HT204057: AirPort base stations: Time Machine hard drive compatibility

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Q: Time machine back up via USB hard drive connected to Airport Extreme.

Why did Apple stop supporting time machine back-up via USB hard drive connected to Airport Extreme?  It worked very well.

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Mar 13, 2014 12:08 PM

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  • by Bob Timmons,Helpful

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Mar 13, 2014 7:43 PM in response to GatorFreak
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    Mar 13, 2014 7:43 PM in response to GatorFreak

    Why did Apple stop supporting time machine back-up via USB hard drive connected to Airport Extreme?

    Time Machine backups are supported via USB hard drive connected to the AirPort Extreme"ac" version.

     

    Time Machine backups were not supported via USB hard drive connected to earlier versions of the AirPort Extreme.

     

    Some users who tried this on earlier version AirPort Extremes seemed to have some success with Time Machine backups....some had moderate success and some had no success with this. Count me in the "no success" category.

     

    See the topic about Time Machine support for USB disks in this Apple Support document:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5924?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US