AirPort Extreme + External?
- Thread starter hotskate
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Unfortunately, the only way to backup with Time Machine over the network is to get the Time Capsule. There's currently no way to use an external hard drive connected to an Airport Extreme for a Time Machine backup.
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Has anyone had luck on this? I'm trying to do the same, external backup via time machine to a hard drive connected to my Airport Extreme
Ive been online all week trying to figure out how to mount a network drive to work on time capsule....and i came across this tried it out and workd open this link http://freakymousemats.com/blog/posts/2007/11/01/time-machine-over-smb/.....after following this link all i did was login to the router from the network pane and opened the drive and then ran time machine and read network drive as device to back up on
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After assigning my lacie a password and enabling file sharing I now have
an external hard drive taking care of Time Machine back-ups over the A.E.
an external hard drive taking care of Time Machine back-ups over the A.E.
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