Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

wildeep wrote:

Hoping someone can provide some advice as to why i cannot get Time Machine to backup to my ReadyNAS NV+ I have followed all the instructions exactly but when TM begins backup i get the error that the "the backup volume could not be mounted" i have a .sparsebundle file in an AFP share called 'TMBackup' directory on the readynas. My spare bundle is called 'macpro_0017f20101dc.sparsebundle' which matches my host name and ethernet ID. any ideas please?

I spend hours trying to figure this out yesterday.

It turns out the under 10.5.3, you are NOT supposed to mount the backup volume manually.

TM seems to mount the volume and then the sparsebundle all by it self now when I do "backup now".

If I mount the Backup volume first (like I always did before as part of the login setup) it gave me "backup volume could not be mounted" errors and failed.