Yohdah,I've been following all the blogs posts regarding Lion, AFP, and the Readynas Duo. What is unclear to me is if the two beta releases for the Duo have fixed Time Machine or not. For me it's not working at all. I have the Time Machine service enabled on the Duo. But I can't see the Time Machine share from my Macbook in the Time Machine Preferences. It just doesn't see it. Furthermore, I have my AFP shares working again in Finder BUT, I had to explicitly mount them by IP address (i.e., afp://192.168.1.5, etc). In Snow Leopard my Duo's AFP shares were always located via Bonjour (I think). I could go to Networks and they would show up after it received advertisements. Now it never sees them unless I explicitly mount it. I'm assuming this might be why I can't see my Time Machine share as well.So in summary, is Time Machine still broken for the Duo (and other Sparc NAS's)? Is the above behavior I described with AFPs shares not being advertised expected? If not, do you have any suggestions or help?OS: MacOS LionNAS: Readynas Duo running 4.1.8-T9 betaThanks!

I too am unable to get TM to back up with 4.1.8-T9. Finder can mount the disks and see files. I can read/write. But TM is a no go. Needless to say, Entering TM also does not work. Help.Mac OS: 10.7ReadyNAS: Duo running 4.1.8 - T9

Did not even occur to me to check if my NAS was compatible with Lion. I'm bumming and, but I'm not willing to take a beta version. Is there any eta for a production ready fix that will allow me to mount my drive and use TimeMachine. I don't have any idea what scale we are expected to wait...day, weeks, months...neverJay

I'm in the same boat as you guys.. I'm without backup for 21 days now.. And that really sucks.. because I can't even open up my previous backups, or find them in TM.

Note that as of Lion, you have to use the Time Machine service on the ReadyNAS (as well as 4.1.8). If you were using the old method of storing your backups on other shares, Lion won't see them.4.1.8 updates the Time Machine service on the ReadyNAS to support Time Machine under Lion. Reports on the T9 beta seem fairly good; it's unclear to me whether there are any outstanding issues.There is a way to make other shares support Time Machine, but it's unsupported and requires manual tinkering with configuration files on the NAS. I don't want to use it for everyday use, but if I were stuck unable to restore, I'd consider it: see here for details.

It's now some 23 days without TM backup or access to the backup share. Have rebooted the Duo a number of times as well as my 2008 Macbook Pro and my 2009 iMac which both Lion. Am able to see the Duo via AFP and can see the back up shares via TM. And since I can use Finder to access all of the Duo's files via AFP, I am assuming AFP works. However, when actually running a TM backup, it aborts and states that "The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features."My 2008 Macbook and 2011 Macbook Pro that remain on SL both have TM working fine on the same NAS running 4.1.8-T9 beta.Leads me to think that there is something still not happy with the way Lion TM uses AFP to find the shares.Need the Return of the Jedi to fix the problem please!Mac OS: 10.7ReadyNAS: Duo running 4.1.8 - T9 beta

Lion + Readynas Duo (beta) + Time Machine = FAIL??

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Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 25, 2011
You could also try mounting the "c" share using CIFS by logging in as "admin". If you enable viewing of hidden folders, you should see a .timemachine directory. I suppose it may work better to go this route instead.
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 25, 2011
Also once you've mounted the share rather than trying to delete using the Finder, go into the Terminal and try deleting it that way. The Finder can be notoriously slow at doing things.
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 26, 2011
When I got home from work the sparsebundle was finally deleted. We'll see how stable TM is now after it completes an initial backup cycle with a blank partition to work with.
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 26, 2011
I'm happy to report that so far erasing my entire old Time Machine sparsebundle and rebacking up my old Mac has now seemed to stabilize things with my Duo running the latest Beta. I'll keep a close eye on it but I can now run back to back Time Machine backups and it's now able to find the NAS unlike before. Previously it would die and I had to restart the Time Machine service. Now it's stable. So I don't know if that helps the ReadyNAS developers at all (I previously sent two of my logs), but something seemed to happen to the NAS Bonjour/TM stability after upgrading to the Beta (and/or Lion). My old TM backup image somehow caused issues. Now that I've started from scratch it appears to be reliable again so far. Seems like there are a few others out there with this same problem, so as a fellow embedded developer, where there's smoke there's probably fire. Seems like there's an issue somewhere, just might be a hard/weird one to track down. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
jhaley
Aspirant
Aug 30, 2011
Is there any eta on a production ready fix for the Lion/Duo problem. The wait is getting to be quite a PITA. I'm debating if it's worth rolling back to Snow Leopard or moving on to another NAS solution.
EDCUL
Aspirant
Sep 14, 2011
I am so totally glad I ran a small test first

I am looking at getting a second ReadyNAS to be my time machine back up along with my first one as my media drive.

But after trying and reading I think I might get a ReadyNAS ultra4 pack it with drives and use it as both media and time machine.

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