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Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

999reasons — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:19:55 EDT

All seems to be working OK for me:

Pros:
* Works wirelessly - so if you're on your network your Mac just goes on its merry way backing itself up. Note Time Machine it does differential backups - so just backs up the changes every 20 mins or so
* Can connect your existing USB drives to an Airport extreme. This becomes a shared drive that you can then use for Time Machine on each of your Macs
* Can connect multiple USB drives to the Airport Extreme
* New Macs will backup using Wireless 802.11.n (draft) - basically it much faster than a traditional wireless 802.11.g network
* If backup hard drive crashes it can easily replaced

Cons:
* Wireless connection will be slower than a wired connection
* Was a bit tricky to setup (see below for some tips)
* If you deal with a lot of large files (eg Video) this may be too slow for your network
* Initial backup may be very slow - it's worth connecting via ethernet cable directly to your Airport Extreme
* Only works with Aiport Extrem or Time Capsule, so you need to think about replacing your exisiting router.

Going to try and keep this blog article up to date with info: [www.999reasons.com]

999reasons

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

ejl10 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:19:00 EDT

Seriously... about time Apple kept its promise on this. Now if only they'll fix my MBP so it wakes up.

ejl10

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

tamoko — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:42:21 EDT

About time...

tamoko

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

brandon208402 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:37:23 EDT

Has anyone tested the resulting backups to make sure they are good?

I ask because there was a hack to force it to work a couple months ago, but it wasn't recommended because the backups could not be successfully restored.

brandon208402

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

morph3us — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:18:49 EDT

@PollockRoc: you could already connect additional hdds to the capsule, however you can't do a raid type setup via usb to expand your time machine back up space.

morph3us

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

PollockRoc — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:13:47 EDT

@Adrian Covert: I understand that. What I meant was, since Time Capsule is essentially an AEBS with an HDD inside, is it also receiving the software update, allowing you to connect an additional HDD for use with Time Machine? Or could you do that already? I know you could connect an external for use with AirDisk, but would Time Machine recognize the additional storage space?

PollockRoc

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

Adrian Covert — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:57:25 EDT

@PollockRoc: this has nothing to do with time capsule and everything to do with time machine.

Adrian Covert

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

izod — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:03 EDT

@PollockRoc: The Time Capsule has always allowed you to add extra volumes and use them with Time Machine (but not extend the Time Capsule volume itself if that's what you are asking).

@brianhatch: The formatted capacity of a Drobo with 4 single TB drives in it is actually only 3TB. But yes, you can plug it in, and have your Time Machine backups on a drive with automated redundancy for probably the most kick-ass backup system on your block.

:-)

izod

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

PollockRoc — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:29:35 EDT

So will you now also be able to plug and external into Time Capsule and add storage space?

PollockRoc

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

PollockRoc — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:26:00 EDT

@glaeven: I'm pretty sure that the Airport Express doesn't support USB connected HDD, only printers.

PollockRoc

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

Kyoseki — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:22:47 EDT

Great, when will it come in black?

Kyoseki

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

brianhatch — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:32:03 EDT

could you plug a drobo into this for 4tb of time machine goodness?

brianhatch

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

morph3us — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:09:32 EDT

buying a time capsule on monday = damn it. i did need the extra space, so i guess it's better to have it wrapped up in one package instead of another external hd laying around. it still stings a little.

morph3us

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

adaorardor — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:37:00 EDT

awesome, i thought for sure that apple was going to screw over the airport extreme users. i'm really happy i was wrong. now i just need a new (larger) external hard drive... (i'm open to suggestions hint hint).

adaorardor

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

mojoald — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:32:50 EDT

Works like a charm! Thanks Apple!

mojoald

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

firesign — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:28:56 EDT

so THATS what it did?? shweet!

firesign

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

onlooker — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:23:20 EDT

Airport express doesn't support Hard Drives... only the new Airport Extreme base stations support an airdisk

onlooker

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

pwnz0r — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:17:35 EDT

Nice. I won't have to connect the HD to my MBP every 10 days.

pwnz0r

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

glaeven — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:15:26 EDT

what about the airport express?

glaeven

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

MINI Driver — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:04:54 EDT

Sweet!

MINI Driver

Apple Time Machine Now Works With AirPort Disk

IKEACAR — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:45:52 EDT

Woo hoo!!! That was such a major downside to the Airport Extreme. Going to test it now!

IKEACAR