R6300v2 with Time Machine

antinode
Guru
Sep 21, 2017
   For what it's worth, on my D7000 (V1.0.1.50_1.0.1) I've connected a
WD My Book 4TB drive (about which Get Info said, "Format: Mac OS
Extended (Journaled)"), and it does appear on the router's BASIC >
ReadySHARE page under Available Network Folders as:

Share Name         Read Access        Write Access Folder Name Volume Name Total Space Free Space

\\dsl\USB_Storage All - no password All - no password U:\      U Drive       300.0 MB     299.3 MB
\\dsl\T_Drive      All - no password All - no password T:\      T Drive      3725.6 GB    3695.7 GB

and in the Time Machine "Select Disk..." list as:

      Timemachine_T
      on "D7000"

so this stuff appears not to be hopeless everywhere. (I assume that the
"U Drive" is an EFI/recovery partition, or something of that sort, but
the "T Drive" looks pretty normal.)

   What happens if you tell the Finder: Go > Connect to Server... >
afp://<your_router_IP_address> ?

   If you connect your "the external drive" directly to a Mac (again?),
does it (still?) get mounted and work as expected?
- Amg949
  Aspirant
  Sep 22, 2017
  I have a R6300v2 (V1.0.4.8_10.0.77), OSX 10.13, I will give it another attempt see what happens.
  
  I have tried both WD 100GB passport and a SANDISK usb flash drive, both unseen by the Time Machine.
  - antinode
    Guru
    Sep 23, 2017
    > I have tried both WD 100GB passport and a SANDISK usb flash drive, both
    > unseen by the Time Machine.
    
       Before the router can make any storage available on the LAN (as for
    Time Machine), it must first be able to work with the storage device
    (and the file system thereon).
    
       Assuming that the R6300v2 has it, what do you see on the BASIC >
    ReadySHARE page under Available Network Folders?
    
    >    What happens if you tell the Finder: Go > Connect to Server... >
    > afp://<your_router_IP_address> ?
    
       Still wondering.

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