macrumors.com — After the release of today's Time Machine and Airport update, several readers report that Time Machine now supports backups to USB drives connected to your Airport Extreme basestation. This configuration essentially reproduces the functionality of Apple's Time Capsule product.
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peterealityMar 20, 2008
Emmett Brown: Great Scott!
PaulTheBookGuyMar 20, 2008
Seems to be working awesome now.
xoeduskMar 21, 2008
Here here.
deadbabyMar 21, 2008
I used network TM backups on 10.5.0 & 10.5.1 and it was indeed buggy and slow. After 10.5.2 came out everything started working much better. So I would say Apple definitely spent some time tweaking the TM code in order to support this feature.
imcquillMar 21, 2008
It is backing it up on a file by file basis. It is storing it in on big sparsebundle file, but that is actually a good thing. It is still only backing up the files that have changed, and you can still recover individual files. It is like a disk image. When it backs up, it mounts the disk image and you can see/access all the individual files just like any other disk image.
downundergeekApr 10, 2008
You need to plug your Mac Book into AC power for Time Machine to back up hourly.