Time Machine Cannot connect to AFP share

[bdee1]

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?

[bdee1]

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.

[wgstarks]

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.

[bdee1]

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?

[kizer]

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. 

[wgstarks]

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.

[ijuarez]

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

[Russ Uno]

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.

[ijuarez]

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

 

[Can0n]

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