7/2/2021 0 Comments Time Machine With Usb For Mac
His recommendation yesterday was to try an Eero router with a networked external drive that has an ethernet port.My Time Capsule seems to be on its last legs, so I am considering buying a current generation non-Apple router.MacBook Pros, neither of which is conveniently located near the Time Capsule or its planned replacement.
Previous Discussions questions found on this topic are many years old and say that Apple does not support wireless Time Machine. Has this changed I know that todays external drives are small and able to contain lots of data. It would be easy to connect one of these drives to each MBP, but even easier if TM backups could be done wirelessly as has been possible since 2013 with Time Capsules. Youre right, NAS would be expensive overkill for 2 retirees with MBPs. I use SuperDuper and enjoy excellent support from Dave Nanian, but many other members in our 500-member Mac club use CCC. Thanks once again People like you really make Apple Discussions a wonderful source of help and information. Don. As far as support, Apple has always expected that folks that use Time Machine to back up their Macs to a Time Capsule will use the WiFi provided by the Time Capsule, or another Apple AirPort router. So, Apple does not officially support backups to a Time Capsule over a third party wireless network. That being said, in most cases users who have tried this have found that backups will still occur over a third party wireless network. So things will usually work OK with this type of setup, but the rub here is that if they dont, Apple will not help you resolve the issues with the third party wireless.even if you are willing to pay. The bottom line.you wont really know how well. Time Machine backups will work over a third party wireless network until you try them out on your own network. Great if things work, but not so great if they dont, and you have to set up the Time Capsule for Time Machine backups the way that Apple wants you to do.since you will likely have to manually switch networks when you want to back up a Mac to the Time Capsule. It would be easy to connect one of these drives to each MBP Not only would it be easy, it would be significantly less expensive, faster, and more reliable than a Time Capsule. And.this type of setup would be supported by Apple. Another possible issue is that Apple has not changed or updated the hardware on the Time Capsule in over 4 years, but the price remains the same. The convenience of wireless backup was worth the extra cost, allowing us to move around freely with our MBPs without having to eject or carry around external drives. If Apple offered a new, current technology Time Capsule Id buy one today. However it seems that Apple routers are been abandoned (along with my Mac mini) as far as updated models are concerned. I wanted to prepare for the day my Time Capsules hard drive bites the dust by seeing if there would be a way to recreate the effortless and totally automatic Time Machine backups we have been enjoying for the past decade with Time Capsule and before that with the ability to have network-attached-storage by attaching a USB hard drive to the AirPort Extreme. With USB3 port the disk speed on the Asus is about equal to the TC internal disk. The nice thing is that the Asus is reading and writing directly to a Mac formatted disk. I dont have any kind of list of USB drives that work and those that dont. Slightly above my pay grade, but I can ask my Apple buddy to explain the finer points of what you are talking about (virtual disk overlays translation).
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