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Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives
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The issue isn't partitions. When you are in the Partitions section hit the "Options" button and make sure your drive is set up to use the GUID method of addressing rather than Master Boot Record. That should solve your problem of the drive not appearing/being recognized.
HTH,
Rez
well i cant get mine to work so, i don't know if its just me or if its just a rumor or maybe you have to have an Intelmac. IDK but its not working for me.
Works great for me! I have one here using AEBS (no-gigabit) and it's going. I will try my gigabit one next week when I get back to school.
Heres an idea, why don't you make everything into one freaking machine, stop doing all these dumb add ons Apple. Oh yeah we can use a HD now BFD!
Jesus christ on a stick.
yeah, time capsule & you can have your backups into one machine, just partition the hard drive.. what's your problem with add-ons? this is jus tan option for people who have AEBS and want wireless backup but can't get Time Capsule. I don' quite understand your anger?
F apple
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F U apple i just spent $1,600 on 3 1TB TCs F u i thought i would never say that about apple
@ F U apple i just spent $1,600 on 3 1TB TCs F u i thought i would never say that about apple
F U apple i just spent $1,600 on 3 1TB TCs F u i thought i would never say that about apple
Why? You still have great functioning hardware.. and how much more is it?
No - The USB port on the Airport Express is reserved for connecting printers only.
Edit: Well on wireless G at least, not sure on the new N models.
good
I guess this is a good fix for those with MacBooks. I've got an iMac and since it rarely moves around, this won't be helping me any. I just leave my external drive sitting there on the desk. But, I'm due for a MacBook Air soon, so maybe I'll have to check it out.
And yes, I'd be curious if I can use my new Airport Express (n) to hook up a hard drive. Worth a try, but I doubt it. I seriously doubt Apple would want the 99 buck AExpress to function like the Extreme in that regard.
I guess this is a good fix for those with MacBooks. I've got an iMac and since it rarely moves around, this won't be helping me any. I just leave my external drive sitting there on the desk.
But, I'm due for a MacBook Air soon, so maybe I'll have to check it out.And yes, I'd be curious if I can use my new Airport Express (n) to hook up a hard drive. Worth a try, but I doubt it. I seriously doubt Apple would want the 99 buck AExpress to function like the Extreme in that regard.
I'm willing to guess this feature was removed just long enough to sell a bunch of Time Capsule's.
There seems to be some confusion on how to enable so here are the steps hope they help someone out there out:
1.If you have a disk already plugged into your AEBS it may or may not work. I suggest you start by going to your System Preferences, Time Machine and see if your Airport Disk shows up. If it does then sweet you are all set!
2. Assuming it does not show up first open finder and attempt to browse your Airport disk, once you have opened a folder on it go back to the System Preferences, Time Machine and see if it shows up. If not proceed to step 3.
3. If you are like me it still wasn’t showing up. The steps were to first backup the files on your “AirDisk” to some other safe location. Then plug the USB drive into your Mac, open disk utility and format it “Mac OS Journaled” hook it back up to your AEBS. Open finder and browse the AirDisk, then proceed to System Preferences, Time Machine and you should be good to go!
1.If you have a disk already plugged into your AEBS it may or may not work. I suggest you start by going to your System Preferences, Time Machine and see if your Airport Disk shows up. If it does then sweet you are all set!
2. Assuming it does not show up first open finder and attempt to browse your Airport disk, once you have opened a folder on it go back to the System Preferences, Time Machine and see if it shows up. If not proceed to step 3.
3. If you are like me it still wasn’t showing up. The steps were to first backup the files on your “AirDisk” to some other safe location. Then plug the USB drive into your Mac, open disk utility and format it “Mac OS Journaled” hook it back up to your AEBS. Open finder and browse the AirDisk, then proceed to System Preferences, Time Machine and you should be good to go!
I had this problem when I changed the drive icon. Hook the drive up to your mac via USB, hit cmd-I and wipe out the drive icon (if you changed it). Then unmount the disk and hook it back up to your extreme. ( I might have rebooted the router too)
That worked for me.
This works fine for the single machine you formatted the drive on. For other Mac's on the network it still doesn't solve it.
What I am wondering is if it fixes the compatibility with Aperture 2.0. As it is now, you need to quit Aperture before allowing time machine to run a backup or else Time Machine skips the Aperture library entirely, which is bad news when you go to restore your backup. I guess I'll install the update and give it a try!
I've played around with AEBS and AirDisk a bit today. A bit confusing.
What happens to you guys when you restart you computer? Does the directory automatically get mounted?
What if you already have a backup by USB directly connected to the machine and then connect it to the AEBS? Will it create a new backup?
What happens to you guys when you restart you computer? Does the directory automatically get mounted?
What if you already have a backup by USB directly connected to the machine and then connect it to the AEBS? Will it create a new backup?
It's about time... When Time Capsule came out before there was an offical ABES+USB drive back up system, I lost all hope. Now that extra $400 that I spent when Leopard came out can finially go to some good use...