Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Disk

nobody specialnobody special
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Can Time Machine be used to backup to a disk connected to an Airport Extreme base station?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    kmac1036kmac1036 Posts: 281member
    Not offically BUT, we have a fix!



    http://www.xiotios.com/itimemachine.html



    I want to try this but don't have an extra drive right now to do it.



    PS: I thought the Time Capsule was a joke when this probably will do the job.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    nano2gfteonano2gfteo Posts: 99member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kmac1036 View Post


    Not offically BUT, we have a fix!



    http://www.xiotios.com/itimemachine.html



    I want to try this but don't have an extra drive right now to do it.





    Thanks, This utility is cool. I am backing up over wireless on TM to my NAS now. Very nice. I will still get the TC though. Needed the Gigabit switch and 802.11n . Its disk will be secondary backup for photos and videos (family albums).
  • Reply 3 of 4
    kareliakarelia Posts: 525member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kmac1036 View Post


    PS: I thought the Time Capsule was a joke when this probably will do the job.



    When you consider the price of an AirPort Extreme and either a 500GB or 1TB external drive, the price of the Time Capsule isn't too unreasonable. Not to mention, I'm not certain that iTimeMachine will work for wirelessly restoring a Mac from a Time Machine backup.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    tulkastulkas Posts: 3,757member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Karelia View Post


    When you consider the price of an AirPort Extreme and either a 500GB or 1TB external drive, the price of the Time Capsule isn't too unreasonable..



    Only if you don't already have a Airport Extreme and using Airport drive
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