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 > > -- > 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.
