Time Machine Troubles


rctneil

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Hey,

 

I have Time Machine set up and have configured as i've read in a couple of other topics but it's really never been very reliable.  I've just opened Time Machine, told it to start a backup and it looks for the disk and then comes back with the following error:

 

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Is anyone able to help me troubleshoot it and make it locate the drive automatically and backup more consistently. Currently TM can't even locate the drive.

 

My settings for the TM share are:

 

Allocation Method: Fill up

Split level: Manual Do not split

Included disks: Only one selected here

Use Cache disk: No

AFP Export: Yes Time Machine

TM Size limit: 1000000

Security: Private

AFP User Access: my normal user with R and W privileges

SMB Export: No

 

By the way, Unraid 6.6.0 in use here.

 

I'd appreciate all help.

 

Thanks,

Neil

 

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3 hours ago, rctneil said:

Please someone?  I thought this was the best place to get support with Unraid?

 

@limetech ?

I'm probably not the best to help with this. I gave up on TM a while back and find Carbon Copy Cloner to be much more reliable.

 

Are you sure this is an unRAID problem?

 

Have you tried mounting the unRAID share first and then running TM?

 

Did you set a volume db path in the AFP share settings?

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10 hours ago, wgstarks said:

I'm probably not the best to help with this. I gave up on TM a while back and find Carbon Copy Cloner to be much more reliable.

 

Are you sure this is an unRAID problem?

 

Have you tried mounting the unRAID share first and then running TM?

 

Did you set a volume db path in the AFP share settings?

 

What should the Volume DB Path be set to?  That's currently blank for my TM share?

 

Thanks,

Neil

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2 hours ago, rctneil said:

 

What should the Volume DB Path be set to?  That's currently blank for my TM share?

 

Thanks,

Neil

I have mine set to a cache only share. Here’s a good example-

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/58164-help-with-shares-mac-os/?do=findComment&comment=570501

 

Have you tried the other suggestions? Often when TM would start acting up I’d have to reconfigure the backup location to the same location.

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I have not only this Time Machine connection problem since upgrading to Mojave, much worse: I am totally unable to connect to any of my shares (be it SMB or AFP) altogether from macOS Mojave. Seems to be a bug with Mojave (I get "smb_fid_get_kernel_fid: No SMB 2/3 fid found for..." errors. Anyone ever heard of something similar?

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