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Apprentice

Jun 02, 2020

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...

Using with Mac OSX

RupertGiles

Apprentice

Jul 18, 2020

Are you issuing the extended directory command?

"." files don't appear unless you type:

ls -al

After logging in, try (if you haven't already) type:

cd /data/.timemachine

Here, you should see either a single entry for ReadyNAS or an entry for each user/machine that you're backing up. If you don't have a /data/.timemachine directory entry, then I'd be at a loss to tell you where to look. Perhaps ReadyNAS configures multiple machines differently than just a single machine like mine.

Greg

twolcrazy

Tutor

Jul 19, 2020

Greg,

Yes I am using ls -al. There is no /data directory. I have looked through all the others, most of which appear to be standard linux directories. There is one directory that contains our shared files but there are no time machine directoried or files in that one. Thus I have not been able to locat anything that looks like time machine.

John

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 19, 2020
twolcrazy wrote:

There is no /data directory.

data is the default volume name. If you don't see that, then you must be using flexraid, and chose a different volume name when you created the volume.