Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

jarrah wrote:
btaroli wrote: wildeep wrote: Thanks for helping. i am using RAIDiator 4.01c1-p1 [1.00a041] and the drive is mounted using AFP I seem to recall p1 had a slot of signficiant issues. Please entertain the notion of going to 4.01c1-p2. (heck p3 is already well into beta) There isn't a 4.01c1-p2. There was a 4.00c1-p2 which is what your link points to. The next release is 4.01c1-p3. See this thread

Ugh... was thinking one thing and typed another. Sure p3 is the next release, but still beta. I do seem to remember having problems with 4.01c1-p1 and quickly hopped onto the p3 beta. I can't necessary suggest it, but T37 has behaved very well for me.

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.

Thanks to everybody for figuring this out!

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?

I recently purchased the ReadyNAS duo and based on this thread, I have decided to try to make TIme Machine work on the unit. After reading the various instructions and links, I thought I would throw out an idea and see if you guys that this might work.

I have an AirPort Extreme N as my base station. I know that you can now connect a USB Drive to the USB port and us it as a Time Machine. This has been true since the Time Capsule release. It creates all the " criteria" needed to make it work with your mac.

Here is my idea. Why not just copy the data from the AirPort attached Time Machine to the ReadyNAS. Then tell Time Machine the new location.

Any thoughts.

stevesreed wrote:
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 this helps, I can confirm that this works for me in 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 without the need for any manual mounting. I have two separate shares set up each with one sparsebundle, each backing up a separate Mac via TM, with no problems to date (about three months). Before TM has done its first backup since power on, it shows disconnected status, but then when it kicks off for the first time both the AFP share and the spareimage within it both get mounted for the duration of the backup.

wardie wrote:
I have two separate shares set up each with one sparsebundle, each backing up a separate Mac via TM, with no problems to date (about three months).

It's always been my understanding that you can point multiple Leopard systems to the same share and each will target it's own sparsebundle for backup. Or did you settle on multiple shares because that wasn't working?

I have 3 mac's backing up to separate sparsebundles all on the same share. Works perfectly under 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 with no manual mounts or dismounts

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btaroli wrote:
It's always been my understanding that you can point multiple Leopard systems to the same share and each will target it's own sparsebundle for backup. Or did you settle on multiple shares because that wasn't working?

No reason other than that I thought it may be useful to limit the size per share, but the sparebundle sizing does that anyway now I think about it. I may consolidate them onto one share as I can't see any reason why that would not work, as per btaroli's post above.

I am using 10.5.3 OSX and it works a treat.



never had to restore yet tho..... ;-)

I got to test the Time Machine restore after Drive Genius defrag destroyed my hard drive... lucky me... I successfully performed a restore after doing some tricks with the Terminal during the restore process... however, once I restored my system the Time Machine backup was erased along with all my historical backups... not quite sure what happened there... just a caution that Time Machine may not be enough of a backup and I recommend a full drive image backup using something like Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner in conjunction with Time Machine.