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- #Airport extreme external hard drive time machine update#
- #Airport extreme external hard drive time machine mac#
Read a few articles then on the apple support site confirming it's only supported on the new tower type Airport Extremes.
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#Airport extreme external hard drive time machine 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 external hard drive time machine 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:
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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.
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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.