It looks like Apple might have made a mistake with its recent update to the Airport Extreme. We reported that the software update had fixed a long standing annoyance, which stopped people using Time Machine to back up to a USB hard drive over the air.
The problem? Apple is treating this new feature as "unsupported", which likely means that it was accidentally included in the updated software. Glenn Fleishmann, a writer for Macworld, details the glitches on the Tidbits blog, and speculates that it was in fact a "debugging feature [...] that wasn't properly turned off before the updates shipped".
So, while everything might be going smoothly for you, Gadget Lab reader, remember that the one thing you don't want to mess around with is backups. If Apple isn't offering support, it means that something is broken. Be careful out there.
Time Machine via AirPort Disk Is Unsupported, Apple Says [Tidbits]
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