Mount Hard Drive on Airport Extreme-my experience

Hi-hopefully this will help fellow strugglers:
I have setup and been using a Apple wireless network in my home for several years - Airport Extreme 2.4 Ghz/5Ghz ver. 7.6.1 - (newest model), Airport Express. It is working fine. I am describing how I  mounted a USB hard drive to the Airport extreme USB Port:
Disk Description :
Maxtor OneTouch III Media
Total Capacity :
120.03 GB (120,034,123,776 Bytes)
Connection Bus :
USB
Write Status :
Read/Write
Connection Type :
External
S.M.A.R.T. Status :
Not Supported
USB Serial Number :
2CASC4FY
Partition Map Scheme :
Apple Partition Map
OSX 10.8.2
I believe this is USB 2.0 connection(USB 2.0 A to Mini-B cable)
My MacPro is
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz)
MacBookPro3,1
I opened the Airport Utility (ver 6.1-610.31) and select the Airport Extreme (green light on) and click edit. Then am presented with the following tabs at the top (Base Station, Internet, Wireless, Network, Disks). I check the 'Disks' on the dialog box, I did not enable file sharing and share disks over WAN. My hard drive showed up in the window of the dialog box. Now when I open a Finder window my hard drive can be found under "Charles' Airport"). I hope this helps anyone else trying to do same. Good luck. Now, I wonder if I can do my backups through time machine? Later CB

Now, I wonder if I can do my backups through time machine?
Although Apple says that you cannot do this, other users have been able to do this with varying results.
it does seem to work for some users, while other users.....like me....find that backups work OK for a few weeks to even a month or more and then find that the backups have become corrupted.
There is nothing wrong with trying things out to see how they work for you, but I would never do this unless I had a secondary backup plan in place.

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