Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

If a knowledge base article says something's not supported, I tend to =
believe it.
See this article, which was last updated April 25, 2012
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038=20
Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Extreme AirPort Disks
> Time Machine in Mac OS X v10.5 or later can be used to back up to many =
kinds of Mac OS Extended-formatted drives, but you cannot choose an =
AirPort Extreme 802.11n's AirPort Disk as a Time Machine backup volume.

If you have lots of time and love tinkering, then you might enjoy
rolling your own open source server, with ZFS, like has been mentioned =
on the list.

If you have Mac that's always on, and that can run OS X Mountain Lion,=20=

spend the $19.99 to buy and install the OS X Server app on it,
and choose a disk or disks for Time Machine backups (I wouldn't try to =
re-use the
existing Time Machine backup - get a new disk, because who knows
how soon that old existing disk is going to last).

One really nice additional feature of the Time Machine service is the =
ability
to monitor the list of computers that back up to the service,=20
when each client's Last Backup occurred, and its total size.
Screen shot: http://cl.ssh22.com/N1PU
(Then turn on the Caching service while you're at it to transparently
cache the downloads of software updates and Mac App Store items.)

On my Server, the Time Machine backup for the network client
is stored in Volumes/[the disk]/Shared Items/Backups/ as a disk image =
with the suffix of .sparsebundle.

The Kevin White and Gordon Davisson book includes an entire lesson =
(chapter) in detail about Time Machine:
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Pro-Training-Series-ebook/dp/B00A0Q4I8O

I never got around to checking out what looks like a really good =
reference,
from Charles Edge, a known-excellent source:
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Machine-Mac-Lion-ebook/dp/B006Q5TQMG
Charles is really good at figuring out how to do things that you're not =
supposed to do.

On Feb 18, 2013, at 3:37 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 =
in.=20
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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.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> /david

Arek Dreyer, Dreyer Network Consultants, Inc.
Apple Certified System Administrator
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