I cannot think of what else I could possibly try to get Time Machine to backup to my NAS.

Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter.

Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when display if off.

My Mac's power options are the following: I let my Mac run over night, staying connected to my NAS, hoping the backup would finish… In the morning I was greeted by the same message again: 'Waiting to complete first backup'. It got further than via wifi but again, it did not finish the backup.

I enabled DHCP on my NAS, connected it via an ethernet cable to my Mac and started another backup. While all my first attempts were to get the initial TM backup to work over WIFI, I also tried connecting the NAS directly to my Mac. Enabled Bonjour Service Discovery and Bonjour Time Machine broadcast via SMB.I have SMB enabled only – AFP is disabled.Granted read/write access to Time machine file share and set quota of 3TB.Standard user with a strong, random password.Encryption is disabled (for now – would like to have it but want to be able to get backups working first).

'Advanced data integrity protection' is enabled.In a nutshell these are my current settings: I disabled HDD hibernation, disabled AFP. Same result… After a couple GB the NAS was again stuck and said 'Waiting to complete first backup'.Īfter some research I found a helpful Synology thread. In case I did a mistake setting up the folder and user on my NAS, I reset the NAS and started from scratch. It transferred around 9GB of data but that was it. Time Machine stated: 'Waiting to complete first backup'.

No error message but not even near completion. After several GB of data transfer the backup stopped. I was able to discover the Time Machine folder on my NAS and TM started it's initial backup. My first attempt to get this to work, was by following Synology's instructions. So, I am trying to backup 1.6TB at the moment via Time Machine as the initial backup. I am trying to perform a backup of my internal SSD (500GB), as well as my my external HDD (around 1.1 TB of data). So far, each Mac has been backed up on individual hard drives. I recently bought a NAS (Synology DS218+) to help with backing up several Macs in my household using Time Machine.

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