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Time Capsule
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Same here.. supposed to arrive by the 5th, I paid $10 for expedited shipping.
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I am very happy that Apple did not take your advice and shipped mine on Friday as a result it should be here Tuesday, March 4th.
About aborted/restarted backups
I noticed, that after selecting to stop a backup, when I resumed, I would see he status bar sit at a few KB then a few MB for quit a while, then, all of a sudden, jump up to GBs. I noticed that TM creates a sparse file, but it takes up 10GB (about what I had backed up to that point).
I am thinking that TC is re-running the backup, going through the entire list of files it prepared to back up, seeing if it needs to back up those files again, then, when it gets to new files, starts to move them to the TC.
Just my thoughts. It would explain the behavior.
Cheers
PS In another thread I mentioned that my TC is putting out overheat warnings, even though it only feels warm to the touch, it standing free away from anything else that could block its cooling. I'll update later if I decide to return for a new one.
I noticed, that after selecting to stop a backup, when I resumed, I would see he status bar sit at a few KB then a few MB for quit a while, then, all of a sudden, jump up to GBs. I noticed that TM creates a sparse file, but it takes up 10GB (about what I had backed up to that point).
I am thinking that TC is re-running the backup, going through the entire list of files it prepared to back up, seeing if it needs to back up those files again, then, when it gets to new files, starts to move them to the TC.
Just my thoughts. It would explain the behavior.
Cheers
PS In another thread I mentioned that my TC is putting out overheat warnings, even though it only feels warm to the touch, it standing free away from anything else that could block its cooling. I'll update later if I decide to return for a new one.
Picked up a 1TB Time Capsule today. While my Mac Pro has a 500GB internal drive for Time Machine, my laptop and my wife's laptop however are in need of a Time Machine device. I did have Backup 3 set up to do some automatic backups, but Time Machine is much better (and my wife can't keep "accidentally" canceling the Backup backup).
Anyway, I have two wireless networks in my house. One is an 802.11n 5GHz network (for my laptop and for the Apple TV), and an 802.11b/g for my wife's and kids' laptops (none are 802.n; two are 'g' and one is 'b' only). I made two separate networks so Apple TV syncs/streaming and network transfer to/from my laptop would run at maximum speed. With the 802.11b/g base station running in bridge mode, the laptops connecting to the slower network (i.e., not directly to the Time Capsule) still access the TC's drive and Time Machine without problem.
So, so far it seems to work quite as advertised. The Time Capsule's volume works wirelessly and via ethernet on multiple machines, and 802.11n transfer rates are quite good (I saw peaks of 12.5MB/sec).
Physically, its larger than the AirPort Extreme, but looks otherwise the same. Does not require an external power supply however, unlike the AirPort Extreme. The drive inside it is very, very quiet. Uses AirPort firmware 7.3 (versus 7.2.1 for the AirPort Extreme). It does get very warm, however. I wouldn't advise putting anything on top of it.
I did connect a USB drive (used to be connected to my AirPort Extreme) to transfer some files, so I know USB drives at least work as they do on the AirPort Extreme. I did not test to see if USB drives are available to Time Machine, however.
Anyway, I have two wireless networks in my house. One is an 802.11n 5GHz network (for my laptop and for the Apple TV), and an 802.11b/g for my wife's and kids' laptops (none are 802.n; two are 'g' and one is 'b' only). I made two separate networks so Apple TV syncs/streaming and network transfer to/from my laptop would run at maximum speed. With the 802.11b/g base station running in bridge mode, the laptops connecting to the slower network (i.e., not directly to the Time Capsule) still access the TC's drive and Time Machine without problem.
So, so far it seems to work quite as advertised. The Time Capsule's volume works wirelessly and via ethernet on multiple machines, and 802.11n transfer rates are quite good (I saw peaks of 12.5MB/sec).
Physically, its larger than the AirPort Extreme, but looks otherwise the same. Does not require an external power supply however, unlike the AirPort Extreme. The drive inside it is very, very quiet. Uses AirPort firmware 7.3 (versus 7.2.1 for the AirPort Extreme). It does get very warm, however. I wouldn't advise putting anything on top of it.
I did connect a USB drive (used to be connected to my AirPort Extreme) to transfer some files, so I know USB drives at least work as they do on the AirPort Extreme. I did not test to see if USB drives are available to Time Machine, however.
May you please say if:
1) you can access from Mac1 to TM Backup of Mac2 ?
2) the TM file on Time Capsule are encrypted ?
Thanks in advance ...
Need more than 1 TB for the video professional
If you do serious video and have a need for 4 TB of backup, the MBP with time capsule should not be your primary solution. Go configure a Mac Pro, buy highspeed high capacity drive and use Raid for your archive solution. OBTW, do you really need an HD archive solution?
If you do serious video and have a need for 4 TB of backup, the MBP with time capsule should not be your primary solution. Go configure a Mac Pro, buy highspeed high capacity drive and use Raid for your archive solution. OBTW, do you really need an HD archive solution?
Each Mac's Time Machine data is stored on the Time Capsule as a separate spareimage file, so I suppose you could mount another machine's file on your desktop (though i haven't yet tried it).
I do not believe the files are encrypted.
Has anyone from the UK had theirs shipped or received theirs. Mine has been in prepared for shipment for 2 days.
A few people from the UK have had theirs shipped, but it looks like they're coming from Shanghai so there's no detailed tracking information yet. Looks like they'll take the best part of a week to arrive from shipping.
Not sure if there's any available to buy in the shops over here yet either.
Is this as easy as connecting the TC to the modem and then connecting the TC to my Airport Express and then Airport Utility recognizing two different wireless networks (each with their own internet connection)? My TC should be in tomorrow and I was planning on doing the same thing. Thanks!
This is kinda old, but just as an FYI 5 1TB drives in RAID 5 shows up as 4 TB. Still 1000 USD but you can lose one drive totally and still be operational.
I am going through the motions for getting WAF up higher before making the purchase.
Mine showed the same thing this morning and the arrival date changed to "March 5 by 10:30." Before there was no arrival date in the tracking (in Apple's e-mail it said "By March 4") Who knows...
Yes. Seems to spin down about 20 minutes or so after last activity, though might be a bit more or less.
JW008 said:
Connect the TC to the cable modem (WAN port). Connect the Airport Express via ethernet to one of the TC's LAN ports. Then with Airport Utility, set the Express to "bridge mode" (not sure where in the options it is as I'm at work and can't check the software, but its in there somewhere).
Mine is showing the same thing... According to this there is a FedEx flight enroute from Shanghai to Anchorage... I hope my Time Capsule is on that flight and that they just forgot to update the status.....
I just called TNT about my order as the info hasn't changed..
apparently a bunch of stuff missed it's flight, but it's still on schedule to be delivered 5th march..
one question i have to ask about the TC is in the set up..
basically, i want to replace my linksys wrt54g with the TC.
I have heard about instructions where an option comes up asking if you would like to replace your existing router etc.. but how would that work? i mean.. do you connect the TC to your existing router? or do you just plug the TC into your mac via ethernet? but how would that work as the mac only has 1 ethernet socket, currently being used by my linksys..??
i'm a bit confused about that, and i can't really find any direction on apple's site either...
any of you TC users shed some light on that please?
thanks
apparently a bunch of stuff missed it's flight, but it's still on schedule to be delivered 5th march..
one question i have to ask about the TC is in the set up..
basically, i want to replace my linksys wrt54g with the TC.
I have heard about instructions where an option comes up asking if you would like to replace your existing router etc.. but how would that work? i mean.. do you connect the TC to your existing router? or do you just plug the TC into your mac via ethernet? but how would that work as the mac only has 1 ethernet socket, currently being used by my linksys..??
i'm a bit confused about that, and i can't really find any direction on apple's site either...
any of you TC users shed some light on that please?
thanks
I just unplugged my linksys router, plugged in my timecapsule via ethernet to my mac pro, then set everything up. Allowed time machine to copy the data over, then switched my mac pro over to wireless when the large download was done.
FWIW, I had a MBP and a TC both ship from Shanghai on Friday. The MBP's next hop was to Alaska, whereas the TC went to the Philippines. The MBP arrived today (two days ahead of the delivery estimate on FedEx's page). Not sure where my TC is, .. it hasn't been scanned by FedEx for over 24 hours.
