Time Machine on 12.04LTS Server - (OSStatus error 2.)

**Casey_Friday** · October 23rd, 2013

I've set up afp on my 12.04 headless server, and it's working well, but I can't seem to get a Time Machine backup going. It finds the two backup volumes (one for my wife, and one for me), and it has me log in, but then I get the OSStatus error 2, saying "Time Machine can't access the backup disk..."

I've already chowned the /media/raidmount/Casey's Time Machine/ folder, and set permissions from 755 to 775 to 777, and nothing is working.

Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, how did you fix it?

**Casey_Friday** · October 27th, 2013

Any ideas?

**bapoumba** · October 27th, 2013

No real idea, sorry.
There seem to be some workarounds and hints on page 2 here : https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

There are quite a few google pages with that error.

**Casey_Friday** · October 29th, 2013

I figured it out! The folders in my RAID mount (under /media/raidmount/) were called Casey's Time Machine and Jessica's Time Machine. It was the spaces in those filenames that were tricking the setup up. I changed them to casey_tm and jessica_tm, and the backups work now! AWESOME!

Most of the thanks goes to comment 78 in this post.