Apple Time Machine comes with with Mac
Leopard OS X 5. Apple Time Machine works
together with Apple Time Capsule ( A combo
of Apple Extreme with an inbuild storage
(harddisk) of 1TB. Mac with Time Machine will
not mount a network drive(non Time Capsule)
on the desktop, unlike its predecessor MAC OS X, as such you
won't be abble to target for back-up using Time Machine.
The above scenario implies that backing-up with Time Machine is
restricted to the Time Capsule, and the maximun capacity is 1TB.
If you need a bigger capacity than 1TB?
Soluttion:
Airport Extreme 802.11n Base Station(AEBS) now has the ability
for Time Machine to back-up to a USB drive attach to it. You will
need to perform a firmware 7.1.3 update to the AEBS. You will be
able to attach a 2TB USB external storage, according to Apple
Support, you can expand this to 5TB. Keep in mind that the disk
will have to be formatted as HSF+ with journalling,and you will
have to mount in the Finder before Time Machine sees it.
Below is the link if you like to know more about using
Time Machine as a back-up utility.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14
