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Catalina, Time Machine, and my ReadyNAS
I thought I'd share my recent experience with Time Machine and my ReadyNAS 314. I finally took the plunge, and upgraded my Mac from Mojave to Catalina. Suprisingly, the upgrade went off without inci...
FIRST OF ALL, be very VERY careful with your use of SSH. You can break a lot of things, and Netgear won't support you.
If you don't have any experience wih Unix/Linux, then i strongly suggest that you not attempt anything through SSH.
That said, I've never gotten the SSH key login method to work. You should be able to login from Mac Terminal by typing:
ssh <name-or-IP-of-ReadyNAS> -l root
(of course, substitue the network name or IP of your ReadyNAS for the <> brackets above)
You will be prompted for root's password. This should be the same password you use to login to ReadyNAS web management page (FrontView).
Once logged in, you would navigate to the .timemachine directory. On a standard install, this is usually /data/.timemachine/ReadyNAS
You should see your sparsebundles there.
Again, I cannot emphasize strongly enough how risky this can be if you don't know what you're doing. The Linux shell can be very unforgiving. It usually won't prompt you with "Are you sure?" or any of the other fail-safe prompts you'll get on your Mac. This means that you could blow away a lot of important files without realizing it.
In my opinion, it would be worth purchasing a paid support ticket from Netgear to get help with this.
P.S. in the login command I posted in my previous message, the "-l" is the letter "L" (lower case), not the number 1.
Thanks Rupert! I worked in the oil industry for almost 40 years in seismic processing so am not a Unix/Linux novice. Just a novice setting up system wide stuff. The ssh <url> -l root returned a permission denied message with SSH turned on and Enable password off. Is it possible one must be at root level on the mac to make this work?
John
Sorry for all the disclaimers. Netgear makes a big deal about SSH.
I don't think you should need to be logged in as root user on your Mac. In my situation, my account is an admin-level account, but it shouldn't make a difference when you ssh to another device.
Since I've never gotten the key login to work, I'd turn password ON in the ssh settings on the ReadyNAS, and forget the key login.
You refer to ssh -l to a "URL". You should be going to something like this:
ssh 192.168.1.100 -l root
where 192.168.1.100 would be replaced with the actual IP of your ReadyNAS on your LAN
or
ssh nasname -l root
where "nasname" is the network name of your ReadyNAS on your LAN.
You should be prompted for the password, which would be the same password you use for FrontView when you access the device through your web browser.
Hope this helps!
Greg (AKA "Rupert")
Sorry Greg!
Rebooting the ReadyNAS after turning on SSH with password authentication got me a bit further. Here is what happens now:
MacBook-Pro:~ JOHN$ ssh 10.0.0.2 -l JOHN
JOHN@10.0.0.2's password:
Welcome to ReadyNASOS 6.10.3
Connection to 10.0.0.2 closed.
MacBook-Pro:~ JOHN$
So now it connects but only long enough to close the session. This happens with both my user account and administration account on the ReadyNAS. I sort of remember this issue happening at the office but not the cause or solution.
John
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