Netatalk time machine update#
If you use a NAS server as a backup device for your Mac, you may want to check with the vendor about the supporting firmware update before upgrading to Lion.
Lion's Time Machine works fine with backing up on an external hard drive or the Mac's secondary drive. Note that this only happens with backups that reside on the NAS servers, those that work with Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X. You'd be able to enter Time Machine to view the backups but it would run into error messages when restoring. Similar things would happen when restoring from backups made by Snow Leopard. I tried the new OS with a few NAS servers in the last two days, and while Lion could still see the NAS server as the backup drive, the backup would fail to proceed, giving an error message that reads, "The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features." This new easy way uses the latest netatalk 2.0.5 which has a new option called the 'timemachine' option (options:tm). This is because Lion now uses a new version of Netatalk, which has different requirements from the previous version, making current third-party NAS servers incompatible with its filing protocol until their firmware is updated. After looking at several websites, most notably kremalicious, bobs notepad, I finally figured out the easiest way to set up my Ubuntu 9.10 server as a time machine server today.The older methods no longer apply when using netatalk 2.0.5. Upgrading to Lion will for now mean that you can't back up to third-party NAS servers with Time Machine.Īs predicted by Synology, upgrading to the new and shiny OS X 10.7 Lion will for now mean that you can't use a third-party NAS server as the backup device for use with Apple's Time Machine software.
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