Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

Backups to a disk attached to a Time Machine are=85unreliable and spotty =
at best. I have a mini running as a file server and used to do Time =
Machine backups from our laptops to a FW800 drive attached to it. To get =
the backups not attached to the server; I moved the drive to my Gigabit =
Airport Extreme and found that Time Machine backups both via wireless =
and via ethernet from the mini fail about half of the time. Carbon Copy =
Cloner jobs to copy folders similarly fail with an error about the =
Airport Shared drive dismounting.

Extensive discussions with Mike Bombich from CCC indicated that the =
sharing circuitry in the Airport just isn't up to snuff and can't handle =
the t throughput, I ended up moving the drive back off of the Airport =
and returning it to the Mini.

In any event; if you do this you'll have to start over with the backups =
I think. Normal Time Machine backups to a shared network disk get saved =
to a .dmg file. For an Airport Shared disk or a disk shared from a =
computer running Server (I added this to the mini when I moved the drive =
back to it); the backup gets stored as a Finder readable Time Machine =
backup just like it would on a locally attached drive.

I thought this would be a brilliant solution to my problem but it just =
didn't work.


On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:37 PM, David Herren <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>=20


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