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El capitan and time machine
Upgraded iMac to El Capitan and have problems with Time Machine .Backup begins and stops in short time
Definitely will be interested in finding out the results here as I am running Mac OS 10.11.1 and attempting to use Time Machine on a ReadyNAS 102 with OS 6.4 on it.
Prior to the upgrades (last successful backup was on 10/31/2015) everything simply ran beautifully, now I can see the disks when setting up Time Machine but I cannot authenticate on either the private nor the shared disks - and I have created a new user on the ReadyNAS to make sure the credentials were being entered correctly.
I have no problem authenticating. But I don't do it with any of the users on the Accounts page. I authenticate with the login and password defined on the "Time Machine" tab of the Backup page.
My problem is that once I authenticate it runs too slowly to be useful. In 48 hours it only backed up 6GB.
My next step will be to erase the Time Machine configuration, delete all of the backup sparsebundles, and try creating it again.
I had a feeling that my problem was somehow associated with creating a TimeMachine instance and then upgrading the OS to 6.4.0. It felt as though the TimeMachine code in 6.4.0 was a little different.
So I copied what I needed off the ReadyNAS, did a factory reset, set up TimeMachine again, and tried it.
It is now working perfectly. Once the newly-reset RAID array finishes syncing, I fully expect it to run even faster, but post-reset, even during the sync, I'm seeing backup speeds about 25 times as fast as I was seeing before I scorched the earth and started over.
So I'm pretty sure my problem is solved without my entirely understanding what the problem was. I'll take it.
Hi bkreid,
Thanks for sharing the result of your own test. We are still looking on this problem and we'll provide feedback soon.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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