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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nyee
Aspirant
Aug 09, 2011
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: 10.7
ReadyNAS: Duo running 4.1.8 - T9
jhaley
Aspirant
Aug 10, 2011
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...never

Jay
Vunde
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
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.
pjc1
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
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.
nyee
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
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: 10.7
ReadyNAS: Duo running 4.1.8 - T9 beta
salvobeta
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
I'm having similar problems...

Please see my post here viewtopic.php?f=28&t=55846

Basically what I'm seeing is that AFP service keeps dying. When it comes up, frequently I keep getting CNID DB errors.

I too have been without TM for awhile. I was able to get a partial backup done about a week ago. HAven't been successul since.
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
Just to clarify on my original post... I AM using the Time Machine service on the Beta. It is enabled just like it's always been. Ever since I upgraded to Lion it no longer sees the Time Machine share on the network. It's like the AFP advertisements aren't working at all.

Can't wait for yoh-dah to return from vacation. I feel like there's a subset of us that still are having major issues with Lion.
pjc1
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
@nyee: See my post above. You need to use the Time Machine service, or manually tweak the settings for your other shares in order to support Time Machine backups on them. There are special AFP features that are only enabled for the Time Machine service (by default). AFP works just fine for other shares for other purposes, just as you've described.

@salvobeta: I already replied to your other thread. You seem to be encountering a new problem.

@atlgator: That's weird that your computer isn't seeing the share on the network. Can you connect via afp://ReadyNAS@[server address]/? Does that make Time Machine happy? If so, then your issue would seem to be Bonjour/broadcast-related, and not specific to Time Machine.
nyee
Aspirant
Aug 11, 2011
@PJC. Thanks very much, buddy. I now realize what you're original post was about. I had completely forgotten that there is a TM "Service" that was created for the ReadyNas. I had skipped enabling it since I had my sparsebundles created through the original method.

The main reason for not enabling it was really because I have more than 1 TM backup on the Duo. I now have 4 backups with unique names. Each of my computers backup to their named sparsebundles. Do you or anyone know how TMS will deal with 4? Will it just create 4 unique shares automatically since the TM backup request comes from 4 different computers? Would be nice to know before I attempt it so as not to jeopardize things.

Thanks again for the help.
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 12, 2011
@PJC, Yeah, I am 99% sure this is a Bonjour issue. My Macbook doesn't see ANY of the Readynas shares in the network browser. I have to explicitly connect them by IP. Before Lion I did not. They would always show up in the network browser. This is definitely tied to the broadcast advertisements that Bonjour uses. I'm just not sure where the problem is.

I'll try your suggestion later when I get home.