Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

On Feb 18, 2013, at 2:37 PM, David Herren <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings-
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> I have searched the web, but all of the articles I find are quite old. =
My daughter has a TIme Machine disc that I set up for her to back up her =
laptop. Of course it works beautifully as along as she remembers to plug =
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> So I'm wondering if I were to move that particular disk to the Airport =
Extreme would Time Machine see it and continue with backups for her =
laptop? Will she have to manually mount the drive each time (which would =
be hardly any better than the current situation) or is there some magic =
once I use Time machine to point to the airdisc?
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> Now obviously I could just plug this in and try it out and not bother =
the list. However, the airport extreme is mounted on a beam 3 stories =
above my living room and installing up there is a significant effort if =
I find out it's no better than the haphazard backups she is getting now.

Dave

I suspect it will work but you will have to "start over" with the =
backups because the way that TM uses a remote disk is different than a =
local disk.  You should also have to go into TM on the laptop and tell =
it to use the remote disk.

I have not done with with an APE but I do backup with Time Machine over =
the net to a remote disk on an OpenSolaris machine (with ZFS backing).   =
I suspect it is analogous to what I do.

Chad