Posts Tagged ‘time machine’

So, you were all happy that the new HP MediaSmart home servers finally gave you a choice other than the anti-trust Time Capsule to do backups remotely… in the home. And, you are now ready to run out and buy one, blindfolds on to any compatibility issues. Sorry, I once again have to burst your [...]

Apple today confirmed to me, that despite past indications, they will never fix Time Machine over AirPort Disk, when using an AirPort Extreme. This is a stark contrast to Steve Jobs’ own comments when Mac OS X Leopard was unveiled. “AirPort Extreme is the perfect backup solution for Leopard.” His words. Now that Time Capsule [...]

Yes, that’s right. If you have an AirPort Extreme 802.11n and want to use Time Machine, it looks like you now can. I have successfully backed up my 12-inch PowerBook G4 over Wi-Fi to my AirPort Disk… and then restored the entire backup via Wi-Fi from my AirPort Disk. It took an excruciatingly long time [...]

Let the testing begin! Go run AirPort Utility and update your base station (or Time Capsule) to firmware 7.3.2. Now, the question remains (as it has with the past two updates), will this patch fix TIme Machine backups via AirPort Disk? Historical Recap: As you may know, and as I’ve crusaded here… Apple told people [...]

There’s one feature that Apple, I’ve learned, really regrets scrapping from Leopard. Originally, Time Machine had a lot of additional features which didn’t make the final cut. One of the features was to use the free disk space on the boot drive as shadow copy storage. This mimicked a feature from Vista that does the [...]

Okay, so you know my position on AirPort Disk & Time Machine by now… rather than simply saying the configuration is unsupported (after announcing, touting, hindering, neutering, and ultimately enabling a buggy fix… you get the idea, I could link to prior posts for each, but searching works too). Anyways, I realized it’s really a [...]

Apple today confirmed what I revealed initially… Time Machine and AirPort Disk may say they play together now… but unfortunately, there are still show-stopping bugs. They weren’t as clear as I was, in fact, they didn’t mention that these were data-loss level issues… simply that the feature is still unsupported. I just wish for one [...]

A quick follow-up to my last post… I figured it would be a good time to try out that Time Machine-via-AirPort Disk functionality we forced Apple to release. So, I booted up from my Leopard install disc, partitioned the drive, rebooted, and ran Restore System from Backup… Note: You have to reboot after formatting a [...]

Go grab AirPort & Time Machine Updates 1.0. It does what I’ve been railing Apple to fix (as well as many others)… and they have. Time Machine backups now succeed on AirPort Disk drives, connected to an AirPort Extreme base station. Enjoy, consumer advocacy in action. Update: There is also a corresponding firmware update for [...]

Mac OS X 10.5.2 is now out, and it has some very upsetting things about it in regards to Time Machine. Specifically, while 10.5.2 will happily talk to Apple’s Time Capsule, it still has problems with network-based shares on all other platforms. That includes AirPort Disk, Windows Shares, and Mac OS X network shares. Here’s [...]