Time Machine backup on router shared drive

[mrochester]

Hi all.

My router has a USB socket to share a hard drive. Can I just stick my existing Time Machine backup drive into this socket and have it continue to work as the backup drive for my Mac?

Many thanks.

M.

 

[Bigwaff]

Can I just stick my existing Time Machine backup drive into this socket and have it continue to work as the backup drive for my Mac?

No. Your router won’t understand how to read the disk file system.