Hi Andrew, Did you set up the in Airport Utility? In order for Time Machine to see this disk, you need to share the partitions from within the Disks pane of Airport Utility for that device. Set the partitions up with a disk password. That should do it for you.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-12-13, at 11:14 AM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I would like to use time machine to carry out backups onto a partition of an > external hard drive attached via usb to my primary airport extreme. > > Before I had purchased the airport extreme, I had researched it to reassure > myself that indeed I could use time machine to backup to an external hard > drive attached to it. However, time machine doesn't seem to recognise the > hard drive. > > Has anyone else had this difficulty? I can see all my external hard drive's > partition in finder and can mount them on the desktop but time machine > refuses to list it in the table of available disks. Have I made a mistake by > thinking that i could use airport extreme and an external hard drive to > accomplish this? > > I use macbook air with mountai lion and airport extra 5th generation - the > latest model. I have done some research on the internet having come across > this problem and I can see some articles that imply that Apple has never > clearly said that airport extreme with an external hard drive attached could > serve as a time machine backup destination. Have I made an expensive mistake? > > I'd appreciate any helpful feedback. > > Many thanks > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
