Comments on: Leopard 10.5.2, Airport EXTREME and Time Machine

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:34:23 +0000

Just hold down the option key when you click on ‘Change Disk…’ and you should be able to select all NAS volumes.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:34:23 +0000

Just hold down the option key when you click on 'Change Disk…' and you should be able to select all NAS volumes.

By: sebachu

sebachu — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:35:28 +0000

I had the same problem but in the end I made Time Machine backup properly to a hard drive attached to an Airport Extreme by using Disk Utility to create a sparsebundle image with exactly the same name as the one Time Machine *tries* to create on the drive. Simply create it using Disk Utility and copy it to your time machine volume – it works!

By: sebachu

sebachu — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:35:28 +0000

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:37:52 +0000

I found an easy way to make this all work. A very small utility called iTime Machine which you can download for free from http://www.creationrobot.com/2008/01/itimemachine-fixes-time-machine-on-airport-extreme-base-station/

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:37:52 +0000

I found an easy way to make this all work. A very small utility called iTime Machine which you can download for free from http://www.creationrobot.com/2008/01/itimemachi...

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:46:46 +0000

I had the same problem, and got it working by creating a sparsebundle with the same filename, as suggested above. However, I wasn’t able to create the image on the remote volume – I got the same errors that backupd reported when I tried. Instead I created it on the local disk, then copied it to the AFP share. I’m backing up now, will report success once it completes (or doesn’t…)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:46:46 +0000

I had the same problem, and got it working by creating a sparsebundle with the same filename, as suggested above. However, I wasn't able to create the image on the remote volume – I got the same errors that backupd reported when I tried. Instead I created it on the local disk, then copied it to the AFP share. I'm backing up now, will report success once it completes (or doesn't…)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:56:34 +0000

To those that have used the terminal hack: Do your Time Machine backups continue to run INCREDIBLY slowly?

I had no problems getting TM to recognize my AEBS as an Airport Disk, but the initial backup (100 GB) took 80 HOURS, and I saw no improvement with the speed on subsequent backups.

Maybe it’s something in my setup…but regardless, this isn’t a solution for me. Not to mention the fact that hacking backup software doesn’t strike me as the best of ideas in the first place…

Would love to hear from those who are actively backing up to an AEBS…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:56:34 +0000

To those that have used the terminal hack: Do your Time Machine backups continue to run INCREDIBLY slowly?

I had no problems getting TM to recognize my AEBS as an Airport Disk, but the initial backup (100 GB) took 80 HOURS, and I saw no improvement with the speed on subsequent backups.

Maybe it's something in my setup...but regardless, this isn't a solution for me. Not to mention the fact that hacking backup software doesn't strike me as the best of ideas in the first place...

Would love to hear from those who are actively backing up to an AEBS...