I'd like to do a wireless sync with Windows to the Time Capsule similar to Time Machine. I've yet to find one good straight forward method (other than just buying a mac).
I have been looking around for some good solutions for NAS storage. At first I was considering drobo but I quickly realized that it may not be for me. Although it has some advanced features, it is very pricey and may be a bit over kill for me. At the moment I am considering WD My Book Live or Time Capsule. Currently I have two computers on a network (there may be more in the future but that is unclear right now). I don't think I will need to back-up more than 500 GB of data, but I can reasonably...
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My 1 TB HD and 1 TB time capsule. 50% of Time Capsule is partitioned as a 2nd HD. With only 50% of Time capsule allocated to auto backing up documents, and photos.
I drop old movies onto mine in a backup Movie folder I created to make room on my laptop drive. But then I have to copy them back to the laptop whenever I want to stream them to my Apple TV2 (XBMC) I'd like to take the laptop out of the equation. But then I also wonder if I should be using my Back-Up drive to do frivolous things like stream movies in the first place.
So my Time Capsule just bit the dust. Looks like to move on from yet another Apple device. So I have successfully removed my hard drive out of the time capsule, but now I am concerned of the steps I am going to have to take to migrate my old time machine data to a new storage point. Who has had this happen to them before, and what steps did you take to migrate your data? Did you purchase another Apple Time Capsule, or have you moved on to new pastures?
My apartment complex is moving to a wireless internet for each building. Each building will have 6 access points for residents to pull internet off of with a log in authentication. I currently have time warner cable and use a 1TB time capsule as my wireless router. Is there any way to pull this new wireless internet signal and route it through my time capsule which will allow me to keep my home network. Otherwise I will have to connect each device separately to the AP and have no home network.
As well as using it to back up individual machines, I use my Time Capsule to store shared files. When saving files to it, I get a warning like this: The document "[filename]" is on a volume that does not support permanent version storage. You will not be able to access older versions of this document once you close it. Is there likely to be either a Time Capsule software update that will resolve this or a process you can follow (e.g. reformatting with a different filesystem type) that will allow...
I am thinking of picking one one of the new Mac Mini's and using it as a home server, i basically have 3 major uses in mind for it and want to make sure it will work the way i want it to before i go ahead and spend 600-1000$ for a new mini. I have quite a few movies/TV shows on iTunes and would like to be able to stream them to my Apple TV without it being a pain in the ass, currently my iTunes library is on my PC but the thing has a 1200w power supply and even idle it uses tons of juice. I want...
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Apple's wi-fi base stations are due to be refreshed in the near future. They're rumored to have "software update caching" built in. How does it work? Via 9 to 5 Mac: "What we do know is that Apple has been internally testing Time Capsules to cache Software Updates for both Mac and iOS devices. The way we’ve heard it works is that the new Time Capsule learns which devices connect to it via Wifi. It then goes out to Apple’s servers and downloads Software Updates for those products. When the...
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I'm thinking about doing it, since my Time Capsule is the base model with only 500GB, but I've heard some people say that with other Caviar Green drives, the Time Capsule never puts the HD to sleep. It's not a big problem, though, but I wonder if the same happens with the WD30EZRSDTL.
I'm planning to use a Caviar Green WD20EARS drive, as its power consumption is very low, particularly during idle (I do a Time Machine backup only once a week). Anyone has used one of these drives?
Anyone else having problems with their Time Capsule dying? I've had mine for about 20 months and it just seems to have crapped out. I suspect it's the power supply, but I'm not sure. When I plug in the cord I see a little green light for a second and then nothing. Have tested out a new cord to no avail. I'm not under Apple Care anymore, so there's not much I can do. After a bit of searching, it seems like a lot of people have had theirs die around the 18 month point.
Hello all. Just wondering if anyone has the same problem that I have been experiencing! My main telephone jack is by the front door to my house but all my kit is upstairs. I want to add a Time Capsule to my set-up but want to keep the install as minimal as possible but still keep the time capsule upstairs with all my gear so that I can backup over ethernet for my main machine rather than wireless. So my proposed solution would be: Phone Jack > ADSL 2+ Modem >Powerline Network Adaptor...
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Back up a lifetime's worth of memories with the Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It’s also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support.
