Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

gman wrote:
I've done a fair amount of searching but haven't found anything that details the process for restoring from the ReadyNAS when your hard disk dies. As far as I know, the Mac OS disc can't "restore system" from a network drive. Anybody know?

Has anyone figured this out? I set my wife's MacBook to back up to my ReadyNAS Duo a couple of weeks ago, and tested it out successfully by wiping and restoring a few files. Last night her hard drive died. Apple put in a new one, but when I try to restore from Time Machine by booting from the Leopard install CD, it doesn't see the ReadyNAS. I set the computer's name to match what it was before, so it allows me to select the ReadyNAS as a backup source when I'm booted up normally and go to Time Machine preferences. When I'm booted from CD, it sees the hard disk attached to my Airport Base Station that I'd been using to back her up months ago, but in the Select a Backup Source screen, there is no ReadyNAS listed.

How do I overcome this? Anyway workarounds that people have found would be greatly, greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Okay, so these are the steps to restore from the ReadyNAS via Time Machine in case of hard drive failure, in case anyone in interested. I don't know if this is the best way, but this worked for me.
1) Install Mac OS X 10.5 on the new hard drive and boot up the computer normally
2) When prompted to set up an account, make sure to create an account whose name and shortname are different than the one you'll be restoring - if you create an account with the same name+shortname as the one you'll be restoring, you won't be able to proceed later.
3) Once the initial setup of Mac OS X is complete, connect to your ReadyNAS via a Finder window and double-click on the sparsebundle of the backup you want to restore. This will mount the sparsebundle as a disk on your desktop. It will take a long time to do this (~15 minutes for me), so set it going and come back later.
4) Once the backup sparsebundle is mounted on your desktop, open up Migration Assistant, which is in your Applications -> Utilities folder.
5) In Migration Assistant, choose "From a Time Machine backup or other disk" and click Continue
6) "Select the System to Transfer": You should see your mounted sparsebundle appear on this screen. Select it and click Continue
7) "Select User Accounts to Transfer": This will take a while to figure out what user account(s) are store in the backup. Time for another cup of coffee (~5 minutes for me)...
8) Select the user account to restore and click Continue. If you disregarded step #2, this is where it will complain and say a user account by that name already exists, at which point you have to either a) enter a different name + shortname or b) quit, create a new Administrator account, log out, log in with the Administrator account, delete your other account, and start over from step #3.
9) Select the various things you want to restore and click Continue until the last screen, when you'll click Transfer
10) Wait a very long while (~1 hr and 45 minutes for me) while the restoration procedure continues
11) Voila! Time Machine restore from ReadyNAS complete!

My wife's MacBook had only 30 GB of stuff backed up, so when I note above that things will take a long time, your mileage may vary depending on the size of your backup. But as long it looks like the computer is still thinking, don't get discouraged at those steps and think it's frozen forever. It's not - just let it continue and come back later.