Many Mac users running Leopard that also have an AirPort Extreme Base Station have been (not so) patiently waiting for Apple to allow USB hard drives plugged into the USB port on the AirPort Extreme to be accessible by Time Machine for backing up. Sharing hard drives from there (called “AirDisk”) is officially supported, so why aren’t Time Machine backups?
Sure, there’s a short hack you can do from the terminal to get it to more or less work, but why isn’t doesn’t it just work without having to resort to terminal voodoo?
Today Apple has released an updated firmware for the AirPort Extreme bringing it up to 7.3.1 that doesn’t officially say that it enables this feature, but some users are discovering that it does in fact work now.
Have Leopard and an AirPort Extreme? Check it out for yourself and see how things go. Maybe you’ll be among the lucky ones that gets it working.
Note to Apple: please stop doing this with your release notes and include some details. If you add something, say what it is. If you fix something, say that too. Don’t use keeping it quiet as a way to stop from having to stop officially support a feature.
[Via TUAW]
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