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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atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 22, 2011
I tried it again tonight. Couldn't see Time Machine share from Lion. Stopped and restarted Time Machine service on Duo. Then Time Machine share was visible to Lion and the AFP NAS advertisement also reappeared in Finder's Network Browser. Time Machine backup commenced and completed after a while. Immediately after it was done I tried forcing Time Machine to backup again. It could not longer see the Time Machine Share. Nor could I enter Time Machine. And the AFP NAS advertisement was gone again in Finder. I stopped and restarted the Time Machine service and it was back. But I also noticed tonight that it looks like all of my old backups appear to be gone now as well. :-(
Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 23, 2011
Have you tried disabling AppleTalk?
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 23, 2011
@Skywalker: I have not. I assume you just mean the option to advertise AFP service over Appletalk? I can try that tonight.
Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 23, 2011
Yep, that's the one.
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 23, 2011
@Skywalker - Still failed after disabling Appletalk and restarting the Time Machine service. I got one successful backup and then it couldn't be found again.

Is there an easy way to delete the Time Machine backup volume so it's blank and I can start fresh? I think things are messed up with the volume right now. When it is mounted it shows only 7 GB free but it shows no old backups. I think things have gotten all munged with the Snow Leopard -> Lion upgrade.
Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 23, 2011
You should be able to use Cmd+K, and then enter afp://readynas@[ip_of_nas] to mount the TimeMachine share. Then you should be able to delete everything from there.

Have you tried using Bonjour Browser to get more discovery info?
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 23, 2011
@Skywalker - I connected to the NAS as you described and logged in as admin. Could not see a Time Machine share. The only mounts that it had other than the ones I've created are media and homes.

I downloaded Bonjour Browser and for a moment it saw the readynas but then it disappeared when I refreshed. I restarted Time Machine and hit reload in Bonjour Browser and saw the following:

_adisk._tcp. - 1
winters_nas
192.168.1.5:9
sys=waMA=00:0D:A2:02:0F:0D
dk0=adVF=0x83,adVN=ReadyNAS,adVU=02f657e0-c64e-4cf2-bb7b-e10fdd847a48
Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 23, 2011
You'll need to log in as "readynas", not "admin".
nooma66
Aspirant
Aug 24, 2011
I have just bought the Readynas recently and am now kicking myself for listening to the idiot at Novatech sales who told me there were no problems using it with a macbook and running os lion :evil: I am having the same issues as you all. The mac either doesn't find the drive, or if it does it, it wont back up. I have downloaded the beta firmware as suggested but this has made no difference whatsoever. If i go into the nas firmware and disable the time machine from the backup selection and then re enable it, hey presto, the drive is suddenly found but once the time machine is commenced it either goes back to saying it cannot find the drive or occasionally back up will start as it did tonight i got a whole 11gb before it crashed and said it cannot find the drive again. I am now wondering whether to take the drives back and get a refund, considering all the hours I have lost trying to get this thing to work I might as well have splashed out the extra and bought Apple time capsule! :cry:
atlgator
Aspirant
Aug 24, 2011
Skywalker wrote:
You'll need to log in as "readynas", not "admin".

I tried that and I can see the sparsebundle. But I can't delete it. It tries for about 5 minutes and then says something about the token being in use. Tried 3 times with the same result.

UPDATE 1: Retrying the above with Time Machine unmounted... Will update in a few...
UPDATE 2: Checked this morning and sparsebundle failed to delete overnight. Retrying now. That thing takes FOREVER to delete. Is there a better way to remove than to select "Move to Trash"?

And to even try I have to keep restarting the Time Machine service. This thing is extremely unstable. It keeps dying repeatedly.

Is there anything else you recommend trying? It sounds like there's at least a few of us seeing this same issue. Very frustrating. My NAS drive is practically useless right now from my Macbook. It works just fine from my Win7 machine.

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