Mountain Lion >>> No backups

You're not the first to report issues with doing TM backups. See http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=64805#p363352

Is your Mac connected to your network via ethernet or wireless? If connected via wireless does connecting it via ethernet make a difference?

Thanks for the response. This is connected wirelessly. It's difficult to get Ethernet to the machine so someone else will have to try that.

My point is; literally nothing has changed but my OS. I backed up to TM, installed ML, and then tried and failed to backup all in the space of an hour.

10.7.X via wireless to Ultra 6 - fine
10.8 via wireless to Ultra 6 - fail

What makes you think that a wired connection will fix the problem?

Oooh, I found a comment and potential fix to this problem:

http://www.trollop.org/2012/07/12/os-x- ... -netatalk/

I think I'll still hold out to see what Netgear say.

I'm having the same setting and the same problem over here. I'm wire-connected to my internal network on which the ReadyNas Pro is. I can acces my old TimeMachine backups and get files from that backup, but can't make new backups as I used to do....

My suggestion is to use a firewire disk for TM backups now, till this issue is resolved.

redpola wrote:
Oooh, I found a comment and potential fix to this problem: http://www.trollop.org/2012/07/12/os-x- ... -netatalk/ I think I'll still hold out to see what Netgear say.

I can confirm that this workaround is working. Thanks for the tip redpola!

I may have found a real fix to this issue, purely by accident.

Here's my log:

Sun Jul 29 21:03:44 WEST 2012 AFP service no longer advertised over Bonjour.
Sun Jul 29 20:53:58 WEST 2012 AFP service now advertised over Bonjour.

I think Settings, Standard Services, checking "Advertise AFP service over Bonjour", clicking "Apply", then unchecking "Advertise AFP service over Bonjour" and clicking "Apply" may have fixed the issue. I'd love to hear if this works for anybody else.

Briefly, I was reconfiguring my rather over-complex setup of Netgear NAS boxes, and both my Mountain Lion machines started backing up without me noticing. I'm pretty sure it was a result of the above change. Right now my Ultra 6 is not letting me configure it, presumably because my OS X Server box is backing up 140GB to it, but I'll report back later.

Ok, so I did *something* which made things work again briefly. My server is 41GB through a 140GB backup. My desktop machine no longer can connect to the time machine volume. :(

Will experiment more tomorrow.

Again, I can confirm that redpola's first solution still works for me.
I just had to do 'sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/YOUR_BACKUP_VOLUME' once and when I startup/shutdown the NAS or my MBP, TM backups - scheduled or not - are still working fine :-).

Right, well, here is the fix, it seems.

Under "Services" and "Standard File Protocols", look for the AFP section (which should be checked) and check "Advertise AFP service over Bonjour".

With this fix all my machines, whether Mountain Lion or just plain Lion can backup to this Time Machine drive.

Neil.

Knakker wrote:
Again, I can confirm that redpola's first solution still works for me. I just had to do 'sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/YOUR_BACKUP_VOLUME' once and when I startup/shutdown the NAS or my MBP, TM backups - scheduled or not - are still working fine :-).

The problem with that is that your Mac isn't mounting / unmounting the backup drive. So when you're on, for instance, cafe wifi, you'll see mounting errors.

I just posted a fix which works for me and is "the correct fix" I think. I dunno how it allows AFP logins to work but it does!

Neil.