Is it common for the TC to be so very slow? I am getting ready to sell the TC and my MBP due to bills that need paid and had manually moved all non-Time Machine manual file backups to another drive but it took days to do it as I was only getting approx, 1-2 MB/s transefer speed. The USB drive I plugged into the TC is a USB 3.0 Buffalo brand drive that is quite fast when plugged into my MBP but the TC itself is awfully slow. I did hook up my MBP to the TC via ethernet in the hopes it would be faster but no, it wasn't.
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Time Capsule 4th Gen extremely slow?
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Why not simply archive the Time Capsule to the USB drive? Those speeds are quite slow for a USB drive.
Wouldn't that copy everything? OP wants just manual backups I think
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Found this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3241736
It might be the same problem as yours. TC transfer data to Mac and Mac send back to TC.
Related:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/125868/time-capsule-usb-transfer-speed
I will not have access to a Mac. I am selling mine on a popular auction site to pay bills. So I needed to manually move all files so that a PC running Linux or Windows could access them.
It's not the Buffalo drive that is slow but the TC making it slow because it itself is crawling.
You can archive the disk in AirPort Utility which clones the data on the Time Capsule to the USB hard drive. It does not require a Mac. There is some information on the archive function here.