Re: time-machine problem

2015-11-28 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I think these questions are general enough that I can answer on-list. Hope it’s not too overwhelming. Details below: On 27 Nov 2015, at 21:36, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > On 27 Nov 2015, at 08:21, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >> Time Machine should work with a suitably configured NAS with a recen

Re: time-machine problem

2015-11-27 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Sabahattin, I find your post on backups very interesting. I do not have as much knowledge as you do but I'm really wanting to learn. I'd like to ask additional questions if you don't mind responding. And please feel free to respond privately as I'm concerned my questions are probably off

Re: time-machine problem

2015-11-27 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Time Machine should work with a suitably configured NAS with a recent version of netatalk running. It is not my preferred route—I’d much rather access the NAS directly over the network and have the NAS performing snapshots either to a RAID or an external cloud storage service—but it should work

Re: time-machine problem

2015-11-26 Thread Grant
Hello William, I believe this has something to do with losing connectivity while your Mac is performing a backup to your NAS. Since your Mac uses disk image files to perform backups over the network, my understanding is that these can become corrupted under certain circumstances. Unfortunately,

time-machine problem

2015-11-26 Thread William Windels
Hello all, I have a nas from qnap to make time-machine backups and mostly it works fine But Since I use this nas for Time-machine since january 2015, it’s the second time, now and one tim e in july, that all backups from the past are deleted. I receive the followingg message: :application alert