Time machine with network drive?

I heard I could use time machine with the hard drive I have connected to my airport extreme. Problem is I can't get the disk to appear in the time machine set up window as an option

Unfortunately Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a HDD attached to the AirPort Extreme USB port. Doing so is not recommended as most users who attempt this end up with corrupted backups over time. However, you could use a different backup solution with this configuration, just not Time Machine.

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Time Machine with 2T drive connected to Airport Extreme base via USB

I got this to work - Time machine recognizing the drive in its "choose backup disk" menu.
I used it to store Apple Lossless audio on a big iTunes library, as well as for my Time Machine backups.
Whole system ran fine for 4 months until last week: while I was using iTunes with that remote library, adding audio to it... "Airport has detected a disk error"... My 2TB of disk turned into a very expensive brick.
The disk had to be recovered with Disk Warrior, detecting "19,753 directory entries with incorrect text encoding value" as part of a nice one-page-long list of other errors.
SINCE THEN: no matter what I do, the disk does not show up in Time Machine, even though I can access it via the network exactly as before.
Any ideas are welcome!

Apple does not support Time Machine backups to an AirPort disk (a USB drive attached to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS)). (ref: Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Extreme AirPort Disks) Although folks, like yourself, have gotten this to work initially, the long-term stability of the TM backups is highly suspect and why Apple doesn't support it. Sorry!

Can't backup to Time Machine with portable drive plugged into a router

I am using a the Cisco EA3500 with a USB plug on the back, I am trying to backup with Time Machine to a portable hard drive plugged into the USB on the back of the rputer over the wifi network. I'm wondering if that is possible. I tried it once but "I'm getting the The Network backup disk does not support the required of AFP features" error message. PLEASE HELP!!!! Thank you!

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

Time Machine on network drive?

Can Time Machine work on a network drive? I don't see how to do that right now. If it does, then it could be perfect for our small office, which now uses Retrospect to back up every machine (6 of them) to one massive (1 TB) backup disk. If not, then we can't really use it. Can someone shed some light here? And if it can't currently do it, Apple, please consider this for a near future update to Leopard.

"It took a half-hour for TM to backup the first time, on an 800MHz FW drive. I assume you are using a gigabit network - even a 100MHz network would take 4 hours for the first backup, assuming no other network traffic. And that would be for a single machine. I can't imagine it's very fast or even reliable.
What happens to a backup if you get a network crash? Can TM pickup where it left off? "
FYI, It's not MHz. I believe Mega bits per sec (Mbs) is what you're looking for.

Time machine with USB drive on Airport Extreme

For 2+ years I used a USB hard drive shared off my Airport Extreme to host time machine backups. I just switched internet providers solely so that i could go back to using my airport extreme and sharing a backup disk. But time machine no longer shows it as an available drive...and I found this
AirPort base stations: Time Machine hard drive compatibility - Apple Support
which states: Time Machine is not supported with USB hard drives that are connected to an AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme device.
This is a pretty big step backwards as far as I'm concerned.....are there are any ways around it?

There is a way around it: buy the latest type of the Airport Extreme (the tall one). But even that solution isn't considered reliable: http://pondini.org/TM/AEQ2.html

10.5.2 TIme Machine with Firewire Drives

I have seen other people post that they have had problems with Time Machine and 10.5.2. I have had similar problems -- The backup would fail after about 6-8gb with mysterious system.log lines saying there were errors copying files to the volume. The most interesting lines in system.log were from backupd producing error -36 (io error) followed by a mysterious -8062 error.
I checked the disk, no errors. I verified that the files listed in the log file were not erroneous -- they were ok. I reformatted the time machine drive and got the same result. I bought a new external drive on the chance that the old external drive was failing and still got the messages. Prior to the 10.5.2 update, Time Machine worked as advertised with no issues.
In an attempt to figure this out, I switched the external drive from firewire 400 to USB. Now, the backup seems to progressing normally. Interestingly, when Aperture tried to backup a vault to the same firewire drives, it also got an I/O error.
I suspect there is a problem with the 10.5.2 firewire drivers and PowerMac G5 (and maybe others)

I concur. Leopard's FireWire drivers still seem to be problematic. On my friend's computer, an iMac G4, using FireWire had consistently resulted in disk failures when running 10.5.1, so we had switched to USB as a workaround. After 10.5.2 arrived, we switched back, hoping Apple had fixed the problem. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case.
Soon after switching back to FireWire, Time Machine failed, and we ended up having to start from scratch. Time Machine got to about the 100-GB mark of the initial backup when it reported a disk error. Unlike your case, however, the volume was corrupted, and Disk Utility could not repair it. We're going back to USB for now.

Time Machine with other drives

Does Time Machine only backup the system drive?
I'd like to use TimeMachine to backup a PCIe attached RAID.
Will that work?
Is there any special config or cautions to consider?

Kappy means "all connected devices that have not been specifically EXcluded."
Plus drives that aren't formatted for a Mac (HFS+, aka: any variant of +Mac OS Extended).+
That said, what it does with a RAID set will depend on how it looks to OSX: asuming it looks like a single volume, it should be fine. If it looks like two, it will try to back both up separately, so you'll probably want to exclude one.

Can you use time machine with 2 drives

I'd like to make two Time Machine backups - one per external drive - so that I can keep one in a different location. Is that possible? When I switch drives will each backup know where to pickup?
Thanks.

Yes, although that's not the best way to keep secondary backups.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for details.

HT3275 Since updating OS to Mountain Lion from leopard, I get the following error message when trying to backup with time machine on external drive. Could not complete backup to media share. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP feat

Since updating OS to Mountain Lion from leopard, I get the following error message when trying to backup with time machine on external drive. "Could not complete backup to media share. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features." What are AFP features and how do I get Time Machine to backup to my current external backup?

This means that your NAS does not support the required encryption. Update your NAS to the latest firmware or ditch it and buy a Time Capsule (they are the most reliable when using TM).

Using Time Machine with a network Drive

I recently bought a WD My Book Live network drive to use as my Time Machine backup. I was previously using a USB external HD for Time Machine with no problems. I have set up the new network drive but when I go in to Time Machine to select it as the drive to back up to, it is not showing up. The only drive I see is my old USB external HD. I have the latest firmware for the network drive and I am running Mac OSX10.5.8. Any suggestions?

If you bought the WD in a USB enclosure it probably came formatted with NTFS (Windows). Time Machine can't use NTFS drives or SMB (Windows) network shares as a backup destination because that format does not allow the proper permissions to be set. If this is the case with your drive, open Disk Utility and reformat your new drive (NOT you system drive!!) with HFS+ aka 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' and then the drive should show up as a target selection in Time Machine.

Network drives and time machine with Lion

Since upgrading to Lion my MyBookWorld network drive is no longer working with time machine. The drive is recognised as being there by finder and time machine but when I try and connect to it as registered user there is a warning saying There was a problem connecting to the server "MyBookWorld.Local". This drive was working fine until I upgraded to lion. There is no new firmware from Wesern Digital for the disc. It looks like that will be the solution. does anyone have any idea when that may be forthcoming?

Please follow these instructions:
Lion: Connecting to legacy (pre-Lion) AFP services - and Mac OS X (server):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3258472

Time Machine with Ethernet network hard drive ???

I would like to buy a WD World Edition Ethernet hard-drive.
Can I use Time machine with an Ethernet drive plugged on my Ethernet router ??
(a SFR box - French ISP provider)

yes, I've read the article and others links, and there's some issues. When the NAS disk is full using this hint, some datas can be lost. Not recommanded.
Too bad ! I've not bought it yet, but it's seems a good product anyway for others uses (shared with others Macs, PCs, iTunes server with AAC support...)
but another disk is needed for TM... GRRRR. Now I hesitate to buy it.
Western Digital : some work for you here, as my fear is that Apple will not upgrade TM to add NAS support :-(((

Time Machine and Networked external hard drive

My family has thee macs and one PC, all under the same roof. All the Macs are 2008 and later models (MacBooks and MacBook Pros, with Leopard or Snow Leopard).
I lost a load of data last weekend and my i-disk did not contain a backup of all the data, pics etc lost which came as a nasty shock. Bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted, I've bought a Western Digital 1TB external hard disk and connected it to the USB 2 port on my linksys Gigabit N+ router. This network device does appear in my list of shared devices and I can manually copy and paste data to it, but Time Machine doesn't seem able to see the device to enable me to automate the backup process.
I've looked for relevant posts on this forum but can't see quite the thing, can you help me please?
What if anything can I do to get Time Machine to do automated backups and can this be done via the network router to enable others in the family to do likewise?

To expand a bit on one of the options Kappy mentions, if one of your Macs is stationary, you can back up over your local network to a shared drive connected directly to it. See #22 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
It's "iffy" and not supported by Apple, but some are able to back up to a USB drive connected to a recent-model Airport Extreme. See the Using Time Machine with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum. As mentioned there, don't depend on those 100%; also maintain some sort of secondary backups, in addition.
But that's something I learned (the hard way, of course) long ago: Airport or not, never trust your backups to a single app or piece of hardware. No app is perfect, and no hardware is trouble-free indefinitely.
Or, you may be able to find an alternative app that will back up to your setup. See Kappy's post on +Basic Backup,+ complete with links to the web sites of each product.

Can I increase the capacity of Time Machine with an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule?

Can I increase the capacity of Time Machine with an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule via the USB port? My current Time Machine has a total capacity of 1TB. I'd like to double or triple its memory. I don't want to use the external hard drive in lieu of the Time Capsule hard drive. I'd like to use it in addition to. Just don't know if/how it's possible.
This is another one of those questions that I've searched the web for answers, and have gotten tricky answers back. So now I'm trying to introduce a clean slate to the mix.
Thank you for your time!

Well, what you mentioning is possible. However, I don't know whether it's supported (as in, "easy to set up."). Time Machine officially supports backing up to a locally attached drive, to a machine running a Time Machine server (i.e. running OS X Server software), and to a Time Capsule. I don't know that it officially supports a drive attached to an AirPort or to a Time Capsule. Though I know some people have gotten it to work.
Best I can say is to try it. Plug the drive into the Time Capsule, ensure it's shared on the network, and then try and set it as a backup target from a machine in the Time Machine backup panel (you'll need to ensure it's mounted first). If it works, you're all set.

Using Time MACHINE with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme

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Hi, Nubz!
Yes, I just saw that, and am still chuckling.
Maybe that will mollify the Jive gods?
Thanks again,
Jim

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