Move time machine from local to Airport Extreme

[bryantlc]

I currently have my 1TB External Hard Drive for Time Machine hooked up locally to my iMac. I was thinking of freeing up a USB port by connecting it to my Apple Airport Extreme. When I searched about this I saw posts from a year or so ago that Time Machine would have to start over since it archives differently connected to Airport Extreme vs locally. Is this accurate? Should I just by a USB hub to give myself more ports or hook up the extra external drive for additional memory(like iTunes and iPhoto overflow) to the Airport Extreme?

 

[mstrze]

Anyone have any info on this? I was also going to move my external to Airport to allow my wife to also back up her laptop on our network.

I suppose losing the backup history wouldn't matter to me, but it would be nice if I could just pick up everything where I left off. Plus, it would certainly save time as that first backup is always the longest.

So...BUMP

 

[rusty2192]

Same question.......and a bump

and....BUMP.....again

I also have this exact same question. I just picked up an AEBS and moved my external from my macbook to the usb port on the AEBS and tried setting up time machine again. I thought all was well until it started a backup and said it was going to transfer 32GB of data.

Does anyone know how (if) you can do this?