Time Machine not working

Was about to suggest if you checked the flux capacitor
 
Zuner said:
For someone like me that browses "whats new" i pay very little attention to the forum section and more to the titles. Yes that's my fault for not looking before you mention it.
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Same here
 
murray654 said:
Hi

My cousins husband has a MacBook

He asked me to set up time machine backup to a NAS (Qnap)- it never completed a backup.

I did research and decided to go with another NAS - openmediavault

There are Windows machines happily using the same NAS for backup

On the openmediavault the Macbook (TimeMachine) is using 280 GB but still says Waiting to complete first backup

The if you say Backup now it sits for a long time with something like 3KB of 115.3MB remaining and calculating time remaining for ages.

When you come back (because it was boring sitting waiting for it), it says oldest backup none latest backup none and on the drop down menu it says waiting to complete first backup

I got into a log file and saw something like "backup failed because the network destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly."

and "Backup failed with error 26 The connection to the server was interrupted"

There are other errors like error writing to backup log

What is going on?
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This could be for a number of reasons.
If it specifically says that the disk was ejected, then that means the Macbook was likely on battery and/or went to sleep (the first backup to a Time machine takes a LONG time, especially on a networked device.

There are other issues that could be causing this as well, and I don't know enough about the problem to properly reply. You can read this entry on Apple and look at the link at the bottom for further troubleshooting.
 
We use a company called ArtoClox to fix our time machines.
But the staff keep breaking them so they don't have to clock on or out.
 
murray654 said:
thanks for the reply

The computer was on power and there are other symptoms - the windows computers are leaving behind some temp files when they edit MS Office files, so it may be the hardware on the computer I used for the NAS...

Going to have to rebuild the NAS on another machine when I get a chance...
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Try (if you can) with an external drive first. See if Time Machine is working like that
Next, if it does, see how you connect to the Time Machine on the NAS. If you choose to encrypt it, it uses a sparse image instead of openly browsable folders and soft lnks, so other shouldn't be able to interfere..
There are a few other things, like whether you connect using SMB or AFP (AFP works best for Time Machine, but Apple deprecated it)

Another thing you could try is to see if you can make a partition on your NAS (even a virtual one - the NAS can manage it) that is soleley for the Time Machine.

The problem with Time Machine is that it either works like a charm or it doesn't. And there's pretty slim help on how to fix it
 
I use FreeNAS, and like you I've had all kinds of problems with getting Time Machine to work, even though it's an explicit option (it either disconnects like yours, or complains that there isn't enough space). There is a OpenMediaVaul plugin for it, but I haven't tried it yet.

Apple's been moving away from AFP, but still works. Heaven knows why though. If you connect to a share with AFP, your tags and labels stay intact, but I've had less success with SMB. Add to that the fact that you can't (yet) use an AFS-formatted drive as a Time Machine, and you have a bit of a mess that's most easily sorted using an external (USB/Thunderbolt) drive.

I'll play around with FreeNAS tonight (maybe even try OpenMediaVault) and report back later in the week if I get anything right that works.
 
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