Time Machine using OSX Mavericks

Disabling / enabling Time Machine worked for me too! Thanks guys!

So nobody is having the symptom I describe above (with new firmware, TM backup will start, but will never complete)? Stuck at "Waiting to Complete First Backup"? (See log above.) I must be having a whole different problem...

Skywalker wrote:
So the _adisk record (for TimeMachine) isn't even showing up. Can you make sure you have TimeMachine support enabled? If so, maybe try disabling it and then re-enabling it.

Brilliant that worked for me. It let me use the disk and enter my credentials. It's preparing the backup now. I'll post again if I run into any other trouble.

I could have sworn I had done that but apparently not. Maybe I did, but just didn't hit the apply button. Who knows.

One last note, any reason it's showing 2.57 TB available? I set my allocation to 2000GB so it shouldn't be able to use more than that. Plus I thought Time Machine had a limit in it of 2TB.

When will 4.2.26 be out, this is taking far too long!

I am running 4.2.25-RC1 firmware on my Ultra 4 Plus and have a new MacBook Pro. When I setup a new time machine sparsebundle through Frontview, I fill 1500 GB in the capacity field and click apply. Spinning wheel goes on indefinitely and I eventually have to refresh the webpage. Go to Time Machine to start a new backup and the maximum size of the backup is shown to be the full capacity of my NAS and not the capacity I set in Frontview for the Time Machine Backup. Looking at the sparsebundle in OS X disk utility confirms that the maximum capacity of the sparsebundle is the full capacity of the NAS. Tried reinstalling firmware and problem persists. Also tried deleting sparsebundle and starting over and same issue. Looks like the beta firmware has an issue setting the capacity of the Time Machine sparsebundle file during its creation.

Any advice as how to workaround this would be appreciated as I don't want my time machine backup to take up the entire NAS.

I tried the fixes and still having issues. Mine will go to prepare disk then start the back up but then it will stop because the NAS (600 Sparc) will restart and go into "check" that takes hours. It only does this with Time Machine, I tried just disabling time machine and it doesn't have any issues or do the restart thing either only when trying to use time machine.

cdeel wrote:
So nobody is having the symptom I describe above (with new firmware, TM backup will start, but will never complete)? Stuck at "Waiting to Complete First Backup"? (See log above.) I must be having a whole different problem...

You're not alone. After updating 4.1.13.rc1 I'm also still "Waiting to complete first backup" and it is failing every time. :(

It seems to be working again when I erased my old sparebundle in the .timemachine folder. Information about that can be found here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=28473

Thank you guys for your help! The only thing now is that Time machine doesn't get the capacity limit I set in frontview right. It's now using it's full available capacity range. Anybody having the same problem?

thunderluc, did your backup actually complete after deleting the sparsebundle? I tried that. It appeared to be backing up at first, but then ... "Waiting to Complete First Backup". :(
I did notice that my older mac, which was successfully backing up at first, is now also failing to complete its TM backups. This makes me suspect the problem is on the server side. Hopefully I'll have some time to troubleshoot it tonight.

Skywalker wrote:
vrspectre wrote: I only have it once under AFP. i attached a screenshot of the bonjour browser that shows where else it's show up as well. So the _adisk record (for TimeMachine) isn't even showing up. Can you make sure you have TimeMachine support enabled? If so, maybe try disabling it and then re-enabling it.

Updating to 4.13-RC on my NV+ (v1) and stopping and restarting the Time Machine service allowed me to begin backing up my mid-2013 MacBook Air with Mavericks.

Like many others, I am grateful that Netgear continues to support older models like the ReadyNAS NV+ (v1). Thanks so much, guys.