Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur - Solving Problems https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:06:27 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9386 Sat, 08 May 2021 12:59:57 +0000 @softraid-support I've given up on Time Machine. I'm just going to use a combo of Carbon Copy Cloner and CrashPlan to do my backups. Time Machine disabled. 🤣 

]]> Solving Problems rkeefer https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9386 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9349 Wed, 05 May 2021 21:34:49 +0000 Ideas:

Do you have another startup volume, that you can start from and run Disk Utility "first aid"?

I don't know why your Time Machine is not working.

 

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9349 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9348 Wed, 05 May 2021 19:45:45 +0000 @softraid-support No luck, still the generic Mac OS Notification: BACKUP NOT COMPLETED - Time Machine couldn't back up to "%volume_name%"

]]> Solving Problems rkeefer https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9348 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9319 Mon, 03 May 2021 18:15:31 +0000 @rkeefer

 

Let me know.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9319 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9313 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:54:19 +0000 @softraid-support So far so good, but the failure usually has come at the 99% mark:

 

548]]> Solving Problems rkeefer https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9313 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9312 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:50:01 +0000 @rkeefer

Should work. If not, we can help investigate as it works on clean systems.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9312 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9311 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:41:20 +0000 @softraid-support OK, in the meantime, I went ahead with 6.0.4 b5 and formatted the drive as APFS through SoftRAID and made it a RAID 1 volume. Testing a Time Machine backup in that mode. I realized everything done to this point has been RAID 5, which is what I want, but want to rule out that it's not an issue with RAID 5.

]]> Solving Problems rkeefer https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9311 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9308 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:24:55 +0000 @rkeefer

I get it, I need to check the beta again.

We added the code for SoftRAID Lite, but the beta should be full functioning. We will update the beta if this is a bug.

]]> Solving Problems SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9308 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9305 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:09:38 +0000 @softraid-support It has been upgraded to 6. On the URL you sent, it only has the option for SoftRAID 6 XT to Pro Upgrade

]]> Solving Problems rkeefer https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9305 RE: Using Mercury Elite Pro Quad as a Time Machine drive and SoftRAID with BigSur https://forums.softraid.com/solving-problems/using-mercury-elite-pro-quad-as-a-time-machine-drive-and-softraid-with-bigsur/paged/3/#post-9303 Mon, 03 May 2021 13:53:15 +0000 @rkeefer

You need to upgrade your license to a 6.0 license. Go here to do that:

 

https://software.owcdigital.com/softraid-upgrades/

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