Questions & Answers for Time Capsule - 2 TB

Hi,

There is currently no way to do backup automatically in the way you ask. You can however use the Time Capsule as the main backup source and then within Airport Utility->Manual Setup->Disks There is an 'Archive" option that allows you to do a one-click copy onto a USB external hard drive, but it is not automated.

• Answered by Justin D from Londonderry
• 01 6, 10
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Should be the same as essentially the Time Capsule is the Airport Extreme with a built-in Hard Drive

• Answered by Harold Z from Honolulu
• 05 25, 11
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no

• Answered by Sonjia R from Kodiak
• 04 21, 10
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"I want to replace the WD with a 2TB Time Capsule and use the Time Capsule as a storage device, as well as a back up device via Time Machine for my iMac."

You could arrange for such dual-purpose use of a Time Capsule, but the data you'd store independently on the Time Capsule would not be eligible to be backed up by the usual operation of Time Machine, so you'd have a risk of losing it.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• 12 2, 10
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Yes, I use one Time Capsule to back up an iMac and two MacBook Pros.

• Answered by Jeff L from Spokane
• 04 23, 10
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No, the airport extreme can replace a router if you have one, but it can not replace the comcast cable modem - it doesn't have the necessary hardware to connect the cable line. This would be a great addition to your network though. You would plug your cable modem in to the airport extreme, and the airport extreme would share that connection to your desktop via a wired (or wireless) connection, as well as to your roku and visiters via the wifi.

• Answered by Andrew K from Ann Arbor
• 01 10, 13
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You can open the preference pane for Time Machine in System Preferences, and there it will show you if the back-ups have been running correctly or not. Also, if you have the Time Machine icon enabled (would be located at the upper right), then it will also show the info there.

• Answered by James L from Lubbock
• 04 24, 10
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Certainly, the standard one year limited warranty on Apple hardware.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• 12 18, 10
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In principle, Internet sharing of Mac OS X can share any type of Internet connection, including iPhone USB, which is similar to the configuration you describe. And the communication channel to share this internet connection can be any of the other available: Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.

However, the way Internet sharing works, MAC OS X will try to create a private network between the server (sharing the internet connection) and the clients. Therefore if you chose to share your internet connection through WiFi, Mac OS X will create a private wireless network accepting connections from clients. This setup complicates the connection through a Time Capsule or makes it worthless. If you chose to share it over Ethernet, then your computer will become a server with its own IP address and will attempt to assign IP addresses to any computer connected to the same LAN, once again Time Capsule role in this scenario would be rather strange as it should act as a dumb switch and I almost sure you would require both computers connected to ethernet ports, making useless the best features of the Time Capsule.
A third and last option I can imagine is to connect your mac with internet connection to the Internet Ethernet Port of the Time Capsule; on the mac, share internet connection through the same port and then ask Time Capsule to create a wireless network sharing the internet connection where your second mac (or as many as you want) would connect. This however will require testing and is not the way it was intended to work, in addition you'll have your mac "server" tied to a range of 3 to 5m around the time capsule.
Hope this helps.

• Answered by Rodrigo C from London
• 11 21, 11
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