I had to blow away the Time Machine volume on my DLink DNS-345 NAS because I ran out of space. I had backups of everything, so I deleted the volume on the NAS and created a new one - same size, name, everything.
I had changed Time Machine's backup volume to another (local) drive in the interim so it wouldn't go nuts. I disabled Time Machine, too.
So here's the deal:
Both volumes (there are two) on the NAS appear as network volumes in the Finder. If I open Time Machine preferences and select the volume for backups, it allows me to do so, and when I do it mounts the volume on the desktop. It will ask me to authenticate, which I do with the proper credentials that have full rights to the network volume. As soon as I click "OK", a dialogue window comes up with "Attempting to connect to AFP_Volume....) and everything comes to a halt.
I've let this run for hours and it is obviously stalled.
To add to the issue, when this occurs it locks up the Finder and no input from the keyboard will show up. I can open other applications, such as Safari, but if I attempt to type something in the address field, nothing.
The only way to stop the process is to do a hard boot.
This exact setup was working a few days ago. I'm at a loss as to what might be different.
I would add that I have another volume on the same machine (Mac Pro) that is set up to boot Mavericks. If I boot from it and attempt to choose the same NAS volume for the Time Machine backup it does exactly the same thing.
Any assistance would really be appreciated!
MacDann
I had changed Time Machine's backup volume to another (local) drive in the interim so it wouldn't go nuts. I disabled Time Machine, too.
So here's the deal:
Both volumes (there are two) on the NAS appear as network volumes in the Finder. If I open Time Machine preferences and select the volume for backups, it allows me to do so, and when I do it mounts the volume on the desktop. It will ask me to authenticate, which I do with the proper credentials that have full rights to the network volume. As soon as I click "OK", a dialogue window comes up with "Attempting to connect to AFP_Volume....) and everything comes to a halt.
I've let this run for hours and it is obviously stalled.
To add to the issue, when this occurs it locks up the Finder and no input from the keyboard will show up. I can open other applications, such as Safari, but if I attempt to type something in the address field, nothing.
The only way to stop the process is to do a hard boot.
This exact setup was working a few days ago. I'm at a loss as to what might be different.
I would add that I have another volume on the same machine (Mac Pro) that is set up to boot Mavericks. If I boot from it and attempt to choose the same NAS volume for the Time Machine backup it does exactly the same thing.
Any assistance would really be appreciated!
MacDann
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