MacOS – Time Machine won’t backup with Mountain Lion Server

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I have a Mac Mini with OS X Mountain Lion Server installed. I've turned on Time Machine in the server app and selected an internal disk to backup clients to. On my iMac, I have turned on Time Machine and selected the backup share listed on the server. But, I recieve the following error dialog box:

Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “server”. Back disk is not available. I'm clearly able to connect to the server and the Shared Items > Backup folder, which the server created. I'm also made sure file permissions look right.

Any ideas?

Best Answer

I kept getting Backup not available so before doing a tmutil setdest I unmounted the drive and manually mounted using mount_afp, that did the trick for me.

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