AppleShare Format on Airport Disk

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AppleShare Format on Airport Disk

Okay, I just bought the new Airport Extreme so that I can attach my 1TB WesternDigital MyBook to its USB port. I formatted the hard drive for Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the GUID setting. I already hooked it up directly to my new MacBook Pro and completed the initial backup, with the greatest of ease. After plugging it into the Airport, I turned on "File Sharing" with the Airport disk, and am able to successfully mount it using the Finder. Opening up the Time Machine preferences, it recognizes that the disk is present, which is great. The only issue now is that Time Machine says that it will not write to disks with an AppleShare format. I know for a fact that it's Mac OS Extended (Journaled), but when sharing the disk, and viewing the information about the remote disk as it sits on my desktop, it reads that the format is "AppleShare."

Here's the readout from Time Machine:

"The backup volume is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required."

I have the latest Firmware on my Airport Extreme, as well.
Here's a screen shot of the info as the remote disk mounts on my desktop:

Here's the settings from my Airport Utility:

2008 MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Dec 30, 2008 2:06 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 5, 2009 8:20 AM in response to Garretttttttttt

Same problem here!!!
When I attach my LaCie rugged via Fire Wire no problem and I can see that it is in Mac OS Extenden format. When I attach the drive to my Airport via USB the format is suddenly AppleShare and Time Machine refuses to work.

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Answer 2

Jan 5, 2009 8:23 AM in response to Pelle Neksor

What are we to do?! :o)

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Answer 3

Feb 7, 2009 8:35 AM in response to Garretttttttttt

I had a similar issue. I performed a full Time Machine back up to a 500GB volume via FireWire. Then, moved the drive over to my Airport Extreme Base Station, and connected via USB. My AirDisk volume showed up, however I got the same message about the wrong disk format at the next backup time.

The issue is that Time Machine sees the volume as a different disk. AirDisks are sharepoints, but don't necessarily behave the same way. I got around the issue by clicking on the 'Change Disk...' in the Time Machine prefs, and selecting the drive as the backup volume. This time the disk icon in the Time Machine pane changed to a mounted server volume (3 paper men holding hands) instead of a local Time Machine volume icon. The catch is that new backup has to be made. Perhaps, it's because a sparsebundle is used on network time machine backups as opposed a .backupdb folder.

I guess you can't have it both ways. I'm speeding up the process by plugging in my laptop to the AEBS via ethernet for the full backup, then switching to wireless for the incremental.

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