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This should be the name you used to format your backup disk.

Double click the shared folder inside AirPort Extreme.

Click the Connect As… button on the top of the window and you’ll be asked to enter your AirPort Extreme password.

So open the Finder and select your AirPort Extreme on the left in the Shared drives section:

Now we need to open a finder window and let Mac OS recognize the external hard disk.

Make sure that the disk you just formatted is selected.

Open AirPort Utility and go into your AirPort Extreme disk settings:

We need to tell the AirPort Extreme which backup disk to use.

Connect the backup disk to your AirPort Extreme.

Now we need to prep the files on the backup disk before we can do the backup locally.

Once it has completed formatting, eject the disk from your computer.

You can leave the Security Options alone. If not, click the “Erase” button at the top and type a name you prefer to use, and the corresponding Format.

You’ll want to be certain your disk is formatted using Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Open Disk Utility and click on the backup disk you just connected on the left:.

Connect your backup disk to your computer.

First you’ll need to make certain your backup disk is using the correct partition for Mac OS to recognize.

I’ll show you a technique that will enable you to do the initial backup locally, that will turn days into hours. If you have hundreds of gigabytes of data, it could easily take over a day to complete the backup. However if your external hard disk is connected to an AirPort Extreme, you’ve probably discovered that the initial backup can take a LONG time. You basically set it up and forget about it.

They made it extremely easy by keeping automatic backups every hour, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for previous months. When Apple brought Time Machine to the Mac, it made it so much easier to backup your computer to an external disk.