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Who has had their Time Capsule crap out on them?
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?
I have not. It has however rolled over and played dead twice now. I'm afraid to power it down again. Giving it about a half hour of cool down time it powered back on.
Do you know that if you have any Mac with an active Apple Care that your Time Capsule is covered?
Do you know that if you have any Mac with an active Apple Care that your Time Capsule is covered?
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www.unlikelywords.com/2009/01/05/moving-a-time-mac... describes a method for migrating the data: you point Time Machine at your new target and run it just enough to create the sparsebundle that holds the backups, turn Time Machine off, mount both the new and the old sparsebundles, then use SuperDuper or similar to copy the data from old to new.
Alternaitvely, if you don't need the versioning data, or if you are switching from Time Machine to some other backup tool, then just start afresh with a full backup.
Alternaitvely, if you don't need the versioning data, or if you are switching from Time Machine to some other backup tool, then just start afresh with a full backup.
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