Mac Pro :: Backing Up The Additional HDs / Copy Existing TM Folder To New Time Capsule
Jun 15, 2008
I�m currently backing up my MacPro to a 250gb external drive via USB. I�m about to purchase an Apple Time Capsule 1TB to allow for backing up the additional HDs that I�ve installed in my MacPro. Can I just copy the existing TM folder from my external HD to the new Time Capsule and continue to do updated backups or do I have to start a new backup from the day I install the TC ?
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Nov 25, 2009
I have a folder of important graduate school documents (essays). TC has been backing up stuff no problem, including those essays for some time. Somewhere along the line a file became corrupt and I could no longer transfer files to/from my usb drive, so I went through each essay, copy/pasted everything in each document into new word documents, saved and named each new file and saved them to the desktop. Basically I copied all my documents without actually copying them, but rather by copy/pasting and creating new documents. Fixing the corrupt file was verified by my ability to copy the new folder of identical grad school materials to and from my usb stick again, so I went to backup knowing all my stuff was intact again. All of the backing up I've done shows as being successful, no errors, etc. However, when I go into time machine to verify the backup of that grad school folder, that new folder of essays is nowhere to be found, i.e. its not backing up.
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Mar 12, 2009
I do like the concept of wireless routing/networking capabilities and integrated design of using Time Capsule w my new iMac 1tb HD (STILL not here yet), but am wondering if my 240gb WD HD is sufficient backup storage for the time being.
Maybe I can just spend the $300 for 500GB Time Capsule later on? Or should I just spend the $$$ and stop my sniveling? Once my iMac is delivered, should I take it to the Apple store and have them set it up, or is the setup easy enough for a Windows refugee to handle?
Please give me your feedback regarding this matter. Understand that I really have no wireless networking experience. Anyone whose read my previous threads will further understand that I'm currently a Mac Noob (virgin), and any elementary additional help is greatly appreciated.
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Jun 2, 2009
Can Time Capsule be used as a repeater on an existing network ? Is there a way to use speakers with it and use airtunes with it ?
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Jan 5, 2011
I have just purchased a new Time Capsule but struggling to set it up in the most effective manner. I currently have a Belkin Wireless Router / Modem that I was using to provide me with internet connection and my home wireless network.
Now I have the TC, I want to use that for my home wireless network but I will need to still use my Belkin router / modem to provide me with the internet connection.
Is there a way I can disable the 'router' element of the belkin unit and just use it as a simple ADSL ethernet modem to connect to my TC and then let the TC set up the network?
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Jul 30, 2009
My plan is this: to buy a new, 2TB Time Capsule, for use with my iMac and use my old TC to extend my wireless network and also be the back-up device for a MacBook Air that I plan to get in the future. My question is this: can I get my existing back up data off one TC onto another? I can't find anything on Apple's site that addresses this question.
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Sep 27, 2009
Here's my scenario, every day I change around a couple gigs of space on my MacBook Pro, which is tethered to my ACD in my room normally. Whenever I want to change it, I have to bring it downstairs, plug it in via ethernet and back it up if I want it to take less than six hours. What's the best solution to make it take less time, via a wired connection I guess? My room is directly above the router (on a different floor, though). I doubt drilling through the ceiling is too easy, though. We do have this like 100-foot ethernet cord, though.
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Jan 28, 2010
I have a MacBookPro and a 1TB external that contains my iTunes library. The drive is not always attached as the MBP is used by all the family and moves around the house. I have a Time Capsule that I would like to use to back up the iTunes library on the external. How messy is it going to be setting up Time Machine to back up the external to the TC? Will the external not being connected when it tries to back up cause problems or will it just not back up at that time?
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Mar 19, 2009
My Dad got a new MBP and he probably has over 12 GB of just straight excel docs etc. He has 164 GB available on his HD, when he backs up to Time Capsule it says he has 10 GB to backup, OK so we let it sit over night and let it do its thing, everything he goes back to back up he has 10 GB to backup even when the last backup said it worked correctly. I know he hasn't got that many files since his last back up.
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Oct 20, 2009
With the new update of the time capsule I'm thinking of buying one but I've got a question that as now still hasn't been answered. I'm currently using a 500 GB external drive for my backups and use a 1 TB for data storage, now the 1 TB is almost full and I could use the HD in the time capsule. My problem now is that the 1 TB or 2 TB in the time capsule is pure waste for backup only as I am the only mac user here and the 500 GB drive isn't even halfway full at the moment.
My question now is, is it possible to plug the 500 GB and 1 TB drive in the time capsule (with powered usb hub) and use the 500 GB disk as a automatically backup and use the 1 TB and the time capsule for data storage? With automatically I mean as the time capsule that it backups as soon as I'm in the network. I've been trying to contact the technical support line of my local apple-store but keep getting answering machine.
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Jul 14, 2010
Does anybody know how you can backup your Time Capsule settings profiles? The reason I ask is because I am about to upgrade the HDD in mine and I do not want to lose the settings due to the complex setup of our network and the hours it took to set it up. Of course, I'm assuming here that the settings would be lost when changing the HDD and they are not stored in some other way? I have Googled but did not manage to find much useful info.
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Apr 14, 2012
My start up disc is full and I thus need to transfer photos across to my time machine.
Time machine is great when looking for old documents but i can't access my photos as they are all on iphoto.
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iPhoto '11, iOS 5.0.1
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Apr 14, 2012
I'm using a Macbook Pro running OSX Lion. I use the Macbook to work from both home and office.Because I live very far from office, I usually stay in the city with my gf which means I might not go home for 7-10 days at a time.I do have a time capsule at home, everything works fine whenever I go there, backup is done seemlessly, catching up to whatever state the macbook is.Because I can be without backing up for days and sometime weeks, I'm considering getting another Time Capsule that I would setup at work.
Is it possible to backup a single Mac to multiple independant Time Capsule (or NAS ). My understanding is that Time Machine probably create indexes of what changed vs. what didn't so I am not convince it would correctly update two Time Capsule which might be at very different levels.If not possible I guess I'll have to look into another parallel backup scheme like Acronis or else (didn't really look into that yet)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 17, 2009
I'm soon to start working from a shared office and my internet will be gained wirelessly from a shared router.As I cannot modify the wireless network as it will interfere with everyone else Can i simply attach my time capsule via ethernet direct to my macbook pro, so that it does all the backup goodness and yet still have my wireless internet conneection open.
MAC to TC wired with MAC to INTERNET Wireless Without interference.
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Jul 9, 2009
I have a dual-band airport extreme router setup in a closet on the bottom floor of my 3-floor apartment, and I'm in need of some help figuring out how to go about adding some additional networking gear to my existing system
I have a 1TB Time Capsule which I'd like incorporate into my existing network. I have an available ethernet cable on the top floor of my apartment which I would like to connect the Time Capsule to so that I can quickly backup my MacPro (connected to network directly via ethernet), and so if possible I can extend the range of the Wireless-N network that my dual-band router is currently providing (because the signal on the top floor of my apartment isn't as great as I'd like it to be). I'd like to have the Time Capsule configured to only use the Wireless-N network so that my Macbook pro and my wife's Macbook Air will be backup to it via wireless-n speeds at all times.
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May 14, 2010
I have a mixed Mac/PC environment - Macbook Pro (snow leopard); iMac 21 (leopard); 2 x Dell laptops (XP) - and an existing wifi network from a Belkin 8233-4 N modem/router. Also connected to the wifi network is a WHS for backing up the laptops; an HP printer; 2 iphones; an xbox 360; and a Wii.
I've just bought a 1TB Time Capsule to use to back up the Macs as my previous external time machine hard drive just died (which was connected via USB to the iMac).
At the moment, I've got the TC set up to join my existing wifi network (it's connected via an Ethernet cable from the Belkin wireless router), however I'm getting issues with the wifi network not working properly and being unable to connect to the internet. Every time you wake the Mac, you have to manually reconnect to the wifi (and sometimes even re-enter the password), and things work OK until the Mac goes back to sleep. When I go into the Airport utility, the settings say that the TC is set to create a new network, so I reset it back to join an existing network via ethernet, but then if I go back to these settings a little later (after having problems with the wifi connectivity), they have reverted back to create a new network !
What am I doing wrong ?
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Dec 14, 2008
I've just joined a Time Capsule to my existing wifi network and it's working fine. However, if I try to connect a computer to the LAN port, I can't ping the TC. Is this by design?
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Dec 3, 2014
I have a 2013 iMac on OS 10.9.5 with no problems. I will be receiving a new iMac w Retina Display on Yosemite, which I'll be backing up with a new, unused TC.
I want to copy and transfer files from older iMac to the new one using the TC, but right now I don't want upgrade to Yosemite on the older iMac.Â
Can I manually select files from the older iMac to copy to the TC, and what files must I leave out so that there aren't any problems that transferring files from an older OS to a newer one won't arise?
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iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 3TB TC
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Mar 9, 2012
I've been having trouble backing up my MacBook Pro to my Time Capsule (hasn't backed up in months) so I ran Disk Utility and it gave the following error: Disk Utility stopped verifying "Hard Disk". This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk. So, if I do that, will I end up losing whatever is on my hard disk? And how do I start up the computer using the OS X disk? Just put it in and restart?
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Mar 3, 2012
I use time machine, but I'm worried that my user library folder (containing my Mail folders) isn't being backed up. I can't see it when I browse the time machine folders, but then again, I can't see my user library on my dard drive without using the special access in the Go menu anyway. Note, when setting up my time machine preferences, I can see that my library folder is supposed to be included in the backup (i.e. I have not excluded it). But short of restoring my machine and seeing if my mail contents have changed, how can I be sure this is the case?Â
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 25, 2009
i have all my music on a external drive, and i want to copy it to my time capsule as a backup. but since my music is over 300gb. it will take a long time to copy, is it ok to leave the drive on overnight and let it copy all the music to the time capule?
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Apr 19, 2012
I had to format the hd where I have time machine, so I copy the tm folder to a new folder in other external hard drive.Now that I format the 1st external hd I trying to copy the tm folder to the root of the formated hd, but after a long wait I get a message saying that there is enought space...How can I copy that big folder faster, is there any other way ?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jan 30, 2010
I have a strange "/private" folder in my root directory (Macintosh HD) after a Time Capsule restore today. The folder is ~5GB in size, and appears to have been created during the restore process. The files in the folder have strange-appearing "system" file type names. Can I safely delete this folder? Not sure why its there, but given its size, I'd prefer to delete it.
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Jun 3, 2010
I use my Time Capsule to back up my laptop (Time Machine) and also as a networked hard drive. In the root directory of Time Capsule a folder called 'Data' is created to store the Time Machine backup. I can't seem to create folders next to the Data folder? I can't only create new folders within the Data folder. Is this normal?
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Sep 9, 2014
I have a 2TB Time Machine drive that has failed (directory errors). Disk Utility, Disk Warrior and Data Rescue 3 didn't work. DR3 showed the directory but can't restore it. Can I manually restore the backup folder (backups.backupdb) ?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 17 inch i7 Late 2011
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Jun 28, 2012
How can you copy a song to an additional album within the library. I have a couple of song in one album and I want them also to appear in an another album. How can I do that?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 8GB Memory
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Nov 29, 2010
I'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?
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Dec 2, 2014
Is there a means to copy all incoming and outgoing email through the Apple Mail server to one inbox? As an example, Bob sends and email to Jeff and receives a reply. I want a copy of each of those emails to, say, info@company.com. Is there a means within the server config or some other method to accomplish this?
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Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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May 27, 2012
Do I have to copy each file individually or can I copy an entire folder to external hard drive?
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iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
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Jun 13, 2009
Question - 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?
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