Time Machine never works over AE

[hobbbz]

I have an Airport Extreme (N) with a MyBook attached.
When Leopard came out I hooked the disk up to my 12" PowerBook for the first backup and then moved it to the Airport for subsequent backups. This set up has always worked.

However, I tried to do the same exact thing with my girlfriend's 15" MBP and it backs up over USB but will fail over Airport no matter what.

Any tips? Anything I left out that would make a difference in the answer?

 

[iPhil]

I have an Airport Extreme (N) with a MyBook attached.
When Leopard came out I hooked the disk up to my 12" PowerBook for the first backup and then moved it to the Airport for subsequent backups. This set up has always worked.

However, I tried to do the same exact thing with my girlfriend's 15" MBP and it backs up over USB but will fail over Airport no matter what.

Any tips? Anything I left out that would make a difference in the answer?

If you're gonna TM over AE then you need to plug the computer via ethernet for the very first backup, since it's 10GB+ in size... Then after that you can do TM via AE wifi ...

 

[hobbbz]

If you're gonna TM over AE then you need to plug the computer via ethernet for the very first backup, since it's 10GB+ in size... Then after that you can do TM via AE wifi ...

So the USB first, then WiFi doesn't work?

It worked for my 12". But I will try it and report back.

 

[hobbbz]

Interesting results!

Connecting over ethernet, I can see the drive and R/W to it.

However backup never works, it fails in about 10 secs. saying "Unable to mount drive"

Interestingly, if I connect to the drive and try to delete the old backup to hopefully 'reset' the TM my MyBook powers off and the file delete errors out.

The drive then restarts, powers up and I can continue R/W

 

[Nero Wolfe]

Interesting results!

Connecting over ethernet, I can see the drive and R/W to it.

However backup never works, it fails in about 10 secs. saying "Unable to mount drive"

Interestingly, if I connect to the drive and try to delete the old backup to hopefully 'reset' the TM my MyBook powers off and the file delete errors out.

The drive then restarts, powers up and I can continue R/W

Is there a disk password set for the AE?

 

[hobbbz]

Yes.
I just tried to turn off the password and the only options are "With accounts", "with disk password", and "With airport extreme password"

It was set to with ae password

 

[DaveF]

I have an Airport Extreme (N) with a MyBook attached.
When Leopard came out I hooked the disk up to my 12" PowerBook for the first backup and then moved it to the Airport for subsequent backups. This set up has always worked.

However, I tried to do the same exact thing with my girlfriend's 15" MBP and it backs up over USB but will fail over Airport no matter what.

Any tips? Anything I left out that would make a difference in the answer?

Though this was enabled in 10.5.3, it is officially not supported by Apple. I had planned to use the AEBS-connected drive for Time Machine until I learned that it still wasn't meant for publich consumption.