Time Machine backups to AirPort Extreme

November 11, 2007 · Posted in apple, leopard, time machine · Comment 

I was disappointed when I installed Leopard to find that I couldn’t use my AirPort Extreme shared disc as the backup location - what I wanted was to be able to backup all my Macs to the same disk without needing to attach portable drives to them.

There is a solution - you can just enable backing up to shared drives as a preference, and 9 to 5 Mac have the solution here.

[Update: it turns out that this is a fairly long way from a perfect solution - Leopard doesn't seem to support auto-mounting of AirPort Extreme shared discs - so Time Machine gets confused when the OS starts up and doesn't seem to be able to recover. There's more on that disc auto-mounting issue on the Apple support site.]