I have a synology nas, and we are a mac household. For a while we were able to use time machine with no problem backing up to the nas, but it suddenly stopped working. I've followed every tutorial I can find, with no luck.
I've got the shared drive set up, and the macs can see the drives on the network, but when time machine trys to connect to the share, it just hangs on "preparing backup" and show Zero KB available.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Are their other good backup solutions for mac?
Hey everyone,
I'm getting an error about space available. The NAS itself still has some 4TB's available. The share where I have Time Machine backing into is set with a quota of 1TB and has 953.5GB's available.
Usually with Time Machine, it's supposed to automatically cleanup and delete old backups in order to make room for newer ones.
Having said that, anyone know what's up or where this is coming from? I'm not sure what's causing this to the point where it can't delete files, unless it's not deleting them.
Anyone seen this before and knows what's up?
First, I want to mention that I found and read this older post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/rlmzri/time_machine_there_isnt_enough_space/
My Time Machine on my Macbook Pro alerted me a couple of weeks ago that it was out of room. I didn't really get why, since (as everyone mentions) it's supposed to erase old data to make room for new data. In any case, I have increased the Shared Folder Quota on my NAS from 3TB to 5TB. (My new internal SSD is 2TB, of which I'm currently using 1.33TB of space.)
Current Shared Folder Size is 2.85TB. The Recycle Bin has never been turned on. It's all been working well for over a year, even through the purchase of my new computer about 6 months ago. The only hiccups are recent.
Now the volume (which I can still see on the NAS) is no longer visible to Time Machine and doesn't appear or mount in my Finder. (Not sure it did before, but Time Machine was certainly able to see it.) I've attached a few screenshots here that may help clarify what's up.
In the Time Machine app, when I try to look at restoring older files, the earliest backup seems to be June 19, 2024 (today is July 3, 2024), so something did back up, but the older backups seem to be inaccessible now.
Have I hit some sort of size limitation? Is there a setting to check? Do I need to start over with Time Machine?
Deeply appreciate any knowledgeable advice. Thanks.
(P.S. I'm kind of a NAS newbie, but an experienced Mac user, if that helps you frame your answers.)
I can see the volume in Finder but it won't mount. The error message from Time Machine No backups since June 19, 2024 What I see in QuickConnect This is what I get when I double click on the volume in Finder.