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New User Needs Help with ReadyNAS, TimeMachine and iPhoto
Hi, everyone.
I've purchased and am setting up a ReadyNAS Duo v1 (RAIDiator 4.1.10) with two 750 GB drives in X-RAID, plugged into my wireless router ... and I'm having some trouble.
I've moved my music collection to the NAS and have redirected iTunes to look for my library (56.18 GB) there. All is okay on that front. I've also relocated my iPhoto library (18.19 GB) to the NAS and have redirected the program to look there for it. This has, from an iPhoto perspective, gone okay ... I'm able to start iPhoto and all of my pictures and events show up a-ok. BUT no other programs that reference iPhoto (such as the list of options when I go to change my desktop background, which had been an iPhoto image, or when I try to insert media into a document, etc.) seem to find the library. In those cases, iPhoto shows as a named option in the sidebar, but never populates. Any thoughts?
Second (and more importantly), I'm having some trouble with, and because of, Time Machine. I set up the system as I thought I was supposed to: in Frontview going to Backup / Time Machine and enabling support. I set a password and marked my capacity for 500 GB. I then went into the Time Machine panel of System Preferences on my Mac, selected "ReadyNAS," entered the pw and activated Time Machine. The resulting first backup took about 18 hours ... fine, no worry, it was the initial (and full) backup. Since then though, all of the smaller backups have slowed to a near dead crawl (less than 20 kb transferring over a matter of hours), with all but one freezing up and failing to complete. I've installed a widget called Time Machine Buddy, which shows me a repeating string of errors which either read "Waiting for index to be ready (101)" or "Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed." I've tried telling Time Machine not to backup the NAS drive, but am unable to select the NAS for that purpose. I've also told Spotlight not to index the NAS, but when I reboot my computer that specification is gone. Following suggestions some other online help forums, I clicked the Time Machine icon in my menu bar and chose "Verify" ... and when Time Machine was done with the process, the Time Machine drive icon dismounted from my desktop, the Time Machine preferences indicated that no backup had ever been performed. But when I look at my overall drive capacity on the NAS via Frontview, I see that 156 GB is used ... meaning that the Time Machine files are still there!
The NAS shows up twice in my Finder sidebar, and if I try to connect to the NAS server with the admin id and pw, ONE of them shows folders Admin, Backup, Homes and Media. (Not logged in as admin, this same instance shows only Backup and Media). The OTHER NAS instance shows "Admin" and "ReadyNAS" (while if I'm not logged in as admin, I can't connect to this second instance). When I try to open the ReadyNAS volume, I get the message: "The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “ReadyNAS” can’t be found."
So ... I'd like to start from scratch with this whole Time Machine experiment. But, since I can't mount the Time Machine history and I can't open the ReadyNAS volume, how do I get rid of the files that are on the drive from last time? How do I reclaim all of that storage space?
And does anybody have an idea as to what I was doing wrong to begin with, and how to make this all work???
For what it's worth: going forward from here, I'd like to have the NAS set up so that it can be access via the net when away, and also set up a second Mac to use Time Machine.
Many thanks to everyone that can help here, and even to those who can't but stuck around to power through my note anyway.
I've purchased and am setting up a ReadyNAS Duo v1 (RAIDiator 4.1.10) with two 750 GB drives in X-RAID, plugged into my wireless router ... and I'm having some trouble.
I've moved my music collection to the NAS and have redirected iTunes to look for my library (56.18 GB) there. All is okay on that front. I've also relocated my iPhoto library (18.19 GB) to the NAS and have redirected the program to look there for it. This has, from an iPhoto perspective, gone okay ... I'm able to start iPhoto and all of my pictures and events show up a-ok. BUT no other programs that reference iPhoto (such as the list of options when I go to change my desktop background, which had been an iPhoto image, or when I try to insert media into a document, etc.) seem to find the library. In those cases, iPhoto shows as a named option in the sidebar, but never populates. Any thoughts?
Second (and more importantly), I'm having some trouble with, and because of, Time Machine. I set up the system as I thought I was supposed to: in Frontview going to Backup / Time Machine and enabling support. I set a password and marked my capacity for 500 GB. I then went into the Time Machine panel of System Preferences on my Mac, selected "ReadyNAS," entered the pw and activated Time Machine. The resulting first backup took about 18 hours ... fine, no worry, it was the initial (and full) backup. Since then though, all of the smaller backups have slowed to a near dead crawl (less than 20 kb transferring over a matter of hours), with all but one freezing up and failing to complete. I've installed a widget called Time Machine Buddy, which shows me a repeating string of errors which either read "Waiting for index to be ready (101)" or "Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed." I've tried telling Time Machine not to backup the NAS drive, but am unable to select the NAS for that purpose. I've also told Spotlight not to index the NAS, but when I reboot my computer that specification is gone. Following suggestions some other online help forums, I clicked the Time Machine icon in my menu bar and chose "Verify" ... and when Time Machine was done with the process, the Time Machine drive icon dismounted from my desktop, the Time Machine preferences indicated that no backup had ever been performed. But when I look at my overall drive capacity on the NAS via Frontview, I see that 156 GB is used ... meaning that the Time Machine files are still there!
The NAS shows up twice in my Finder sidebar, and if I try to connect to the NAS server with the admin id and pw, ONE of them shows folders Admin, Backup, Homes and Media. (Not logged in as admin, this same instance shows only Backup and Media). The OTHER NAS instance shows "Admin" and "ReadyNAS" (while if I'm not logged in as admin, I can't connect to this second instance). When I try to open the ReadyNAS volume, I get the message: "The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “ReadyNAS” can’t be found."
So ... I'd like to start from scratch with this whole Time Machine experiment. But, since I can't mount the Time Machine history and I can't open the ReadyNAS volume, how do I get rid of the files that are on the drive from last time? How do I reclaim all of that storage space?
And does anybody have an idea as to what I was doing wrong to begin with, and how to make this all work???
For what it's worth: going forward from here, I'd like to have the NAS set up so that it can be access via the net when away, and also set up a second Mac to use Time Machine.
Many thanks to everyone that can help here, and even to those who can't but stuck around to power through my note anyway.
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- In the future, you might try splitting up multiple issues into different posts. More likely to get responses that way. ;)
jmk8811 wrote: ... I've also relocated my iPhoto library (18.19 GB) to the NAS and have redirected the program to look there for it. This has, from an iPhoto perspective, gone okay ... I'm able to start iPhoto and all of my pictures and events show up a-ok. BUT no other programs that reference iPhoto (such as the list of options when I go to change my desktop background, which had been an iPhoto image, or when I try to insert media into a document, etc.) seem to find the library. In those cases, iPhoto shows as a named option in the sidebar, but never populates. Any thoughts?
Well, how exactly did you do the redirection? In my past, I did this by mounting the volume with the media and then deleting the base folder for, say, iTunes Music and then (using Terminal) creating a Unix-style symlink to the volume folder path where I moved iTunes Music (even if not using that name). Never experienced any woes from this approach, unless the network volume the symlink referenced wasn't mounted, naturally.jmk8811 wrote: The NAS shows up twice in my Finder sidebar
This is likely due to CIFS and AFP both being enabled. Note that the only way to access the "C" drive on the NAS is to log in as admin via CIFS. I've frankly taken to using CIFS instead anyway, since AFP started having performance problems at some point in the past (probably back on my NV+, now on Pro) and I've just stuck with CIFS now. I do use DAV for some shares and of course Time Machine must use AFP... so, YMMV.jmk8811 wrote: So ... I'd like to start from scratch with this whole Time Machine experiment. But, since I can't mount the Time Machine history and I can't open the ReadyNAS volume, how do I get rid of the files that are on the drive from last time? How do I reclaim all of that storage space?
The Time Machine data, if you were to enable Root SSH and log in, is kept at /c/.timemachine. Remember my note earlier about logging in as admin via CIFS? Do that and drill into the "c" share to mount it. Now flip into Terminal app and cd into /Volumes/c/.timemachine. There you will find one or more *.sparsebundle directories. These sparsebundles are named for the machines backed up and represent the Time Machine volume. If you want to zap it, just delete them. There is no undo.jmk8811 wrote: And does anybody have an idea as to what I was doing wrong to begin with, and how to make this all work???
Well, you mentioned you're on a Duo v1 and 4.1.10. I don't know if you mentioned what Mac OS X release you're on. If it's the latest (decent presumption) then that may be the issue. I seem to recall threads complaining of issues with 10.8.2 and 4.1.10 with TM. Might be worth a search or three to vet that. I don't use 4.1.10 myself (on a Pro 6 now, so 4.2.22) so I don't have firsthand knowledge.
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