July 1, 201115 yr Do I understand you correctly? I'm going into the Timemachine share settings and set Samba setting exactly like to ones under AFP? By the way root as user is not listed in the AFP Security Settings of the share. I looked at your settings. Trouble seams to be with SMB. Try setting SMB export to NO.
July 1, 201115 yr Quote CCC is VERY different to the Timemachine way of backup That I agree with completely. This is not entirely true. CCC can be configured to mirror TM. You get a bootable backup with scheduled incrementals. It also allows archiving changed or deleted files so you can go "back in time" to retrieve old files. However, if you store the CCC backup on unRAID, the restoration procedure is nearly identical if you have an "emergency" external usb drive used for recovery. To get a real benefit out of CCC an external drive or DVD must be used.
July 3, 201115 yr How long are we waiting for a stable AFP solution on unRAID ...3,4 or 5 years? For Mac users AFP is important, hence my conclusion is that I'm questioning the Limetech focus on AFP Important... maybe... but not necessary. I have been happily using SMB since I started with unRAID. Given the only reason I decided to purchase UnRAID in the first place was the idea of having a stable and bug-free AFP support. As the beta had AFP support I thought this was well on the way! AFP is important & necessary, however I understand other things are required to be done first. Given Lion is released in less than two weeks and apparently the AFP used in UnRAID doesn't work with Lion currently then we require a update to it before release, no? I'm planning on putting Lion on my MacBook Pro first, as a testing stage before putting it on the Mac Pro, as the Mac Pro is what UnRAID is backing up. So I'm happy to run a test setup with UnRaid to check 10.7 & UnRAID but we need UnRAID to get the required AFP stuff done first!
July 4, 201115 yr Author So I've been having multiple issues with AFP, not being reliable, constantly ejecting Volumes. My other server worked fine. Tried all sorts of things with usernames. I finally changed my password at work to something very simple (all lowercase, 6 characters long). It worked absolutely perfectly from that point on. The problematic password had a mixture of @'s, !', Capitals, and it was around 12 characters long. Running 5b 7.
July 4, 201115 yr Has anyone else noticed that AFP can lag to load the mountable Volumes in Finder? And then you click on "Tower-SMB", and it displays the available shares/disks almost immediately? I've been noticing that lately--even though my User Shares are mounted automatically via speeding_ant's launchd shell script. Very odd...
July 4, 201115 yr Author Yep I've noticed that. I think that's Avahi. Also noticed that occasionally Tower (afp) will actually mount and show SMB volumes.
September 13, 201114 yr Yeah.. listing shares over AFP is very slow. I found a post (can't find it now).. that suggested moving the .Apple* to the cache drive to the parity checks wouldn't slow down the directory listings.. but I never tried it. Hopefully this will continue to improve oner the next few releases. whiteatom
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