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.
Breathe ... It's called Time Capsule.
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Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives
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Breathe ... It's called Time Capsule.
Now if i got a 500GB TC to back up my imac and plugged my current EHD into the TC can i back up my macbook onto the external while backing up my imac on the TC?
Read this on the earlier forum post, tried it with my Airport Express and it worked! This is the reason I bought the Airport Express. I am stoked it works.
The ironic part of this story is I just received my 1T TC this morning! I contemplated not opening it when I got airdisk working, but couldn't resist.
I am now setting up my AE to extend my network off the 1T TC.
FUNNY THOUGH, had this fix come out 2 weeks ago I would have splurged and just purchased a 2T external drive for the AE.
Either way, Nice job
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Holy crap. Can you comment on the speed and reliability of data transfer from your network drive to your computer (for example - large files or music streaming to iTunes).
yep, but you could back up both computers to one TC, if you wanted to make things easier.
I would but i already have backed stuff up to my external now that i don't rele want to lose
I can't speak in an official capacity, but if I had to guess I'd say the reason is that the Time Machine repository has to live on a device (either a Mac, a Time Capsule, or an AEBS with hard drive attached) which supports AFP, the Apple File Sharing protocol. A non-Apple router isn't going to be able to handle AFP. (The third-party hard drive is OK to use, as long as it's connected to an Apple device.)
Yes! Very happy about this - I hope it works smoothly. I have a FW400/USB drive so I'm plugging in the USB to the AEBS, previously only used in the FW port of my computer. Do I need to reformat my time machine drive?
Ive been thinking about buying a new router that supports Wireless N. Whats the main benefit of buying a Time Capsule or Airport Extreme over a Netgear/Linksys/DLink router?
Really? I could have sworn that we toyed around with an apple file sharing network in our dorms using just the dorm's network (and whatever hardware they had in the tech closets).
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I don't know anything about AFP, but I thought I would great profile picture/icon. AD is amazing.
AFS can work over TCP/IP (the "normal" network protocol). But the router has to be able to interface with the AFS network; there's a big difference between that (doing more or less the same job as a computer on the network, interpreting packets and generating its own whenever someone wants to use the hard drive) and just forwarding the packets on to the next machine (which doesn't require it to understand AFS at all; it only cares about the TCP/IP header that it does understand).
Using a 1GB Thumb drive and iPod with APE
Not having a spare external USB drive. I put a 1GB USB "thumb drive" in the USB connector of my APE and now I can access the content of the little USB deice from several macs. Useless I know.
Next I'm plugging in an iPod Mini for a wopping 4GB Time machine drive. This is not useless because the error used to occur after the TM drive filled up. I should be able to test the full drive error much quicker using a 4GB iPod.
Not having a spare external USB drive. I put a 1GB USB "thumb drive" in the USB connector of my APE and now I can access the content of the little USB deice from several macs. Useless I know.
Next I'm plugging in an iPod Mini for a wopping 4GB Time machine drive. This is not useless because the error used to occur after the TM drive filled up. I should be able to test the full drive error much quicker using a 4GB iPod.
Don't get too excited. Im pretty sure he's mistaken and meant Airport Extreme, and NOT Airport Express. Arn did point already that out a few posts later.
Anyway, a nice update from Apple
I have an Airport Extreme plus suitable usb HD kicking about, so I shall try this tomorrow.While im here.. I like many people found the Airport Extreme to be very unstable, at least with firmware 7.2.1 it was, so I had downgraded it to v7.2.0 which was much better.
Here's hoping v7.3.1 doesn't reintroduce any gremlins like that again.
I downloaded the "work around" a few months ago (i found out about it here)
should I delete something, I forget what it was called....
should I delete something, I forget what it was called....
Hmm - my HD shows up in the Time Machine preference on my iMac, but not my MacBook. Weird. I need it mostly for my MacBook.
F U apple i just spent $1,600 on 3 1TB TCs F u i thought i would never say that about apple
This response is predictable and guaranteed every time Apple comes out with something new. And tedious.
Finally!! Thought Apple would never allow it since it has Time Capsule. I kept trying to have TM find my external drive connected to my Airport Extreme, but nothing. Had to go to the actual Utilities folder, open up Airport Utility and then it let me know that there was an update.
Strange thing is I thought I did the update already through software update. I suppose you were also suppose to go the the actual airport and update directly as well.
Good thing is that everything works now. Bad thing is that I'm a minimalist type of guy, so I know I'll end up getting a Time Capsule anyways for less wires and stuff...haha.
Strange thing is I thought I did the update already through software update. I suppose you were also suppose to go the the actual airport and update directly as well.
Good thing is that everything works now. Bad thing is that I'm a minimalist type of guy, so I know I'll end up getting a Time Capsule anyways for less wires and stuff...haha.
ohh, well sure you can have multiple HD's, just get a usb hub. they should all function the same way.
Well, Apple's not going to go and say "Guess what, you don't have to spend a s#!@ load of money on a time capsule, now you can jsut hook up a hard drive to your existing AEBS!" haha jk. but yeah apple would never publicly state this after the release of time capsule.
well..
its good that they finally got around to providing this functionality. It was wa ted by many. Now, i'm not sure but considering it does not work for everyone this may have been an unintended side effect of the update.
or maybe time capsules were just not selling enough and they realized sin e we arent really selling these then well let them backup using the AEBS's they already own!!
but its just me.!!
good for the people either way
its good that they finally got around to providing this functionality. It was wa ted by many. Now, i'm not sure but considering it does not work for everyone this may have been an unintended side effect of the update.
or maybe time capsules were just not selling enough and they realized sin e we arent really selling these then well let them backup using the AEBS's they already own!!
but its just me.!!
good for the people either way
