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Creating an encrypted Time Machine disk on ExFAT

sh
hdiutil create -stdinpass -encryption "AES-256" -size 500g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -fs "HFS+J" YourImage.sparsebundle

Where YourImage is the name you want to give your backup image and 500g is the maximum size of your disk image.

sh
open YourImage.sparsebundle
sh
diskutil list

Find your mounted image in the list and get it's path, in my case it was: /dev/disk3s2

sh
sudo diskutil enableOwnership /dev/disk3s2
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sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/YourImage

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