Airport Extreme and External Hard Drive. Backup over WAN?

Hi
I'm new to Mac's and just got a macbook air and a airport extreme.  I connected my external hard (toshiba) drive to the AE and my computer will recognize it, but when I try to connect to it using Time Machine my external hard drive is not recognized as a device that I can backup to over my WAN.  I'm not sure if this is possible, but I would like to be able to backup over the WAN if it is possible.  Is it possible to backup using time machine over WAN using an AE and a non apple external hard drive?

Time Machine cannot backup to a hard drive unless it is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), also known as HFS+.
You have me scratching my head about backing up through the WAN port. Normally, the WAN port would be used for a connection from a modem.....or another router.
However, if you have the AirPort Extreme configured to connect to another router via Ethernet, and the AirPort Extreme is set to operate in Bridge Mode, then you don't have a WAN port, they are all LAN ports, so it would not matter which of the ports that you used.

Similar Messages

  • Help With Airport Extreme and External Hard Drive

    I just purchased the Airport Extreme and I couldn't have been happier. I have attached my western digital external hard drive, but I have run into a slight problem/dilemma which I'm hoping someone who is apple savvy can help me out.
    I live in a house with a couple of other guys and so I put all of my movies and media onto the hard drive so we can stream it throughout the house, but how do I make sure that someone won't accidently delete the files (The copies on the hard drive are the only ones I have)? I have tried to right click "get info" and change the sharing & permissions properties on the folders that I don't want deleted, but it doesn't save the changes or even allow me to select another option other than Read & Write. I formated the hard drive with the disk utility before I connected it to the AirPort so I know that it has nothing to do with the format of the drive. I also tried to create different user accounts for each roomate so that they could view the files (Read Only) but I get an error message explaining that if I continue, the contents of the hard drive will not be accessible. I'm sure its something simple but I'm obviously missing it.
    Thanks!

    Airport Utility under Disks/File Sharing has guest access rights.

  • Airport extreme and firewire hard drives

    I am gathering from reading here that I will be unable to use my 2 firewire external hard drives with this or have I got that wrong?

    there is no way to directly connect any FireWire drives.
    I have read several of the posts on this topic, so my original idea to get a firewire-usb hub won't work.
    Here is my objective:
    1. Centralize files to share between my PowerBook G4 and my Dell laptop so that I don't get mixed up about what system has the most up-to-date files on it.
    2. Create consistent backups of the files.
    What I have is:
    a. Airport Extreme to plug a shared drive into
    b. 2 identical USB drives
    c. 2 identical firewire drives
    Since both my systems are laptops, setting up consistent backups has not been possible - external drives are usually disconnected.
    Is there a way to utilize my firewire drives, or do I have to write it off as only sometimes useful as the PB G4 backup drive? There was a mention above to no "direct" way to link - how about indirect?
    Thanks!
    PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

  • Extreme and external hard drives - which one

    Hi I am looking to attach a external hard drive to the airport extreme but I am not sure of the spec of hard drive that I would need or can you just hook up any type sata, ide,etc. there is no info in the setup guide.
    Also I looked at a wireless hard drive does anyone have any idea's as to the best one to get ?
    I have put a bid in on ebay for a dlink usb wireless router that CNET said you can use to link in a external hard dive so because I have a spare 70GB IDE hard drive and and enclosure for it from a previous project I was going to hook it all up and try and use what I had but I have no idea whether it will work. A wireless network enclosure is about £150 and then you need a hard drive to go in it so it would be in excess of £200.
    Any thoughts would be appreciated.
    Regards

    As long as it offers USB you are ok - the kind of hard drive(s) inside is of secondary importance. I would however refrain from WLAN HDDs as you just add another element that can go wrong. USB is a hard wire and is robust. So if you can place your external HDD next to your AE, I would go for that. Works for me fine.
    Martin

  • Time machine and External Hard Drive backup problems

    Ok I have an external hard drive that I don't leave connected to my mac. Time machine made an intial backup when I first connected it to the mac. How do i get it to backup again as I now have new movies and photo's i want to protect. It is plugged into the external HD and nothing is taking place and i cant find a command in time machine to tell it to perform another backup?
    Thanks for any help in advance.

    Try clicking and holding the TM icon in your Dock, then choose "BackUp Now".
    Be sure in System Preferences >> Time Machine that it is turned "On".
    -mj
    [email protected]

  • Read/Write speeds with Airport Extreme and USB Hard Drives

    Anybody know how fast the read/write speeds are with a USB hard drive and the Airport Extreme Base Station?
    My Setup
    I have a 17 MBP (2010) and a 13 MBP (2011) - no SSD's
    MBP generally connect via 802.11n 5Ghz with a very strong signal
    Gigabit connection on a Windows Desktop
    I have a variety of external drives (7200, 5400, Drobo) at varying capacity (320GB, 2TB, 5.6TB)
    Goals
    Backup: Time machine
    Backup: File copies of pictures and home videos (greater than 1GB files)
    Backup: Crashplan
    File sharing: Aperture libraries--not sure if that is possible or practical. That is something that I need to research further...but on the off chance people have experience with it.
    Thanks!

    ishjen wrote:
    Anybody know how fast the read/write speeds are with a USB hard drive and the Airport Extreme Base Station?
    Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
    Apple's AirPort base stations aren't known for fast file serving, but for most purposed they're fast enough.
    I can't comment specifically on your Aperture plan, but with some software it's important to avoid simultaneous access by more than one user.

  • Airport Extreme with External Hard Drive on Windows 7

    I just purchased an Airport Extreme in order to connect my collection of old hard drives so I can share the files with my Windows computer and Apple TV.
    My main problem is accessing a single hard drive (exFAT, one partition -- couldn't format into FAT32) from my Windows 7 laptop. The Airport connects wirelessly to my Fios router with no problem. 
    Using the Airport Utility > Disks I can see the hard drive (although it only shows its physical name "SAMSUNG HM302JI" not the name I gave it when I formatted it, "Storage300GB"), however it doesn't show any files on the drive (and there are a few test files of all types: jpg, xlsx, a sub-folder, etc.). I can't see the drive via My Computer nor can I map the drive using the IP address (192.168.1.13). When I tried adding a USB hub (for adding the other hard drives once I get this one working) I see the same problem, just the name of the device but no folders.
    Norton 360 can see the device, but Windows cannot. I've tried turning off Norton, but that hasn't helped.
    I have searched the web and support communities high and low, and I have yet to find any help.
    Any help would be appreciated!!

    My main problem is accessing a single hard drive (exFAT, one partition -- couldn't format into FAT32) from my Windows 7 laptop. The Airport connects wirelessly to my Fios router with no problem.
    The real main problem is that the USB port on the AirPort Extreme will not support exFAT or NTFS. 
    It will support HFS+ and FAT16/32.
    Please see this Apple support document to confirm:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2426

  • Airport Extreme with external hard drive or Timecapsule for back up

    Well the subject pretty much states the question. I'm of the mindset that an all in one, though convenient/less parts, if it fails it takes my data/wireless with it. If I have an external drive (ie. WD 1TB MyBook), I can fill it, then upgrade only the drive if I want to leaving the base station. My only issue is then wireless printing, and the lack of another USB port (don't really want to put a portable hub in my router). So would I have to get an Airport Express station too? I have no experience with putting up multiple stations, or Airport for that matter (Windows convert). So, all help/input appreciated

    Well the subject pretty much states the question. I'm of the mindset that an all in one, though convenient/less parts, if it fails it takes my data/wireless with it. If I have an external drive (ie. WD 1TB MyBook), I can fill it, then upgrade only the drive if I want to leaving the base station. My only issue is then wireless printing, and the lack of another USB port (don't really want to put a portable hub in my router). So would I have to get an Airport Express station too? I have no experience with putting up multiple stations, or Airport for that matter (Windows convert). So, all help/input appreciated

  • Time Machine and External Hard Drive wireless backup over airport extreme

    Ok can this be done? I have an external HD that I used a firewire to connect to my macbook pro and it backed up my movies,photo's etc without a problem.
    When I realized I could plug the HD into the back of the extreme I tried that and I can see the shared HD in my finder but I cannot get time machine to backup wirelessly now and I can't see my previous back up in Time machine but I can see it when I look on the HD.
    Can I continue to do my backups over the extreme wirelessly? How do i do this? Or do I have to plug the firewire and mac into the HD each time I want to back up using time machine?
    Thanks,

    I hope that support is added to the airport extreme. I would be disappointed in apple to learn that they have disabled it for the airport extreme and connected hard drive in order to only sell another piece of hardware (time capsule) that is simply the airport extreme with a hard drive built in.
    There are reported work arounds for getting the airport extreme and external hard drive to work with time machine. A couple google search results outlined the process, it didn't look too complicated. I would prefer it was a feature and not a work around though.

  • Backup internal and external hard drives-TC and offsite

    I now have Mavericks 10.9.3 on my iMac with a 2TB (1.25 TB used) internal hard drive.
    I also have some external drives attached to my iMac with older iPhoto libraries and other files (total file sizes 940 GB and 505 GB).  I primarily use Aperture now on my internal hard drive, but still access those iPhoto libraries on my external drives on occasion.  I have Time Machine backup my iMac internal hard drive on my 2TB Time Capsule regularly.
    My primary question is in regards to getting another copy onto a larger external drive that covers my internal and external drives so I can have a backup off-site.  Online backup services seem to always exclude external drives.  So a physical drive I can have offsite seems to be the best option.
    A year ago I changed the destination of my Time Machine backup to be on a 3TB external drive (backed up iMac internal hard drive and the two externals).  However, when I changed the destination of the backup back to the Time Capsule, the TM initiated a brand new backup (it did not recall that I had backed up prior to that on my Time Capsule).
    I want to backup monthly, if not quarterly for my off-site storage.  But, if every time I change the destination drive for TM, a new backup profile is created, it will overwork my drives unnecessarily.
    Is there a backup program or a process on "disk utility" I could run parallel to TM that I just use quarterly capturing only the changes/additions in those few months for both the internal and external hard drives?  Also, is there a way to add an external drive to my Time Capsule that is solely used to wirelessly backup the two externals on a regular basis (i.e. keep the internal 2TB drive backing up to the Time Capsule; and the external hard drive attached to Time Capsule via USB used as the backup drive for the external hard drives)?
    Summary:  I need to backup regularly to the local Time Capsule/additional external hard drive.  The data will come from my internal hard drive and my two external hard drives.  I also want to do quarterly backups of the additions/changes to all three drives to have on an offsite external drive that I manually backup to quarterly.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Carbon Copy Cloner is not on the App store.
    Correct.. it is not approved because Apple do not like the fact that CCC (and most likely superduper) which are the most popular backup software for Mac because it makes a bootable clone. Apple will never approve of that. But let me assure you that is the genius of it. If the internal disk fails, you simply boot from the external. It is $40 but you can use on all the computers in your home.
    CCC is a clone.. ie when it does the backup, any changes on the drive are changed on the clone. It does not work like Time Machine which simply piles up incrementals until the drive fills up. The idea of CCC is a backup of the drive as it exists at any point in time. TM btw is also not a reliable archive, ie it thins backups constantly.. so you should never rely on it to archive old versions.. but in the middle of a project it does a good job to keep various versions of your files. That is why I specifically said in my last post do not stop using it.
    and you can keep using the TC just for the internal drive.
    Keep TM running to the TC.. that will then keep a current hourly incremental of your drive. You can set CCC in a way which is a lot more flexible. ie backup just at the end of the day. There is no need for constant hourly backups. So to answer the second question.. you are still using your TC and TM.. but I suggest you only backup the internal drive.
    Please read a bit from forum expert Pondini on the value of clones and TM.
    http://pondini.org/TM/Clones.html
    That's why many folks use both Time Machine and a bootable clone, to have two separate, independent backups, with the advantages of both.  If one fails, the other remains.
    Now the ports issue.
    You can of course continue to use USB2. Just that moving large volumes around will be slow.. as doubtless you already know.
    On your particular Mac since you missed out on USB3 which is a pain.. you can buy a Thunderbolt to USB3 adapter like the belkin.
    http://www.belkin.com/au/p/P-F4U055/
    I suggested the Thunderbolt to Esata (it is an older interface and the adapter is rather cheaper but I hear more reliable.. check reviews for both).
    http://store.apple.com/au/product/H8875ZM/A/lacie-esata-hub-thunderbolt-series
    Sata is the interface of the hard disk.. Esata just means external sata.. so it is native and without conversion.
    I was merely suggesting ways to speed things up. But as long as you don't run CCC on more than daily basis then I think you will be fine just with USB 2. It will take a while on the day you do the swap over for the archive volume, but if you turn off the power saving in the Mac and leave it run overnight it should be able to do most of it.. you need to realise it will have to deep scan both the disks.. to compare files.. but CCC is based on Rsync and it is extremely fast and efficient. I am just not sure I know how long it will take to do. Anyway.. there is a plan.. tweak and adapt as you see fits your needs.

  • Has anyone enabled time machine using a linksys router and external hard drive? And if so how?

    Has anyone enabled time machine using a link sys router and external hard drive? And if so how?  I have a Linksys E4200 wireless router with a usb port on it.  I also have a Western Digital Elements 1TB external hard drive.  I would like to be able to use this hard drive with time machine.  Has anyone done so and if so how can I do so?

    You might get some responses, but we don't see many Linksys users on an Apple forum so it may be awhile before you see an answer.
    It might be useful to point out that Apple does not even support Time Machine backups to the USB port on their own AirPort Extreme wireless router, so we may be heading down a very slippery slope here.
    I've tried Time Machine backups on an AirPort Extreme router a number of times in the past. It's just not reliable. Works for awhile, then has corruption problems. Or has corruption issues immediately. I once went a month or so and thought I had it nailed, then got smacked with a corrupted set of backups again.
    But, I guess you never know. It might work on the Linksys. If you decide to try this, I would suggest that you have another backup plan in place for your important data.
    Hope that some Linksys users will respond so we can all learn.

  • How do I connect airport extreme to seagate hard drive using windows

    How do I connect airport extreme to seagate hard drive using windows?

    First the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) cannot share out an external HDD attached to its USB port unless it is formatted in either HFS+ or FAT16/32. It will not work if the HDD is formatted in either NTFS or ExFAT.
    If the HDD is formatted properly, when you access the AEBS with the AirPort Utility, does the HDD show up properly on the Disks tab of the utility?
    If it does, then you would access the HDD as any other network share, using the following format: //servername/sharename. In the case of the AirPort Disk (a HDD attached to the USB port of either an Extreme or Time Capsule), the "servername" would be the Extreme's Base Station Name, and the "sharename" would be the volumename of the HDD.

  • Please Help - Time Capsule and External hard drive Issues

    Recently, I switched from Comcast to AT&T uverse as my internet provider and I started experiencing problems.
    (1) I have a 4th generation Apple Time Capsule which I am using as my router.
    (2) Connected to the Apple Time Capsule - USB - is an external hard drive (not for backup with Time Machine.)
    (3) I have a 2011 Macbook pro which I use to access my file on my time capsule and external hard drive.
    (4) I had been using my AT&T portable Hotspot from my cell phone to get internet access on my MacBook pro from remote locations to gain access to my external hard drive which is attached to the time capsule.
    (5) On August 2, 2014, I switched from Comcast to AT&T and had the AT&T turn off the router function. (I have been using the router from my apple time capsule)
    (6) Under Network I switched to bridge mode.
    (7) And since August 2, 2014 my time capsule has not been backup.
    THE PROBLEM - I need to be able to use the hotspot function from my cell phone to gain access on the external hard drive using my MacBook Pro which I was able to do before. Now it is showing time capsule under finder but unable to connect.
    Do I need to reset my Time Capsule since I have a new service provider. Everything else works fine - meaning able to get internet signal but unable to access my external hard drive and backup my time capsule. Please HELP.

    (5) On August 2, 2014, I switched from Comcast to AT&T and had the AT&T turn off the router function. (I have been using the router from my apple time capsule)
    (6) Under Network I switched to bridge mode.
    (7) And since August 2, 2014 my time capsule has not been backup.
    If you got ATT to turn off router function in their modem..
    Then 6. is wrong.. You cannot have the Network switched to bridge mode..
    You must have it set to dhcp and nat.
    That is also why you cannot backup.. the TC is off the network.
    Please change back to router mode in the TC.
    Ensure the internet tab shows dhcp and you create a wireless network.
    Then power down the TC... power down the ATT modem.. wait about 20min (you can try 5min.. but it might not be long enough).
    Power up the ATT modem.. wait 2min for things to flash lights in de right blinkin order.. then start the TC.
    Open the airport utility and make sure your TC captured the public IP and is now working as the router.
    That should fix that end of it.. the hotspot end??
    Tell us what happens.

  • Restore from external hard drive backup

    How do I restore from an external hard drive backup of my old system. How do you import into iTunes 8?

    Hello,
    Sorry to tap into this thread but it was the only one that made sense.
    I have been trying to restore my kid's libraries from an external HD. I assumed I needed to be logged into their Windows profile to launch each of their own itunes applications. As I tried to launch with the Shift key held down, I got the appropriate request about choosing a library. But when I navigated to the HD and found their .itl file, it said it was locked or I had inadequate permissions and would not proceed.
    I then logged in as myself (admin) & then dragged & dropped the files into their respective folders. When I went back to open itunes, the songlist was where it should be but nothing played when I tried them.
    Is this where "consolodating" comes in and what is it and how do you do it?
    Thanks for your patience.

  • Hard Drive and External Hard drive filled up instantly?

    While using my Mac today, I came up with a dialogue box saying my hard drive (and external hard drive) are both full. This is strange because this morning I had over 30GB on my internal hard drive, and between 100GB and 300GB on my external hard drive.
    How can both of these fill up at once?
    I had uploaded approximately 100 photos to my external hard drive this morning, but there was still plenty room then.
    What is going on?

    HI Matt,
    Get Disk Inventory so you can see exact sizes of files and folders.
    *"I came up with a dialogue box saying my hard drive (and external hard drive) are both full. This is strange because this morning I had over 30GB on my internal hard drive, and between 100GB and 300GB on my external hard drive."*
    Not sure what's going on but it would be a good time to boot from your install disk and check the hard drive.
    Insert Installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
    Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger and later) and launch Disk Utility.
    Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
    Select First Aid in the Main panel.
    *(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)*
    Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
    If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
    If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
    When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
    Select your start up disk and click Restart
    Carolyn

Maybe you are looking for