I have created an AFP share on my unraid server (v6.3.5) which I have used in the past for Time Machine on my OSX machine (OSX Sierra 10.12.6).   Recently I started gettign alerts that Time Machine is unable to connect to the share.

 

I went into time machine settings on my mac and no matter what I do I cant seem to get it to connect to my AFP share.

 

Nothing has changed with my AFP share on unraid.  IT includes 5 disks and there is an unraid user which has read/write access.

 

How can I go about troubleshooting this?

ok so I wound up creating a brand new AFP share with the same settings but a different name, and that seemed to work.

 

Now I need to find an easy way to empty out the old share so I can delete it.

SSH into the server and run-

rm -R /mnt/diskX/<sharename>/<folderorfilename>

Replace the X with the actual disk number that data is located on.

Once all data is deleted you'll see a delete option in the share settings for that share.

this is weird.   I created the new AFP share and my time machine backup seemed to run smoothly for a couple weeks and now every day i am getting the popup in osx saying that it could not complete the backup.  it asks me to start a new backup, and when I do it says it cant connect to the new share.

 

has anyone else had this happen?  is anyone successfully runnign time machine backups to their unraid server?

Personally and I do mean personally I stopped fiddling around with Time Machine on unRAID and just bought a 3TB portable and split it into 2 Partitions. 1 for my laptop and one for my Mac. Just my personal setup of course. Others might be more successful, but I've never had good results for some odd reason. 

I’ve never had good results with TM and any network share. I use TM with a direct attached disk. They have the added benefit of being bootable. For network backups I use Carbon Copy Cloner. Much more reliable IMO.

same here. i create one an backup and re-did my mac and when i need to go back could never get it to connect to my backup, so i have backup that is worthless

Same here, I use Carbon Copy Cloner. Works great with UnRaid.. I use to use SuperDuper but Carbon Copy Cloner is much better and faster on networks.

I didnt have CC, was too cheap to buy it. Reloaded the mac and just started fresh.

 

if you are having issues check my newly posted fix i found on this issue it corrected issues for my on both my Mac's running High Sierra and should work for Sierra and other previous versions of MacOS