Is Time Capsule the only way to wirelessly back up my mac?

I was hoping I could use an existing external hard drive and hook it up to an Airport Express to wirelessly back up my system. Unfortunately, the USB port on the airport does not recognize external hard drives (from what I know). Thus, is Time Capsule the only method of doing this? Thanks.

Johnny Bagger wrote:
I was hoping I could use an existing external hard drive and hook it up to an Airport Express to wirelessly back up my system. Unfortunately, the USB port on the airport does not recognize external hard drives (from what I know). Thus, is Time Capsule the only method of doing this? Thanks.
If you are limiting yourself to TM, probably, but you can copy files and backup you system to any HD you can see on a network, wireless or not.
CarbonCopyCloner will backup to any network machine - they do not specify wireless or not. I don't know about SuperDuper.
Of course the time to make a backup on a WiFi connection is prohibitive for most users. Backing up 70 GB over even a 100 MB/s link is quite tedious. A Gb Wireless connection might be useful but not many have such a link.

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