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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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- Spoke too soon. Time Machine works -- but can't access CIFS shares ( ..."can't be opened because the original item can't be found.")
Going to have to fallback to 4.12 - Okay, got this working finally (on an NV+ running 4.1.13 RC1).
I had to go into the /c/.timemachine folder on the NAS (via SSH) and delete everything except the ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" file. (The only other good sparsebundle I still had in there had gone corrupt somehow anyway, error 109, so I wiped it out and started over.) Rebooted the NAS and all Macs.
Now both Macs (one on 10.9, one on 10.6.8 ) are backing up properly.
Thanks for the ongoing support, Netgear folks! - I have a NETGEAR ReadyNAS PRO Pioneer Edition and I can't run Time Machine since I upgraded to Mavericks. After endless time wasting, I have eventually arrived at this pages just to realise that the ReadyNAS firmware is preventing this.
ReadyNAS folks: Mavericks has been around quite a while now (and I not talking purely since it was publicly released) and this thread has been also going on for two months. It is unacceptable that your support on this matter is dragging on for so long. I do realise that there is an RC for the firmware that can address it but I am very averse to install release candidate and not finalised builds on my storage unit.
Please see this issue with some sense of urgency and importance (which seems to be lacking up to now). - Yes, I need 4.2.25 for the PRO released with open sources so I can rebuild virtualbox. I've got two new systems in our house I can't backup and this really isn't acceptable.
steve dsm1212 wrote: Yes, I need 4.2.25 for the PRO released with open sources so I can rebuild virtualbox. I've got two new systems in our house I can't backup and this really isn't acceptable.
steve
Hmm. I just did two backups smoothly from a macbook pro running OSX Mavericks using 4.2.24 on the PRO6. I know the laptop has downloaded some updates from Apple. No problems at all. Maybe apple fixed it with a software update. CIFS seems to be working fine too.
steve- Production 4.1.13 and 4.2.25 firmware releases have been released.
mdgm wrote: Production 4.1.13 and 4.2.25 firmware releases have been released.
Do we know if this corrects the Timemachine space allocation issue ? And if so, how to correct the problem created by the previous release.
The release notes appear to have the same info as RC1 for 4.1.13. Nothing directly addressing the full NAS volume being allocated to Timemachine.2Nutz wrote: mdgm wrote: Production 4.1.13 and 4.2.25 firmware releases have been released.
Do we know if this corrects the Timemachine space allocation issue ? And if so, how to correct the problem created by the previous release.
The release notes appear to have the same info as RC1 for 4.1.13. Nothing directly addressing the full NAS volume being allocated to Timemachine.
Doesn't look like its fixed as Time Machine is reporting the full remaining NAS space available for use. The help hyperlink in RAIDiator on the Time Machine setup page remains broken too. Looks like Netgear have done the absolute minimum necessary to get TM functional again.
Also, I had to do a local update as 4.2.24 was still being reported as the 'latest' version by RAIDiator itself.- FWIW I have 3 MacBooks updated now and all of them have Time Machine backups working fine with 4.2.24. I think Apple must have fixed something due to all the complaints from NAS users.
steve - There is a fix for not having the correct remaining space reported available here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=412065#p412065
Hopefully NetGear can implement this fix in a future firmware release for each of the legacy devices.
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