Questions & Answers for Time Capsule - 2TB

If you use the TC as the base station that creates the network, you get 15-20MB/sec transfer rate to disk. (That assumes good signal strength.)

If you use the TC as client to join an existing wireless network, you get only 0.5-1MB/sec. According to Apple support, "A TC is not meant to be used as a client that joins an existing network."

• Answered by Michael H from Holland Park
• Dec 10, 2011
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You can not use multiple disks to enlarge the size of even a single designated Time Machine backup. (The thing about Time Machine is that it will eventually fill up any disk you choose as the backup disk, no matter how large a disk you choose - as the amount of space that will be used is simply a function of time.)

You can, however, add an even larger USB external hard drive to your Time Capsule and switch your entire designated Time Machine backup disk to it instead of continuing to use the smaller disk that you've been using. Once the switch is completed, you could re-purpose the original (smaller) disk to a new task, such as backing up another (hopefully smaller) Mac.

Or, if you've been backing up multiple Macs to a single Time Capsule disk, you can limit the number of Macs that are being backed up to each particular designated destination backup disk, so that each disk that is designated as a backup destination is always the proper 2.5 to 3 times as large as the total size of the Mac disks being backed up to it.

Remember, you can add multiple external USB hard drives by connecting a self-powered USB hub to a Time Capsule. This can give you the ability to backup multiple Macs by designating one specific backup destination of sufficient size for each Mac being backed up.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• Jul 22, 2011
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Yes, it is two units in one.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• Nov 21, 2011
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NO, you can't do it. You can just connect an aditional ethernet router with VPN to Capsule.

• Answered by Andrey R from Moscow
• Mar 3, 2011
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Well actually you can do this.
Simply make an image of the BootCamp partition on your Mac drive using WinClone . This will be a boot-able image of the BootCamp drive that can be restored in a few minutes.
Then backup the whole Mac drive with Time Machine.

• Answered by Russell F
• Nov 21, 2010
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YES.

If you are using your wireless ability to backup your files you can set your time capsule to backup more than one system. It works like an airport extreme. It can link to 50 users and so all you need to do is find it in your wireless connections on both of your systems and type in the password you have set for it and it will backup both your macbook and your mac mini.

• Answered by Tyler C
• Apr 14, 2010
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I had the same issue and set up the 2TB Time Capsule as a Media Server, freed up space on my comp and Apple TV, and it made such a difference.

-Copy what you want from your iTunes Media Folder and save it onto the Time Capsule drive, then delete the originals from iTunes.

-Open iTunes Preferences, click Advanced, and uncheck where is says "Copy Files to iTunes Media Folder when Adding to Library" Then drag the files (now stored on the Time Capsule's HD) back into iTunes.

-MAKE SURE to RE-Check the 'copy files...." in preferences when you are done so future purchases and downloads still get organized to the iTunes Media folder on your comp

-I still sync my favorite stuff my Apple TV, but as long as itunes is open on your computer, this lets you stream your entire library, and also frees up space on the Apple TV.

Hope this helps!

• Answered by Lauren S from New York
• Jul 10, 2010
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No, Time Machine cannot back up FROM any network drives.

• Answered by James P from Clermont
• Nov 29, 2010
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Yes, you can connect multiple Time Capsules to the same network. If you will use Time Machine, you can't use both for backing up the same Mac, as you must choose one or the other.

• Answered by Andrew H from Carmel
• Sep 2, 2011
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An external hard drive is usually connected to your Mac by either a Firewire or USB cable. This means that it can only be connected to one machine at a time, although the transfer rate is very good, so it will respond as quickly as your internal drive or possibly even faster.

A Time Capsule on the other hand is effectively a wireless router, with a built in hard drive. The hard drive acts like a network storage drive - so it is available to all of your computers on the network at any time, and because it's wireless there are no messy cables to plug in and it can be located anywhere. The downside is that because data is transferred wirelessly, if you have large amounts of data that you need to access very quickly, it will respond slower than an external drive connected directly.

I have around 10,000 photos in my iPhoto library that I access across the network. It works well, although there is a noticeable lag in performance, which an external hard drive would help overcome.

• Answered by Ben N
• Jan 6, 2010
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