Lion & Time Machine - NV+

Please refer to this thread; http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=51033

Here you'll find that though not yet available, the Sparc readyNAS systems will also be updated to make time machine and AFP work with OS-X Lion. The x86 ReadyNAS update is already available.

I'm having the same problem btw, though have not yet installed Lion (thankfully), just don't want to loose my backup and all..

So the NV+ is a SPARC NAS?
How come before Lion I could only connect to NV+ via CIFS, and not AFP. Now I can connect via AFP but not CIFS?

Let me clear that up. Before Lion no AFP, only CIFS and Time Machine via CIFS.
Now I can only connect to NAS via AFP via Finder and not Time Machine and no CIFS at all.

Yes the Duo, NV+, 1100, Infrant ReadyNAS and OEM-rebranded ReadyNAS units are Sparc ReadyNAS.

ChrisMc73 wrote:
How come before Lion I could only connect to NV+ via CIFS, and not AFP. Now I can connect via AFP but not CIFS?

That is weird.

ChrisMc73 wrote:
Let me clear that up. Before Lion no AFP, only CIFS and Time Machine via CIFS. Now I can only connect to NAS via AFP via Finder and not Time Machine and no CIFS at all.

You can't do Time Machine backups via CIFS. Time Machine backups over a network use AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) for obvious reasons. It seems you may have had a problem with your system if most of what you said is correct.

Ok, you are probably right. I just setup Time Machine in the Admin page, and then found it when I used the Time Machine Preferences, so it probably was AFP, and I just didn't know it.
But I was not ever able to hit any shares via the AFP connections in Finder. I was able to in Finder via CIFS though. So there probably was something wrong.

Right now I'm able to hit it in Finder AFP, and will wait for the new update so I can use Time Machine.
Is this update just to fix the Time Machine AFP issues?

The update would include an update to Netatalk 2.2 (project that provides AFP and Time Machine to the ReadyNAS). It may include some other updates as well.

To access shares via AFP you have to have AFP enabled for the share under Shares > Share Listing > Sharename > AFP. If AFP wasn't enabled you wouldn't have been able to access the share over AFP.

When you setup Time Machine, AFP is automatically enabled if it wasn't already.

dang, wish i would have read this thread before updating...no backups for me, yay!

mdgm wrote:

The update would include an update to Netatalk 2.2 (project that provides AFP and Time Machine to the ReadyNAS). It may include some other updates as well. To access shares via AFP you have to have AFP enabled for the share under Shares > Share Listing > Sharename > AFP. If AFP wasn't enabled you wouldn't have been able to access the share over AFP. When you setup Time Machine, AFP is automatically enabled if it wasn't already.

Well I'm pretty sure I had CIFS/AFP/NFS enabled for both my shares. In fact, unless Lion changed it, thats what shows in Frontview now, all 3 of those are enabled.
Anyway, regardless, its working now. Any reason you know of why CIFS isn't working now? Will that be fixed in this update? Thanks for your info and help.

Lion wouldn't have changed share settings.

Regarding CIFS, see this other thread: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=55125&p=312523#p312523

I just read that thread, and his method worked! I think the AFP connections are faster, is that just me?

AFP is native Mac OS X protocol so you'd expect it to work faster than CIFS on Macs.