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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...
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
Greg,
Ignore my last reply! I found the time machine directories and files.
John
Great! Curious to know where they were hiding on your ReadyNAS.
So the server has a dual function: shared file storage and TM backups. The shared files are stored in a directory that I set up before starting the TM backups. At the time the shared directory was created I did not understand that ReadyNAS supported TM. So much later when TM was initiated the ReadyNAS created a .timemachine directory within the top most shared directory. Then each ReadyNAS user has a TM subdirectory under .timemachine. The path looks like this:
/<MYSHARE>/.timemachine/<username>/
Where MYSHARE is the name of the ReadyNAS shared directory/folder and username is a user name associated with a "Private Time Machine" as defined on the ReadyNAS web interface.
It just took me a while to find the right directory.
Thanks for all everyone's help!
John (aka. twolcrazy)
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