Lion & Time Machine - NV+

So what exactly is the deal with the AFP issue and Time Machine, why its not working?
How long till they fix this do you think?

Time Machine on Lion requires Server Reply Cache. This is not present in the version of Netatalk included in 4.1.7. The fix should be seen as an urgent issue now so they will work to release a fix as quickly as can be done reasonably.

I wish I have read this before and luckily I didn't do clean install.otherwise I will have nothing at all now. It will be great if there is a trade in upgrade to a intel model readynas!!!

Hi All,

Just want to +1 (+100) for correcting TM/Lion issues with NV+!

I upgraded yesterday without researching against RN. So, no backups for now. I have two Macs that rely on the NV+ for TM backup (only one Mac is Lion). Everything else seems to be working very well.

Any ETA on a fix for the NV+? (I read Yoh-dah's post re: support and the coding optimization need).

Also, Thanks for a great device that just works! Reliable and easy to use!

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-Andy

There's a RAIDiator 4.1.8-T5 beta out that should fix Lion incompatibility - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=55155

Hmm. Installed 4.1.8-T5 and then on login over AFP, got the "Something wrong with the volume's CNID DB... ...switching to read-only mode." message, which I think is a Netatalk error. Result is that one of my shares (my 1TB or so of my photography) is visible but shows no files within it (via Finder). However, if I go in via ssh, everything is present so clearly an AFP issue.

ATM, this is an irritant - content is backed up so not panicking. Give me a couple of days though and I might start.

Question: I discover (after the horse has bolted) that this issue has been known about for at least 8 months - so how come it's taken so long for there to be even a beta fix?

Richard

NetGear is one of the customers of NetAFP. Take a look at http://www.netafp.com/customers/ and http://www.netafp.com/status-of-netatalk-and-afp-support-by-nas-vendor-322/

NetAFP has been working on the fix for several months (at least) and if the Lion Dev Previews changed how things work adapting to those changes.

NetGear does not support beta OSes so saw no need to release an update till after Lion was officially released to the public (why add a fix for something only to find the fix doesn't work with the production OS?). Of course as the NetAFP team has been updating the Netatalk project over time and NetGear obviously doesn't want to add an old unstable release of Netatalk 2.2 to Sparc firmware, the latest release would present new challenges for backporting compared to the earlier Netatalk 2.2 releases which would explain the additional development time needed to get an update ready for Sparc.

richardh wrote:

Hmm. Installed 4.1.8-T5 and then on login over AFP, got the "Something wrong with the volume's CNID DB... ...switching to read-only mode." message, which I think is a Netatalk error. Result is that one of my shares (my 1TB or so of my photography) is visible but shows no files within it (via Finder). However, if I go in via ssh, everything is present so clearly an AFP issue. ATM, this is an irritant - content is backed up so not panicking. Give me a couple of days though and I might start. Question: I discover (after the horse has bolted) that this issue has been known about for at least 8 months - so how come it's taken so long for there to be even a beta fix? Richard

I think I'll wait a bit. I have 3+TB of original photography without a backup (other than RAID protection).

Thanks for working on this fix! :D Looking forward to a stable release soon :wink:

-Andy

Any feedback on this from anyone else. Is this beta working okay for folks or are there issues?
-Andy

Installed the Beta and my Macs then took ages to see any folder content. They finally caught up and now all seems fine.