Questions & Answers for Time Capsule - 2TB

You can use a Mac OS X installation disk (Leopard and up if I'm not mistaken) and use the Time Machine restore at boot time to restore the settings from a previous Mac.
Mac OS will detect your TC and restore your hard-drive as per the TC image. I've done this once as a life-saver. It was slow (using gigabit Ethernet) but that's because my TC is the first model which is painfully slow. Nevertheless, I was up and running in hours, and the peace of mind of having my entire system and settings restored to perfection is priceless.

• Answered by Ricardo S
• Oct 15, 2009
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Time Capsule has no user-accessible memory, but has storage capacity. You can use a powered USB hub to connect additional external hard drives. If desired, one or more of such drives could then be used as a destination drive for Time Machine.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• Nov 30, 2010
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No, you can only back up to iCloud or to iTunes.

• Answered by Chris C from Cobourg
• Mar 9, 2012
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Yes, Time Capsule will allow the backup. Of course, your OS X 10.4.11 does not contain Time Machine software, so you will be using Disk Utility or third-party software to perform the backup.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• Sep 28, 2011
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Certainly. My verizon FiOS comes out into a standard Verizon supplied (coax) cable modem (free & included 802.11g wireless maybe they supply .n now?). I simply plugged the Time Machine (not the same as the Way Back Machine used by Sherman & Professor Peabody) into the cable modem/router with a short Ethernet cable & follow directions. I attach my big iMac with an Ethernet cable but wireless works fine too. Rename device setup password & good to go.

I set up all my clients to use the TM wifi cuz better. TM says switch from DHCP to NAT bridge mode. I may try later but prior described connection gives me fast Internet.

• Answered by Richard M from Alexandria
• Nov 23, 2012
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You could place the mini on top of the time capsule. The mini has a smaller profile than the time capsule so they don't technically stack (it really depends upon your definition of stacked (i.e., perfectly aligned form factor/dimensions).

Also, the chassis of the time capsule does throw a fair amount of heat so you'll want to have good ventilation when placing the mini on top of the TC.

• Answered by Claudio S from Winnipeg
• Jan 24, 2010
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Yes, but I wouldn't advise it. Time Machine always fills the backup disk to capacity, so unless you can live with the possibility of running out of space at any moment, I shouldn't do it. You could use an external hard disk to overcome that limitation (though this will kill performance for that disk) and you could hack around with pre-allocating disk space (which is a technically complicated operation and also kills some performance) or you could just not bother. :-)

Unless/until Apple supports the partitioning of the internal Time Capsule disk, I suggest that you share a network volume to your Windows box from your Mac. Now, back up your Windows box to your Mac, and the lot goes into one Time Machine backup set (but, at the expense of disk space on your Mac, sorry). An important precondition for this to work: your iMac will have to come online, or be online, when your Windows box wishes to back up to disk, so plan accordingly.

• Answered by Sabahattin G
• Dec 22, 2012
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Short answer: Yes.
Bought a the 2 TB model in the USA and am now happily using it in Europe.
The power supply is a universal one (110-240V). The only thing you need
is a plug adapter.
There is a slight chance of problems, since the allowed WiFi bands are
not identical in Europe and the USA, but so far I have not experienced any
problems.

• Answered by Antonius V from Bethesda
• Dec 12, 2009
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