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mgrad [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

mgrad [Visitor] — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:29:22 +0000

Thanks for a great tutorial. Everything works smooth on DS210j together with Leopard. Greetings.

Moritz Aemisegger [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

Moritz Aemisegger [Visitor] — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:05:20 +0000

Worked like a charm! Thank you so much!

Luke [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

Luke [Visitor] — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:46:59 +0000

Question: If I have 2 Macs - an iMac ("Jupiter") and a MacBook ("Mercury"), do I create 2 different sparebundles and copy both to the same "timemachine" share folder? Will the TimeMachine on iMac be smart enough to backup to the Jupiter_--.sparebundle and the TimeMachine on the MacBook backup to Mercury_---.sparebundle?

Jim [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

Jim [Visitor] — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:37:03 +0000

I found exactly my problem on this blog. I've recently purchased a Synology 209+II with DSM 2.2 and was trying to use Time Machine. The darn backup always stopped with error 109 after 249.97GB and I never thought the size <250GB to be related to the band size... stupid limitation I must say. No doubt Apple has a reason, but it's a bit poor.
So I read up this blog entry and created a new Sparsebundle file locally. My Quota for the TimeMachine space on the NAS is set at 800GB, so I adapted the sparsebundle file to be limited at 800GB ->
sudo hdiutil create -size 800g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname "Backup of MacBook Pro" -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -imagekey sparse-band-size=262144 -verbose ./MBPname_MACaddress.sparsebundle

I let the backup run overnight...and oh wonder!! it works!
I'm a happy person

d [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

d [Visitor] — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:25:48 +0000

Been looking for up to date instructions that work for a while. Many thanks.

El Hadi [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

El Hadi [Visitor] — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:35:03 +0000

Thank you very match, I got TimeMachine working on my Synology DS209.
Merci beaucoup!!!!

wapib [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

wapib [Visitor] — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:03:29 +0000

I have also seen the 'unable to mount' on occations.
One thing that has worked for me it to re-start the afp on the NAS (Synology 207+) on firmware 728 or greater.

YMMV

wapib [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

wapib [Visitor] — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:59:11 +0000

Just one question to the 'hdiutil convert' entry (51) - can it be done directly on the NAS ? I have a quota of 320 GB with about 89 GB free and I would hate having to copy it back and forth :-|

TIA

gnaschenweng [Member] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

gnaschenweng [Member] — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:51:39 +0000

@samir: Just do the "hdiutil convert" and specify a larger size in the "size=" statement.

samir [Visitor] in response to: OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+

samir [Visitor] — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:08:29 +0000

hello,

thank you for your very good blog. i got my TM up and running on my synology DS207+ by following your instructions.

however i have realized that i will soon run into the issue of the 70GB limit. Initially i did not think, that i woud need more than af 70 GB big sparesbundle file. But this is not the case.

So what are my options to increase the size of sparesbundle?

1. make a complete new sparesbundle file with a higher limit on the sparesbundle file. and then make a complete backup?

2. can i somehow change the limit without having to make a new backup...?

samir