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Setting up Time Machine with Airport Extreme
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Webster, NY, USA
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I am in need of detailed instructions as to how to properly set up Time Machine with an Airport Disk.
I have a 320GB FW/USB disk (Hard Drive) connected to my Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS). I just bought the AEBS today. I have been using Time Machine to back up my MacBook Pro (MBP) to my Hard Drive for about a month.
When I connect my Hard Drive to the AEBS, Time Machine is willing to attempt a backup. However, it attempts to copy all 80GB of data on my MBP to the Hard Drive (as opposed to the incremental data).
I know that moving this much data over 802.11n will take a while. I want it simply to pick up where I left off with my firewire backups. How do I do this?
Thank you,
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B unce!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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As far as I know, that's how it works; your old backups are useless/inacessable over the network. The new backup is stored inside a disk image, which is mounted over the network, instead of just in the HFS+ volume on the external drive.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Mduell is right. You would start from scratch.
-t
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Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
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Connect via ethernet for the first backup, or let it sit overnight backing up over wifi. Then you'll get incremental backups after that.
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: BIrmingham, AL
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Ahh yes, I've experienced this "shortcoming" of Time Machine as well.
I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend a great piece of third-party software: SuperDuper! In the event that your hard drive were to experience an antimatter overload, SuperDuper! would have turned your Time Machine backup into a bootable volume on your so that you could boot from that drive and have access to all of your TM backups.
I think this feature should be built into TM, but I understand the sense in the simplicity of the software.
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