Archer C4000, Time Machine, USB 3 disk: router constantly rebooting
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I have a C4000 that is about 8 months old. A few weeks ago, I plugged a USB 3 drive into the USB 3 port and set it up as a Time Machine backup destination. That has worked well. Until today. Today, whenever my mac initiates a backup, the router reboots. I can reproduce this every time. I've tried two different hard drive enclosures and different cables with the same result.
I believe the router is probably defective, but am wondering if I'm missing something. The fact that it worked for weeks and then stopped is curious.
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Its Archer C4000 and its running the latest firmware. Drive is WD My Passport 1TB.
Tried disabling media sharing and everything. All sorts of combinations and partition types. Formatted several times. Eventually i made it work by doing the following
1. Format my external to MacOS Extened Journaled
2. Created a Spark Image (NOT spark image bundle) as MacOS Extened Journaled on the drive(i had to make sure its smaller than my capacity. I have 1TB external drive so i made the spark image to 800GB)
3. Share my network drive and then mount the spark image from the drive. Time machine feature is disabled on Archer. So i am using the capability of Archer4000 to read MacOS Extened Journaled partitions.
4. Point TimeMachine to use the mounted spark image for backup. Seems like its working fine, was able to create a 250GB and incremental are working fine.
The only downside is that each time i reboot i have to connect to the network drive and then mount the image. Probably you can do this from terminal on startup.
Please let me know if you need more details, i can make some screenshots with my current settings if anyone needs it.
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