03-26-2015, 11:40 AM
I created my own sparsedisk images and then copied them to the USB drive hanging off my 5th gen AirPort Extreme. I can still use it as a local file server if I want. For each Mac, Time Machine mounts the disk and then unmounts it when done, just like if everything was a Time Capsule.
And if I need to copy the backups to another drive, it's as easy as using the Finder to drag the sparsedisk image, something you can't do with a tethered ™ Backups.backupdb folder.
Actually, even if all I had was a tethered USB drive (not a network drive) I'd still setup TM that way for those reasons ... also means other users don't accidentally futz with an always-mounted TM drive.
http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/t...ork-drive/
The instructions above work for anything 10.6 or later, but for me didn't become rock solid until 10.7 or 10.8 ... it's not the "unsupported" router that was the issue.
And if I need to copy the backups to another drive, it's as easy as using the Finder to drag the sparsedisk image, something you can't do with a tethered ™ Backups.backupdb folder.
Actually, even if all I had was a tethered USB drive (not a network drive) I'd still setup TM that way for those reasons ... also means other users don't accidentally futz with an always-mounted TM drive.
http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/t...ork-drive/
The instructions above work for anything 10.6 or later, but for me didn't become rock solid until 10.7 or 10.8 ... it's not the "unsupported" router that was the issue.