Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS

Just FYI for everyone... Im running time machine on my NAS box... and I lost a hard drive. Apple replaced it and I restored the files via time machine with no issues! whew!


tom

0deuce0 wrote:
Just FYI for everyone... Im running time machine on my NAS box... and I lost a hard drive. Apple replaced it and I restored the files via time machine with no issues! whew! tom

Sure sounds like you should be doing a testimonial ;-)

0deuce0 wrote:
Just FYI for everyone... Im running time machine on my NAS box... and I lost a hard drive. Apple replaced it and I restored the files via time machine with no issues! whew!

Did you have to do the usual workarounds in order to mount a network volume while booting from the DVD? I haven't tried this kind of bare metal restore yet, so I'm curious about the steps you had to go through.

What is the difference of me having this setting

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

and the manual process listed here ?

teeruku,

By default TM will not show network volumes for selection when specifying the backup volume - this setting enables that feature so that TM can back up to a NAS device rather than just an external drive / Time Capsule etc

It is disabled by default as Apple do not support this functionality

///P

teeruku wrote:
What is the difference of me having this setting defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 and the manual process listed here ?

On later 10.5.x releases (starting with 10.5.3 IIRC) that option no longer needs to be set.

What *did* happen, unfortunately, is that a bug was introduced that prevented the automatic creation of the backup volume (in 10.5.3 IIRC)... hence the creation of the "manual" process you refer to.

sphardy wrote:
teeruku, By default TM will not show network volumes for selection when specifying the backup volume - this setting enables that feature so that TM can back up to a NAS device rather than just an external drive / Time Capsule etc It is disabled by default as Apple do not support this functionality ///P

This is no longer true with later 10.5.x releases. I haven't had this option set in my installation since 10.5.3, and i'm on 10.5.4 now. TM is working like a champ.

btaroli

I have found this to not be the case - I have recently had issues with a hard drive that has caused me to setup TM multiple times under both 10.5.3 and 10.5.4. In all cases I needed to set the preference before I could use a NAS volume

///P

I am not 100% sure about this, but the T120 code is the only change in the topology,

can anyone else confirm if their time machine backups are still working?

I got a error saying there was not enough space on the NAS when there are x00's free...

turns out my sparsebundle / backup size limit was too small i think.

I set it to 140g, just checked its current size on the nas = 138gig

what was weird was that the time machien error said it needed a extra 40 gig and there was only 60 gig left???
(there is over 200 gig free??? weird...)

re-did all the steps in the how-to and set it to 180 gig

looks like I am backing up from scratch again now tho ;-(

ah well - live & learn!