Time Machine, Network Share, Lion
I have set up a network share to be used as the Time Machine backup location. The share has a user/password assigned. I can log in to the share in Finder OK. I have run the terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
But the share does not appear in Select Disk. Any ideas on how I get it to appear so that I can enter user/password?
Come to find out, at least one NAS does work! Synology released a beta of their software the day after Lion was announced that apparently resolved Lion incompatibilities.
In any case, my problem is resolved! I found the solution to use the Users/Login in Preferences to log in to the time machine share. Both my Lion portable machines, a MacBook 2008 and a MacBookAir 2011 happily backed up their individual shares. (Production machines are waiting for 10.7.2.)
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I have a DROBO connected to the mini and the DROBO has been partitioned into 4 partitions. Three of the partitions are shares which I used for the Time Machine (TM) backups on my MBP, my wife's iMac and the mini server. The fourth partition was for shared files. All this worked well in 10.6 but it seems broken with 10.7. I did this so I could limit how much space was available for each client machine's TM backup.
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When i try to access time machine to look at previous days back ups i get error code 6584
also time machine shows no dated back ups beyond today.
Any ideas?
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SimonFirst, I strongly suggest that you make another full backup to a locally-attached external hard drive. You should do that anyway. One backup isn't enough to be safe, and backing up over a network is less reliable than backing up locally. Then try each of the following steps that you haven't already taken.
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3. Erase the backup device. With a Time Capsule, you do that from within the AirPort Utility application; see its built-in help for details. All backups will be lost, so don't do this until you've backed up to another device. After erasing, select the TC again as a backup destination in the TM preference pane. The first backup should be made over a wired connection, if possible. -
Time machine network backup really ***** (truly)
Ok I've said it..
Ok I've had enough..
Come on Guy's. Apple really has to take some flack here. No more excuses. You advertised timemachine backup to a network share would work easily. You advertise apple software works without a hitch (unlike MS windows)...but I've had nothing but hastles setting up time machine to backup to a mac server attached usb drive. I've BEEN a windows user before and I tell you this is just like going back to the dark side!
And another thing
No I'm not trying to use an airport extreme mount
No I'm not trying to use a NAS
No I'm not trying to back up a linux or PC volume
I'm being a good little customer. It's all using mac to mac. Yes, it's Leopard to Leopard...
Hastle one:
The drive mount. I've successfully done this for 3 networked macs. It took a while, was working a few days, but the mount is unreliable. If one of the macs goes down, time machine doesn't work anymore. I get the error "backup disc image could not be mounted". Apparently the problem is with the "sparseimage". One solution I've read is to delete the sparseimage then try again. Fine
Hastle two:
I can't work out how to delete the sparseimage! I get an error cannot do - "the item token is in use"
Apple needs to take a cold shower on time machine.
Where is the help on this? Where is the customer apologies? Where are the solutions?
Obviously there was not pre release testing. Wait a minute WE are the pre-release testing!
It is just plain unreliable as a backup solution for macs on a home ethernet network..even when all the gear is actually mac!
I give it a rating of 1 out of 10 on this.
Come on guys lift you game!
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Message was edited by: sfsfsfsI have had nothing but problems with Time Machine. We are wasting our valuable time with a product that SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK. Apple needs to weigh in here. We are wasting our "TIME" on our "MACHINES" Now I see why Apple calls it TIME MACHINE!
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Been using Time Machine with no problems for a couple of years now. It's wonderful. Upgraded to Lion two weeks ago and it's been working flawlessly. However, two days ago, my Time Machine backup quit working. I'm not getting the following error message every time I try to perform a backup:
"The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk. The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk"
I have run Disk Utility twice a day for the past two days and nothing. It says the volume is fine and does not need repairing, yet the backup continues to fail.
I have checked Software Update and there are no updates available. I have checked the drive manufacturer and there are no firmware updates.
I have (4) internal disks. All of them check out fine, permissions are checked, repaired. Nothing.
The Apple tech document suggests deleting my backup and doing a new one. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a backup in the first place, right?
It's been working just fine until now. Any ideas on how to proceed?
Thanks!Sorry, not really.
My normal backup looks like this:
02/08/2011 21:35:12.271 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
02/08/2011 21:35:18.181 com.apple.backupd: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps
02/08/2011 21:35:28.627 com.apple.backupd: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps/Colin Robinson’s iMac.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
02/08/2011 21:35:29.884 com.apple.backupd: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps/Colin Robinson’s iMac.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
02/08/2011 21:35:31.218 com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Colin Robinson's Time Caps/Colin Robinson’s iMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
02/08/2011 21:35:31.289 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
02/08/2011 21:36:02.117 com.apple.backupd: 183.1 MB required (including padding), 115.41 GB available
02/08/2011 21:36:02.182 com.apple.backupd: Indexer unavailable (200)
02/08/2011 21:36:04.185 com.apple.backupd: Indexer unavailable (200)
02/08/2011 21:37:10.485 com.apple.backupd: Copied 4498 files (125.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
02/08/2011 21:37:10.883 com.apple.backupd: 100.0 MB required (including padding), 115.41 GB available
02/08/2011 21:37:10.887 com.apple.backupd: Indexer unavailable (200)
02/08/2011 21:37:12.891 com.apple.backupd: Indexer unavailable (200)
02/08/2011 21:37:22.757 com.apple.backupd: Copied 1061 files (25.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
02/08/2011 21:37:29.466 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
02/08/2011 21:37:29.466 com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
02/08/2011 21:37:30.113 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
And that's taken from Console using System Log Queries set to All Messages with backupd in the search box.
Pondini is the Time Machine expert - his writings are here:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Home.html
Message was edited by: Colin Robinson
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Is it possible for a network user to use Time Machine to backup their home folder ?
I really want this feature but last time I tried it seemed not to be possible…?You could make them all mobile users so they have a copy of the data on they're computers, then share a volume and enable it as a time machine destination, enable quotas on that disk ( cant be the same as where you keep they're homes or time machine will suck up they're quota ), set the the quota on the disk ( sudo edquota user ) and have them all backup there, you could exclude all system files if all you want is they're homes.
Another thing you could do is backup the whole share but you would have to recover files for them.
Hope it helps, if you find a better way do let me know -
This is my setup for Time Machine backups which has worked fine up until and including Lion: I have a Mac mini (let's call its mini1) with an external disk that I'm using for Time Machine. mini1 is backing up to that disk, and Time Machine creates the backup folder directly on the disk. There is also another Mac mini (let's call its mini2) backing up to that same disk over the wireless network. Its backup folder is stored inside a disk image called mini2.
After upgrading to Mountain Lion this doesn't work so well any more. Every time Time Machine is trying to back up mini1, it tells me that the backup mini2 was started on another computer (or something like that) and gives me two options apart from postponing the backup. If I choose to "create a new backup", it continues to use the old mini1 backup by adding another folder inside the backup folder at the root level of the hard drive. This is of course what I want and what it has always done before, but I have to answer this question every time the backup runs. If I choose to "continue with the old backup", it hijacks the mini2 backup which of course belongs to the other computer. Its contents are erased, and a new fresh backup is started inside the disk image.
What is going on? As you can see the two computers have different names (and they are much more different in reality than in this example), and this has always worked before. Has something changed in Mountain Lion?AR757 wrote:
I have an update to my situation:
After a while, the time machine entered the backup phase, but then it stopped and said the hard drive (for the backup) was ejected incorrectly. Obviously I didn't eject or disconnect the hard rive while it was working. Still looking for answers. Thanks
May be as little as a loose or faulty cable or plug, of maybe even a USB port. Try another cord and another USB input.
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I have been running Time Machine backups over Network to my AEBS through SL and they worked fine and sometimes I run them through USB but it still sames them to the .sparsbundle file as it should so I can plug it back into my network. I installed Lion last night and now the initial (just over 8GB) backup is running at about 1KB every 4 minutes and this IS over USB. Anyone else have serious speed problems?
twoplanker wrote:
I have been running Time Machine backups over Network to my AEBS
That's not reliable, and not supported by Apple. See: Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk
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