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sevilabear
Sep 17, 2013Aspirant
Time Machine using OSX Mavericks
Update: Please check you are running new enough firmware first: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=409701#p409701
Hello there,
I have a Macbook Air running OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) backing with Time Machine to my Readynas Ultra (x86). Everything works, no issues. I also have a development laptop running the latest developer build of Mavericks (dp8) and on this machine, I can't get Time Machine to work. The laptop sees the Time Machine shares over AFP and I can browse the entire contents of the Readynas through Finder. When I open the Time Machine application and hit "select disk," it recognizes the ReadyNas Time Machine share and offers it as a backup option. But when I click the share, it says "connecting" and then I get the following error message: "There was a problem connecting to the server 'XYZ.' The server may not exist or is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
Any thoughts?
Does anyone out there have a Mavericks machine backing up through Time Machine to an x86 ReadyNas?
Hello there,
I have a Macbook Air running OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) backing with Time Machine to my Readynas Ultra (x86). Everything works, no issues. I also have a development laptop running the latest developer build of Mavericks (dp8) and on this machine, I can't get Time Machine to work. The laptop sees the Time Machine shares over AFP and I can browse the entire contents of the Readynas through Finder. When I open the Time Machine application and hit "select disk," it recognizes the ReadyNas Time Machine share and offers it as a backup option. But when I click the share, it says "connecting" and then I get the following error message: "There was a problem connecting to the server 'XYZ.' The server may not exist or is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
Any thoughts?
Does anyone out there have a Mavericks machine backing up through Time Machine to an x86 ReadyNas?
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- flamesong1Aspirant
danpalmer wrote: I'm new to this forum, so sorry if I'm asking a question with an obvious answer, but where is the beta for the ReadyNAS NV+ v2? I'm having exactly the same issue on Mavericks with mine and there doesn't appear to be a software update or workaround yet.
If you look at the main forum page:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/
You will see a section at the bottom called READY NAS BETA (I put it in all caps because that's how it is on the page) and there is a link to:
Public RAIDiator Beta for ReadyNAS NV+ v2/Duo v2:
viewforum.php?f=148 - danpalmerAspirant
flamesong wrote:
If you look at the main forum page:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/
You will see a section at the bottom called READY NAS BETA (I put it in all caps because that's how it is on the page) and there is a link to:
Public RAIDiator Beta for ReadyNAS NV+ v2/Duo v2:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=148
Thanks for the help. I had found that bit already, but there doesn't appear to be a recent beta, and nothing that suggests a fix for this Time Machine bug. RAIDiator 4.x and 6.x appear to have received an update to address it, so I assume there must be one for 5.x? - flamesong1AspirantI can't answer that directly except to say that the current 4.1.13 beta does not support Mavericks from what I have gathered but the final may be released quite soon which may do. It appears that we are all waiting.
- danpalmerAspirantFair enough.
This is what developer previews are supposed to be for though. I'm quite disappointed in Netgear for having had this issue sorted before launch. - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredNetGear did some work on this before Mavericks launched however if they had started too early they may have fixed compatibility only to find Apple reverted a change before Mavericks launched.
If you are an early adopter of a new OS you can expect some things not to work for a while. - jameswendtAspirantI recently upgraded to Mavericks and it appears that Time Machine works when backing up but it does not appear to work when restoring.
- Time Machine does backup of my Macbook with Mavericks with no problem
- I choose "Enter Time Machine" to begin a restore and I get the Time Machine screen but cannot choose any previous backups
- I am initially able to scroll back to previous backups but the windows that should show the backup snapshots are black
- After a handful of seconds, a Mac window pops up saying "Can't connect to current Time Machine backup disk." and that's that
No go. My Time Machine backup process is not much help if there is no ability to restore.
I have a ReadyNAS NV+ running Raidiator 4.1.12
I hope there will be a solution for this because this is the only backup I have.
Sincerely,
Jim - vrspectreApprenticeI installed Mavericks on 2 macs (macbook pro and iMac). both continued to backup without installing the beta. I have not tried restoring a file though.
I ran out of space and went ahead and deleted my sparse bundles and increased my Time Machine allocation to 2000GB.
I also upgraded to 4.1.12.
my iMac continues to backup just fine. i am mounting by AFP as well.
for some reason on my macbook, i deleted the backup disk in the time machine system preferences. I don't know why i did this.
I do see the ReadyNAS drive, but it never connects successfully when i try to "use disk" the error i get is "There was a problem connecting to the server"
so i upgraded to 4.1.13 RC1
the same issue occurs on the macbook. the iMac continues to function. it seems to be a problem when trying to select the disk as the backup disk.
hope that helps. if you need more information, i'm happy to provide whatever logs you may want.
oh, one last thing. on my iMac, Time Machine says i have 2.1 TB of 5.8TB available. i thought Time Machine had a limit of 2TB. also, my allocation to time machine is only 2000GB so why would it see the whole 5.8TB? - SvendusAspirantAfter new installing Maveriks and using my Time Machine things functioned but now we can not connect from any mac on the network
- mrmiloTutorCould this also have something to do with AFP being replaced for SMB2?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/ ... -mavericks - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredDuo/NV+ v2 users. There is now a beta available for you to test as well: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=148&t=72267
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