simonmason
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I keep having issues with my ZFS volume and Time Machine on my Macs. The backup fails telling me that the sparesebundle is already in use. I have checked the wiki (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Apple_(AFP)_Shares) and it does reference the issue and points me to this site (http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,...ine-sparsebundle-nas-based-backup-errors.html). When running these commands - the first one works, the second fails telling me that the volume is not mounted.
I did point one of my Macs to a volume on the FreeNAS that is not a ZFS pool and this works fine. Only problem - this volume is only one drive so if it fails I will have to go to the backups to get the data.
Reading the posts online it seems that there is a nightly process that "refreshes" the ZFS pool that in turn does something to the Mac sparsebundle file - causing Time Machine to think that it is corrupted.
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? Thanks.
I did point one of my Macs to a volume on the FreeNAS that is not a ZFS pool and this works fine. Only problem - this volume is only one drive so if it fails I will have to go to the backups to get the data.
Reading the posts online it seems that there is a nightly process that "refreshes" the ZFS pool that in turn does something to the Mac sparsebundle file - causing Time Machine to think that it is corrupted.
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? Thanks.