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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:39 am 
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Or turn off the duplication, consolidate free space with Perfect Disk (defrag) and them create it...

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Thankfully I came across this post because I was getting the same annoying behavior. To make things even worse, I recently added a 2TB drive which has some data already added to it, maybe around 200-300GB. When trying to create the backup file from the Mac utility I could see it being created on the shared folder and then all of a sudden it would be gone, deleted for whatever reason. So a couple of things, if it needed the contiguous space and also chose the drive with the most space, then why wasn't it working? Seemed odd. Anyway I followed Alex's steps to "manually" create the file by intercepting the unique id given by the HP MSS before it was deleted again and then just when ahead and created the file myself as per below:

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...Instead of spending a lot of time testing with a Mac client, I circumvented that part by manually creating a "bigfile.req" with the contents "bigfile.macbackup 300000000000" which would be roughly 290GB...


Now I have the W8824AA7YJX.macbackup and W8824AA7YJX.ok files created on my Mac share. I had to format the drive (Mac OS Extended - Journaled) once it was mounted (which happened automatically), I chose the default format options and then renamed the disk from unnamed (I think) to Time Machine. I hooked up a network cable to the Mac and then started with the initial Time Machine backup. Took about 1-2 hours I think for the 200GB and now it's working perfectly. I have been adding, deleting, restoring for the part few days and it's working without any issues. I was almost surprised at how easy this was to do.

Thanks Alex for the input, and hopefully this is another success story of a what I see as a failed feature that doesn't work correctly for people who decide to add a Time Machine backup AFTER adding data to the HP MSS. I can confirm however I was able to add a Time Machine backup the day my EX485 arrived. That was many months ago.


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Glad to hear that helped, thanks for sharing your experience. 8)

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