Getting Airport Extreme, Time Machine and OWC Mercury Elite Drive to work together

jechowjechow
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I would like to backup my MacBook using Time Machine. I currently own an Airport Extreme router and an OWC Mercury Elite Drive. When I attempt to backup my MacBook to by OWC drive wirelessly, I get the following error message from TIme Machine:



"The backup volume could not be mounted."



I have tried a lot of different adjustments I found on the internet but none of them have worked. (For example: creating a .sparsebundle file locally and then transfer it to my OWC drive and entering the following into Terminal:



defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1)





Does anyone have a OWC Mercury Elite drive and is successfully backing up using TIme Machine?

Comments

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    areseearesee Posts: 776member
    Per Apple you can't use Time Machine with an Airport Extreme. You can use Time Machine with Time Capsule or with any drive being shared by a Mac. But not with an Air Disk served with an Airport Extreme.
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