Cannot get TimeMachine to backup on my Qnap NAS.

Hi.

I have a Qnap Nas and in the admin-setting I have set TimeMachine support enabled. Still when I try to backup my computer TimeMachine says that the harddrive is not available for backup. Also in the TimeMachine I can see the correct harddrive has been chosen. Anyone know what I can do to get this to work?
Thank you,

/ V

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 20, 2012 2:41 AM

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Aug 22, 2012 12:50 AM in response to ViganBytyqi

I found the post below in the forum and it seems like the problem have been solved. Many thanks to Greg!


"Open a terminal window and from the command prompt enter;


sudo tmutil setdestination aftp://<your Qnap time machine user>:<your Qnap time machine password>@<your Qnap ip address>/TMBackup"



Greg-R



I had a similar problem. Found this on the Qnap forumhttp://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=61182&start=15 which solved the problem for me. Open a terminal window and from the command prompt enter;


sudo tmutil setdestination aftp://<your Qnap time machine user>:<your Qnap time machine password>@<your Qnap ip address>/TMBackup


e.g.


sudo tmutil setdestination afp://TimeMachine:password@192.168.0.254/TMBackup


Cheers

Greg


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