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rusty102030
Oct 31, 2015Aspirant
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...
- 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:
- 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.
rusty102030
Oct 31, 2015Aspirant
Thanks JennC. Unfortunately I get stuck at step 2 in the first article as the ReadyNAS does not appear as an available disk. Any other ideas?
rusty102030
Oct 31, 2015Aspirant
Found the solution! For anyone else that stumbles across this thread, add the NAS as a server to Finder. nielsNL instructions here worked perfectly:
- 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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