No you are not. Its not like the stuff you just bought is going to stop working now. You will get good use out of everything you purchased.
Dont cut Apple slack.
No you are not. Its not like the stuff you just bought is going to stop working now. You will get good use out of everything you purchased.
Dont cut Apple slack.They just want to rip us off!! Its plain wrong, and thats the first time I hope someone will sue they collective ass for it. Of course in case they wont fix AEBS+HD via USB and TM
Your current setup will still work, no?I bought a 2TB drive to hook up via usb to m new airport extreme before leopard came out strictly for time machine because i have a macbook - now all that is useless and i need another 300 dollar time capsule for half a terabyte or 500 for 1TB - this is horrible.
How about fixing the issues some people are having with the Airport Extreme Base Station first?
Backing up over wireless works fine. Although slow for the base backup, snapshots are quick. There are some minor quirks to it.
However, I have been backing up 2 laptops over wireless (and wired) since Leopard has been released. (Over SMB, to a Linux server) It works fine.
If you are backing up to a remote Leopard installed machine it also works fine. (Over AFP)
There is *NO* reason Apple couldn't make the AEBS work with Timemachine. Apple decided to go the Time Capsule route to make more money off it. Who can blame them ?
However, I am not going to dump money on it. Not only is it cheaper to buy drives outside of it, I am not going to dump a bunch of cash on a device that does storage for 1 thing. The 2 TB existing system I have, I can use for more then just timemachine storage. I also store media there and SVN backups.
We have 3 laptops, 2 workstations and 2 iPhones all running off my AEBS with zero problems.
My two biggest complaints with my AEBS were just fixed:
Third party drive compatibility and wireless Time Machine backup for the all of the computers. Brilliant and simple.
Thanks Apple!!
Is said backing up to a remote Leopard installed machine (AFP) supported, i.e. does the shared drive appear in Time Machine Preferences per default?
You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.
With a hard disk connected to your AirPort Extreme Base Station, all the Macs in your house can use Time Machine to back up wirelessly. Simply select your AirPort Disk as the backup disk for each computer and the whole family can enjoy the benefits of Time Machine.
Neat. Thank you. Well, guess I'm getting a Mac Mini then and enslave it as my home server for long video encodes, File Server, Backup Server, iTunes Library Share, DVR (via eyeTV) etc.
EDIT: Well, actually it doesn't specifically say "wireless". I guess it should work but I'd love to confirm that.
My plan is getting a Mac Mini, hooking up a USB drive to the Mac Mini. Then share that USB drive and use it to wirelessly backup my Macbook which is on the same Network. If you can confirm this, please PM me.
Hi,
Can someone bottom line this for me?
Is it fact that we will be able to use Time Machine with our current AEBS with an external USB hard drive attached to it? Is it rumor? Or will we absolutely not be able to do this?
Thanks.
As of current it will connect ... HOWEVER. Its very unstable, extraordinary slow and plagued with problems. For example a simple power blip requires you to unmount the drive, bring it to a Mac, have it run fsck on it, umount it, bring it back to your AEBS, plug it back in and remount it.
Don't use an AEBS for TM, its not worth it.
I can confirm for you it does in fact work. I tried it from my MBP to my girlfriends MBP and it worked fine.
I was going to head the Mini route, but its too expensive for just a single purpose. It makes more sense for me to use a Linux server, since its already being used for quite a few tasks. (File serving, encoding, mythtv, etc)
There is *NO* reason Apple couldn't make the AEBS work with Timemachine. Apple decided to go the Time Capsule route to make more money off it. Who can blame them ?
However, I am not going to dump money on it.
It is obvious that this is the reason wireless hd backup never worked. They were coming out with time capsule from the very beginning.
So 3 weeks ago I spent $159 on an Airport Extreme and $120 on Leopard so I could plug my $120 HD into for Time Machine when they finally updated it to support backups wirelessly. Now Im out all that. Unbelievable.
Can you do an install restore with Time Capsule? Specifically, if I have a catastrophic drive failure in my laptop and replace the drive, can I boot off the Leopard DVD and perform a Time Machine restore? I know I can do this from a firewire drive.
i'd love to be able to acces whatever files i want from anywhere in my house wirelessly....
What a greedy company Apple has become. Next, we will see Steve Jobs off the play. Back to the dark 90's again.