{"id":8268,"date":"2014-01-02T17:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8268"},"modified":"2014-01-02T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:57:45","slug":"network-time-machine-without-a-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/network-time-machine-without-a-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Time Machine Without a Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/14347\">Adam C. Engst<\/a> notes that Time Machine now supports backing up to a hard drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/14347\"><p>What&rsquo;s most compelling about backing up to an AirPort Disk, as opposed to an AirPort Time Capsule, is that you&rsquo;re not combining two entirely unrelated pieces of hardware in one package. If the AirPort Time Capsule&rsquo;s hard drive fails, it&rsquo;s difficult to replace, and if you want to upgrade the wireless gateway side of the equation, there&rsquo;s no easy way to bring your backups over to the new device. With an AirPort Extreme Base Station and attached USB hard drive, you gain more flexibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being able to, occasionally, connect the drive directly to the Mac is huge. It helps work around the two biggest problems with the Time Capsule: slow restores over the network and the inability to use disk repair software when something goes wrong.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst notes that Time Machine now supports backing up to a hard drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station: What&rsquo;s most compelling about backing up to an AirPort Disk, as opposed to an AirPort Time Capsule, is that you&rsquo;re not combining two entirely unrelated pieces of hardware in one package. If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[589,146,30,216,175],"class_list":["post-8268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airport-extreme-base-station","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-timemachine","tag-usb"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}