Time Machine Can't find backup

Hi,

This is driving me crazy.

I have a NAS that is accessible - I can browse, copy files to and from, no problem! I want to create a brand new backup set. That's all. How do I do that?

The only option TimeMachine gives me under select disk is a WD_Backup on WDShareSpaceBackup (it's a Western Digital NAS) or "other airport devices".

I think the WD_Backup is an old backup, but it's no longer accessible. All I can discover about it is a strange path starting: afp://

It shows up also in Finder but isn't accessible - GetInfo doesn't work.

I deleted the .DS_Store file on my NAS as I searched and couldn't find any backup files at all for my MAC.

I just want TimeMachine to forget about this backup set it thinks exists and create a brand new backup.

Thanks,
I tried a bunch of forums but they all tell you to delete the existing backup set - well I can't as it doesn't exist, just some meta data in TimeMachine it seems...

I use a Time Capsule but there are several here that use a wide variety of drives. I did find a couple of articles that might help.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/

http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/

Lisa

lclev said:

I use a Time Capsule but there are several here that use a wide variety of drives. I did find a couple of articles that might help.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/

http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/

Lisa

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Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the links. It seems since update 10.10.3 TimeMachine no longer works with any third party NAS that don't follow certain specifications.

I tried the methods outlined but ran into problems trying to set the sparse image as a destination for TimeMachine:

sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/TimeMachine

As a short term solution I'm using rsync to backup my documents to the NAS. That seems good enough.

Thanks,