Filed under: Airport, Software Update
Time Machine and Airport Updates 1.0
Apple has released updates for Time Machine and Airport, giving us three update reboots in three days. The update improves Time Machine compatibility with Time Capsule and offers some fixes for AirPort drivers. I don't, at this point, see any indications of the rumored Airport-Extreme-as-Time-Capsule abilities, but I'm assuming that will require an Airport Extreme firmware update.The update is available through Software Update.
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Joshua Ochs said 5:31PM on 3-19-2008
"If you don't stop and look around once in a while - you could miss it." :-)
It was silently included in the recent Airport (client-side) update that included Airport Utility 5.3.1. Many people are reporting their USB-attached disks on Airport Extreme base stations now show up for Time Machine backup.
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Blair said 5:56PM on 3-19-2008
Hm. Mine sure doesn't. Then again, AirDisk reliability is so friggin' low, I wouldn't trust it with my backups anyway.
ars_workerbee said 5:33PM on 3-19-2008
Maybe link to the direct download? Its here: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timemachineandairportupdatesv10.html
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Gustavo Seidler said 5:43PM on 3-19-2008
My USB hard drive (connected to my AirPort Extreme Base) does NOT show up as a Time Machine capable drive.
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Ryan Valle said 5:52PM on 3-19-2008
so if this is a 1.0 update, what version were we using before?
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Kyle Day said 6:02PM on 3-19-2008
Folks, It's real easy to get that USB attached drive on the Airport Extreme Base Station to read as an Time Machine capable drive:
1) Attach your drive to Disk Utility and format the drive for HFS+ Journaled so it's a fresh drive (for some reason it requires this)
2) Plug in the drive to your airport extreme and verify that the drive comes up as an available drive on the network
3) Open TERMINAL on any of your computers and type the following string into terminal and then press enter:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
4) Reboot machine and it will then appear as a Time Machine capable network drive
Walllahhh
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XiozTzu said 6:07PM on 3-19-2008
Thanks for the info, will try out later.
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Jason said 6:31PM on 3-19-2008
@XiozTzu - lol, that made my day! I can't count the number of times I've wanted to correct someone's "wallah" comment like that.
gozer said 6:57PM on 3-19-2008
i thought that using that hack made recovering data unstable to unusable?
has that changed?
Alexander Burke said 11:55AM on 3-20-2008
You really shouldn't use the undocumented TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes hack. There are data corruption issues which have been reported; why do you think the feature was pulled at the last minute?
Backups are there for when things go wrong. Do you really want to be in the position to need to restore from your backup, only to find that they were being corrupted and are therefore unusable?
Richard Porter said 11:34AM on 6-05-2008
No Walllahhh! What do you mean by "shows up on the network"? I can't see the drive unless I use the Airport Extreme utility to view disks. Also I don't have an option to format the disk as "HFS+ Journalled". Is this the same as MacOS X Extended Journalled? The disk does not show up on Time Machine when connected to Airport Extreme.
PeopleGeek said 7:02PM on 3-19-2008
Thanks for that Time machine tip. The formatting has been the snag for many people. Step by step help is hard to find.
Great work to you little proofreaders too. If you happen to be pretty you may become good front office assets someday.
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Robert Nienburg said 7:30PM on 3-19-2008
All really bad
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