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Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS
The step-by-step how-to can be found here.
Add me to the list of those who've been successfully using Time Machine to back up to the NAS for quite some time, but have recently had it fail. I now get the error "Time Machine Error - the backup directory could not be created". I don't think size is the issue, because I've got 200 GB used on my hard drive and the sparseimage was 320 GB. My NAS is currently showing 63% of 1.5 TB used, so there's plenty of room there, too.
I've tried deleting the existing sparseimage and creating a new one from the directions here, but I get the same error on the initial backup. I wonder whether some Apple software update has broken this? I was running 10.5.3 when the problem first occurred. I'm now on 10.5.4, which hasn't changed anything. I don't actually recall any updates around the time the error started.
I've tried deleting the existing sparseimage and creating a new one from the directions here, but I get the same error on the initial backup. I wonder whether some Apple software update has broken this? I was running 10.5.3 when the problem first occurred. I'm now on 10.5.4, which hasn't changed anything. I don't actually recall any updates around the time the error started.
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