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Time Machine Constantly Failing After A Few Seconds - 6.9.4 (Hotfix 1) - MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
Recently, after several months of sucessful Time Machine backups, I received a Mac system error that there was something wrong with my Time Machine backup, and the system would need to create a new one. I clicked on OK, and the system did what it had to do. Since then however, I have been unable to get the first (new) backup to be successful to the ReadyNas 214. I have been able to make Time Machine backups to an external 2TB drive, without any issues. When backing up to the RN disk , the backup goes through the Preparing backup... stage, then copies less than 1 GB of 523 GB (the most recent test got to about 300MB, and the one before, 74MB, and the one before that, about 118 MB), only to begin the Stopping...process without any other error. On the RN itself, I have: removed any Private TIme Machines, rebooted, and added them again. removed the Public Time Machine, rebooted, and added them again. rebooted the machine for the sake of rebooting. confirmed there is ample space for the drive, both in relation to available space on the HD and in relation to the required space for the first backup. On my Mac, I have: removed any Private TIme Machines, rebooted, and added them again. removed the Public Time Machine, rebooted, and added them again. rebooted the machine for the sake of rebooting. In the HD, I have confirmed that the SparseBundle files are deleted for the drives I was removing, and created when a drive is created on the RN (image attached). As already written, I have been able to successfully backup to an external drive without any issues. Thanks for any insight you can provide. 6.9.4 (Hotfix 1) - MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
ReadyNAS 6.9.4 breaks timemachine backup
Upgrading to 6.9.4 on RN314 has broken Mac timemachine backups using AFP on High Sierra. It also fails on El Capitan which worked previously. Failure mode is OSStatus 89 on the timemachine setup dialogue. I know that the Mac is seeing the timemachine volume and it fails as expected with an invalid logon. It makes no difference if a private timemachine is used, tried turning timemachine off and then on, change password, tried to use SMB, reboot ReadyNAS etc. etc. Downgrade to 6.9.3 and everything works, creates new sparsebundle and then backs up. This looks like an OS bug in 6.9.4.Mac Restore from Time Machine from ReadyNAS fail.
Hi all I have recently changed the HDD of a Mac of mine and put a new SSD. After the OS installation, El Capitan, it asked as usual if I wanted to restore all the files from a Time Machine Backup. The problem is when it started searching in the network, the Mac couldn't find the time machine backup located in the readynas, which was in the same network and active. It has been the only moment that I needed my readynas and it failed... I tried to put manually the server address, afp://...etc.etc., that I have found on the properties of the backup folder in the ready nas, but it couldn't access it too, as if it wasn't visible. Luckily I have managed to do it another way using the old HDD, but what about a real failing of the whole HD happened? Can you suggest me the proper how-to in case it should happen in the future? Thanks a lot. GiovanniCannot connect Time Machine to my NAS
Have been using Time Machine to back up my MAC to my NAS without issue until recently. Now the NAS shows up in the Time Machine but when I try and connect get an alert that tells me there is a problem connecting to the NAS: "The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection and then try again." I can see the NAS in Finder and log in through Safari (just completed a NAS firmware update). Any help greatly appreciated.Best (and easiest?) way to transfer Time Machine backups from Drobo to new ReadyNAS
Hi- After enough issues with my Mac recognizing a Drobo or Drobo disconnecting itself, I purchased a ReadyNAS. On the Drobo, I have Time Machine backups from various computers, as well as other files (not in a .sparsebundle or backupsdb format) that I want to copy over to the ReadyNAS. Ideally, backing up my Mac would continue to use the same TM folder that was created on the Drobo. What is the best way to do this? I've considered simply copying directories over via SMB, but I also noticed that ReadyNAS hides the .sparsebundle . It surely couldn't be as simple as removing the hard drives from the Drobo and putting them into the ReadyNAS, could it? Thanks for ideas.Timemachine not seeing ReadyNAS
I'm missing something here. Just upgraded my 6350 to (3) 4TB drives, no prob. Upgraded firmware to v 6.9.3. Backed up my iMac with no problem. Now trying to backup my daughter's macbookPro to it as well but her computer does not see the NAS in timemachine. If I go to Finder, it sees it and accesses it. But it doesn't see it in Timemachine to schedule auto backups. What am I missing here? I can log in to the NAS just fine through the admin page and it sees it. Just timemachine on the laptop doesn't see it.remote Time Machine via VPN
If you want to initiate a Time Machine Backup of your Mac remotely via VPN the discovery of the Time Machine volume fails because Time Machine Volumes are propagated vie Bonjour and this uses a Broadcast IP-Adress wich is of cause not routed via a VPM. Setting up a DNS-Server to establisch Wide-Area-Bonjour causes to much effort. This can be done more easily via a Mac shell command. If you have assigned personal Time Machine volumes the Mac Shell command is used ass follows: sudo tmutil setdestination -p smb://user@host-IP/user\'s%20timemachine Whereas user is the user name on the NAS, host-IP the IP-Adress of the NAS. After that you are asked to enter first the password of the MAC administrator, then the password of the NAS-user. Make sure you use the IP-Adress of the NAS and the IP-Address is set fix ore assigned permanently to the MAC-Adress of the NAS by your router. If your VPN-Connection is stable the command shoud end without enny error message. I have personally tried that with a Fritz!Box VPN. I have a 500 Mbit/s down and a 50 Mbit/s Upstream. When the network connection on your remote site is fast enoungh, this should work fine.