Hardware :: Time Capsule HDD Failing?
Dec 22, 2010Time Capsule HDD Failing?
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Hardware :: Time Capsule Backups Keep Failing?
Jan 10, 2009I've been using my Time Capsule for about 5 months with no major problems. Recently I've had a lot. The last few days I've been having issues with backing up. It would start up and go for a few minutes then I would get a message that the backup has failed due to network interruption. I reset everything multiple time and no luck. I now have it sitting on my desk as a extension of my 802.11g network. Periodically I notice the status light go from solid green to orange and blink for a few seconds then back to green. Would there be anything that would be causing this. I made an appointment Monday to see a Genius. I'm hoping its just a faulty unit that can be replaced.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: 1st Generation Time Capsule Failing After IMac Wakes From Sleep
Jun 12, 2009I recently bought a 1st generation 500GB Time Capsule as I don't need the dual-band functionality of the 2nd Generation. Since setting it up I've been having a problem, whenever my iMac sleeps from a long period of time the backup is delayed when I wake the computer up. This would be less irritating if the backups continued like normal after the computer was awake, but I have to keep re-starting the backups manually to get the backup schedule back on track. This is especially frustrating as the whole point of the system is so I don't have to worry about manual backups.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMacBook Air :: Moving Time Capsule Data - How To Restore Image From Time Capsule
Nov 29, 2010I'm getting a new 13" MBA, upgrading from a 2006 macbook. I have it all backed up to time capsule. Can I just connect the MBA to my time capsule and restore the macbook image?
View 6 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Time Capsule Sizing - Can I Use 500gb Time Capsule
Jun 13, 2009Question - if I have a 500GB hard drive in my MacBook, but 80GB are partitioned separately for Windows via boot camp, can I use a 500GB Time Capsule?
View 6 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Stream Music From Time Capsule To Mac Mini / Hookup Mini To Time Capsule Via USB
Jul 19, 2009I am planning on purchasing a mac mini solely for the purpose of playing music - it will be hooked up to a hi-fi amplifier and speakers. All of the music that will be on the computer will be in lossless format, which is very large. I will need a lot (320+ GB?) of storage.
I'm wondering if I can cut costs by buying an old 80 GB mini and augmenting its hard drive with a time capsule. I was planning on buying a time capsule anyway, so I could save something like $300. My questions are: would I be able to stream music from the time capsule to the mac mini? Would I be able to import music from itunes directly onto the time capsule? If I hook the mini up to the time capsule via USB, can it serve as a hard-drive, even if my internet is down? Is it going to be much more worth my time to buck up and buy a new 320 GB mini?
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Why Does Time Machine Keep Failing
Apr 9, 2012For the third time in 7 months, Time Machine says it can not do backups because it can not write to the disk. I have also gotten several times the drive is full, even though T M should automatically delete older backup files.Â
When this failure happens I have to re-initialize the drive and let the machine chug away for over 18 hours to create a new backup.Â
I have an external 750 GB FireWire drive that never had failed any backup until I got my new computer with Lion installed in August 2011. The T M back up is currently monitoring over 886,000 files with a total size of over 366 GB.Â
If I recall correctly, T M has to operate on an external drive. I have 3 internal 1TB drives and I could use the third one if it was allowed. Does the external drive only still hold with Lion? It would be nice to have a drive with 25% more capacity to use for T M.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 2.8 GHz Quad core, 6 GB ram
Hardware :: Migrating From Win Xp To Mac - Failing Time Capsules
Nov 14, 2010I'm thinking of migrating from win xp to mac soon with a mac mini puchasePossibly also a Time Capsule 1Tb purchaseI've read the "time capule died" threadSo is a new Time Capsule a good purchase with all the failed machines I've read about?It sounds like a good pruduct with N router and 1TB wireless backup capabilitiesOr should I go the AirPort route using my own Western Digital external usb drives for back up Just looking for a good hassle free backup solution once I purchase my new Mac Mini
View 5 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Backup Failing?
Apr 9, 2012My Time Machine backup is failing... and I'm a little confused as to why. I thought it was supposed to just write over the old backups? Here's a breakdown of what I have going on...Â
-I have two x 1TB WD MyBook's.Â
-I'm using one of them as storage, and the other one as my Time Machine drive. So essentially I'm doing a poor man's RAID. I just want to make sure I have a backup of my data in case the drive dies... and it's too big to back up to a cloud.Â
-The main drive is about half full (Available: 460.49GB)
-The Time Machine drive shows 485.48GB available. Close enough I suppose.Â
The backup is failing with the attached message. Yes, I added more stuff to the drive today (hence the increase in backup size), but why would it need that size all over again? Why wouldn't it just append the exsisting 485GB, and add the new 158GB. Come to think of it, there's no way what I added today increased the size 158GB, so that's strange in itself.Â
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: HD Needs To Be Repaired Time Machine Is Failing?
Jul 4, 2012My mac os x 10.5.8 has been acting very wierd. The other days after restarting it, it would not go past the apple/grey screen. Then i retried while holding (i believe commn, alt, p &R) and it worked. Howevere, my mac has been acting very badly/freezing. I just ran "verify disk" and got the message "first aid failed... the volume Macintosh needs to be repaired".Â
So sicne i figure i should back everything up on my time machine, i just got an error message from time machine saying that it has failed as well. i also do not have my mac osx install disk with me as i moved and it is overseas Â
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Mac OS X (10.5.2)
MacBook Pro :: Time Machine Backup Keeps Failing - New OWC Mercury 2TB
Feb 16, 2012My Time Machine backup keeps failing. How do I find out why? MacBook Pro 5,1 OS 10.5.8, 6GB ram backing up to new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 2TB.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Now Failing To Backup And Getting Error Popup?
May 3, 2012My Time Machine now failing to backup. The machine can see the external drive (tells me that 1.8T of 2TB available) but every time over past 14 days has failed to function and pops up error window.
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MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), Time
Hardware :: Can Time Machine Backup External Drive Attached To Time Capsule?
Mar 11, 2009I have an external 500gb drive plugged into my brand new Time Capsule. The 500gb drive basically stores my entire library of music and my iTunes points to this external drive.
Is it possible to have time machine backup all information on the 500gb drive to the time capsule, so encase the external drive takes a dump, I don't loose my entire music library? Maybe time machine is already doing this, I am not sure.
Hardware :: Time Machine/Time Capsule/Airport Extreme With Verizon FIOS?
Nov 10, 2009I will be getting my new Macbook Pro in the near future and am very interested in using Time Machine to wireless back up my data to an external hard drive. I know I can use Time Capsule to do this, but also hear a mention of just getting an Airport Extreme and my own ext. hd. My question is that I have Verizon FIOS Internet and my modem also functions as a wireless router. How would the Time Capsule/Airport Extreme work with this? Is it possible? I do not believe that the Verizon router supports wireless N, and I would like to take advantage of the faster speeds. If I were to connect a Airport Extreme to the wireless router, would I then have 2 routers to choose from and just use the Airport Extreme to use the wireless N? I'm very confused as to how I could make this work.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHardware :: Time Capsule Vs Base Station - External Drive For Time Machine
Jan 11, 2010As my 160N series Linksys router neither has gigabit ports, usb connector or dual band networking, I am looking for a replacement.
When it comes to Apple routers I am looking at 2 options - either the base station with an external USB drive or get a 1TB capsule with the buildt in drive and worries regarding reliability.
What I like about the Time Capsule is that it is neat to have all in one, takes up less space and only has 1 plug to attach, while Iike the idea that I can just connect a bigger drive later on the base station solution.
1. Will the connected USB drive function just like the internal drive in the Time Capsule for Time Machine use?
2. Will everything be transparent to Snow Leopard?
3. In case of both units with an attached USB drive - can I control who actually can see the drive and access it?
4. Do they support this DNLA thing so that e.g . PS3 can access an attached drive??
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Safely Remove All Backups From Time Machine/Time Capsule?
Jun 17, 2012I plan to 'clean up' my Time Machine/Time capsule completely, whereby I want to make it impossible for third parties to recover all or part of these old backups.After I have accompished this I want to start from scratch backing up my Mac.
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iMac 27" i7, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
Hardware :: Connect To Time Capsule While Connecting To Wifi Network At Same Time?
Sep 22, 2009I recently purchased a Time Capsule to use as a wireless hard drive. I connect to the internet both through wifi and ethernet to a educational network that does not allow extra routers, etc, to be added to the network, therefore I can not use the time capsule for this wifi.
I therefore want to connect to my early 2009 MBP17unibody to both the academic internet network for http/pop3/ftp/etc while simultaneously connecting to external hard drive to store data/itunes-library/etc.
I expect this has been asked before but I can't find any threads where it has. If anyone knows it would be highly helpful. I'd prefer to connect to both wirelessly but I could potentially put up with connecting to either or both with ethernet.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Capsule, Time Machine Is Asking To Make A Full Backup?
Mar 11, 2012I have a MacBook Air and a Time Capsule - both from november 2011.Using Time Machine is givning me som problems.It works fine for some days, an is backing up as planned.But at least 5 times since I got the Time Capsule, Time Machine is asking to make a full Backup, and when I look in Time Machine, it says that there is no "old backup". It has been runing since november 2011.When I start a new backup, as it ask for, it takes at least 24 hours to finish - some times even longer.Is this normal? If not, what do I do?
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Time Machine, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Mountain Lion :: Time Machine Can't Complete Backup To Time Capsule
Jun 19, 2014MacBook Pro mid-2012, 8GB RAM, 750GB hard drive, Mac OS X 10.8.5
One Time Capsule at home
One Time Capsule in vacation homeÂ
MBP backs up everything on internal hard drive to Time Capsule at home, where we live during summer and spring. When moving to vacation home in fall and winter, MBP backs up everything to Time Capsule in vacation home.Â
During the 6 months at each residence, the backups work great to the Time Capsule at that particular house. However, after some time (maybe a week?), Time Machine displays an error in Notification Center: "Time Machine can't complete backup to Home Time Capsule" (when in vacation home) or "Time Machine can't complete backup to Vacation Time Capsule" (when at home).Â
It's obvious that this occurs because Time Machine was set to back up to 2 Time Capsules and expects both of them to be reachable. Is there a way to suppress these Time Machine errors for the time that we're away from one of the Time Capsules?
OS X :: 10.6.1 Update Destroyed Time Capsule / Time Machine Setup
Sep 15, 2009Ever since I updated to 10.6.1 I've had the following problems:
- Time Machine does not work at all with my Time Capsule. When it attempts to back up my data, Time Machine gets hung up with a status of "Making backup disk available..." and the icon in the menu bar just spins forever (the status appears in the menu bar icon's menu). I also cannot enter Time Machine; it gets hung trying to connect to the Time Capsule and I have to cancel it. Finder then takes up 100% CPU and I have to power down by holding in the power button (shutting down from the Apple menu doesn't work).
- I store my iTunes library in a folder called Music under the Data folder on the Time Capsule. When I open iTunes, it prompts me to choose my iTunes library. When I do, it starts to load the list of albums, then iTunes locks up and I must force quit it. This also causes my machine to not be able to shut down or restart from the Apple menu.
Oddly enough I can still access the Data folder from Finder with no issues. I just wanted to put this out there in case other people are having similar problems. It's pretty frustrating as all this worked fine before the 10.6.1 update.
Hardware :: How To Use Time Capsule For Time Machine And File Share
Jun 26, 2010I've just hooked up my 2 Tb time capsule, which is supposed to be the destination for time machine and also have a share folder to share music on the network. Originally I wanted to partition the drive, but since that appears to be such a headache I'll probably make do with one partition.
if time machine will try to overwrite the share folder when it runs out of disc space?
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Transfer Time Machine Backups From 1 Time Capsule To A Different One?
May 23, 2012I've backup my Macbook Air Using time machine before reformat it to have window partition.However, after installing OS Lion 10.7.4, how do I restore back all my application and data on my last backup from time machine?
Info:MacBook Air
Hardware :: Time Machine/Time Capsule Never Finishes
Feb 10, 2010I recently bought a 500 TC and after a lot messing around i have the thing working, well near working, perfect.
The problem is, everytime it does a back up, which sometimes it has nothing to back up, it never finishes the job. In the end all i get is time machine giving me the "finishing back up" remark but the dam thing never actually finishes.
I have left it in the above state for sometimes hours just to see of it would finish and alas no joy!! Also, if i try and do anything else on my Macbook, while time machine is working, the "beach ball of death" apears and freezes my computer. Hence, everytime my Mac backs up i have to crash my computer which is annoying to say the least.
I did a lot of reading around various problems when using time machine and TC but can't find any solutions but lots of problems. TC is the worst apple product i've ever brought, it's been nothing but up hill trying to get this thing to work just like it says on the box.
I'm wondering whether its the TC or simply that time machine doesn't like my computer for some reason.
Macbook, Leapord OS, 4G RAM, 160HD, iphone, inano, ipod, TC
OS X :: Time Capsule/Time Machine Crashes MacBook Pro?
Apr 5, 2008My MacBook Pro locks up and shows the message "Please reboot your computer by holding down the power button" every time that Time Machine tries to run a backup. I turned off Time Machine and no more crashes... Sorta makes my 500 Gig Time Capsule useless.
View 8 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Can See Two Hard Drives With Time Machine On Time Capsule?
Apr 20, 2009I've been having a few problems with my TM backups since I got my new iMac (my MBA is working fine).
Something strange that I've noticed is when I enter into Time Machine (the program). Sometimes I see a bunch of my backups with times and dates where I can scroll through the different saves and restore if I want to. Other times though when I go into TM I only see the current save point. I can't scroll back and it only says Today on the right without any other save points. It is almost like I've only done one TM backup.
The other strange thing that I see is if I look at iStat. Sometimes it shows two Time Capsule hard drives and other times it shows only one. If I choose to change disk in Time Machine preferences the Time Capsule is listed twice. I don't think it has anything to do with a partition (which I never did) because both drives show the same used and free info (something like 377 free of 461) and I only have a 500GB drive.
Hardware :: Time Capsule Taking Too Much Time To Bootup
Jan 17, 2010my new 2TB Time Capsule takes anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes to startup, before the status LED eventually changes to solid green. during that long startup period, the light is amber and blinks slowly.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHardware :: Can't Get Time Machine To Work On Time Capsule
Jan 31, 2010Ok, so i picked up a 2TB Time Capsule a couple days ago and have tried everything i can think of to get this to work, but im at a loss... I had been previously using Time Machine to backup to an Ext HD attached via USB, and that always went smooth as butter.
View 2 Replies View RelatedApplications :: Time Machine Backup To Time Capsule?
Apr 23, 2010I started my backup over 24 hours ago and after it completed its 130GB backup, it has now continued backing up endlessly incrementing the xxGB of xxGB without end. I stopped the backup and it then began at 140.9MB to backup. Once it reached 149.9MB it continued; displaying 149.9 MB of 149.9 MB. It is currently at 502.4 MB of 502.4 MB. I am using Snow Leopard. Has anyone seen this happen before? Or know how to resolve?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Does Not Work On Time Capsule?
May 20, 2012I have updated to 10.7.4, and now Time Machine does not work on my Time Capsule. I have erased all backups using the Airport Utility. When I try to run Time Machine, the disk is mounted, files are calculated, backup starts, then stops, and no backup is done. Also, no error messages.Â
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Cannot Seem To Set Up Time Machine Using Time Capsule On It
Jun 3, 2012I cannot seem to set up Time Machine using Time Capsule on my MacBook Pro. Evidently when I initially set up AirPort Extreme, I failed to select it as the backup disc.
Info:AirPort Extreme 802.11n (4th Gen), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
