Make your Airport Extreme work JUST LIKE A TIME CAPSULE!

Do you own Leopard, yet can't use *Time Machine* because *_IT DOES NOT SUPPORT THE AIRPORT EXTREME'S USB HARD-DRIVE FEATURE?_* Is there an inexpensive solution to this problem, or does it require a new _Time Capsule?_
Well, the AEBS hardware does not seem to be the issue. Both a Terminal work-around and a UNIX script exist, both of which *ENABLE FULL AEBS USB DRIVE FUNCTIONALITY -- with no Time Capsule required.* Any current AEBS can function just like a Time Capsule-- here's a link to an Automator program that can run a UNIX script for you, which will set up your AEBS hard-drive for use with Time Machine:
http://www.9to5mac.com/time-machine-fix-flux-capacitor-43262455
This will *ENABLE FULL AEBS-TM FUNCTIONALITY--* +*at no extra cost!*+ This "software fix" seems to work just fine in most cases... However, it's not "official", so use at your own discretion.
*Does anyone know of any other, potentially better software fixes or work-arounds?* The more solutions there are, the more functionality that Airport Extreme owners can get from their hardware.

I've done this, and it will let you do Time Machine backups to the air disk. But I recommend against it. The issue with the AEBS seems to be the nature of network writes. The AEBS (with the current firmware) doesn't guarantee the data is written before responding to the network, so it's not a secure backup. Everything will probably be fine, until there's a power fluctuation or network dropout or something disruptive like that.
Time Machine to another Mac is also disabled, until the 10.5.2 update. I believe this release improved network writes, so you can safely back up to network volumes of any Leopard computer. I'm now able to use a network volume from my server (running regular Leopard).
I'd wait until new firmware comes out for the AEBS, that will hopefully give it the Time Capsule functionality.

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    Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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