Originally Apple had included the ability for Time Machine in Leopard to backup to drives connected to Airport Extreme Base Stations, and well apparently it was dropped some way or another. Lucky someone has found a way to enable you to utilize this awesome feature that was removed. here are the directions:

1. disconnect airport disk and plug into computer as a USB drive directly.
2. Set up time machine to use this volume.
3. In terminal cd to volume “cd /Volume/HDD”
4. In terminal “touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported” this will create an invisible file.
5. In terminal “sudo chown root:admin .com.apple.timemachine.supported”
6. In terminal “sudo chmod 1775 .com.apple.timemachine.supported”
7. In terminal “ls -l -a” the .com.apple.timemachine.supported file should be -rwxrwxr-t
8. eject disk, unplug from mac, plug into Airport.
9. mount at mac using connect to server in finder (command k) and afp://airportname.local./HDname
10. see if time machine now sees the drive and tries to use it.

Thanks to A@ron at Macrumors for the tip!

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