- AIRPORT EXTREME USB BACKUP UPDATE
- AIRPORT EXTREME USB BACKUP MAC
Totally crazy as the flat Airport Extreme that I have is obviously more than capable if the feature is allowed.
Read a few articles then on the apple support site confirming it's only supported on the new tower type Airport Extremes.
AIRPORT EXTREME USB BACKUP MAC
Yosemite (OS X 10.10) (the earliest OS that references the article above, see OS X Yosemite: Back up your files with Time Machine)Ībsolutely sterling work! I had partitioned my external usb HDD with two partitions, one parition HFS+ for my Time Machine Backups, the other as fat32 (originally formatted ExFAT which I didn't know wouldn't work with usb attached hdd's on Airport Extreme either, PITA) for network storage for either Mac or Windows machines.Ĭouldn't believe when I went to select my new usb HDD connected to my Airport Extreme to use as my Time Machine destination that it wasn't an available option.
AIRPORT EXTREME USB BACKUP UPDATE
I couldn't find any information about whether this functionality was added as an Airport Express firmware update or was introduced with a specific OS version (or both), and thus I can't provide a firmware/OS version support matrix, but fromīackup disks you can use with Time Machine the minimum requirements seem to be:
External hard drive connected to the USB port of an AirPort Extreme base station on your network. Time Capsule or macOS Server on your network. External hard drive connected to a USB, FireWire, or Thunderbolt port on your Mac. Need an external storage solution, sold separately: Time Machine is the built-in backup feature of your Mac. It was not supported as of Mountain Lion (see OS X Mountain Lion: Disks you can use with Time Machine) but according to the newest KB article ( Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac) it is now officially supported: I just want to make sure I'm not following an unsupported mechanism. Officially supported? On Mountain Lion or something? I couldn't findĭocumentation along those lines but since we're talking about backups, Since we're talking about backups, I just want to make sure I'm notĪnd the actual backup itself progressing: Question: Is the combo finally, officially supported? On Mountain Lion or something? I couldn't find documentation along those lines but Not sure if that was because I enabled encryption (which I did) on the TM backups. Interestingly two separate sparse bundles were created on the on the AEBS Time Machine AirDisk volume, one for each Mac's TM backup instead of trying to cram both into a single sparse bundle. The AEBS was recently upgraded to the latest firmware (7.6.3 or 76300.7 it toggles when the version is clicked)įor a second confirmation, I went to my other mac (also Mountain Lion) and the same result - TM allowed me to choose that AirDisk for backup. I went ahead and picked it and the backup is running just fine (images below).ĮDIT: Well well, I didn't notice this before but TM seems to think it's backing to a Time Capsule! I don't recall doing anything special to either my Mac(s) or the AEBS. 
I saw that Time Machine was asking me if I could use the USB disk attached to the AEBS for the backup destination!!
Opened Time Machine (on Mountain Lion, 10.8.3) and hit select disk. Back on the Mac, I navigated to the AirDisk volumes via Finder to mount it (i.e. Formatted a 1.5 TB hard drive as 1GB + 0.5GB, both HFS+ Journalled on a GUID partition scheme (did this on my Mac). I did the following (no hacks, nothing, just straight up!) 
This was mostly due to Google results as well as this Apple article. I thought it was NOT possible to use the USB hard disk attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a backup destination for Time Machine backups.
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