Re: time machine- multiple backups?

Mitch <mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <mr-3C0C3F.07272817052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sandman
> <mr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > It can? Cool. And it can also backup to hard drives conected to 
> > air****t base stations, as far as I know.
> 
> Someone in here was claiming this was cut out.
> Doesn't make any sense to me that Apple would cut it out, and it would
> be damning indeed if they did so.
> At the time, it seemed one cited problem was being magnified into a
> cor****ate policy decision -- and I haven't gone back to check into
> whether or when it was fixed.

It was an advertised feature prior to the release of Leopard (while
Apple was saying "feature set not finalised"). Just before Leopard was
released, all mention was removed for Time Machine sup****t of backing up
to disks connected to an Air****t Extreme base station.

Since then, it seems that Apple has been steadily working on
improvements to Time Machine, Leopard in general and the Air****t Extreme
firwmare, but they haven't yet got to the point where they are
officially sup****ting this particular feature. It might turn up in
future but at present you have to do some minor hackery to get Time
Machine to recognise a disk connected to a an Air****t Extreme.

It is fully sup****ted with a Time Capsule (at least for the internal
disk - not sure about externally connected ones), so the problem might
just be reliablity of the Air****t Extreme's sup****t for USB drives
(which should be identical on the Time Capsule unless they've made some
hardware changes in the USB interface).

Also worth mentioning that Time Machine can back up over a network to
any computer running Leopard - it doesn't require Leopard Server.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]