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Periodic (daily) Time Machine failures
I am running TM on an iMac with 10.5.8 to a Duo running 4.1.6. However I am getting a failure about once a day where TM pops up a dialog saying the network volume could not be mounted because of a pro...
netatalk is a service - not part of the kernel - and pretty much the defacto standard for providing AFP access to a *nix server. So if you are having AFP access issues, you can be almost certain the issue is with netatalk.
Something else you could try: Via cmd+k connect to afp://[email protected] and use your TM password to authenticate
Normally, this should allow you to mount the TM share directly and then gain access to the diskimages stored there. Might help to see if that is actually possible and so determine if this really is an AFP access issue as I suspect, or perhaps something more specific to TM
You shoudl then also download your logs and look for the netatalk.log file to see if there is any useful debug info
Something else you could try: Via cmd+k connect to afp://[email protected] and use your TM password to authenticate
Normally, this should allow you to mount the TM share directly and then gain access to the diskimages stored there. Might help to see if that is actually possible and so determine if this really is an AFP access issue as I suspect, or perhaps something more specific to TM
You shoudl then also download your logs and look for the netatalk.log file to see if there is any useful debug info
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