Still not working for me. I selected the "GUID Partition Table" under "Options." Should I have selected something different?
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Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives
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Still not working for me. I selected the "GUID Partition Table" under "Options." Should I have selected something different?
I just updated my router and now I can backup to my Airport Extreme. Unfortunately I couldn't use the backup that was already on the drive so I had to wipe it clean and start over.
Big Freaking DEAL!
Time Capsule is slow as hell...yes I'd love to have my system "back up" within a 3-4 day window...
Airport Extreme and USB drive...it still sucks. I have 13,000+ itunes songs and 100+ m4v files on my external drive as well...syncing music and movies was horrible...hit and miss most of the time.
When I hook the same drive up to my iMac everything works flawlessly. Don't get me wrong, I do love my Airport Extreme but not for iTunes music or backups. I use it to share information across my home network, that's it!
Time Capsule is just another Apple marketing conspiracy that the "Apple Tree Huggers" love and that most hate.
Time Capsule is slow as hell...yes I'd love to have my system "back up" within a 3-4 day window...
Airport Extreme and USB drive...it still sucks. I have 13,000+ itunes songs and 100+ m4v files on my external drive as well...syncing music and movies was horrible...hit and miss most of the time.
When I hook the same drive up to my iMac everything works flawlessly. Don't get me wrong, I do love my Airport Extreme but not for iTunes music or backups. I use it to share information across my home network, that's it!
Time Capsule is just another Apple marketing conspiracy that the "Apple Tree Huggers" love and that most hate.
I think that's why they didn't allow TM backups. This update is supposed to fix it.
Thanks so much for posting this. I knew there were steps I couldn't find. I did #2 and started to work right away.
I did set my Airdisk to allow guests to read and write, which was the only way I could get to access it from Finder. Is that a bad thing?
Apple probably purposely left out this function from the start after realising "hey! we can make a few bucks off an airport extreme/hard drive!"
I just hope AppleTV USB port could connect to external drive so we can increase storage for the small 40gig and 160gig versions.
That would be a blessing to people with huge libraries of video and music.
I see no reason why Apple would not do that, specially that Airport Extreme allows it now.
That would be a blessing to people with huge libraries of video and music.
I see no reason why Apple would not do that, specially that Airport Extreme allows it now.
I don't have Aperture, but I wonder if it has a multi-file database. Time Machine can not preserve integrity of multi-file databases. Time Machine is useless on the OpenBase DBMS as well.
If Time Machine had an option to treat packages atomically rather than a folder full of files, then Aperture could treat its library as a package and it would be backed up safely. Unfortunately, I don't think Time Machine has that capability.
Another solution would be if Time Machine could send an Apple Event to Aperture to make a serialized single-file backup of its database but I don't think it can do that either.
TM is new and is not the be all and end all of backups yet. Hopefully Apple will improve it over time with better backup features. However, Spotlight still has no capability to add database searching capabilities, so I'm not holding my breath.
Time Capsule vs. AEBS + HD
If anyone will, I would like a rundown on exactly the differences between buying Time Capsule and buying an Airport Extreme and a 500 GB/1 TB hard drive. With this development, I'm thinking of buying one or the other, but I want to know the best value.
I'd like comparisons of cost, speed, ease-of-use, compatibility (Windows, Mac, Linux), ability to use from more than one computer, ability to use multiple partitions (say, one for TM and others for plain storage), expandability, etc... anything you can think of.
I have a feeling that Time Capsule is the better buy (except for expandability and ability to hook it up as a USB drive directly to the computer).
I appreciate it!
If anyone will, I would like a rundown on exactly the differences between buying Time Capsule and buying an Airport Extreme and a 500 GB/1 TB hard drive. With this development, I'm thinking of buying one or the other, but I want to know the best value.
I'd like comparisons of cost, speed, ease-of-use, compatibility (Windows, Mac, Linux), ability to use from more than one computer, ability to use multiple partitions (say, one for TM and others for plain storage), expandability, etc... anything you can think of.
I have a feeling that Time Capsule is the better buy (except for expandability and ability to hook it up as a USB drive directly to the computer).
I appreciate it!
A better way might be to have Time Machine skip the Aperture library altogether and use the Vault in Aperture for backup of your Aperture library.
Time Machine Over the Internet
Just an FYI to everyone... I am working on writing up some steps to allow you to use Time Machine over the Internet. So if you can connect your Mac notebook to the Internet, you should be able to use Time Machine... as long as you have a fast connection.
More to come.
Just an FYI to everyone... I am working on writing up some steps to allow you to use Time Machine over the Internet. So if you can connect your Mac notebook to the Internet, you should be able to use Time Machine... as long as you have a fast connection.
More to come.
You all are freaks just for wanting to do backup over wireless!! Unless you can go wired for the first initial backup, it is going to take forever, wireless n or not.
The files I deal with on a constant basis that I copy between my work machines and my home machine gigabit ethernet is pretty much a must unless I want it to take forever, I can't fathom backing that stuff up over a wireless network.
-mark
The files I deal with on a constant basis that I copy between my work machines and my home machine gigabit ethernet is pretty much a must unless I want it to take forever, I can't fathom backing that stuff up over a wireless network.
-mark
Nas
can anyone explain why (officially) we can't back up to a third party external hard drive connected to a non-apple router? wired or wireless.
thanks
can anyone explain why (officially) we can't back up to a third party external hard drive connected to a non-apple router? wired or wireless.
thanks
I see multiple Macbooks can backup with AirPort Extreme Base Station via USB Hard Drive. Now my question is how can I get it more secure? I would like each backup only to be accessed by that specific user. Right now finder can access it just like another file. Any idea how I can make this more secure??? Please help.
Uh oh. I was wondering why my drive wasn't showing up in time machine. My problem is i want to back up two macks over the wireless network, but i also need to be able to use the drive to share files between a mac and a pc. does anyone know if i can partition a drive with two different formats on the different partitions?
Ok, thanks. Now, HOW? Where's the format utility?
(Not a Mac idiot, can't figure this one out)
