Time Machine Backup External Drive Via Airport

[Thread77]

Hi,

I currently have a USB hub connected to my airport router and have two external drives connected. One drive I am using as my Time Machine backup drive and the other I just purchased to store media (music,etc). If I plug my new drive into my Macbook Pro directly via USB it shows in Time Machine and I assume I can backup to it if I remove it from the 'do not backup' options. However, when the drive is plugged into airport Time Machine doesn't see it at all. Is there a way to have the two drives connected via airport and have Time Machine backup the new drive?

Thanks!

 

[misterredman]

If I am not mistaken Apple doesn't support hard drive connected through wireless but you can activate that by following this tip:

http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=92090&query=Ethernet disk TimeMachine

Here it is.
There is a hidden system preference that needs to be change. This can be done by typing the following command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1


The drives should now appear in Time Machine

 

[Thread77]

Looks like that did the trick! When I go to time machine preferences it shows the right amount of info to be backed up including the new external drive. Thanks for your help!

 

[Apple Ink]

Airport Extreme should not be a problem (though Apple doesnt support it but you wont require Terminal for that)