my solution for timemachine with readynas (for now)

[Papagaiou]

Hi everyone.

Like many people, I am frustrated by all the limitation to set up timemachine on readynas. Here is the simple thing I wanted to do but was unable to make it through frontview.

I am on OS6 6.1.8 on a venerable ultra 2

I use RAID 1 with Ultra 2 with 2 disks of 2TB; I need to make up a make with 1TB drive so obviously having timemachine on /c/ is not realistic. So I decided to move it to USB_HDD_1 which is a 3TB external drive formatted in ext4.

1. Make USB_HDD_1 an AFP share
2. Set-up timemachine via Frontview.

3. via SSH:
delete /.timemachine (at this point it is empty unless you had a back up in this case you need to move it via ssh to /USB_HDD_1/)
edit /etc/Frontview/netatalk/Shares.conf
under USB_HDD_1 add:
time machine = yes

edit /etc/netatalk/timemachine.conf and change path to /media/USB_HDD_1/.timemachine
make sure time machine = yes here as well

check in /etc/netatalk/afp.conf that timemachineconf is in Include as well

now to prevent Frontview to reedit those files do:
chattr +i /etc/netatalk/timemachine.conf

and in case
chattr +i /etc/netatalk/afp.conf
chattr +i /etc/frontview/netatalk/Shares.conf

Reboot readynas
CHeck again those files have not changed
go to your Mac
Connect to server "readynas" with login of timemachine

Go to timemachine preference then select readynas as back up.
Check with ssh that your new timemachine folder is growing.

For now it is working but I still wonder what an unecessary complexity !

I would like to acknowledge all readynas users that helped me to implement this. I must say without this forum my know-how would be close to null.

Of course I appreciate your correction and improvement until Netgear takes this seriously once for all.

Cheers. 😄

[mdgm-ntgr]

I'm not a fan of storing Time Machine on an external disk. There are potential issues with that e.g. if the USB drive is disconnected you might fill the 4GB OS partition (which can cause all sorts of issues) and you don't get the benefit of RAID.