Migrating Time Machine data to Synology NAS

I have a new Synology NAS and want to migrate my existing Time Machine data from a Western Digital external USB drive.
I have set up the Synology shared folder for Time Machine and it appears as an option in Time Machine settings. But I do not want to start over with Time Machine backups and want to reclaim the external drive used for Time Machine today.
Any advice?

I was actually get things up and working towards the end of January. Somebody replied with the link below to one of the forums I posted to. Since I was already using SuperDuper, I had what I needed.
Here's the link I used, making a couple of adjustments for Mavericks.
http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/01/05 ... e-capsule/
I had not seen this article on my many searches.
I have things now working...finally. Though I'm not using Time Capsule, I'm using Synology, I followed the spirit of the post and was able to figure things out along the way. And it took a short 45 hours to move nearly 1TB of data to the NAS. I now have TM backing up to the NAS which has all of the backups which go back to May 2010.
Good Luck!!

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Time machine slow to Synology NAS

I have a synology 211j NAS that i use for time machine. After Lion I waited until they had a non-beta implementation of AFP that coplied with apple's new time machin standard and then updated the NAS. For a week everyting was great, when I was at home it automatically updated the update every hour without my intervening or thinking about it.
Then it sated that the index was corrupt and that it needed to blast the whole thing. Since then, it takes about an hour to run a backup every time and com.apple.backupd prints lots and lots of, "Waiting for index to be ready (100)" messages. An important distinction from others posting here: it does complete after about 40 minutes when connected over a 100-T ehternet connection. If I do have a big backup to do (gigabytes), it does take several hours and so I have to just leave it on all night.
What I've done so far:
* verify the remote disk's using Synology's smart status check. This takes quite awhile, so I assume there is a drive survace scan or something.
* verify my hard drive (result=green, all clear)
* repair permission on my hard drive
Any other ideas?

Okay, so I basically started over and now everything is okay. Since it worked for a few weeks when I upgraded we will see how it works this time.
The exact details is that I created a new folder and then made the new folder the TM backup directory. This had the advantage of allowing me to not destroy my old TM backup.

Time machine fails with Synology NAS

Help...
I can't get Time Machine Back-ups to work with my synology NAS.
I can see shared folders in finder.
Have tried with a shared folder on drive in NAS (get error message: cannot create sparsebundle...)
Also tried with USB drive connected to NAS (process get started and get to around 10M backed up and then fails with error message: )
Tried with Mac and NAS on same switch - and got same results.
Appreciate any advice you can offer.

A third-party NAS is unsuitable for use with Time Machine, especially if it's your only backup. I know this isn't the answer you want. I know Time Machine accepts the NAS as a backup destination. I know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and I also know that it usually seems to work. Except when you try to restore, and find that you can't.
Apple has published a specification for network devices that work with Time Machine. None of the third-party NAS vendors, as far as I know, meets that specification. They all use the incomplete, obsolete Netatalk implementation of Apple Filing Protocol.
If you want network backup, use as the destination either an Apple Time Capsule or an external storage device connected to another Mac or to an 802.11ac AirPort base station. Only the 802.11ac base stations support Time Machine, not any older model.
Otherwise, don't use Time Machine at all. There are other ways to back up, though none of them is anywhere near as efficient or as well integrated with OS X. I don't have a specific recommendation.
If you're determined to keep using the NAS with Time Machine, your only recourse for any problems that result is to the manufacturer (which will blame Apple, or you, or anyone but itself.)

Restoring Time Machine backup from Synology NAS

My got a new HD (seagate action) Now the Mac (2010) does not recognize Timemachine backup placed on a synology NAS 213. It is there, i can see it, but while using the startup utility the backup is not listed and can not be chosen to restore.
Does anyone know a solution ?

Hi Peter,
Have you tried Migration Assistant. or is that what the startip thing is?
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imaging something not being covered there.

How can I remove all Time Machine data from an external HD, while retaining the other folders/files on the disk?

I recently replaced my old Macbook Pro with a new Macbook Pro Retina.
The original MBP had Time Machine set up on an external HD, and I also had some manually saved/backed up files (stuff that didn't need incremental backups; very old stuff) on the disk as well, in folders. This worked fine and well for the life of the original MBP.
When I set up the MBPr, I did not elect to transfer everything over from a Time Machine disk, as I wanted a Fresh Install; I chose to just re-download/install the apps I needed from the App Store. Much cleaner, more stable. I updated to Yosemite immediately so, it gave me more of a clean install.
The problem is, Time Machine now won't read any Time Machine backups from that disk. Migration assistant can pull data from it, but it's a bit wonky. It was easier to just manually copy over what I needed.
Now, I just want to "reset", and completely remove the old Time Machine data from the external hard drive, since it is completely useless to me now (I can't access it on this computer, and it's taking up space). I want to remove the Time Machine data, as if it were never there, but keep my other folders/files that are on the disk (so, a format is not feasible).
I will then set the disk up as a new, fresh Time Machine disk for the new MBPr.
What is the proper method for removing Time Machine data from an external disk (which doesn't seem to be associated with this machine anyway)? I know a simple rm -rf will cause problems.
Thanks for any help provided.

See the yellow box in #12 of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

How to move existent Time Machine backups to a NAS?

Hello everybody
I am not sure if I am posting this discussion in the correct community, so please move it to the right one in case you need.
Currently I am using a 1TB external hard drive to store all my time machine backups. This drive also contains other information (movies, photos etc). I bought a Western Digital MyBook World Edition II which is a NAS. I want it to move my Time Machine backups to my NAS. How can I do it? Just copy over the backups folder from the external hard drive to the NAS?
Thank you!
Gilson

That's just crazy slow.
It won't be fast, as the data can't go directly from the old disk to the new one. It must pass through your Mac, so is on the network twice, slowing the effective speed by roughly half. But that's awful.
There could be any number of causes, from bad ports or cables to problems with either drive or controller. I don't have any experience with modern RAID systems, but some of the older ones were extremely slow when there was a problem with one of the drives.
And it may get worse -- if the backups are damaged, the copy will fail and the result won't be useable.
About all I can recommend is the usual: it's always prudent to keep secondary backups. If you don't have any, I'd strongly recommend getting a (plain) external HD and making a "bootable clone" on it ASAP (that will probably slow the copy down somewhat). See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for details and some suggestions.
It wouldn't have to be a 2 TB drive, just the same size as your internal HD (or at least 10% larger than the data on it). You might consider getting a portable drive, so you can take it to a secure off-site location once you get your TM backups working to the new WD box. Then update it periodically.

Time Machine Data Transfer - From FireWire Drive to Time Capsule - HELP!

Time Machine Data Transfer - From FireWire Drive to Time Capsule - HELP!
I've been searching for weeks for a solution to my problem. Here's the story I've come across since I installed Leopard on Oct. 26, 2007.
I first installed Leopard on my Early 2006 MacBook and set up Time Machine with a 200GB external FireWire drive. Since then, things have been fine, until Time Machine started deleting the oldest backups. I'm a pack-rat and hated this feeling of losing data. So, I now have a few months worth of backups on my 200GB FireWire drive.
The Time Capsule is released, I finally talk myself into getting one and transferring my old data from the 200GB drive to my 1TB TC.
I did some researching through forums about how to move data from one Time Machine drive to another, so I took the concept and wanted to apply it to my Time Capsule. I made a DMG image of my 200GB drive, in order to move the data. I figured if I can make an image, copy it, and open it on the Time Capsule - all will go smoothly - just as some had mentioned they've done with external drives.
Now, I have a 164GB DMG image of my Time Machine, with no hope in sight of gaining it back. I've tried taking the image, using Disk Utility, and restoring my original 200GB external with the imaged Time Machine data, but whenever I do, I come across error messages.
In Disk Utility, I've done the following steps:
* Disk Image is found on Time Capsule
* I select the 200GB drive and select 'Restore'
* I drag and drop the Disk Image to the 'Image' field
* I drag and drop the 200GB drive into the the 'Restore' field
* Select 'Erase Destination'
* Select 'Restore'
* I get the warning message that I'll erase the drive - I proceed
* I enter my password
Error message pops up:
"Restore Failure: Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagescanned/scanned for restore."
I select the image in Disk Utility, then proceed with the following steps:
* Click on "Image" then down to "Scan Image for Restore"
* I enter my password
After hours of waiting, I get another error message:
"Unable to scan. (Broken pipe)."
I'm going to see, after transferring the DMG to the Time Capsule, if I can drag-and-drop the files from the Time Capsule drive onto the 200GB hard drive.
IF anyone has any more suggestions, please let me know!

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How to restore my time machine data

well apparently it restored my applications and took up almost 40GBs but my mac still doesnt look like my previous one which i just replace today , so how do i restore my computer back to its old time machine data and get my GB's that were wasted back ?

I would recommend a couple of things to help you. First is complete your profile we have no idea what machine you have or the OS X version you're using. Because we don't know that no one can accurately give you any information. Next I'd recommend going to the Time Machine FAQ that is located in the version of OS X you are using. If you are on Leopard, go to that forum, if your are on Snow Leopard go to that forum. TM is part of OS X so it's logical the forums are part of the OS X section.
My last recommendation is to read the TM FAQ where you will learn more about how it works.
Roger

OS upgrade= Time Machine data loss

I up graded from 10.6 to 10.8 and 2 years of time machine back up went away. Is this normal? Can lost Time Machine data be recovered? 1.5 Tb drive in Time Machine

Time Machine is not an archival backup. It keeps backups of what is currently on the volumes it is backing up. If you delete a file off of your hard drive, at some point, Time Machine may delete the backup copy of that file to make room for backups of what is there. If you don't run out of space, it may never delete them, but you shouldn't depend on it.
If you are archiving those files on other hard drives, and Time Machine is backing up those drives, then it will always keep a backup of those files that are on the other drives.
You shoul always keep at least two copies of your important data files, each on separate backups. So, if you archived the files to other drives, you need at least one backup of that drive, along with at least one backup of your internal hard drive.
If you want an archival backup, you might consider a second backup system like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, or one of the other backup options. They will make an exact copy of your drive, then add changes as incremental backups. Everything that ever was on your Mac will still be in those backups. But, keep in mind that backup may contain the only copy of the files you are deleting off your Mac, so you would only have one copy of those files.
It sounds like you are moving those files to other disks, so that is good. But, if you are not backing up those drives, you don't really have a backup of those files.

Move old time machine data

Hi all
I want to move a large amount (about 150GB) of old time machine data from one external hard drive to another so I can use the hard drive for other things. The time machine data is not part of my current time machine backup but an old one (from the same computer) that might come in handy one day
When I try to copy it tells me that I have 13 hours to go. I would like some ways to copy/move the data so that it the copy is interrupted I can resume at the same place.
Any ideas
Thanks
Kevin

soccerdad0071 wrote:
Hi all
I want to move a large amount (about 150GB) of old time machine data from one external hard drive to another so I can use the hard drive for other things. The time machine data is not part of my current time machine backup but an old one (from the same computer) that might come in handy one day
When I try to copy it tells me that I have 13 hours to go.
That sounds terribly long, depending on the speed and connection of the drives involved. If they're daisy-chained, or both on the same USB hub, try connecting them separately (and both directly, if at all possible). If either is USB, be sure it's connected directly to your Mac, not a port on a keyboard.
Also exclude the drive you're copying TO from Spotlight indexing (System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy), and both from any anti-virus scanning.
I would like some ways to copy/move the data so that it the copy is interrupted I can resume at the same place.
No way. A set of Time Machine backups is like a database -- the backups are all intricately linked together, so can't be copied in stages.
Do you really need all the backups, or just the final one? If just the final one, try restoring it (to the new drive instead of your Mac's internal HD), per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

Time machine was not working. I bought a new time machine and migrated time machine files to new time capsule; not recognized by yosemite

Time machine was not working after yosemite upgrade on new and old MacBooks in my house. I bought a new time machine and migrated time machine files to new time capsule. I changed the names of the older sparse bundles to the default values. Yosemite still does not recognize them.

I presume the bought a time machine means a time capsule.
How did you migrate the Time Machine files?
From where? A Time Capsule or external drive?
It is difficult to get TM working with Yosemite.. since it doesn't work after the upgrade on the old TM backup.. it will not work on the migrated files either.
You simply start a new backup and store the old backups for a few months until you are ready to dump them.
The instructions for inheriting old backups is B5 and B6 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
However it is just unlikely to work.. TM in Yosemite is very different. Broken even.
I also strongly recommend people to use Carbon Copy Cloner or some other 3rd party backup until Apple get the bugs fixed. And after several months.. they are still rampant.

I have bought a time capsule to use as time machine device. Until now I have used a external hard disk. How can I transfer the the old time machine datas to the time capsule?

I have bought a time capsule to use as time machine device. Until now I have used a external hard disk. How can I transfer the the old time machine datas to the time capsule?

This is really difficult to the point of not really worth it.
Keep the old TM backups in archive.. and start afresh on the TC.
Time Machine has a different way of backing up on Network drives cf Local drives.
Pondini does have a method to do it... but I would not recommend it.
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html

Time Machine problem with Qnap NAS

I use Time Machine on my QNAP NAS TS 119. I backup from an iMac (connected to the network by ethernet) and a laptop (MacBook Pro) connected wirelessly. It was working fine until I upgraded the OS to Mountain Lion on both computers. Time Machine on the iMac works fine but it stopped working on the laptop. Qnap has a setting for Time Machine. It creates a mount TMBackup to which you can connect with user name TimeMachine and a password zou can set (this is done under the settings of the Qnap, accessing it with safari). In the Time Machine preferences, when I select the disk "TMBackup on Qnap(TimeMachine)" it asks me the name and password for the server Qnap-2.local. I don't understand why it asks for Qnap-2. My TS 119 NAS is named simply Qnap. I choose "registered user" and give the username TimeMachine (default, as setup) and the password I have setup. It accepts them, but when Time Machine attempts to start backing up, it gives me the error message ' "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "Qnap-2". The backup disk is not available '. I don't understand where this Qnap-2 comes from. On the iMac I have no problem, it makes backups on Qnap. Please help!

Thank you very much!
That solved my problem.
I have seen a lot of posts with the MD0_DATA folder, and I had no such folder.
As my QNAP is 4 disk NAS, I tried your command "rm -r /share/HDA_DATA/.timemachine" in the four first folders in the /share folder: HDA_DATA, HDB_DATA, HDC_DATA and HDD_DATA.
In the third one, it was OK.
And after that, Time Machine could mount again the TMBacup volume and acces it.
Now I'm doing again the Backup!!

Migrate Time Machine .sparsebundle to DAS

I'm trying to migrate my .sparsebundle off of a 3rd party NAS onto a new Thunderbold DAS but I can't seem to find any documentation to describe how to go about doing this.
Right now, I've mounted the .sparsebundle and I'm doing a Disk Utility restore from it to the new DAS (prompted me to erase the destination as a result). This process seems to want to take one full day by way of the Disk Utility time counter.
Is this the most efficient, fastest way to do it? It only took 5 hours to copy the 800GB sparsebundle over to it's temporary home, so I'm unsure why the restore wants to take 5x longer to complete, unless I'm doing this the hard way. I notice that it seems to be doing a block copy . Would this account for the increase in expected completion time?
Thanks in advance.

There is a way to force the backup history to be inherited, but I consider it too complicated for most users to carry out, and it won't do any good if you've already started using Time Machine with the new setup. If you're familiar with the shell and want to try it, search the tmutil(8) manual page for the terms "inheritbackup" and "associatedisk."
Otherwise I suggest you set the backup drive aside and stop using it until you're sure you'll no longer need the data. Then erase it and start over. Meanwhile, start a new backup on another drive. You need more than one backup to be safe anyway.

Clean install, migration, time machine

I am not a MAC OSX specialist in any way, but I would like to share what I have found out the hard way about the clean install.
1) Never do this unless you are absolutely sure that you have complete back up. Time machine cannot restore to the latest backup status, it can only go back to full backups and those are not made very often. In my case it was July 29, 2012. What a surprise! . Do the vital backups by hand. I propose copying your home folder to an external disc or usb pen drive. Copy Application folder as well. Why? If you are fond of iWorks'09 and hate new versions and you do clean install your favourite software is gone. You may just as well erase your Time Machine disc and start backup from clean drive. I didn't do it.
2) Make copies of your mails.
3) If you purchased software outside AppStore make notes of serial codes. Mail backup helps.
4) When making USB drive bootable do it this way: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=18081307&postcount=3 it preserves RECOVERY partition which is needed for FIND MY MAC option and it is usefull to have it anyway. Place the USB intended for clean install directly into your MAC, don't use USB hub.
5) Migration assistant never worked for me. The reason might have been that my last full Time Machine backup was done 18 months ago, and it was 10.8... I have read quite a lot about getting restore from the Time Machine, and dwelled on the subject myself.
I can't give explanation why that happened but that is found out the hard way:
- I discoverd that long name of the user should be different than the one you used before clean install.
- After doing trial and error attempts I made short user name the same as in my user before clean install, and started it with a capital letter. Why? That gave me access to my time machine. When the I had a different short user name than stored in time machine then upon entry into time machine all the backups well dimed and going back was not possible. With the same short name the backups were accessible. The system complained that I had no permissions to access the folders. But that is possible to change. When you look up Time Machine folders in Finder, those that are restricted to you have got red circle with a white line inside. Ctrl click on the restricted folder and select Get info. Add yourself as a user that has the access and change permissions to read and write. Your Documents folder appear in every back up in Time Machine. The best it is to change the permissions in the latest backup.
At the end of the day I managed to recover my mail. Data from other programs and my old MBP is up runnning again and faster. It takes however, a lot of work to make it.
The biggest pitty is that I lost my Pages v4.3 and now don't have an option to recover it.

Are you sure its not shown? It should have a yellow or green icon, and list the name of the system and HD that was backed-up, not the one it's on.
If not, try to repair the backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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