Since I updated to macOS Sierra, can only use my local USB drive to backup. TimeMachine is stuck with the "preparing backup" message - over 12 hours - for network devices, an Apple FileVault and another NAS device. Works fine with local USB drive.
Something funny going on with network devices as it's working for local discs.
Hope Apple take note and fix.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), iOS 10
Time Machine has never worked with non-Apple NAS devices.
Non Apple networked drives have always been unsupported.
This is simply untrue. It has been working perfectly under Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan. There is no reason to state false information.
It seems that you are right on that and yes, I had been warned about Apple's tendency to force lock-in Before I embarked on this path. For the time being, I may have to lay out a significant expenditure to continue to use Apple products, back off to El Capitan or write some backup scripts of my own while I reevaluate my vendor commitments.
You were correct in kicking me while I am down. Enjoy your life and I'll not trouble you no further here.
TakomaFan wrote:
It has been working perfectly under Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan.
Reports identical to these arise with every operating system upgrade, until the non-Apple NAS device manufacturer fixes their non-Apple firmware. Then, Apple releases an operating system update. Then, it breaks again. Cycle repeats.
If that's what you call "working perfectly" that is your choice to make, and your data to lose.
Despite their manufacturers' insistence to the contrary, there are no non-Apple NAS devices that will reliably work with Time Machine. If you want to use your NAS device to back up your Mac's contents, then use a backup strategy other than Time Machine.
The exhaustive list of devices supported by Time Machine are as follows:
That is all.
Use whatever backup device you want, but you should be aware that this site is full of reports of misery from hapless individuals who had been using third party NAS devices for Time Machine backups, only to find that they were incomplete, corrupted, or useless in the dire circumstances in which they were required. Apple won't care if you lose your data while using a Time Machine configuration specifically excluded from their technical support documents.
You're welcome.
For what is worth ad maybe I'm just lucky or did the right things. I'm using Sophos with Sierra locally, not on the web.
I have my backups in Dropbox, iCloud Drive, CrashPlan and an external hard drive and everything (knock on wood) has had no problems.
I'm redundant not only in backups but in firewalls by not relying on the router that my ISP provided me but by putting another router between my Mac and the ISP router.
If you want to continue to use Sophos and be in the Apple eco system (i think it's cheaper to pay a few buck a month than to change all your Apple devices (OS, iOS, etc), my advise is disable the Sophos from the internet as well as from the the computer, run a first back up. It should take the normal time (depending how much info you have i.e music, photos, videos, apps, documents etc).
After it finishes activate only and only the Sophos in you computer without telling to run a scan. Just by the mere fact of having it running in the back, Sophos does catch the possible viruses.
If you want you can install Malware Bytes. That is what Apple recommends.
I wish everyone the best and remember that with Apple there are always many ways to skin the cat.
Take care, iCloud and Dropbox are not backups, Crashplan is, but you have no redundancy at this time. And 2 firewalls are no safer than 1, your router is where an activated Firewall should be, and only your router.
It seemed all the macs, 1 imac, 1 macbook pro, 1 macbook air stopped backing up to the network. Restarted the network device and bam, it starts working on all devices. I know this sounds silly, but restarting all the devices in the house did the trick. Also, Sophos (home edition 9.5.4) is turned on.
Strong. It is not crazy.
Computers and networks have no word of honor that is why you have to be creative and skin the cat in which ever ways you can imagine as i mentioned before.
Good for you.
The explanation might sound ridicolus to many but if one or many of your devices cannot perform an operation, in this case the back up, your network starts "chocking" and "protecting" itself. This is something your ISP looks as if you were using too much band that you don't pay for or many crazy things behind the scenes.
Never give up. As much as it should be Apple's responsibility to check that all systems run with it's OS, the same fault is to the third parties that they are given the developers version and a lot of them don't do their homework.
Just yesterday I think Apple threw to the garbage over 400 apps that were outdated or full of bugs.
Your exhaustive list of supported devices includes USB drives and I can tell you that you can drop that from your list. I haven't brought this up but a supported Western Digital My Book no longer clears out old backups and continues. I can (and have been) working with this by continuing to clear it while working through the Sierra issues but just thought that you should not report incorrect information here.
Time Machine (not your drive) can not remove any backup that contains files that are part of the current state of the source, this is how it has always been.
I had the same issue. Are you running Sophos antivruS? If so there is an issue with Sophos and TimeCapsule. Sophos are aware of this and are busy rolling out a new version. Try disabling your Sophos and see if the Time Capsule works. I shall reinstall Sophos once the new version is available.
bowlesuk wrote:
I shall reinstall Sophos once the new version is available.
P. T. Barnum was a pessimist.
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MacOS Sierra - time machine stuck preparing backup on Network devices
