Time Machine and WD MyBook World Edition (white light)

Dear All
I have just given up on time machine set up after spending approx 8 hours and getting nowhere.
I recently purchased a WD Mybook World Edition which states it is compatible for use with time machine. I have uploaded all the required updates and this is my progress so far:
1. Managed to complete an initial Time Machine Backup (using log in wd_backup and password: backup).
2. During the initial backup a time machine disk mounted to the desk top and everything seemed to be going well.
3. Once the backup was completed, the time machine disk mounted on the desktop just disappeared.
4. Further time machine backups now coming up as delayed as unable to find the disk.
When I use finder, I can locate the following under shared:
mybookworld
mybookworld-Backup (this disappeaed after the first time machine backup)
If i reset the WD Mybook and restart the macbook I can then go back into time machine, select the disk and then do another backup. This is very short as the initial backup is somewhere on the MyBook. However, the same thing happens, the disk mounted for backup disappears again.
Please can anybody help as this is just driving me crazy.

TM doesn't back up to network drives, except a Time Capsule or an external USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.
You may find some "hacks" that might work, to a degree, but since they're unsupported by Apple, if you have troubles there's nowhere to go for help.
Plus, a future OSX update could prevent it from working anymore, and might even render your backups useless.
So proceed at your own risk.

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Does anyone out there know if it's possible? I've read that you can do this (different users/passwords) on the time capsule but I'm wondering if there's a procedure to allow you to do the same thing on the Western Digital drive.
Thanks!

sagilchr wrote:
I'm wondering if she logs onto the wd_backup user name (required for time machine to see the WD drive) and uses time machine, will her files overlap my existing back up files?
No. Each Mac's backups will be in a separate sparse bundle disk image. That's done by Time Machine (not WD), using a hardware identifier on the Mac it's running on -- not user accounts, disk names, or even computer names.
I've read that using a time capsule, you're able to have different computers back up to the device with their own passwords.
You can set up a TC that way, but you don't have to. I suspect very few folks do that.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #33 for details and considerations of backing-up multiple Macs. Note especially the pink box there.

Time Machine and WD MyBook World Edition

Okay, I wanted to save some money over the time capsule and I bought a WD MyBook World Edition (This is a network drive which is attached to my router). How do I get Time Machine to back up on this drive.
Time Machine recognizes the drive then asks me for a password. I don't know what password they want. Its not the my Mac password and I never set up a password for the new drive. Has anyone used this drive to back up Time Machine? Please help.

TM doesn't back up to network drives, except a Time Capsule or an external USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.
You may find some "hacks" that might work, to a degree, but since they're unsupported by Apple, if you have troubles there's nowhere to go for help.
Plus, a future OSX update could prevent it from working anymore, and might even render your backups useless.
So proceed at your own risk.

I am unable to set my WD mybook world edition (white light) for time machine.

I have new iMac running OS X Mavricks 10.9 and a WD mybook world edition (white light) connected via eithernet to router.
I am unable to set up time machine using this drive.
I can see the MyBookWorld drive in Finder and read and write files with no problems. I can also see the MyBookWorld_Backup drive but I am unable to connect.
Time machine can see the drive but when I select, use drive, it trys to connect and gives me an error message: There was a problem connecting to the server "MyBookWorld-Backup"
I have already updated the hardrive firmware.
Any ideas?

WD and their lack of support for Mavericks:
A recent email from WD reads:
Dear WD Registered Customer,
UPDATE: November 1st, 2013
As a valued WD customer we want to make you aware of new reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9). WD is urgently investigating these reports and the possible connection to the WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager and WD SmartWare software applications. Until the issue is understood and the cause identified, WD strongly urges our customers to uninstall these software applications before updating to OS X Mavericks (10.9), or delay upgrading. If you have already upgraded to Mavericks, WD recommends that you remove these applications and restart your computer. If you have already upgraded to Mavericks and are experiencing difficulty in accessing your external hard drive, please do not save anything to the drive, disconnect the drive from your computer, and contact Western Digital Customer Service at http://support.wd.com/country/ for further assistance.
The WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager, and WD SmartWare software applications are not new and have been available from WD for many years. However, solely as a precaution WD has removed these applications from our website as we investigate this issue.
Sincerely,
Western Digital
Which is basically Western Digital informing you that their out-of-date utilities don’t support Mavericks.
In any case those utilities are not the most effective. The moral of the story is: the first thing you should do after buying a WD drive is to format it as HFS Extended (Journaled) and not install ANY of their utilities but instead use reliable applications like CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper - or Time Machine.

WD MyBook World Edition White not showing as available disk

Hi
I have until recently been able to backup to our WD disk at the office.
Later TM reported issues with backup.
The disk is not showing as available to TM.
We have three other MacBooks at the office and they can see the disk, but I can't.
I have googled and read the FAQ here but none was applicable to my problem.
I have read forums at WD but nothing found.
MacOS is updated
WD firmware updated
Please help
/Mike

hakuseki wrote:
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Later TM reported issues with backup.
WHAT issues? The messages likely explain the problem. Without a hint of a glimmer of a clue, there's not much we can suggest.
The disk is not showing as available to TM.
Can you see your Mac's +sparse bundle+ on it via the Finder?
I have googled and read the FAQ here but none was applicable to my problem.
Start with [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it. If that doesn't help, post back with details, including all the messages, what you've done, and the results.

Setting up Time Machine with Snow Leopard and MyBook World Edition II NAS

I have just successfully set up Time Machine on my MyBook World Edition II NAS. It's not so straightforward, and the information on the Western Digital support site is either unhelpful or flat-out wrong, so here's a post that will hopefully save people in a similar position a lot of time and frustration.
Here are the key facts:
1. The MyBook World Edition II NAS does support Time Machine -- if you upgrade to at least firmware Release 1.01.14 (9/29/09). See http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/updates/?family=mbworld. Amazingly, the Level I support people at Western Digital told me that Time Machine is not supported! I had to point him to this link.
2. MyBook World Edition II comes with a built-in user, WD_Backup, which appears to be the only user that can be used for the backup.
3. Follow the instructions here: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/updates/docs/en/appletimemachine.pdf. BUT, what the instructions don't tell you is the password for that user, which Mac OS will ask you for during the Time Machine setup. On my device, it was "admin" but other posts say the password can be "backup" or "wd_backup."
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You do need to know that Apple may not support this: Here's the official word: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1733 (Leopard) or http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html (Snow Leopard).
You may be able to get it to work successfully, but there's no guarantee it will work well, or in the future.
From a post in another forum (found by V.K.):
The technical reason why Apple limits Time Machine to 10.5 AFP volumes appears to be to prevent disk image corruption. There were additional features added to AFP in 10.5 to support Time Machine. These presumably allow the disk image engine to force disk image journal data to write out all the way to the disk. Without such features, a network interruption can result in a corrupted filesystem on the disk image despite journaling. Remember, journaling relies on the journal being written all the way to disk before the changes take place. If you can't guarantee that (e.g., because of network/NAS buffering) then the journal is useless. Time Machine appears to rely heavily on disk journaling to deal with network drop-outs, interrupted backups, and the like. Take this away and your data is at risk.
If the NAS you are using supports these features it should report them to the OS and you should natively be able to choose that volume. If you have to trick the OS to use the volume it means the NAS does not support it.
To summarize: if you care about your backup data you should avoid using non-natively supported AFP servers.
That post obviously applies to Leopard; Snow Leopard appears to have added some requirements, that are also not supported by all NAS devices: some that were working with Leopard no longer work with Snow Leopard.
As long as you understand the risks, it's your call. But do yourself a favor and maintain some sort of secondary backup, such as a "clone" via CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, or some other backup app. (Many of us do that with any backup app: no app is perfect, and all hardware fails, sooner or later.)

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WD claims it's compatible with Time Machine (and has an update for it on their web site): http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=587
I'd recommend searching both the +Leopard > Time Machine+ and +Snow Leopard> Time Machine+ forums for it.

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I have recently bought a new MBP and I have got a Mybook world Edition NAS which I used with my Windows Vista in the past, where I just plugged the network cable right into the PC and maped it as a network drive.
On my MBP however I dont know how I do this, that is why Im posting this new thread in hope that someone who have knowledge in this matter would give me a simple guide/tutorial on how to get this to work. Would use it for Time Machine if possible.
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But I found a way, there is a new version 1.2 out there that works but it cannot be installed directly on Lion.
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4. Launch the app and it will see your meter.
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Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Since you've posted in the Time Machine forum, apparently you want to use this NAS (Network Attached Storage) device for Time Machine backups. If so, see the pink box in #2 of [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
As noted there, you'll need to follow WD's setup instructions.

Need help with WD MyBook World Edition

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I need some help on behalf of my whole office. I work for a digital print shop. We use a MyBook World Edition (not sure if 1 or 2) as our shared drive. Essentially, our receptionist places files from the client into MyBook, we access it from our computers in the back, and then use it again to transfer files to the computers that control the printers. I don't run the company, please don't tell me how we could be doing this better.
On Monday, all of our computers suddenly got kicked from MyBook. We didn't do any updates or change anything, it just stopped working. This system has been working for us for months, possibly years I haven't been here that long. We reset it, and the Windows machines were able to recognize and access the drive. It shows up on the Macs under the shared panel, but we can't access it. It just says "connecting" forever, nothing happens. This problem is affecting 2 Mac Pros with Snow Leopard, and 1 with Mavericks.
This is a huge deal for us, and we really need to get it fixed. We've resorted to passing files around on flash drives for the week, and it's been frustrating to say the least. If it helps, we have our MyBook in the front office, connected to an Airport Express Base Station. All of the computers connect via wifi.
I'll be watching this discussion all day, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Have you turned the external drive off, let is set for approximately 30 seconds, and then turned it back on? Restarted computers?
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
Safe Mode
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Mybook World Edition not available / offline

I have a mac mini and it is connected to a Mybook World Edition NAS through my wireless network. For some reason it keeps going offline. If I go to Finder I can navigate to it, it takes a little time "connecting" again then it is OK. However I find that from most apps, once this happens I can no longer save open document, or open fles from recent documents as it says the volume "folder name" is no longer available.
Anyone have any ideas on what could cause this problem. The main issue for me is that I have an automated backup the backs up the NAS every night. I have to get lucky for it to work as most of the time the NAS is offline when the backup tries to access it.

1. You'll need to move that library of the NAS. iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
2. For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

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The reason I ask this is that I hooked up a USB HDD and it said I needed to clear all the data on the disk first before using Time Machine.

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