Multiple backups?

I recently updated my machine to Snow Leopard, having run 10.4.11 for what seemed like forever.
Now that I'm on Snow Leopard I'm considering replacing my aging round, white Airport Extreme base station with a new-generation model. The reason? I want to start using Time Machine for backups. Currently, Time Machine is turned off and my old Airport hardware isn't going to support hard drives anyway.
This leads to a couple of issues...
If I buy new Airport hardware, I'll probably buy fresh new hard drives with them. If I commit to using Time Machine, I would want to backup to more than one hard drive to maintain more than one backup of everything for safety's sake. (Nothing like going to the trouble of backing up only to find your backup drive failed, right?) Currently, I use the Extreme as my main router. It's plugged into my DSL setup. The Express is plugged into a laser printer via Ethernet. If I wanted to maintain two backup drives, could I plug both drives into a new Extreme, or maybe one into a new Extreme and another into a new Express? Does Time Machine allow for making more than one backup?
I heard somewhere that for speed, you can plug your backup drive directly into your Mac for the first backup (mine would be large, and I also use other external drives) and then connect the backup drive into the Airport base station for regular Time Machine operations. Is this correct?

Walt Atwood3 wrote:
I recently updated my machine to Snow Leopard, having run 10.4.11 for what seemed like forever.
Now that I'm on Snow Leopard I'm considering replacing my aging round, white Airport Extreme base station with a new-generation model. The reason? I want to start using Time Machine for backups. Currently, Time Machine is turned off and my old Airport hardware isn't going to support hard drives anyway.
This leads to a couple of issues...
Yes. One is, that's "iffy" and +*not supported by Apple.+* See the Using Time Machine with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
Does Time Machine allow for making more than one backup?
Not at the same time. You'd have to tell it to switch from one to another via TM Preferences > Select Disk. A better solution would be to use a different application. See #25 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum, and/or Kappy's post on Basic Backup, complete with links to the web sites of each product.
I heard somewhere that for speed, you can plug your backup drive directly into your Mac for the first backup (mine would be large, and I also use other external drives) and then connect the backup drive into the Airport base station for regular Time Machine operations. Is this correct?
Not exactly. Backups done locally are put in a normal folder named Backups.backupdb at the top level of the TM drive/partition. Those done over a network are in that same folder, but it's inside a sparse bundle. You cannot easily switch from one to the other.
What you can do is, connect the drive to your Airport. Start a backup, and as soon as the sparse bundle is created, stop the backup and connect the drive to your Mac. Delete the contents of the Backups.backupdb folder in the sparse bundle, and start a new backup. Make sure the backups are going into the sparse bundle (this appears to be a bug); if they are, let it finish, then move the disk back to your Airport.
If not, and Time Machine has created a Backups.backupdb folder outside the sparse bundle, this isn't going to work. Cancel the backup, delete the folder, and connect the drive to your Airport. Connect your Mac to your Airport if possible for the first backup.

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Hello,
Does anyone know if it is possible to have multiple backups of the same iPhone on your computer? I have tried changing the name of the phone (ex. my_iPhone, myiPhoneA) but it still only lists one phone (the most recent name) in the "iPhones backed up on this computer" list in itunes. If anyone has been able to do this, or just knows it could be done, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ronaldo0014 wrote:
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
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First clue.
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Second clue.
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Some few final words: in case you know him, I would like to express my gratitude to "Gordon 7" who provided me
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