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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Grif1
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Hi Eric,
Tired this but alas won't work and still get the Error. Here's what I chucked into the .AppleVolumes file:
"/c/home/Mark" "Mark" cnidscheme:dbd allow:Mark options:tm

Where the name of user is "Mark"
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Grif1
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

however, I do see you're using a different ReadyNAS than mine 🙂
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Grif1
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Think I might abandon Time Machine altogether and use something like SuperDuper.... It can backup to a Sparse
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bct
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Grif wrote:
Hi Eric,
Tired this but alas won't work and still get the Error. Here's what I chucked into the .AppleVolumes file:
"/c/home/Mark" "Mark" cnidscheme:dbd allow:Mark options:tm

Where the name of user is "Mark"



Are you still having problems? (Sorry, sometimes I don't get the emails when someone posts here.) I've been meaning to update this thread with some photos or something, to make everything clear. It looks like you did it correctly, but I'll have more time to analyze it later this week.
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bct
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

(Side note, my posts earlier about weird quotas and corruption problems turned out to be two failing disks at the same time.)
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RhysAndrews
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Hey guys,
So far this solution is working great. I have 3 staff members backing up to their home shares - all running Mountain Lion.

I have a LOT of people to put on the readyNAS, so I decided to write up an AppleScript that automatically connects to the home share, adds the .AppleVolumes and .com.apple.timemachined.supported files to the home share (and writes the appropriate username into .AppleVolumes), then disconnects. If anybody would like this, please send me a PM or something.

However a weird problem has come up..
I can no longer add any files to the home share root directory, on ANY user. In fact, for one user, their home share is no longer listed and only the "readyNAS" share is. If I try to add a file, I am asked to enter my laptop's user password, and then it tells me I don't have permission to read the contents. However, if I create a folder, it works, and then I can drag files into that folder. Just not the root directory.

Thoughts?

-Rhys
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RhysAndrews
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Hey all,
I built an AppleScript app that automatically puts the files into a share that you have created. I used it as I needed to create the files for multiple staff members.
Firstly, you need to create all the users in ReadyNAS FrontView.
Then, open this app and simply enter the username. Once it closes, open it again and move onto the next user.

You need Applescript editor to build an app out of the code.
Make sure you change <adminPassword> and <readynasIP> to the correct values.

Hope this is useful to some of you.
--READYNAS TIME MACHINE PREPARER
--AUTHOR: RHYS ANDREWS
--VERSION: 1.0

--Ask for username
repeat

set username to display dialog "Enter ReadyNAS Username" with title "ReadyNAS Time Machine Preparer" with icon caution default answer "" buttons {"Continue", "Quit"} default button {"Continue"}
set user to text returned of username
set bypass to button returned of username

if user is not "" and bypass is "Continue" then
exit repeat
end if

if bypass is "Quit" then
error number -128
end if


end repeat

tell application "Finder"
delay 0.3
try
-- Mount volume for logging
mount volume "afp://admin:<adminPassword>@<readynasIP>/homes"
on error
display dialog "Login Failed."
error number -128
end try

end tell
delay 2

set AVtext to {"/c/home/" & user & " ReadyNAS cnidscheme:dbd allow:" & user & " options:tm "}
do shell script "echo " & AVtext & " > '/Volumes/homes/" & user & "/.AppleVolumes'"

do shell script "echo > '/Volumes/homes/" & user & "/.com.apple.timemachined.supported'"
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RhysAndrews
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Also,
I have 2 ReadyNAS Pro's, and I got it working with the original instructions on the first NAS, but a year later, I tried to set it up on the 2nd NAS, which is the same model but had older firmware (which I have since updated), and I couldn't get it to work.

I soon found the recent instructions that you should, before setting up the disk, MOUNT the share as the user you want to backup with, then use that MOUNT as the time machine disk, not the Bonjour-found disk. Not sure why this wasn't a problem for the 1st NAS.

And yes, .com.apple.timemachinesupported or whatever is not needed. Just .AppleVolumes.

-Rhys
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ChunkySocks
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Morning all,

I previously used the instructions here to set up separate Time Machine backups for myself and g/f's macbooks. Then she updated her OS from Lion to Mountain Lion and her new OS was unable to see the NAS and I never got around to nor had the time to troubleshoot it; in the meantime, I continued successfully backing up with my macbook using Lion. Fast forward to present day and we've upgraded both our macbooks and the OS on each machine to Mavericks (10.9.1) and I need to get us both backing up to the NAS using Time Machine.

I have updated the Firmware on the NAS to RAIDiator 4.2.25, my questions are:
  • are the instructions in this thread to set up multi-Mac backup shares still applicable when using Mavericks?

  • although not essential, can I 'take over' the Time Machine backups that are on the NAS from my previous macbook and continue using the same share and Time Machine configuration with my present macbook?


Thanks in advance for any replies.
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akeiler
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

ChunkySocks wrote:
I have updated the Firmware on the NAS to RAIDiator 4.2.25, my questions are:
  • are the instructions in this thread to set up multi-Mac backup shares still applicable when using Mavericks?

  • although not essential, can I 'take over' the Time Machine backups that are on the NAS from my previous macbook and continue using the same share and Time Machine configuration with my present macbook?



I didn't set it up completely new, but the TimeMachine shares still work for my Mavericks MBP. I also updated my MBP from 10.8 to 10.9.x and the Backups still run smoothly against the NAS - the only difference that I see with 4.4.25 is that the free space no longer shows the quota cap of the user but the total free space of the NAS.
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jugalbandi
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Does the method posted by bct still work with Mountain Lion. I set up multiple user accounts and added the two files as indicated in only one account. Then tried to connect via time machine preference pane but the time machine volume is not listed. i am not able to add a disk …the option is not available. Do I have to uncheck my regular timemachine volume from frontview?

Also once the two files are added, I no longer can log into that share on afp.

thanks.
jai
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jugalbandi
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

ok. ehansin's solution worked for me so far. I have only done one machine - will post if find issues with the method.
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Leland80
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Can anyone confirm if the solution(s) outlined in this topic work with firmware 6.1.6 or greater?
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jugalbandi
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

I have been using this setup to backup multiple machines for about a year and a half. Works flawlessly.

Yesterday I had a strange problem. About 60 of my 130 applications just simply vanished. The machine seemed to otherwise work fine.

I wanted to do restore from an earlier time machine backup. But when I tried to boot with Cmd+R and choose Restore from Time machine the volumes did not show up.

Before I used this technique I used to use ReadyNAS volume from FrontView for 2-3 years. I no longer use this but this volume is still there with no sparsebundles. This volume shows up.

So is there a setting that I need to have, that shows these volumes on a Cmd+R boot.

All machines, NAS are on the same local network.
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jugalbandi
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Re: How-to: Setup multi-Mac backup shares with quotas. Easy.

Resolved: network drive time machine not visible

Use this apple stackexchange procedure.

Works well

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questio ... work-drive
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