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Timemachine and Airports Update

bacaramac said:
Ok, so here is what I wish they would atleast fix/do. Since I have invested in TC as apple wanted me to do, at least enable TM back-up to airdisk via the TC as I already made the investment. I understand apple not opening this up for the standard AEBS, but at least give it to TC for expansion reasons.
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That makes no sense whatsoever. You "understand" them not adding the capability to AEBS but you want them to do on a the Time Capsule because you gave them an extra $100???? How lame are you? Forget about the people that paid you $179. I can understand that it wasn't enough to buy the features they were promised. But I spent $120 more so you can give them to me. I won't tell anyone. It will be our little secret.

It the AEBS couldn't use Time Machine simply because Steve said so that would indeed be lame and you would be even more lame for thinking it was okay. Personally, I don't think that is the reason but I'm more optimistic than some.
 
I got my wireless backup going on my AEBS! I had performed a backup last October with a direct connection to my USB drive.

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For what it's worth, I took a random drive I had hanging around and I partitioned it (for Intel), formatted it (HFS+, Journaled), and stuck in on my AEBS. Time Machine on my MacBook is now backing up to it.

After the format, there was no .<macaddress> file, but there was a .com.apple.timemachine.supported file.

After I started the Time Machine backup, a .<macaddress> file corresponding to the MacBook's wireless interface appeared on the drive.

The MacBook has never had any Time Machine hacks applied.

A.
 
Can I backup to a account specific folder or some kind?
I want my backup pasword protected.
 
Man, with this update, Safari seems slower and my wireless, which had stopped dropping out on the 10.5.2 update, has started dropping out again just minutes ago. I am SO regretting I downloaded this.
 
Alrescha said:
For what it's worth, I took a random drive I had hanging around and I partitioned it (for Intel), formatted it (HFS+, Journaled), and stuck in on my AEBS. Time Machine on my MacBook is now backing up to it.

After the format, there was no .<macaddress> file, but there was a .com.apple.timemachine.supported file.

After I started the Time Machine backup, a .<macaddress> file corresponding to the MacBook's wireless interface appeared on the drive.

The MacBook has never had any Time Machine hacks applied.

A.
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Interesting.

I added a .com.apple.timemachine.supported file and no go. Also turning on the other "hack" (defaults write b lah blah) I can no longer enable the drive, I can select it but I get an error.
 
lostfan916 said:
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?
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I had exactly the same issue - on 3 Macs. Here's hoping the update fixes it!
 
mike12806 said:
mine's hanging at "preparing" and "finishing backup"......
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normal, its like that on the Time Capsule that we use to backup the macbook and macbook pro, the 500gb WD studio edition connected via FW800 to my imac doesn't have a "finishing backup" after the initial, and the preparing doesn't take long

I'm still debating to use the 1TB Time Capsule we just bought for the notebooks, or use my 500GB, if i use the time capsule the WD will be for extra storage, but im afraid the backups will take forever

oh, and the copyright date, and build number has changed.
 
Undo Hack before trying to set up time machine and Auto update

FWIW:

1. After doing the update released today, I opened Airport Utility and it didn't say there were any updates available to any of my devices (an Airport Extreme and two Expresses). Re-running "check for updates" came up with the same results. If I opened up the Extreme's settings window, however, and clicked on the Firmware, it said that 7.3.1 was available for update.

2. Before trying to set up time machine, I used iTimeMachine to undo the hack on my computer. Afterwards, Time Machine recognized my Airport Disk and is backing up now (it has never been used for time machine before- I was using a smaller local drive to do that periodically).

SO happy Apple finally fixed this- Yip Yah!
 
Ok, my question is this: I got Time Machine working with my AirDisk and it's treating it like a new drive and doing a complete backup. Before I did this my Time Machine drive had about 180GB free (out of 500). Since it's now doing a complete backup, as if it's a new drive, how will I reclaim all that space? There was already over 200GB of space taken up by Time Machine backups.

Also, once it's done the initial backup will my desktop icon change into the Time Machine one (instead of the generic white one)?
 
Alright.

Progress

touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported
chmod 1775 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
sudo chown root:admin .com.apple.timemachine.supported

re-hooked the drive up to the Extreme.

Now the machine I was utilizing to run those commands can use the air disk as a time machine drive however my computer (as opposed to my gf's) cannot.

Another note, the .<macaddress> or whatever it's supposed to be showed up on the drive as well.. on it's own. (which in turn IS the mac address of my GF's machine).

Removing the .com.apple.timemachine.supported file nixes the usage on her iMac over AirDisk. Also the .<macaddress> file is not empty, it's 16 bytes. touching .<mymacaddress> yields an empty file, which does not enable me to use the airdisk.

It seems as if Apple only wants one system to back up to the Air Disk at a time.
 
Another person confirming that updates work to Timemachine to the APE. Going from an iMac (Alu) to a APE (100mbps version) to a WD MyBook Dual Drive.
 
Cool beans. My new basestation is arriving tommorow. I'm upgrading from the "UFO"-type.

Wireless backups from my lappy will be really nice.
 
Just guided my friend through setting this up (iChat screen sharing for the win!)

Initially, it didn't see her AEBS-connected drive in Time Machine preferences. But then I established that the drive was FAT32-formatted. So, we moved some stuff off that drive then reformatted it as two HFS+ partitions (one for Time Machine, one for general storage).

Of course, the disk was USB-connected to the Mac for the format. Immediately after the format, OS X asked if it could use either of the partitions for Time Machine. We answered 'No' to each.

Then, we connected that drive to the AEBS. Time Machine showed both partitions as available for use. We picked the partition intended for Time Machine (aptly named 'Tardis') and it's now backing up fine.

The machine never had any tweaks applied to make unsupported drives visible, and since the drive was completely clean and we said No to the initial offers to use it for TM, there was no question of the drive having any special hidden files on it. It was completely empty when connected to the AEBS.

I wonder if those having problems have verified that the external drive is HFS+ formatted with Journaling.
 
My Airdisk Utility still doesn't show my attached drive, however I can access/use it just like all of you fine folks are. What gives?
 
BigTRQ said:
My Airdisk Utility still doesn't show my attached drive, however I can access/use it just like all of you fine folks are. What gives?
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If you're running Leopard, as far as I can tell, AirDisk utility is no longer required/is deprecated. Assuming you did an upgrade/Archive & Install installation of Leopard, it's merely a hold-over from Tiger. It's never worked on any Leopard machine I've run it on.
 
After the updates, I can confirm my airdisk is available for Time Machine back up.
My question to anyone backing up to their airdisk; Is it a sparse bundle? and is it mounting the disk image while backing up?
 
Can anyone with two or more machines confirm that you can set it as the time machine drive on the system OTHER than the one you formatted the drive on?
 
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