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rusty102030
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Oct 31, 2015
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MacBook Yosimite backup to ReadyNAS 4.1.14 via Time Machine

Hi all, looking for some assistance in backing up my childs MacBook (running Yosimite OS) to my ReadyNAS Duo running raidiator 4.1.14. I have enabled Time Machine on the ReadyNAS and rebooted the Re...
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    rusty102030
    Oct 31, 2015

    Found the solution! For anyone else that stumbles across this thread, add the NAS as a server to Finder. nielsNL instructions here worked perfectly:

     

    https://community.netgear.com/t5/Backing-up-to-your-ReadyNAS/ReadyNAS-duo-not-visible-to-Time-Machine/td-p/782862

     

    - Open Finder, From the menu choose Go - Connect to Server. Type in afp://<readynas>/ReadyNAS (substitute <readynas> with your ReadyNAS IP address).
    - Login using username ReadyNAS and the chosen password, I also added the password to the keychain.
    - You should now be able to see the ReadyNAS volume in Time Machine.

     

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