Andrew,

It should work just fine for you.  I did it that way for years without 
incident.  I now use a Time Machine drive connected to my Server but you should 
have no problems with your configuration.

Later..

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On 2012-12-13, at 2:23 PM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Listers,
> 
> I've researched a little bit more, and Ive found an answer to my dilemma. 
> It's rather complicated but hopefully the result will stick. I can see from 
> the page I've found that Apple continues to discourage performing time 
> machine backups onto an external drive connected to airport extreme but the 
> same page has also offerred a solution. It was ultimately quite simple. I 
> needed to mount the partition onto which I want to do backups on the desktop 
> and then launch time machine preferences. Only then did it show the disk I 
> wanted to choose for backups. It is backing up as I write. 
> 
> I must admit that Apple's reluctance to support this method does worry me a 
> bit. I hope that the airport extreme 5th generation is not going to let me 
> down.
> 
> I hope I've not cluttered the list too much with my dilemmas.
> 
> With best wishes
> 
> Andrew
> 
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