Time Machine can't access to Mybook WE backup

[BlueSkies]

I’m getting foul with Time Machine and WD MyBook World Edition 1TB!

I’ve the TM working fine till I made some Mac OS update, it was here that the TM stop working!

In Finder I’ve 2 file servers mapped, MyBookBack and MyBookBack-Backup.

I can access to the folders and files at MyBookBack, but I can’t access to the MyBookBack-Backup, which is normal.

But now the TM don´t work! When I acess to Sistem Preferences > Time Machine, I’ve TM disabled and when I choose a disk  the TM list  the WD_Backup at MyBookBack-Backup,  then I choose to use it to security copy, he asked for User and Password of the TM user at WD, and then… start thinking with the color wheel running indeterminably!!! I Just left it by 48Hours connected and nothing happened! I have to force to quit the Sistem Preferences to stop it!

The same happens when I tried to reach to TM data  using the Migration assistant and select MyBookBack-Backup…

Can anyone help me? I haven’t any backups since almost 2 months ago!

Many thanks and have a Happy New Year free from BUGS!

[Richardmcb]

Very similar experience.  Searched for solutions - lots of ideas but nothing works so far.  Have a ticket open with WD but so far no solution from them, either.  Seems quite a common problem.  Last time this happened I had to reformat and lose it all but can’t afford to do that this time.  Good luck!

[BlueSkies]

If you have any answer from WD, please post it here.

I will open a tiket too!

Now i start to wish i had opt for Time Capsule instead of WDMB

[bkavanagh]

Same problem.  Occurred after an OS update.  Any word from WD?

[bart_]

Same problem here. Both on 10.5.8 and 10.6.4.

[Richardmcb]

Same here.  Opened ticket some time ago and have been put through hoops, sending in logs etc.  This all took weeks and I was assured a ‘team’ was looking at it.  In the end, they just said I should try loggin on with WD_Backup as password (duh!) and  beyond that it was Apple’s problem.  I feel this drive is sold as working with TM but clearly has problems.  It hapened before and I had to reformat but this time I need the data on there - which is why I backed it up in the first place.  I have searched for answers but found none.  Why can’t WD address this?!

[EarlyAutumn]

Same Problem here. OS X 10.6.6. Firmware 1.02.06

Can´t Access Volume. 

[tiggerx40]

Same problem here.  Is there anyway to escalate to WD? 

[pixie]

Same problem… Untill some weeks ago I was able to backup. Now I can not  select WD_Backup in Time Machine because it returns error (OSStatus error 5.).

Has anyone found a solution?

[oxter]

tiggerx40  to escalate this to WD, please contact WD for Technical Support

http://support.wdc.com/contact/index.asp?lang=en

[DoubleU]

Target disks for Time Machine backup must be formatted using the MacOS file system format. 

[Vadir]

The discussion thread is about a My Book World, which is a NAS (Network Attached Storage).  Only hard drives that are directly connected to the computer, by USB, Firewire or eSATA, needs to be reformatted to HFS+ to work with Time Machine.