How to expand a time machine bundle

[sphardy]

Do you have AFP enabled on your NAS? TM requires it to access your NAS and the screencast suggests AFP is disabled

[egoldy]

AFP is enabled and I can log on via finder via AFP.

I did go in and noticed that the buttons to advertise AFP over Bonjour or Appletalk is unchecked. Should they be checked?

I also did have Time Machine working previously (see above thread). MY problem was that I needed to expand the capacity of the bundle, and there is no way to do it - there is a bug in the way that you can allocate space. I gave up so I just manually went under c), found the time machine bundle and deleted it (which freed up the 500 gb of space). I then re-enabled the Time Machine with the 510 GB space. And now it wont' seem to work.

[sphardy]

Bonjour being unchecked made it appear AFP was disabled in your screencast. It should be sufficient to have AFP enabled but not advertised - the TM service is advertised independently of AFP.

Try connecting over AFP to your NAS as the user "ReadyNAS" using your TM password - see if you can get to the TM share that way and verify that it is in fact accessible and that you haven't caused a problem when deleting the original TM sparsebundle(s)

[egoldy]

This thing is so weird.

Every time I tried to connect to AFP, it just "connected" - never gave me the chance to enter a password.

Then I noticed that it never seemed to "accept" my allocation for my Time Machine bundle.

Watch this brief video: http://screencast.com/t/DTimPak69

I am so confused as to what this is doing.

[sphardy]

I can't answer why you are getting that issue. I can only suggest a firmware reinstall in the hope that corrects whatever has been broken. If that doesn't help - you would need to contact Tech Support.

[egoldy]

I'm outside of my support (this server is 4 years old). Will they provide support here? I will reinstall the the firmware and do a full reboot and see if that helps. If it doesn't, I have no idea what to do.

[sphardy]

You can get support via email irrespective of the age of the NAS

[egoldy]

Well, interesting update.

I reinstalled the firmware, did a reboot, and it actually seems to be working. It didn't lose the allocation I set and when I restarted the backup, it seems to be going - almost 500 MB into the 250 gb backup. So, thanks!

No idea what caused it, but the reinstall / reboot definitely seems to have fixed the problem.

[egoldy]

19 hours later - still rolling - 130 gb backed up.

[stormtroopar]

Well, just let everyone know.. I upgraded my HD from 1TB to 2TB and had a hard time expanding my bundle as well... at the end.. I just logged into the CIFS of my NAS drive, go to the hidden .timemachine folder, and manually delete the bundle files inside to free up the room I needed. I used the shell to do it cause its easier, but you can do it in finder too, you just need to know the path.

I have the ReadyNas Duo. The deletion of the bundle took a LONG time. 700 gig took a little over a day. Just deletion... I don't know why it took so long. But after all that hard drive space is free, my config of Time Machine in the ReadyNas setting page is now also freed up. And now I can use the extra space of the HD. (FYI, I did install the new drives 1 by one first and let the NAS do a sync on the 2 new 2TB drive one by one first).

After I set the new setting of the Time machine, I started rebackup my whole system again.. About 4 - 500TB of data, took about a day. And that is with Jumbo Frame on for all devices (MacPro, Router, and NAS). Average from what I can tell is about 11.5 Mb/s. Somehow, my NAS didn't run at gigabit speed... even though everything on my system is.. probably cause one or more input device into the router isn't...

Anyway, hope this info helps someone. I wish I didn't have to do this to get the free space back.. but don't know any other way to utilize the new HD space.

Thanks.