New Time Machine error since upgrading to TrueNAS-12.0-RC1

[fahadshery]

I am using macCatalina and haven't upgraded to bigSur yet. this was working fine with FreeNas 11.3-u5 and before that!

 

[kjacques1]

Yes, mine was stuck in preparing for a long time but it did eventually start to back up.

 

[fahadshery]

Yes, mine was stuck in preparing for a long time but it did eventually start to back up.

oh ok. still stuck. But I wish to encrypt my backups... is there a way I could do it?

 

[anodos]

I can't even see the Time Machine available in the available lists of discs to choose.
This update from FreeNas 11.3-U5 to 12.0 core has been a curse for me! I thought to wait for the U1 release and that might fix the issue. So I upgraded to 12.0 Core-U1 today and issue is still the same. Can any one point me to any direction? I am totally lost here and my Mac is going mental asking me to provide a disc for TM backup!

Any help would be a great help

Perhaps try restarting the avahi-daemon. service avahi-daemon restart. Avahi / mDNS is what determines the available time machine disks.

 

[anodos]

oh ok. still stuck. But I wish to encrypt my backups... is there a way I could do it?

I believe you do this from the MacOS side. The time machine backup is a sparsebundle volume. It's opaque to us.

 

[fahadshery]

Perhaps try restarting the avahi-daemon. service avahi-daemon restart. Avahi / mDNS is what determines the available time machine disks.

service avahi-daemon restart

Gives the following error:

Code:

zsh: command not found: service

 

[tweezerAT]

I have the same issue with TrueNAS 12 U1. I thought it might be a problem because of some changes in my network, but it seems to be a problem with U1. With 11.x I never had a problem and with 12 too. Timemachine gets stuck in step "preparing"

 

[tweezerAT]

I have the same issue with TrueNAS 12 U1. I thought it might be a problem because of some changes in my network, but it seems to be a problem with U1. With 11.x I never had a problem and with 12 too. Timemachine gets stuck in step "preparing"

Sorry did not find any edit function. It seems I've fixed it. Just restarted avahi-daemon and now Catalina can do a TM backup again. One thing I don't understand, why didn't a restart of the NAS help?

 

[fahadshery]

Sorry did not find any edit function. It seems I've fixed it. Just restarted avahi-daemon and now Catalina can do a TM backup again. One thing I don't understand, why didn't a restart of the NAS help?

how did you restart the amani-daemon?

 

[tweezerAT]

how did you restart the amani-daemon?

with the following command in the terminal from trueNAS: service avahi-daemon restart

but I'm afraid, this did not work :( Still having a problem with Timemachine,

 

[fahadshery]

I have found a way to use the Time machine.

Here is the process:

1. Create a backup group as well as a backup user
2. Create a dataset named timemachine and change the user and the group to backup
3. Add your user to the backup group
4. create an SMB share as a 'Multi-User Time Machine (See the pic attached)
5. Now check if you can see this share in the available time machine Disks.
6. If not then perform step 7.
7. Mount the dataset by (cmd + k), Enter your FreeNas IP, Enter your username, password
8. Once mounted then you should be able to see the Disk in the available disks now.
9. Select it, Enter the backup user name and its password. If you want to encrypt it then setup a encrypted password too.
10. That's it!

 

[fahadshery]

Note that I didn't set any Auxiliary parameters. (It's empty)

 

[fahadshery]

so that is giving trouble too now :D

Code:

Dec 21 15:30:19 freenas.local 1 2020-12-21T15:30:19.441072+00:00 freenas.local avahi-daemon 75870 - - IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP failed: Can't assign requested address

I have restarted it few times and re install it but its failing now.

 

[anodos]

so that is giving trouble too now :D

Code:

Dec 21 15:30:19 freenas.local 1 2020-12-21T15:30:19.441072+00:00 freenas.local avahi-daemon 75870 - - IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP failed: Can't assign requested address

I have restarted it few times and re install it but its failing now.

You can start avahi in interactive mode (debug) and it should give more info about what the error is. service avahi-daemon stop, and then avahi-daemon --debug.

 

[fahadshery]

ok, it's fixed.

Here is the process:

1. Create a dataset named timemachine and change the user to the username you use to connect to TrueNAS box. I was getting username password issue when used backup as username and the group. Not sure why?? So I just assigned this to my own username since I will be the only one using this share anyway!
2. create an SMB share as a 'Multi-User Time Machine, Also tick the box of Apple encoding characters in the Advanced settings
3. You will have to mount this dataset in the Mac before it shows up in the available disks!
4. Mount the dataset by (cmd + k), Enter your FreeNas IP, Enter your username, password
5. Select the timemachine dataset you just created and shared to mount.
6. The dataset will now appear in the available disks. If you want to encrypt it then setup a encrypted password too via the timemachine app in the Mac.
7. That's it!