Q: move my time machine drive to a network connection
I use an external hard drive for time-machine backup of my macbook pro.
I have an airport express wireless router.
I was told that I can set the time-machine back-up to a external hard drive plugged into the router.
This works, at the system level.
However, when I plug my existing time-machine hard drive into the router,
Time-Machine does not recognize that the back-ups on that drive are 'from this machine.'
Do I have to start a new backup over the network? Or, is there any way to simply
use 'the old backups' (created with the disk plugged into the macbook) as a starting point for the
'the new backups' (with the same disk plugged into the network via airport express).
macbook pro , iOS 6.1.3
Posted on Sep 4, 2016 9:15 PM