mdgm wrote:
Users of Apple's own Time Capsule run into this problem which would strongly indicate the problem is at Apple's end. Their own community shows that Time Capsule users run into this problem.

Blame game ping pong.

As an outsider who abandoned ReadyNAS due to this issue (but is still subscribed to this thread), I feel liberated to say exactly what I feel. The Netgear support was so abysmal that I took the RN102 back to the supplier who sold it to me and got a full refund a year after purchase because they could not fathom the problem.

Yes, there are a few cases of this error being displayed from Time Capsule users but having spent three years with this issue on two different ReadyNAS products I can say that the overwhelming majority of problems are using third party equipment and only a handful, if that, are Time Capsule users.

The reported error is generic (I may not be a developer but I was a prolific ResEdit explorer in the 80s and 90s), it does not specify the problem, so could apply to any number of causes so what Time Capsule users and ReadyNAS users are experiencing could be entirely different issues.

What I discovered before I gave up on ReadyNAS is that most third party NAS manufacturers advertise their products as Time Machine 'compatible' rather than Time Machine 'compliant' and that is the dirty little secret which nobody wants to talk about. There are legal discussions which establish the distinction between compatibility and compliance but suffice to say, compatibility does not necessarily mean that it will work - hence the perennial refutation that it's all Apple's fault.

The criteria for Time Machine compliance are laid out in this document:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/NetworkingInternetWeb/Conceptual/TimeMachineNetworkInterfaceSpecification/TimeMachineRequirements/TimeMachineRequirements.html

I am still treading cautiously with my Synology DS213 but what I have noticed is that it seems to have a slightly different approach to creating the backup and when the first backup was made, it took less than half the 36+ hours which my RN102 took.

I might finish by adding that the support on this forum is extremely selective and, I'd venture to suggest, targeted at low hanging fruit. I am not the only person who has played fetch with admins; i.e. asked for more information only to provide it and then be ignored. And I might add that you, mdgm, are the worst offender. And that you, mdgm, gave me advice which bricked my ReadyNAS Duo and then ignored me when I reported the fact back to the thread.

Good luck to anybody who has this problem; you will need it because NOBODY is going help you fix it. NOBODY.

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