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.Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.
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3-19-2008 @ 5:31PM
Joshua Ochs said...
"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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3-19-2008 @ 5:56PM
Blair said...
Hm. Mine sure doesn't. Then again, AirDisk reliability is so friggin' low, I wouldn't trust it with my backups anyway.
3-19-2008 @ 5:33PM
ars_workerbee said...
Maybe link to the direct download? Its here: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timemachineandairportupdatesv10.html
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3-19-2008 @ 5:43PM
Gustavo Seidler said...
My USB hard drive (connected to my AirPort Extreme Base) does NOT show up as a Time Machine capable drive.
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3-19-2008 @ 5:52PM
Ryan Valle said...
so if this is a 1.0 update, what version were we using before?
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3-19-2008 @ 6:02PM
Kyle Day said...
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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3-19-2008 @ 6:07PM
XiozTzu said...
Thanks for the info, will try out later.
Oh and BTW, I think you meant "voila"!
http://aolsvc.merriam-webster.aol.com/dictionary/voila
3-19-2008 @ 6:31PM
Jason said...
@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.
3-19-2008 @ 6:57PM
gozer said...
i thought that using that hack made recovering data unstable to unusable?
has that changed?
3-20-2008 @ 11:55AM
Alexander Burke said...
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?
3-19-2008 @ 7:02PM
PeopleGeek said...
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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3-19-2008 @ 7:30PM
Robert Nienburg said...
All really bad
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