I have an Airport Extreme but cannot back up to the 2GB Hard Drive attached via USB
I have an Airport Extreme (4th generation) an iMac and Macbook Pro (both run on Lion). For some reason the Macbook can see the 2GB HD I have attached to the Airport Extreme and uses it as it's Time Machine. However, the iMac cannot find the 2GB HD to use as it's TM. It's really pi**ing me off.
To make it worse, when I open the Airport Utility I can find the HD, but when I open Time Machine I can't find it. Grrrr!!
Thanks for any help, Tom
First off, Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port at the AirPort Extreme.
It does seem to work for some users, works somewhat for others and does not work at all for some users. So there may be some differences in the hardware on the iMac and MacBook Pro that might account for some of the difficulties. I cannot say for sure.
Oddly enough, I have both a MacBook Pro and and iMac as well and I've experimented with Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme here several times with varying results.
I too, could not "see" the drive from the iMac when I first tried to set up Time Machine from that computer.
When I mounted the drive on the desktop of the iMac, then Time Machine was able to see it and backups started, but I had corruption problems on the backups after a few weeks.....as some other users have reported as well.
Backups did run OK from the MacBook Pro for a few months before I started noticing error messages and started to have to run Disk Utility to repair the disk. After another month or so of this, Disk Utility could not repair the drive and I had to start all over again.
So, count me in the group of users who have had some success and some difficulties with this unsupported method of backing up via Time Machine. My "experiments" with this on several tries have convinced me that this is not a reliable method to backup my important files, so I use other methods that are supported.
You may have better luck.
Try mounting the drive on the desktop of your iMac first, then open Time Machine to see if it can "see" the drive to setup backups.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
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