NAS Backup Drive connected to Router

I have been using a WRT54G router to connect my 2 desktops together in a network in addition to the internet. I have been reading that there is a backup drive that can be connected directly to the router, which can then be accessed by both computers without the other being on.
I was wondering if anyone can suggest a NAS drive to connect via ethernet to my WRT54G router that I can use for backups and sharing data with both computers along with backup software? I have found a number of them, however I wasn't sure if they worked with the Linksys router or not. I am looking for a 500gb to possibly 1tb if not too expensive.

I think there is no problem connecting a NAS to WRT54G router. It will work.
You can try NSLU2 or NAS200.

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Hello Thatguy1233,
It sounds like you have a Time Machine back up of your computer that you would like to restore. You may be able to use the following article to restore that backup:
OS X Lion: Recover your entire system
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph4351
Make sure your Time Machine backup disk is connected and turned on. If your backup disk is on a network, make sure your computer is on the same network.
Choose Apple menu > Restart, and then hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys while the computer restarts.
Select “Restore from a Time Machine Backup,” and then click Continue.
Depending on your type of backup disk, do one of the following:
If you use an external disk, select it and click Continue.
If you use a Time Capsule, choose your AirPort network from the AirPort menu on the right side of the menu bar, and then select your Time Capsule and click “Connect to Remote Disk.”
If you use a network disk, select it and click “Connect to Remote Disk.”
If necessary, enter the name and password you use to connect to your backup disk, and then click Connect.
Select the date and time of the backup you want to restore, and then follow the onscreen instructions.
After you restore your system from a Time Machine backup, Time Machine may perform a full backup at the next scheduled backup time. This is normal. Time Machine resumes incremental backups after the full backup is completed.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
Sterling

HT204057 is there a way to use time machine with a backup drive connected to my AirPort?

is there a way to use time machine with a backup drive connected to my AirPort Extreme?

Unfortunately, this is not officially supported by Apple......if you still have the 4th Gen AirPort Extreme that you list in your equipment profile.
However, the new "tower" shaped version of the AirPort Extreme does now officially support Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the device.

External backup drive connected to airport router giving "... backup disk image ... /.../... is already in use" error.

I just added an external backup drive to my airport router for my desktop and my laptop to use. Initial backups worked, but now I'm getting "... backup disk image ... /.../...MacBook Pro.sparcsbundle is already in use." This message is on laptop even after stopping timemachine on the desktop. The initial backup worked for both machines. Is this a timing problem? It shows the last backup happened earlier this evening, but I'm concerned about the major amount of work I did after that time.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

You can't use that configuration for Time Machine backups, if that's what you're doing.
Mac 101: Time Machine

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I have a USB Seagate free agent backup drive. Can I connect it to my Airport? I understand it isnt supported. Is there firmware to make this drive able to run on the express?

Why doesn't apple do an update to support a drive?
We cannot speak for Apple on a user to user forum. We are all users, just like you.

TM backup drive connected to Extreme - ethernet or usb?

I have an airport extreme (latest gen) connected to a synology external HDD thru an ethernet cable for TM backup but I've seen posts saying external HDD should be only connected via the USB. Why can't i use the ethernet? it seems to be working to be a TM backup ok?
I want to connect another HDD to my imac and am thinking of using another one of the ethernet ports in the airport extreme. Will that be ok?

but I've seen posts saying external HDD should be only connected via the USB.
These posts would not be correct, then.
Why can't i use the ethernet?
You can.
I want to connect another HDD to my imac and am thinking of using another one of the ethernet ports in the airport extreme. Will that be ok?
Yes

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I have my iTunes Library on an external USB hard drive. When the drive is connected directly to my iMac, I access the library by Option-Launching iTunes at which point I am asked to choose or create an iTunes Library. I choose the library on the external HD and everything is fine,
However when I connect the same HD to the USB3 port on my R7000, I am not able to choose the library successfully. When I Option-launch iTunes and select the iTunes library I get an error that says, "The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (13008)"
Curiously I am able to navigate to the Readyshare iTunes library. For example I can get too this file...
Jazz>iTunes Media>Music>Acoustic Alchemy>The New Edge> 01 Oceans Apart.m4a
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Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

Oh groan, not another conspiracy theory. No, it's a lot more likely Apple and Netgear and the dozens of other manufacturers haven't gotten together with the thousands users who have come up with hundreds of thousands of ways of rigging things up and tested each and every one of them. I am confident if Apple were out to mess things up for you they could have come up with something a lot more devious.
Did you do a web search for this? With a Google search specifying Netgear with this error I found:
ReadySHARE USB Hard drive access issue from a Mac Computer (Time Machine or iTunes not working properly)
- Able to see USB hard drive content but unable to write to USB hard drive connected to router's Readyshare port from Mac computer.
- Error that says "The iTunes application could not be opened. Unknown error 13008"
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22763/~/readyshare-usb-hard-drive- access-issue-from-a-mac-computer-%28time-machine-or
In fact it is almost certain that it is an issue of that particular model router and the drive formats it can use.

How do I prevent OS X from opening apps on external backup drive?

I have an external backup drive connected to my iMac and powered on 24/7. I do a nightly clone of my boot drive to this backup. I've been having a problem lately where OS X will open an application that is on the external clone of my boot drive instead of the internal boot drive itself. One example of this is when I use Lightroom and choose "Edit in Photoshop", instead of opening Photoshop on my iMac boot drive it opens it on the external clone of the boot drive.
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Hi,
In System Preferences > Start Up Disk is one device set as the Start Up Disk ?
It may not be clear just looking at the left to right scroll area (depending how many drives and Partitions) but selecting one can often help.
At Start Up the computer looks for a valid Boot Disk.
If it does not seem to be set it is supposed to go through some checks to find out which one to Boot from. Most occasions it will pick the last Drive/partition that it was Booted from. However the order in which the Internal Drives are connected to the system may also pay a part, particularly of the Current required Boot drive is not the original hard drive (Or at least in it's physical place, cable connection-wise).
Also Click on the desktop and open Mac Help (Help Menu in the Finder) and see what that has to say.
11:30 AM Thursday; August 26, 2010
Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

Ethernet NAS vs. USB drive connected directly to router

I Currently stream data on a WD MyBook usb 2.0 hard drive connected to my routers USB port. This data is streamed wirelessly to my Blu Ray and it has been pretty stable for a few years now. If I now attach a Seagate NAS (STCT8000100) directly to the router using gigabit Ethernet what practical difference will I see? Will the NAS be as reliable or better (or worse)? I expect that the streaming will be comparable due to the wireless part of the equation but will there be system overhead due to Ethernet vs. USB 2.0 That mucks with stability vs. my current set up? Am I overthinking this?

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I want to stream media from a NAS drive connected to my Time Capsule.

I recently bought the Time Capsule to serve as my backup and my wireless router. Both of my Macs are now using it via Time Machine. I now want to move my large ITunes and IPhoto databases from an external hard drive on one Mac to a network drive where I can stream/view from either Mac. What is the best way to do this?
1. Buy a NAS drive with just ethernet and connect to one of the three port on the Time Capsule? If so, what is the best drive to buy?
2. Use a USB drive and attack to the USP port on the Time Capsule? If so, will any USB drive work?
3. Other?

maxlemke wrote:
1. Buy a NAS drive with just ethernet and connect to one of the three port on the Time Capsule? If so, what is the best drive to buy?
i recently moved my iTunes library to a NAS. i'm very happy with performance.
have a look at this discussion.
as for iPhoto, all i have is a link to a recent discuss over atthe Apple TV forum but don't know how relevant it is: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15366429#15366429
2. Use a USB drive and attack to the USP port on the Time Capsule? If so, will any USB drive work?
as long as the drive is properly formatted, yes. you may need to use a powered USB hub. the USB connection may or may not be a bottleneck as compared to full gigabit speed of the NAS.

We have 3 MacBook Pros in our house, connected by a WiFi network. I am having troubles connecting an external hard drive thru our router, to make back ups of all three computers wirelessly.

I have purchased a 3rd party external hard drive to back up all three computers. I have done the intial back up by connecting each computer separately to the drive via USB. I was told at the Apple store where I purchased the drive, that I could then connect the hard drive to our router via the USB and then use Time Machine to back up the computers wirelessly. But I can't seem to figure out how to do that. I have connected the device to the router, but don't see it on Finder and when I check with Time Machine, it doesn't recognize any device. Help please!

First off your external drive must be formatted Mac Extened (Journaled) for it to work with Time Machine. As that is not a widely used format, the Apple Mac format, most routers do not support it so the router will not see it is even connected to the router. For the router to see the drive is must be formatted either FAT32 or on some routers they can see/read/write to the NTFS format. But if you kformat it like that then Time Machine will not backup to it.
About the only device that can be used for network backups of Mac computers is an Apple Time Capsule.
So you have 2 options.
1) Do all the backups by connecting that drive directly to each Mac.
2) Take it back and get a Refund then buy an Apple Time Capsule. And or some other Network Attached Storage device (a NAS) that cane be formatted Mac Extended (Journaled) and be seen on your LAN and that the Mac's can backup up to.
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Time Capsule can't backup external hard drives connected to it. Got that.

Hello Apple Support Communities! This is my first post. Hope this finds you all well My first year as an Apple user. I bought a 2-Tb TC and am running my first backup to my MacBook as I write this.
Problem statement: TC can't backup external hard drives connected directly to it, but the ones connected to the Macs that are connected wirelessly to it. Duly noted. However, the Spotlight will reindex the hard drives connected to the Mac and that will take hours; the whole backup will take days. Thus, excluding the hard drives at "System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy tab" will probably help reduce the time of backup, or just ejecting them will do too. That itself has not proven effective coz it's still taking forever (50Gb in 2 days, still going).
Questions:
1) Do I wait until my first backup to my MacBook's internal hard drive is done before I connect my hard drives to my MacBook and attempt another backup? If yes, how do I go about the excessive time Spotlight reindexing takes if I intend to backup my hard drives connected to my MacBook?
2) Is there any other way of speeding up the first-time backup?
*Note: All versions of OS and firmwares are up-to-date. TC is connected to an external wireless router. TC is intended to be used as backup device and / or file server only.
P/S: Apologee if this has already been discussed before, thus, a link to previous discussion thread would highly be appreciated)
- Shook Hashem, Malaysia.

How do I backup the externel hard drives connected to my MB. I was under the impression that that has already been done, because I've read it somewhere in a discussion that said it's done automatically unless I exclude it from a backup, which I didn't. So it's supposed to backup the external hard drivestoo because I had them connected to my MB the entire time during the backups.
By default an external drive is excluded.. the list is odd.. if I plug a drive into the mac.. it immediately is listed as excluded.
This is not the list of included.. this is the list of excluded.. remove it from the excluded list to include it.
It is kind of reverse polish notation in backups.
If I want to enter the Time Machine, should I enter it with the TM turned on or off?
Not sure what the question means. If you use the star wars display and want to recover files then use TM off.. but read up pondini.. how to do restore etc.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
15A in particular on the how to use TM.
When do I uplug the ethernet and use the wireless connection instead?
Once you have finished the main backup you can go back to wireless. The incremental backups are mostly very small.

Can Time Machine backup USB Drive connected to Airport Extreme Base Station

I need a new N based wireless router. I would prefer to get just the $179 Base Station and not the $299 Time Capsule. I already have a nice external USB 500GB drive that I would connect to the AEBS. So, once I have this new wireless router/base station installed at home and I have the external USB drive connected to it, can my new Macbook Air with a USB connected 400GB drive be used to backup what is on the Macbook Air and also backup the 500GB USB drive info that is connected to the extreme base station?
Thanks
tj

I found this when searching Apple's web site but it is old, October 2007, and said it could not be done. Has this changed since then?
Here is what I found.
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Disks
* Last Modified on: October 26, 2007
* Article: 306833
Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard can be used to back up to many kinds of Mac OS Extended-formatted drives, but it does not support AirPort Extreme's AirPort Disk feature.
Time Machine can back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, or to a Leopard Server volume, or an Xsan storage device.

Can I use time machine to back up via a hard drive connected by USB to a HomeHub router?

Can I use time machine to back up via a hard drive connected by USB to a BT HomeHub router? Is there a better way to back up and store files than via the USB port on my new MacBook Pro? I'd like storage to be accessible from my earlier version MacBook too.

I think you want to make backups without connecting a hard disk via USB. In other words, you want to have the data storage be shared in your home wirelessly.
If this is the case, I recommend using a Time Capsule.
Time Capsule works great with Time Machine. You can set up all your devices to automatically make backups on the Time Capsule wirelessly and effortlessly.

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