Airport Extreme supports Time Machine backup
updated 04:25 pm EDT, Sat March 22, 2008
Airport Extreme backup
On March 19th, Apple released a nonspecific update regarding its Airport ecosystem and Time Machine – simply stating optimizations and driver fixes – but it is revealed to allow Time Capsule-like functionality with standard Airport Extreme Base Stations. According to Macworld, the update allows users to back up using Time Machine to a standard USB hard drive that is connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station.
The lack of Airport-capable Time Machine backup was a sensitive subject among users, with many lashing out at Apple for denying them such an obvious feature, especially after insinuating the capability to do so during the build-up to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's release. Macworld writes that while the feature was not documented in release materials, several users have indicated that the feature is now present in Time Machine.
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a dedicated Apple user. We have to learn to be patient, it seems. Many of our problems get resolved, but just not soon enough. All those people that went out and bought Time Capsules because Time Machine wouldn't work with their Airport Extreme Basestations and Airport USB drives. Apple made a pretty penny of those users.