Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

wwalkersd wrote:

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.

this has happened to me for the 4th time now ;-(

I recently wiped the macbook pro just to make sure, all backups were running smoothly, has the settings locked so they could not be changed, worked again for another month (200gb sparsebundle) then - "Time Machine Error - the backup directory could not be created" I have given up at this stage and am backing up to a fire wire drive during office hours.