Airport or Time Machine

I'm not sure what Airport does, besides it being a wi-fi router.
Is it also a hardrive? What is it exactly?
Same for Time Machine, is this a hardrive or a wi fi router?
What is it exactly?
I'm a bit confused.
What I need is a good quality hardrive, where I can put my backups.
thanks and sorry for the lame question.

teresita wrote:
I'm not sure what Airport does, besides it being a wi-fi router.
Is it also a hardrive? What is it exactly?
Same for Time Machine, is this a hardrive or a wi fi router?
What is it exactly?
I'm a bit confused.
What I need is a good quality hardrive, where I can put my backups.
thanks and sorry for the lame question.
There are two types or Apple Airports, Airport Extreme Base Station and Airport Express. Both are wifi routers. Time Capsule, on the other hand is an Airport Extreme Base Station WITH a built-in hard drive. For a more detailed description, you might want to visit the Apple product pages.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shopmac/mac_accessories/airportwireless?mco=MTE2MjA
Time Machine is a Mac OS X application which performs automatic back ups of your computer data to an external drive.

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How do I use a Mac Mini + Airport Express + Time Machine disk to backup another iMac

How do I use a Mac Mini + Airport Express + Time Machine disk to backup another iMac?
The question pretty much says it all.
I have a Mac Mini with an attached 3TB Hard Drive used for Time Machine Backups.
I have an Airport Extreme base station which services that machine plus several others.
I would like to backup my new iMac and a MacBook Pro to the Mac Mini.
What do I need to do on the mini to export that hard drive so that it can be used as a Time Machine target from the other systems?
All systems are running 10.6.8.

Well you would have to do backups over a network which is much slower and has highest chance of becoming corrupt. I think your best option would be to get an apple time capsule to act as a network and back if thats how you wanna do that

Airport and Time Machine difficulty

Does anyone know of any recent problems with AirPorts, AirPort software, Time Machines, or Time Machine software? I am experiencing problems with both and cannot diagnose the problem.
Airport: I have 3 cameras in my home that I have been able to view form outside the house (and Network) flawlessly for over a year. All of a sudden I cannot view the cameras from outside the house but when I am home and the wireless network is in range they work fine. I checked all of the settings and nothing seems different. I feel it may be a setting in the AirPort that is blocking me but I cannot prove that.
Time Machine: In an attempt to fix the problem above I planned on going back to a "good" point in the Time Machine to correct the issue. Apparently the Time Machine has not saved a backup since May 2013. It always appeared that it was working but I never really checked until now. I called support and was instructed to erase the drive and perform a fresh backup. The process never completes because it either locks up or claims that it will take thousands of days to complete the backup. I've tried this process several times as well as performing a more extensive erasing process. Same results. I just purchased an external drive and I am still having the same extended time problem. Before trying the external drive I was convinced that the Time Machine drive was bad. Now I am starting to think there is a Time Machine software issue.
Any insight or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

HDD = Hard Disk Drive.
I just wanted to make sure what you have. If I understand you correctly you then have a Time Capsule; an AirPort Extreme with a built-in HDD. If this is correct, then of course, it support Time Machine as a backup destination.
I am not aware of any current software issues for Time Machine; however, anything is possible.
At this point I would recommend that you check out Apple Support Communities Time Machine expert Pondini to go through some of his troubleshooting techniques.

Help! Macbook Air lost association with USB Airport hosted Time Machine Backup

Okay, so my wife's Macbook Air was doing Time Machine backup to USB drive attached to previous generation Airport Extreme...
We bought a brand new Airport router a couple of weeks ago, I plugged it in and everything went smoothly. Plugged in USN drive that attached to older APE router, and it's still visible on the network. However, ever since we got the new router, the existing backups are not associated with the Macbook Air anymore.
Yes, I can start over with a new backup file, but I was hoping to use the existing backup (it takes a while to backup wirelessly, and we lose the whole history if we wanted to recover previous versions of files that were backed up—I can't think of anything we'd need right now, but Murphy's Law will probably apply if I go ahead and erase the old and start new).
I was hoping all I would have to do was drag the old backup file onto the Time Machine icon to re-associate it with this computer, but I can't see any way to tell Time Machine, "hey, here's the backup file you are looking for... it's right here on the same USB drive attached to the new router."
(Also, before anyone says to make sure I have a backup of the backup, I do. The computer is backed up offsite with Backblaze, too.)
Perhaps it will be best to just start from scratch with a new Time Machine backup, that just seems like overkill, since there was nothing wrong or corrupt with the existing Time Machine file, I just switched what router it was attached to. Thanks for any advice/enlightenment.

I guess I have a few comments.
Apple has an opt out.. they do not support Time Machine backups on older Airport Extreme. Apple have always stated it is unreliable and so refused to support it.. only with Gen6 of the AE have they changed to supporting TM backups.
From your point of view it should have worked.. it may indeed still work. But the change of network is significant and it will take some work on your part.
1. I need to know what OS is the MBA running??
2. Moving a disk from one network location to another, I would strongly recommend a full reset of Time Machine on the computer.
See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
3. Pondini in the same reference has some info about inheriting old backups .. slightly different context but it also could help.
see B5 and B6
4. It is also possible to move old backups into a new backup.. but this is then going too far.
I would simply buy a new USB drive.. and keep the old backup drive for a few months until your new one builds up sufficient history to be sure you will not need the old ones.. at that point you can use the old backup drive again after a reformat.
5. To do the new backup, since wireless is indeed a long and burdensome chore to make that crucial first backup, buy a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter.. assuming your MBA is recent enough. Ethernet is so worthwhile having it is required not optional extra. The cost at $35 is one of the cheapest adapters for a very expensive interface..

AirPort Extreme/Time Machine/Ext Disk

So the wife and I have iMacs, an older white Airport Extreme and an Airport Express (just used to extend the distance of network in 3 story house). My iMac is one of the early 20" intel machines. The wife's iMac is one of the last 17" Power PC's just before the intel machines came out. We run a home based business and want better more secure backup and hopefully a way to speed us up. I just upgraded everyones memory. We run Leopard but have not moved to Snow Leopard largely because the wife's machine will not run it.
The 1 TB Time Capsule option is about the same price as buying two USB 1TB ext. drives. I understand that Apple does not support "other" ext hard drives running time capsule, but I have also read that it works. I author and maintain our RapidWeaver web site form my machine and plan to make some short movies to use in the near future. The wife just has lots of music and pictures that need to be protected. A good friend who manages a corporate network suggests that we put our pictures, music and any movies on an external drive to protect them and speed up our systems.
Will one 1TB USB ext handle us for now, thats what my buddy is using? If I buy just one should we be able to attach it to the Airport Extreme and both use it or do we attach it directly to my computer? I think I could physically attach a new drive to the wife's system long enough to copy her pictures and music so she has a back up then leave it on mine. The wife probably does not add enough new content to her system regularly for it to be a huge issue. But maybe I should just buy two 1TB USB drives and put one on each computer? I am guessing that a Time Capsule attached to the Airport Extreme and serving both computers would be the slowest option?
I should add that I am an "old" computer guy and can probably just do manual physical file transfers if need be.
Thanks for the help,
Mitch

Duane,
Thanks for the reply. I did not understand exactly how this all plays out and you are helping.
At the same time, in an attempt to not get too long winded, I did not mention all the options I am considering. Our business is on 12 acres with 200+ feet of steep hill and woods separating our home and dog training/club building. So far our wireless network is not reaching the work building. We have been considering purchasing a newer AEBS since the one we have is probably due to be replaced and we understand the antenna on the newer AEBS will reach twice as far. We use AT&T DSL but we are too far from the "office" to get quality service. We are waiting for Clear or U Verse to become available on our street. I use to run an inter and intra state data communications network, attended AT&T's Data Communications school... I may go postal trying to get through AT&T's phone system and get some answers. Ultimately we hope to have wireless service available for us and our clients at the work building. We might have up to 6 total users for a while on a busy day. I can plan backups and web site updates for off hours.
So it sounds like I can just order one 1TB USB drive and connect it to my computer for now. If I understand correctly you are using Time Machine to backup your iBook to your external drive over your network? If that is the case then the wife should be able to backup her files to the external drive on my computer through Time Machine? Assuming that works then we can figure out whether to go for a new AEBS or 2nd ext UBS hard drive for the wife later?

Airport Utility/Time Machine, cannot open Airport Utility

Cannot open Time Machine. I go to set up, Change Disc, click on Time Capsule and notice pops up to enter name and password. There is only space for password, no space for name. When I go to Utilities and click on Airport Utility message pops up "The application Airport Utility quit unexpectedly". Clicked relaunch and same message pops up. How can I open Airport Utility which should then allow me to open Time Machine?

Sorted, it was an issue with the channel on the TC not matching the channel on the router. I manually matched them and now all is good.

Airport Express - Time Machine

How do I get Airport Express to work like an Airport Disk to use with time machine?

You don't. The USB port on the AirPort Express (AX) ONLY supports a single compatible USB printer.

Using AirPort Extreme Time Machine for OSX/WIN Backup

I bought the AirPort Extreme 2tb time machine over the weekend as my old router decided to retire. I'd like to be able to backup my Mac and my Windows machine to this Time Machine. Is this possible? If so, what are the steps?
Some steps I've already taken:
Using disk utility I partitioned the time machine in to 2 partitions. The first partition I set to No Journaling. The second partition I left as free space thinking I could then use the PC to grab that free space and format it to NTFS.
My problems is that the PC does not see the partitions. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

We get confused when you use the wrong names.
Time Machine is software in your Mac only.. it is not hardware.
There is a Time Capsule which has a 2TB (or 3TB) disk and you can buy an Airport Extreme and plug a standard USB drive into it.
I gather you have done the later.
The disk must be partitioned and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also called HFS+
So pull the hard disk of the Airport Extreme and redo the format.. both partitions should be the same.. Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
The PC can never see the internal format of the disk.. it is the AEBS that has to read and write to the disk so the format of the disk must either be FAT32 or HFS+. The PC will work ok as the AEBS will present the hard disk to the PC using SMB.. windows network protocol.. and to the Windows computer it will appear as NT server.. and probably FAT32. ie the format of the disk as it is handled by a network resource is irrelevant to the device actually writing or reading files to it.
Keep all names short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. Including the partition name of the disk. And all names in the AEBS.
Load the airport utility for windows into the PC. This is not 100% necessary but it helps loads.
Then in windows explorer give the actual address of the AEBS.
ie
\\AEname.local or \\AEIPaddress. (where you replace the AEname with your new base station name.. or AEIPaddress with the normal ipv4 dotted address).

Airport and Time Machine new user questions

Background: Switched my business from PC to Mac June 07--and loving it! Upgraded to Leopard over the holidays and bought a 500Mb wireless backup drive. Setup was easy (thanks forum) and I backed up both MacBookPro's with this drive. Buffalo popped last week and Mac bias now runs deep and the local AppleStore had the the 1 TB model in stock.
My connection is: Cable modem (T-W Roadrunner service)-->Time Capsule-->Linksys/Vonage modem. (USB connection from TC to HP 6210 computer). All computers are .n wireless access.
I have had things happen in my environment that I don't understand and can't figure out how to address:
1.) Download/Upload speed according to Speakeasy is 7,000 kbpd down and 700 plus up. Very happy with this and this is an improvement over my old Linksys router.
2.)However my Vonage was set on medium bandwidth and calls are now garbled whereas the old router they were clear. I changed the Vonage bandwidth to high and the calls are OK.
3.) Software updater called for an update download and the forecasted download time was 8 hours!!!! Web browsing seems to work fine and if anything faster.
4.) When I send e-mail about~80% of the time the e-mail fails "on the selected server". I can try again or choose my .mac account or another account and it goes. sometimes I choose the same account and it goes.
I don't understand and have played with manual configuration only to mess things up so nothing works at all. My server is a Pop server. Any ideas?
Time Machine:
-Initial backup was extremely fast and at least 2x faster then the initial B/U on the Buffalo. Incrementals are un-noticeable now.
-Our second MacBook required the preferences file to be wiped out (corrupted) and the Genius told me all I had to do was repoint Time Machine back to Time Capsule. It currently see's her old backups but does not generate new backups. I don't understand this. If it can see the drive and restore works (we restored mailboxes after renewing preferences) why won't it backup? If I do repoint to TC do I lose the previous backups?
Everything is working but just not as seamless as I would have expected and re-sending e-mail and slow downloads makes no sense to me. Help me if you can.
Thanks;
Boomerang

Boomerang,
Your email issue could have something to do with DNS settings not being in the TC...
Repointing your MacBook to the TC should not have any impact on the previous backups... i.e. it will not delete them.
I am an Apple Consultant in Austin, TX (member of the Apple Consultants Network). Visit my site and keep my info around if you ever need anything. www.mymacplus.com

Airport Extreme Base Station as Extender to Airport Extreme Time Machine

I have tried this a few times, but to no avail: Tonight I purchased an Airport Extreme Base Station (AE) to set up as an extender to my Airport Extreme Time Capsule (AETC). The Airport Utility finds the router and goes through set-up seemingly fine, with green lights on both. Then shortly after (within a minute) the AE reboots on it's own, followed by the AETC rebooting (again, on it's own) and this occurs repeatedly. I reset the AE completely and run through the set-up and the same thing occurs. I've also done soft resets to the AETC. Long and short of it - the restarting discontinues once I unplug the power cord from the AE. Then the AETC resumes as it has - providing fine wifi and speed. It appears the AE rebooting on its own makes the AETC reboot. Any ideas? Thanks!

howto - extending airport 802.11n networks
Pre-Requistites
1) Ensure all have most recent firmware - 7.7.3 for AC devices, 7.6.4 for 802.11n devices
2) Have most recent Airport Utility (OS X 10.7 thru 10.9, use 6.3.2, IOS6/7 use 1.3.3)
3) Only have the Primary Airport/TimeCapsule powered on for now
Set up the Primary/Anchor Airport Base Station
1) Do this over ethernet - ensure that the Modem and TimeCapsule/Airport is connected on the WAN port
2) You'll be prompted by Airport Utility to name the Network and the Base Station
Network is the SSID of the Wireless LAN
BaseStation is the name of the Airport/TimeCapsule
3) You'll be prompted for a password - this will be for both the WLAN and the Base Station on initial setup
Note here - there are at least three passwords to worry about post setup
a) BaseStation Management - in this how-to, this will be carried thru to the extended basestations
b) WLAN Access
c) Disk Access for TimeCapsule and AirDisk
They can be same or unique, up to you...
Configure the Airport/TimeCapsule for WiFi/Network
4) Select the named BS in Airport Utility - click the 'edit' button
5) Review 'Base Station' Tab
5a) BaseStation Name
5b) BaseStation Password - you can change this now if desired, this does not affect WLAN password
6) Review Internet Tab
6a) set as appropriate for your network - e.g DHCP or other depending on needs
6aa) focus here is getting the primary BS set up first
6b) Click Internet Options - this is IPV6 setup - for now...
6ba) Set to Link-Local Only, click save, you can go back and change this later if needed
7) Go to Wireless Tab
7a) Set Network Mode to "Create a wireless network"
7b) Check Wireless Network Name
7c) Wireless Security - recommend WPA2 Personal - this is important as you'll need this later
7d) Wireless Password - the password entered in step 5b above is what is used here, feel free to modify or not - if so, note this
7e) disregard Enable Guest Network for now
7f) Click Wireless Options
7g) ensure 5Ghz network name is unselected
7h) Country as appropriate - since I'm in California, I choose United States
7i) Leave 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Channels as "Automatic" for now, click save if needed
8) Click Network Tab
8a) if this is your primary router - use DHCP and NAT
8b) Click Network Options
8c) DHCP Lease - I use 12 hours
8d) IPv4 DHCP Range - every here is a bit different, but my recommendation for most folks
192.168.1.100 to 150
Use what works for you, keeping in mind that the AP Extreme, TimeCapsule, and 2012 Airport Express can handle 50 clients, max
8e) Ensure that Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol is selected
8f) can worry about Enable default host at: [] later, this is the DMZ'ed host
8g) can choose to enable IGMP Snooping or not - doesn't affect the primary setup
8h) click save
TimeCapsule Only - for Airport Extreme, worry about AirDisk later
This is TimeMachine support, along with FileShares
9) Select Disks - you should see a partitiion named "Data"
9a) ensure that Enable file sharing is selected
9b) ensure that Share disks over WAN is unchecked for now
9c) Secure Shared Disks:
Choices here -
device password - noted in step 5b above
disk password - this will be for all LAN clients that can see the Data Partitiion
accounts - you can set up separate users and passwords - this is beyond scope of this how-to
Recommendation if using as TimeMachine only, use a disk password - note this as you'll need it for timemachine on the clients
Save Settings to the Airport/TimeCapsule
10) Click the "update' button
The Airport/TimeCapsule will restart
Everything now should show green and shiny - open a web browser and attempt to go to Apple/Google/Yahoo, to ensure that you've got network connectivity
Reviewing things in the Airport 6.3 utility, you should see your base station and the Internet - both with green status
Once done here, let's extend the Wireless Network
Note - again, it helps to be connected to the primary base station on ethernet, wireless makes things, erm, challenging
11) with another decive - Mac/iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch or PC, ensure that Wireless LAN is working on the primary AP/Basestation
Once this is done, then proceed to the next step
Enable the "Extended" Airport - can be another TimeCapsule, Airport Express or Airport Extreme
For purposes of this discussion - assume all ore 802.11n capable at a minimum, so this applies towards more recent gear
a) Airport Extreme AC (2013)
b) Airport TimeCapsule AC (2013)
c) Airport Express 2012 Dual-Band (Looks like AppleTV)
d) Airport Extreme 802.11n 5th Gen, TimeCapsule 4th Gen
e) Airport Express 802.11n - similar to the 802.11g variant, looks like a MacBook Pro power adapter
Assumptions here is that the extended airport is factory defaults - see link below for more info:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3728
Once this is done, plug in the Airport that is intended for extending the wireless network
after about a minute or so, you should see a blinking orange light, this is normal...
In Airport Utility, you should see in the upper left hand, "Other Wi-Fi Devices (1)" - click this, if you don't see this, exit and restart Airport Utility
12) clicking on the button, you should see an entry menu as "Airport Extreme xxxxxx", select this
13) Once selected, you'll see "This Airport Extreme/Express/TimeCapsule will be set up to extend "Primary Base Station"
14) Enter the name for this base station - it should be unique from the name of the Primary noted in step 5a
15) Click "next"
16) Should see "setting up this base station to wirelessly extend..."
you'll see some progress messages.. this is the two basestations handshaking....
If successful, you'll see the BaseStation named in step 14 as "is now wireless extending "base station named in (step 5a)"
STOP - the Airport is now extended, repeat steps 11 thru 16 for each addtional Airport
For advanced features - such as port forwarding, DMZ, IPv6 Tunnels, Back to my Mac, etc - perform this only on the Primary Base station outlined in steps 1 thru 8h
Good Luck!

Time Machine over AirPort to Time Capsule... maybe a solution

Like a lot of people on this forum, apparently, I have been suffering from the inability to make reliable Time Machine backups to a Time Capsule over AirPort. Here's what I did to solve the situation.
Here's my network setup:
I have an ADSL wireless box with b/g network connected over ethernet to a 1-TB Time Capsule which has a 5 GHz 'n' network. Using 5 GHz 'n' network where I am means no interference. All equipment that is not capable of 'n' is on the wireless box, 'n' equipment (basically, only my MacBook Pro) gets on the Time Capsule. It doesn't make internet faster, but sure makes the Time Capsule accessible. Both networks are hidden and secured with WEP (b/g) or WPA2 (n).
(the Time Capsule is double-NATted, unfortunately, to cut down on network chatter in the system log)
After upgrading to 10.5.6, I think I haven't been able to make a reliable Time Machine backup over AirPort. It may have been well before that (possibly with the AirPort Extreme update) but I don't remember. Most of the time, before the wireless box arrived, I have been making far-too-irregular backups over ethernet to the Time Capsule.
Anyway, I had been trying to get Time Machine to work over AirPort to the backup on the Time Capsule. I had made the original backup over ethernet (all 500 GB worth over a weekend). For the incremental backups, though, I would prefer AirPort because keeping a cable attached really is a pain. Of course, it didn't work right away.
What I couldn't figure out was why. Time Machine mounted the sparsebundle volume on the Time Capsule, but after that it seemed to do nothing with it. I left it for half a day and found little by way of relevant network activity. I tried the following to no avail:
* disabled Little Snitch (outgoing firewall) and the OS X firewall (incoming firewall)
* disabled security on the network
* disabled and re-enable Time Machine
* changed the name of the sparsebundle volume (that was dumb!)
* trash Time Machine preferences and re-select the backup disk
* reboot, reboot, reboot
Whatever I did, it sucked. Connecting over ethernet was excellent, and incremental backups went really quick, but AirPort just didn't fly. It would have been worse if it were slow; chances are then it'd be a hardware problem. But nothing was going over AirPort with Time Machine.
In amongst the surfing, I found somewhere how to downgrade the firmware on the Time Capsule. Worth a try since nothing was working. I opened up the AirPort Utility and checked, but it would only give me 7.3.2 (AirPort Utility 5.3.2). I searched and found the AirPort 5.3.1 software, and using Pacifist extracted the AirPort Utility application. That would let me 'downgrade' the Time Capsule firmware to 7.3.1 (and 7.3). It downloaded the 7.3.1 for me and put it on the Time Capsule without problems.
I then made a test run with Time Machine over ethernet, that was fine. The I tried over AirPort - and hey presto! it worked! I re-enabled my network setup (firewalls, security) and it's still working fine.
So, if your Time Capsule is on 7.3.2 firmware and Time Machine over AirPort *****, try downgrading to 7.3.1. The AirPort 5.3.1 software, which can download and install the 7.3.1 software (5.3.2 doesn't) can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/TimeCapsule_and_AirPort_Base_Station__802_11n__Firmware_7_31
Note: you need Pacifist to extract the AirPort Utility application;
do not install the software over your existing AirPort software

This may be tough because TM isn't supported over wi-fi unless you're using a Time Capsule. There are a couple of resources available to you and I'd also recommend posting in the Snow Leopard forum because TM is part of OS X the OS X forum would be the right venue. The first thing is I'm guessing you are using a router, if so make sure the firmware on it is up-to-date. You will need to refer to the router's manual. You also should do the same with the modem too. Some written resources are:
Time Machine FAQs
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Pondini Time Machine Tips
That's about all I can help you out with.
Good luck!

Time Machine fails with drive connected to Airport Extreme

First of all, I've had myriad problems with Time Machine, even when it was connected directly to my MBP. But after the recent updates, I installed them and hoped it would work wirelessly. I re-formatted my 120GB OWC drive (my MBP has 30GB available of 120GB). I have already been down the road of making sure I've formatted the drive correctly.
I excluded my system folder, my entourage identity, downloads, and my Parallels Windows XP file from the backup. I connected the drive to my Airport Extreme (not the gigabit version) and started the backup. Basically, it gets about 5 GB into the backup, moving very slowly, and then fails, saying that it couldn't locate the drive. And that part is true--I can't seem to locate the drive on my network anymore either. And eventually, after another hour or so, my Airport Extreme drops as well, and isn't even available. Even when I unplug the AE, and plug it back in, it still doesn't show up...but after about an hour or so...it pops back up and is available, working fine. My iPhone sees the same problem with AE dropping and then coming back. When the wireless service drops, I can plug an ethernet cable into the AE and I can access the internet fine, so it's not the cable modem (Time Warner).
Is anyone else seeing this problem? I'm no guru and appreciate that Macs just seem to work correctly. But Time Machine is making me pull my hair out. It's been an unmitigated disaster from start to finish.
Appreciate any help!

This is probably the most sensible post I've read on the issue. I've spent the last 2 days trying to get my 500GB LaCie Quadra hard drive to work with my Airport Extreme (the square one, yes .
I've formatted it correctly with the Disk Utility (multiple times!).
Airport Utility sees it just fine. I can back up to it when it is connected directly to my MacBook via USB.
But when the drive is connected via USB to the Airport Extreme, Time Machine doesn't see it -- unless I turn on file sharing with guest access read and write. That seems less-than-secure to me even if my network is protected.
Without guest access the drive appears in the shared section of the Finder, but I can't connect to it. I've tried all three combinations under "Secure Shared Disks" but none of them work.
Seems like its just too flaky to use an external disk connected to the Airport Extreme.
Happy to be pointed in the right direction... are there specific file permissions I should be setting my external drive to?
Thanks,
Rich

Local Time Machine backup then move to Airport?

Can you do a local time machine setup of a new drive, then move it to your Airport?
I heard it does it differently on the Airport so you should just initialize it from the Airport.
Wanted to ask here before I start a long backup

I did an initial local USB local backup then moved it to my AirPort and Time Machine sees it just fine and backs up without any errors.

AirPort Time Capsule back up of external drive using Time Machine

I have a Mac mini and back it up using time machine onto the AirPort Time Capsule- that works fine. I need to back up an external USB drive containing my iTunes to the AirPort using time machine. How can I do this?

Connect the drive to the Mac mini, open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, and remove it from the list of drives set to be excluded. It needs to be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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Migration to new 3TB Time Machine/Time Capsule?

From an earlier posting, I think A Silverstone asked for a step-by-step procedure.
I have a similar issue I would like a procedure(s) on. Actually two identical issues.
1. I wish to purchase Apples new 3TB tower Airport/Time Machine to replace a 1TB Airport extreme/Time Machine. I want to migrate the old to the new using Apple processes/procedures without a lot of workaround. How can this be done? Does Apple have a procedure?
2. I have a desktop with four drives (three 2TB & one 1TB) and wish at least two of them to be Time Machine capable, i.e., backup every hour like the Airport/Time Machine does. Can this be done? Does Apple have a procedure?
I want to migrate the old Time Capsule data to the new Time Capsule and to two HD's in the desktop.
The idea is to have backups for a Time Machine backup in the event of a power disruption or a hacker that might impact the tower Time Machine. There are other reasons such as storage capacity using a daisy chain process.
One main problem is capturing the old "sparsebundle" in such a way to get it into the new unit and on to internal HD's. How to do this is the question.

1. Time Machine – Transfer Backup to a New Drive
Time Machine – Transfer Backup to a New Drive (2)
You can also use Disk Utility's Restore tab, which is often faster and less prone to errors. Note it will format the new drive.
2. Yes. Go to System Preferences/Time Machine, select Add a drive and you can have 2. They will alternate with each new backup.
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