Hi all,

 

My time machine share will not mount on my mac, which makes it kinda hard to use time machine...

 

This happened after upgrading to 5.0 and is still an issue in 5.04. (all other shares still work)

 

Any ideas? There isnt any blatant error that I can find in the syslog, but maybe you guys can help.

syslog.txt

'...will not mount...'

Where are you at when this happens?

Are you in Finder at the | GO | Connect Server...  |  command?

or are you looking at the shortcuts on the left side of a Finder window?

Im at the shortcuts on the sidebar.

 

I connect to the main server, and then once connected, I double click on the Time Machine share. It doesnt mount to the desktop and it does not show the sparsebundle within

It will not connect/mount under GO and Connect to Server either

Can you see the TM share in the unRAID web interface?

Check your TM 'share'...is AFP enabled for the TM share?

 

When you access the unRAID server from the web interface, go the SHARE tab, you'll see the TM share listed among the defined shares.  Click on the VIEW for the TM share...the share folder should open in the browser...is the 'sparse.bundle' there?

 

And are you logged into the unRAID server with an account that has visibility to the TM share? (and has the correct READ/WRITE setting applied on the SHARE tab?)

 

DaleWilliams,

 

Yes to all of your questions. The sparsebundle is there when I look in the share via a telnet session as well.

Huh...

 

You've not been able to see the share since upgrading to 5.0?

One thing that *might* be the problem is the change in user security with 5.0

ROOT can no longer see all shares...Setup a USER in unRAID to use as a 'normal user'.  Be sure that its authorized with READ/WRITE in your TM share setup on unRAID.

Log into UNRAID from the Mac (disconnect and then GO/Connect the shares) using your new user-id and not root.

Then can you see the TM share?

 

 

What I *have* done once in a similar situation is:Open the Time Machine in System Preferences.

Do 'Select disk...' as if you were setting up your first TM backup...(do you see the old sparse.bundle now?)

Create a new sparse.bundle on unRAID

*IN my case, I reused the same name for the time machine file 'dale_timemachine'. I don't know exactly how to describe what happened, but it was as if I'd never had the problem. Somehow TM relinked and 'kept' all the old backups.  This made me very uneasy...I'm used to having TM throw up on this by prompting to Overwrite or specify a new file name.* I don't know if this was a fix to TM in Mavericks, or voodoo...Your Mileage May Vary.

 

I'm running short of ideas or suggestions that I've personally tried.

After the above, what I would probably try next, is:

Permissions fix on the MAC and on unRAID.

Then I'd run Reiserfsck on the unRAID drive just to be sure.

 

 

I needed to reboot both client and server and then wait a while for it to start working.

 

The newer netatalk seems a bit better. Try this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30239.0