Mac backing up to WD World Edition automagically with Time Machine over network. Has worked fine for ages.
Casually had a look - no backups done for 2/12!!!
Time Machine simply says “Making backup disk available”, then silently stops doing anything.
It is caused by a broken database for the timemachine share, SSH into the box and issue the command: rm -rf /DataVolume/.timemachine/.AppleDB
You may need to repair the sparsebundle afterwards - no big deal.
WD World Edition NAS + Time Machine = "Making backup disk available"
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PS: What happened to the Mac thread?
PPS: There are various esoteric problems with the WD MyBook that require quite a bit of command-line magic to solve. Better solution is to dig out an old PC, and use FreeNAS (
FreeNAS 8 | Storage For Open Source ).