Time Machine Extreme is here, unofficially. With the latest Airport Extreme update, Time Machine Update, and Airport update, Time Machine will recognize AirDisks as valid drives to backup on. This is a huge feature. I’ve always ran nightly backups using SuperDuper! and Time Machine using a local USB drive. With Time Machine running remotely, both my wife’s machine and my machine are always backed up. SuperDuper! backups can act as a secondary backup to Time Machine.
As you should expect, your data sent rate is going to increase when a backup is occurring. Activity Monitor is reporting about 532KB/sec on average right now. I do not notice any lag on my laptop or the network so it is considerate of bandwidth.
Update: Expect the first backup to take a while.
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Thanks for writing this.