Netgear WNDR3700 & Time Machine?

[Futhark]

Hi all, the Netgear WNDR3700 Router has a USB port to allow an external HD to be attached, you can access this via READYSHARE from anywhere in the world as well as from your home network.

Does anyone know if i set this up will i be able to save backups for my macs on here using Time Machine?

 

[Hyper-X]

Hi all, the Netgear WNDR3700 Router has a USB port to allow an external HD to be attached, you can access this via READYSHARE from anywhere in the world as well as from your home network.

Does anyone know if i set this up will i be able to save backups for my macs on here using Time Machine?

Read this thread. http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=42494

That being said there may be issues with your USB hard drive when it's formatted as HFS+ which I believe Time Machine requires on that router. Some of the posters appear to have made it work through other means.

 

[Futhark]

Read this thread. http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=42494

That being said there may be issues with your USB hard drive when it's formatted as HFS+ which I believe Time Machine requires on that router. Some of the posters appear to have made it work through other means.

I think your right about time machine requiring HFS+ thanks for the link I'll have a read now and see what I can find out.

If it's going to be too awkward to setup what would you recommend other than a Time Capsule? NAS?

 

[nizmoz]

Hi all, the Netgear WNDR3700 Router has a USB port to allow an external HD to be attached, you can access this via READYSHARE from anywhere in the world as well as from your home network.

Does anyone know if i set this up will i be able to save backups for my macs on here using Time Machine?

That model does not work with TM. I tried everything to get it to work and gave up. Airport Extreme + USB drive of your liking. That is what I did.

 

[Futhark]

That model does not work with TM. I tried everything to get it to work and gave up. Airport Extreme + USB drive of your liking. That is what I did.

It seems to work for just reading or writing to from any computer on the network but not TM compatible because the Router doesn't support HFS+

 

[blueroom]

Might want to consider the WNDRMAC instead of the 3700.
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[nizmoz]

It seems to work for just reading or writing to from any computer on the network but not TM compatible because the Router doesn't support HFS+

Correct. The reason I said TM.

 

[urkel]

Might want to consider the WNDRMAC instead of the 3700.
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I got that router and it's nice but the USB is ridiculously slow and also very selective about what drives will work. I gave up and just got a time capsule.

 

[Futhark]

Might want to consider the WNDRMAC instead of the 3700.
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I didn't even know this existed many thanks

Just out of curiosity, if I went for a TC not only will it backup my macs can I use it like an external HD creating folders to save my other media in?

 

[BiggAW]

I didn't even know this existed many thanks

Just out of curiosity, if I went for a TC not only will it backup my macs can I use it like an external HD creating folders to save my other media in?

But how would you back that up?

 

[Futhark]

But how would you back that up?

Now there's a good point? Lol what do you suggest?

 

[BiggAW]

Now there's a good point? Lol what do you suggest?

That's the perennial question with NAS'es. Even if you have one with RAID or BeyondRAID, you still have to back that up. Personally, I'd have a Mac Mini server and a Drobo, and have one back up the other. You could also just have a Mini server, and have more advanced backup software to back up one external drive to another. Right now my storage needs are all local, so I have internal and external backing up to a massive Time Machine drive, and then some critical files backed up to Mozy as well.

EDIT: The other option is to use only a NAS for backup, and then store everything locally, so the NAS is the backup.