![]() So my question is now to troubleshoot the time machine service itself or take it down and re-create it.Īs I type this, an iMac running Mac OS X 10.11.4 (final) made a 2.79TB backup to a Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.11.4 (final) and Server.app version 5.1.For the reasons mentioned above, it's never even attempted to make a backup before now. But they also show client backup dates as "unknown". I do have 2 other separate 6 TB destinations that were set up in Yosemite and carried forward to El Cap which still work for backing up and showing correct size. I also have a problem where on the server side, client backups are indicated as last backup "unknown" where in the past it showed the dates of the last backup for the client. On the server side, the correct size is recognized for the target volumes. I tried a single 3 TB drive as an added destination on the server and it failed too for unspecified reasons. The RAID drive described above fails for size (12 TB volume misrecognized as 2 TB after the client "prepared for backup). On the OS X server, it allows me to create the destinations but when I try to use them to backup the client Macs, they fail. I have three other volumes that run fine on the time machine service.Īny thoughts on how to get the client to be able to back up?Īs a follow up, it now seems that I cannot create *any* working new Time Machine network backup destinations that work in OS X server - not just the SoftRAID volume but straight single disk volumes too now. On the server I have reformatted the OWC RAID box and added and removed it as available for the time machine service. Added and removed the destination on the client. I have deleted Time Machine prefs on the client. The MacBook Pro will backup successfully if only its internal drive is backed up, which is 1 TB. But here is the rub - instead of a *12 TB* volume which the MacBook Pro saw initially, it indicates that the target volume is only *2 TB* and therefore too small. It "prepares for backup" for 30 minutes and then fails, indicating the target volume is too small. Here is the problem - when the initial backup starts on the client, it sees the 12 TB volume. ![]() I have set it up using v5 of the server app on the Mini, which is running El Capitain. The ThunderBay drive is exclusively used for network backup of this one MacBook Pro. The only Mac client, a MacBook Pro with an attached Drobo full of photographs, has 4 TB to backup. The destination drive is a 4 Bay OWC Thunderbay running SoftRAID 5 to create a 12 TB volume. ![]() I am using the Time Machine service on a Mac Mini running OS X Server. ![]()
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