). For instance, today is Dec. 7. When I mount the sparsebundle created by Time Machine, there is only one backup contained within: The latest one, from Dec. 5.
I want Time Machine/My Cloud to store multiple backups, not just the latest.
I don’t think it’s a storage issue either. As you can see from the attached image, I have only used a fraction of the drive’s space. And in the My Cloud settings (Settings > General > Mac Backups), I haven’t changed the default configurations, which allows for up to 2TB for backups.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
