[MacTUG] FYI: AirPort Firmware 7.3.1 brings Time Machine over AirDisk back

[Glenn Anderson]

Timemachine backups to an Airport disk is now back it appears.



http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080319164615521

AirPort Firmware 7.3.1 brings Time Machine over AirDisk back -- really

Last week we erroneously reported Apple quietly reinstated the  
ability to use Time Machine for AirPort-connected USB disks  
("AirDisks"), with AirPort Update 2008-001. That update allowed  
AirPort-connected disks to show up as volumes in Time Machine for  
some, the actual backup functionality did not work.

It now seems that Apple has added this functionality with AirPort  
Extreme Firmware 7.3.1, which can be applied via AirPort Utility  
after Time Machine and AirPort Updates 1.0 is applied.

So, apply AirPort Update 2008-001, install Time Machine and AirPort  
Updates 1.0, then launch AirPort Utility (in /Applications/ 
Utilities). You should be automatically prompted to update to  
firmware 7.3.1. If not, choose "Manual Setup" then choose "Upload  
Firmware" from the Base Station menu.

In-house, we're backing up to an AirPort Extreme-connected disk i  
Time Machine as we write this article.

Early, pre-release builds of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) included the  
ability to use Time Machine with USB disks connected to AirPort  
Extreme Base stations. That feature was mysteriously removed in the  
final release, making way for the Time Capsule, which offers similar  
functionality. At the time, we conjectured that Leopard was released  
with known AirPort disk connection reliability issues.


Glenn Anderson
Client Services, IST
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, On
519-888-4567 x33327
anderson at uwaterloo.ca



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