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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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- matgrAspirantLook forward to the update soon as I also get the issue.
- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredYou can try the RC (Release Candidate) build if you'd rather not wait for the production build. It's possible an RC build might end up being the same as a production build so it should be stable. Feedback confirming it is fixed in real world environments (which are much more varied than test environments could possibly be) is valuable.
- jvnasAspirantHi, I have an NV+ which I just updated with the RC 4.1.13 but I'm still having connection problems. I'm also getting the "There was a problem connecting to the server 'XYZ.' message after selecting the ReadyNAS disk in Time Machine Preferences. Other computers running Mountain Lion or Lion appear to have no problem in connecting and mounting the .sparsebundle image. I'm running the latest public release of Mavericks (no GM anymore). Let me know if there's anything I can test now that I'm running the latest RC. Thanks!
- rssnapeAspirantI'm running radiator 5.3.6 and after upgrading to Mavericks last night my TimeMachine also quit working. Same problem as listed above.
- kwtshAspirantLike many after upgrading to 10.9 my time machine stopped working. Good news is managed to fix it, running the latest 4.1.13 RC1 build on Sparc NV+ Had similar problems saying another task was using the sparse bundle image.
Under TM preferences, went to select backup disk. Here it list the disks it can see. Hover mouse cursor over disks to see the AFP names. Noticed that as usual there were two entries in the list for ReadyNAS. So selected other disk. Looks like the syntax for an AFP link changes under Mavericks?
I also Mounted the AFP NAS in Finder and logged in as ReadyNAS as per the backups page in Frontview. Mavericks seemed to have defaulted to my name as user name, which is incorrect.
Now TM works on my NV+ on 10.9 and radiator RC1.
There still appears to be the odd issue trying to open folders in the NAS, but then went away, hopefully these will be fixed in the final release.
I am very grateful to for the continued support we have had on the NV+ for Mavericks. thanks
Jon - kwtshAspirantOK, spoke to soon.
Although I managed to get one backup to the NV+ under Mavericks it's now failing again...
The backup disk image “/Volumes/ReadyNAS/Jon’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use.
Any further suggestions?
J - kwtshAspirantWith this and several other new OS upgrade issues I'm now attempting a time machine restore to 10.8.5
Restore process underway. Couldn't see these TM backups in TM on 10.9 with Radiator 4.1.13 RC beta.
Fingers crossed..
Had to use CMD R from boot to get at the backups, was fretting a little there for a while :) - kwtshAspirantBack up and running with a few dramas along the way on 10.8.5. Still running 4.1.13 RC1 and all seems well. Time Machine is at least working again.
- evan2NETGEAR Expert4.1.13, 4.2.25 and 6.1.4 final version support OSX 10.9 timemachine.
We have finished test, it is OK. - matgrAspirantis the official 4.2.25 download available yet?
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