USB Drive attached to TP-Link Deco BE65, can I use it for Apple TimeMachine?
USB Drive attached to TP-Link Deco BE65, can I use it for Apple TimeMachine?
Hi all,
I'm using a big external harddrive connected to my new Deco. In this drive I've created a few partitions, and I'd like to use one of them with Time Machine on my Mac. While I can see the disk in the finder and access all the partitions, Time Machine can't see it for some reason.
Is there any setting or beta firmware that I can try to address the issue?
When I access my Deco app on my phone, under Advanced I do not see the section USB sharing I see in some screenshots
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Thanks for the update.
I just consulted with the engineer and he helped me to structure my thoughts.
- When the HDD is directly connected to the Mac, after enabling the TM, you will see three partitions as available Backup Disks, G/H/I, and pick one from them.
- When the HDD is plugged into satellite Deco BE65; After enabling TimeMachine on the Deco APP, you will be asked to select one of the three partitions.
Then if you go back to Mac and configure the TimeMachine backup disk this time, there will only be the preset partition on the Deco APP, not the rest 2 partitions.
If that is what you are experiencing now, it is the expected behavior of how the Time Machine feature is supported to work on Deco.
Wait for your reply and best regards.
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@David-TP thank you for your reply!
Well that is not really my expected behaviour.
When the TimeMachine feature in the Deco app is NOT enabled, the Finder on my Mac shows the three partition for the HD attached to the Deco.
When I enable the TimeMachine feature in the Deco app and I select a single partition for it, I would expect my TimeMachine to work AND the Finder to show the partitions as it has always done
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Thanks, I might need to ask for more help again.
Will update here as soon as possible.
I doubted whether TimeMachine on the Deco has changed the default pass for the "BE65_OD5C".
Best regards.
Update:
Thank you very much for your time and patience.
The engineer is trying to help me reproduce this issue now. I'd like to follow up on your case via email so that I can provide an update once there is any further improvement.
Thanks again and best regards.
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Hello, any update on this?
I'd like also to let you know that the Time machine backup is periodically getting corrupted somehow and I had to delete it and create it again, which is against what the backup should be really be about
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Hi, sorry for the delay.
I'm afraid the engineer can't reproduce the reported issue. He tended to think the access path “Network>BE65_0D5C” might use some protocols that Deco doesn't support.
He recommended using the Finder>Go menu to jump to specific folders or smb://192.168.68.249.
Thank you very much.
Best regards.
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hi. What HDD are you using and what formatting for the partitions? Also, does the HDD have to be connected to the main DECO or can it be connected to the sattelite?
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