Why is it impossible for Time Machine to work with Mavericks server?

[pprior]

I've had a mini server for several years. Since upgrading to Mavericks I -=CANNOT=- get time machine to reliably back up.

I am running latest server OS on the mini-server, and latest update of Mavericks on machines.

I've tried everything I can think of including reinstalling the server OS, wiping all backups completely from the attached drives, nothing works.

What happens:

I select network disk on remote machine, it states "enter your name and password for the server so that time machine can access it"

I do that, and then I get:

Time machine can't access the backup disk "backups-1" The operation couldn't be completed (OSStatus error 2.)





It shouldn't be difficult to just use a server for time machine backup - that's basically ALL this computer needs to do!

 

[interstella]

Does this help?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/25693772#25693772

 

[mmomega]

that is interesting. I am using a mac mini with mavericks server to backup 5 Macs here at home with Time Machine.

 

[peterlemer]

error 2 solution

I was stuck with error 2, and after much experimentation and googling, when I logged in to Time Machine as admin rather then User, it worked immediately.

pete