That is weird, however I do not think that Apple ever intended for you to touch any of the files in the backup drive. I have not seen any instructions or papers from apple suggesting it either. How can it be a bug?
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Timemachine and Airports Update
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That is weird, however I do not think that Apple ever intended for you to touch any of the files in the backup drive. I have not seen any instructions or papers from apple suggesting it either. How can it be a bug?
Try accessing the drive first, then going into the Time Machine settings and hit Change Disk. See if it shows up then.
I see. Let me attach the firewire cable and back it up that way. Then, i'll attach it to the USB on the Extreme and see if that works.
i had Time Machine set up prior and when connecting it via Airport Disk it tried to do a full backup again. so i'm not sure what to do here. i've reformatted the disk and tried to backup with Time Machine over AEBS but its 76GB of data. thats going to take a ridiculous amount of time. however, i'm afraid that if i continue it via USB that it won't take, and it'll try to do a full backup all over again.
Okay...I had backups on a USB drive that was hooked up to my imac...i moved it to the airport...now it says the backup is too big? Shouldn't it delete automatically?
Thanks, I really appreciate the tip. I tried that earlier, and upon your suggestion I tried it again, (disconnected drive, reconnected, copied a file to the drive just to be sure it was mounted, then tried TM, and still no workie for me. Oh well.
Mine is doing the same thing. It actually appears to view it as a new drive. If you look in Finder, it created a new network drive for backups on the hard drive that seems to be separate from everything else (ie: your old backups won't be seen at all).
Awesome.
It wouldn't if you've turned it off and removed the old disk, then added it back in again. It wont realise (never has) the old backup.
I was under the impression that wouldn't work, either way... I thought the best way was to plug the computer into the AEBS via ethernet, leave it overnight and it'll run far quicker anyway, esp. if you have the gigabit model.
silly me. my friend reminded me that my AEBS has gigabit ethernet....duh.
so i'm just doing a fresh backup that way, and its going wonderfully.
so i'm just doing a fresh backup that way, and its going wonderfully.
Did you install both the OS X Airport update AND the new Base Station firmware (you need to open Airport Utility and have it check for updates for the latter)?
I had time machine set up to back up to a drive but i hadn't used it in several weeks. I attached a newly formatted drive to the airport base station before backing it up with time machine (it does seem to be using my exclusion settings from my previous backup preferences though).
Oh yeah? Then why can I do this, via Time Machine? (Take note of the second option in the drop-down box)
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heres the real kicker---are we going to be able to unplug our air disks and plug them directly into our computers and access time machine that way, or is it going to try to do a full new backup again....
From the sounds of things here it looks like Apple did the right thing! That's pretty awesome!
Nice option to have! When Leopard came out I went and bought 750 gig ver 3 mini stack and run it via my firewire port and it backs up restores beautifully both my iMac and MacBook.
In the future I may want to consider going wireless.
I guess the thing to do now is for those that say all works is to do an actual restore. Of course that might take a bit--)))
Glad for all those that bought early and now have this option! Good news! WTG Apple!
Are the folks having luck with this time machine over Air Disk using a time machine drive that was previously hooked directly to their mac?
If so, they'll have a .(randomchar) file in the root of the drive that switches on the support.
Once I removed my .(randchar) file and switched TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes back to 0 my time machine quit recognizing the air disk. I think that people are having success but not because Apple "Fixed" it.
If so, they'll have a .(randomchar) file in the root of the drive that switches on the support.
Once I removed my .(randchar) file and switched TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes back to 0 my time machine quit recognizing the air disk. I think that people are having success but not because Apple "Fixed" it.
Actually, I've done both and they worked fine. What I've just figured out, is that when it's connected by USB, it makes a backup directory. When it's connected by a shared network drive, it puts the same directory in a sparsebundle package.
Unfortunately, I'll have to redo the backup. However, when sharing the USB drive from the imac for the macbook, I started it on the network, interrupted it, connected the USB drive to the macbook, let it run, and now it works fine over the network in the sparsebundle. (Sorry for the run-on.)
I'm hoping the same will be true of the backup via the airport, but I can't see why not. Come to think of it, the macbook is now using the same sparsebundle package it was using when the drive was on the imac, so this should work for the imac. I'll let you know later.
Fingers crossed.
Well that's interesting.... ever since the Safari update I was having trouble connecting to my net. Like, I would be connected but the interente would not work whatsoever, nothing would load, iChat wouldn't connect, etc.
But now after installing the update it's been fixed.
Coincidence?
But now after installing the update it's been fixed.
Coincidence?
Yup, I actually did the firmware updates to the AEBS before I did the software updates on my computer.
Not sure if it makes any difference but my AEBS is not the 1000/100/10 model, it's the one with just the 10/100 ethernet ports.
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Contrary, It didn't work for a previously "Time Machined" drive, but now works after I reformatted the drive....(OS X extended, Journaled)
I'm seeing the same thing, in areas where the menu bar item used to show lesser connectivity it is now solid and the connection doesn't time out at all. I'm quite happy with this update, as mentioned by the others I also have build 9C7010, AirPort has been updated to 1.3.4.I dont know what apple did but eversice the update my reception has improved drastically in places where before was non excisting throughtout my house. Im one happy camper!
AirPort Card Information:
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x87)
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 1.3.4
Does anyone know if this solves the issue of the absurdly slow download/upload speeds when using Time Capsule as a wireless router? I'm getting really frustrated with this thing... it's slower than when I had an 802.11b network with Airport Express.