fussy2512 Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Hello Newbie on here but not with Retrospect. We have moved to a QNAP NAS server and I am using an iMac, OSX 10.6.8 as the server AND as a workstation. My sources appear on the desktop as I log into them to access them using connect to server, afp://IPaddressofQNAP/sharedareas I log into the QNAP NAS with afp://IPaddressofQNAP/sharedareas, using Sources-Add-Share to get the shared areas into retrospect to back up. I have a backup drive on my desktop. All works fine. I do one backup, then all then shared areas (there are four) then appear offline (~) this symbol next to source. I have to physically delete the sources and then reload the sources to make them appear online to make the backup work. Is there a conflict with the shared areas? How can I get around this? (in laymans terms please) Thanks Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 You are probably mounting the NAS share in Finder and then trying to mount it again in Retrospect, which will cause OS X to assign a different volume name to the second mount of the share. Retrospect will be looking for the share under the name it remembers instead of this new name, and will therefore think the share is offline. (See the post http://forums.retros...e-in-media-set/ for a complete explanation of why this happens.) The solution is to be sure that the share is not mounted in Finder (or by any other application) when you want Retrospect to access the share for backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fussy2512 Posted September 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Thanks Twickland, I think you are correct and it makes sense. I note the backup changes the volume to /Volumes/Shared-3/ and so on, when it should be /Volumed/Shared/ So I really need to dump the shared volumes from my desktop before the backup runs in the evening. Thanks for your response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fussy2512 Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Ah. I may still have the problem as my back up machine is also a workstation which needs to access the afp drives for files/data. Hence I can't log off the shared drives from the desktop. So what I am saying is the mac I am using for daily work is logged onto the shared volumes to access files and data. If it was standalone I could use the workaround. Are you saying I should log off the mount points before backing up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniels Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 If they were mounted after you started the Retrospect engine then no because those sharepoints would be name~1 however if they were mounted before starting the Retrospect then yes and you will need to stop and start the Retrospect engine to properly mount them for the backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fussy2512 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 I have sorted this now. I had the shared volumes mounted as a user login item. I have disabled this for my mac scheduled start up at night to do the back up and everything is now fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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