HT201250 how to replace airport extreme with time machine

I have airport exreme in use and want to replace with time machine. Is it easy to do?

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    Am replacing airport extreme with Time Machine and want to upgrade from Tiger to Snow leopard. Am told I should manually back up into T Machine before OS update but set up utility won't allow anything with OS below 10.5 and I'm 10.4.11. What to do?

    I think you mean you are replacing your Airport Extreme with a Time Capsule. Time Machine is software integrated into OS X 10.5 & 10.6 used to automatically backup a system to an external HD. Time Capsule is an Airport Extreme that has a hard disk integrated into it that can be used for storage or  as a Time Machine backup drive.
    Because you are currently on Tiger 10.4.x you can backup to a external HD using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. Having a backup is very wise before doing any major system update. After  you have created the backup and have successfully upgraded to Snow Leopard you can still use the external HD for many things. The strategy I'd recommend is to use the new Time Capsule as your Time Machine backup and then use the external HD as backup using SuperDuper or CCC. Redundant backups is wise because backups can (and do) fail too! In addition both SD and CCC are bootable clones, this is useful in that if your internal HD crashes you can boot from a cloned drive and continue working until the internal HD is replaced.
    Below are some links to some articles from MacWorld, I would recommend reading them where you find a common theme, redundant backups. Backup Plan I, Backup Plan II & Backup Plan III.
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  • Airport extreme with time machine

    Airport extreme with time machine bought in September 2007 can it be reformatted to use as a back up drive for other than time machine and how.  It is 1TB but can only seem to get two disk images of e

    Airport extreme with time machine
    This sounds like you have a Time Capsule, correct?
    can it be reformatted to use as a back up drive for other than time machine
    You can place other type of files and folders on the Time Capsule hard drive. No additional formatting is required for this.
    and how
    Use the Finder to click on the Time Capsule under the SHARED heading on the left side of a Finder window
    Click on the Time Capsule icon, then double click on the folder named "Data" (unless you have renamed the drive), and "Data" will mount on the desktop.
    You can drag/drop or copy/paste files to "Data" just like any other hard drive
    t is 1TB but can only seem to get two disk images of e
    The disk images contain all of your backups. Leave them alone.

  • HT201250 How to view old desktops with Time Machine?

    Hi, I was wondering how you can view your old desktops from past updates with Time Machine? Such as the wallpaper that was used and how your dock icons were arranged. I don't mean a full restore just a quick view of the old desktops. Thanks in advance.

    i think it will be the com.apple.desktop.plist on the user library

  • Here is how to use Airport AirDisk with Time Machine

    I haven't tried this myself yet (I will give it a go this weekend), but since a lot of people are complaining about this, here is a link with instructions on how to do it.
    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071026075201634
    for your convenience, here is an abstract of the instructions:
    First connect your AirPort disk directly to your Mac, and set up Time Machine to use it. If you want to let it back up now, that's fine. Alternatively, you can stop it and let it back up when it's plugged back into the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS).
    Time Machine creates a file in the root directory of the disk called .1234abc5678 -- the exact name will differ on your Mac. It appears this file has to be in the root of the network shared directory. In my case, I use user accounts to manage my AirPort disk, so the directory that it actually shares out is called /Shared on my disk. So I simply move the hidden .1234abc5678 file, or whatever it may be called, to the /Shared directory. If you let Time Machine back up while plugged in locally, you will also have to move the .sparsebundle file to the /Shared directory.
    Eject the disk and plug it back into the AEBS and mount it via AFP, and Time Machine should pick it right up. This method should work for any AFP share, not just AirPort disks.

    I assume that this is a new AirPort Express and you have not tried to configure it previously.
    Locate the AirPort Express in the general area where you would like to have more wireless signal coverage.
    Connect the Ethernet cable to the WAN "O" port on the back of the AirPort Express
    Power up the AirPort Express and let it run a few minutes. The amber light will be blinking slowly at this point.
    Click the AirPort icon at the top of your Mac's screen and wait a few seconds for a listing of New AirPort Base Station to appear. Just below that, click directly on AirPort Express.
    AirPort Setup will open up automatically on your Mac, take a minute to analyze the network, then announce that the AirPort Express will be configured to extend the Time Capsule network.
    Enter a device name that you want to use for the AirPort Express and click Next
    Wait a minute while AirPort Setup configures everything for you. When you see the indication of Setup Complete, click Done.
    You should be all set.

  • Using an External HD, via AirPort Extreme, with Time Machine

    I just picked up one of the new airport extreme base stations today so I could wirelessly back up my MBP via time machine. When I got the airport it self working and plugged in my external HD it said the back up was "delayed" and it "could not connect to disk." I called apple to ask them what I need to do and they told me that the airport extreme is not made to backup to time machine. You can only backup the old fashioned way by manually moving files to the disk. About to pack it up and take it back to the store I thought I would do a quick google search and see if anyone found a way around it. Oddly enough they have and it is very easy. I'm not sure why apple couldn't tell me/ didn't know. I want to preface this with I already had a time machine back up on the same HD that I connected to the airport extreme (im not sure if it made a difference or not). Here are the steps I followed:
    1) Open "Time Machine Preferences"
    2) Open the "finder" and your external HD should be listed under the "shared" tab
    3) Open the file "Time Machine Backups"
    4) Go back to your "Time Machine Preferences" and click "Select Disk"
    5) Select your external HD from the list. It should have an icon with a wireless symbol in it
    6) Start your backup
    Oddly it did not work when i just clicked on the "shared disk." I had to open the file that said "Time Machine Backups" and then Time Machine recognized it.
    Also, it backed up from scratch so it takes forever. Mine has been going at a rate of about 12GB per hour. I am not sure why couldn't recognize the other file (from the USB backup on the same HD).
    I hope this helps. I thought I would make a post because Apple told me they don't support it and it does work!

    This is very helpfull.
    I consider buying the Airport Extreme. I currently use a Lacie 500GB external HD. I partitioned the HD and use one part for Time Machine Backups and one part for my iTunes and Iphoto libraries (so Music and photos are on the HD, as well as the iTunes Library file).
    If I connect the HD to the Airport Extreme, can I use the iTunes Libray and Photos through the wireless network? And perhaps soem movies? It then will be much like a Time Capsule. The reason I don't want to but a TC is that I already have a HD and I could save money buying an Aitport Extreme instead of a Time Capsule.

  • How to setup airport express with time machine

    just bought airport express so i can extend my wifi range,can anybody help on how to set up! I have time machine 2gb, my house is wired with cat6 cable in all the bed rooms, but now only half my house get wifi,so i want to extend it.I know i have to go into air utility and change some stuff, but sure what stuff?

    I assume that this is a new AirPort Express and you have not tried to configure it previously.
    Locate the AirPort Express in the general area where you would like to have more wireless signal coverage.
    Connect the Ethernet cable to the WAN "O" port on the back of the AirPort Express
    Power up the AirPort Express and let it run a few minutes. The amber light will be blinking slowly at this point.
    Click the AirPort icon at the top of your Mac's screen and wait a few seconds for a listing of New AirPort Base Station to appear. Just below that, click directly on AirPort Express.
    AirPort Setup will open up automatically on your Mac, take a minute to analyze the network, then announce that the AirPort Express will be configured to extend the Time Capsule network.
    Enter a device name that you want to use for the AirPort Express and click Next
    Wait a minute while AirPort Setup configures everything for you. When you see the indication of Setup Complete, click Done.
    You should be all set.

  • How do I add an Airport Extreme with Time Capsule to an existing non-Apple network?

    How do I add an Airport Extreme with Time Capsule to an existing non-Apple network?  I have an ISP provided wireless Router that has to remain as the base station.  I am able to join my 1/2TB Airport Extreme and Airport Express to the network, but I can't access/use Time Machine.

    One option would be to connect the Time Capsule (TC) to the ISP-provided wireless router by Ethernet. You can then configure the for a roaming network. Then, depending on what your goal is for the AirPort Express, you can either: 1) Add it to roaming network, 2) Configure the TC & the Express for an "extended" network, or 3) Configure the Express to "join" the roaming network for AirPlay.

  • Replacing older airport extreme with time capsule

    I am thinking of replacing my airport extreme with time capsule. I had a lot of problems setting up airport extreme a few years ago - now it is very reliable. I don't want to have the same issues with time capsule. Can I simply physically replace the airport extreme with time capsule using the same settings as previously
    Advice gratefully anticipated

    Welcome to the discussion area, pancuronium!
    You will use AirPort Utility on your Mac for this operation:
    (Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility)
    Open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup
    Click the File menu at the upper left corner of the screen near the Apple icon
    Click Export Configuration File
    Assign a name to the file and save it to a convenient location like the desktop
    When you are ready to install the Time Capsule....
    Open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup
    Click the File Menu
    Select Import Configuration File
    Navigate to locate the file that you exported to import all the settings into a new configuration for the Time Capsule
    Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

  • Still possible to use airport extreme for time machine?

    I know apple doesn't officially support it but I remember with one of the airport utility updates, it allowed you to use an external HDD with an airport extreme for time machine backups. I tried hooking my external western digital to my airport extreme and it showed up as an airport disk, however I couldn't get time machine to access it. Is there a way I can get this to work?

    I followed the instructions found on the link above and had a couple of issues:
    1) Instructions state "Make sure 'Share disks over Ethernet WAN port' is checked." Could not find that check box anyplace.
    2) Using first disk and then airport passwords as security, the disk does not show up in the Time Machine preferences. Am I to mount the disk first? Does not state that in the instructions.
    3) If I mount the disk in the finder (security is a disk password), I am then able to see the drive in Time Machine and the back-up commences. The disk icon appears on my desktop and contains machine.sparcebundle. Another "disk" also appears on my desktop with the name "Time Machine Backups" and which contains the folder Backups.backupdb. I am also able to remotely attach to the machine doing the TM backup from another mac on the network and login.
    4) Back-up started and appeared to go well (240G backed up with several partials after that) until I rebooted.
    5) After reboot, it was frozen in "Making backup disk available" Opened preferences and it locked up. Had to force a reboot.
    6) After restart, manually mounted the extreme external, opened Time Machine prefs, and when selecting back up location saw one with a red "∅" which I could not select and the other the extreme drive with 240G used. Attempted the back-up to the drive and I got "Making backup disk available" on the menu bar and the same message on TM system prefs with a spinning beach ball. Have been able to force quit system prefs and sent to error log to apple, but a forced reboot is still required because the TM icon on the menu continues to spin. Even a "sudu shutdown -r now" in terminal will not reboot the machine. Get to a blue screen with the spinning tick marks and it just sits there.
    I wonder if the fact that I could not find "Make sure 'Share disks over Ethernet WAN port' is checked." is the issue. It does not appear to be available in the current version of the extreme base 7.4.2. Could those of you who were able to configure it with a previous version get grandfathered in? I wonder if I need to manually mount the extreme hard disk each time I reboot the machines. I am not sure how to do that but will try and see if it works.
    I will be losing internet and e-mail access for a few weeks so will look at this thread again when I return.

  • How to do a backup with time machine?

    Hi Communitieee,
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    KR

    Ok thanks mende1.
    Whats with time machine? I already take a look to the link but i could not find the answer of my problem. Can you please take a look of this screenshot?!
    I dont have an extern hard drive. i just want to save my pics and the other data of my mac.

  • Replacing an Airport Extreme with Time Capsule

    I have had my wireless network setup and working for a few years.
    I've decided to replace my Airport Extreme with a Time Capsule.
    Can I simply disconnect the Airport Extreme, connect the Time Capsule and configure it with the same SSID & Password? or is there a procedure for accomplishing this that I'm not aware of?
    Rick

    rickinlv wrote:
    I have had my wireless network setup and working for a few years.
    I've decided to replace my Airport Extreme with a Time Capsule.
    Can I simply disconnect the Airport Extreme, connect the Time Capsule and configure it with the same SSID & Password? or is there a procedure for accomplishing this that I'm not aware of?
    Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
    What you describe should work, but first you might want to try this approach: Use AirPort Utility to put the Extreme into "manual setup" mode. Use the menu option File -> Export Configuration File to write the configuration to a file. Replace the Extreme with the Time Capsule, put it into "manual setup" mode, and use the menu option File -> Import Configuration File to read the Extreme configuration into the Time Capsule.
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  • Swap airport extreme with time capsule

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    Easy solution:
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  • Airport Extreme and Time Machine. Despite now being officially supported, does it work?

    The subject says it all. After purchasing the new tall Airport Extreme and connecting a WD 2TB drive (as I had with the earlier AE) I have yet to have a backup execute properly. It will be fine for a few days then TM will announce it's done a verification and a new backup is required. Thank goodness I have offsite backup since TM is doing absolutely SFA for me at the moment.

    Yuri van Hoof wrote:
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    Now I want TIme Machine to update/compleet my latest back-up, and here the problems start.
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    To return to backing-up while directly-connected, delete the <Computer Name>.sparsebundle from the top level of the drive.  

  • External Drive connected to Airport Extreme, need Time Machine 3 Mac's Help

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