Backup timecapsule itself with an external harddisk with usb

I want to make a backup of the timecapsule with an external harddisk with an usb

Make sure that the USB drive is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then connect it to the USB port on the Time Capsule.
On your Mac, open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
Click the Disks icon
Click the Disks tab below the icon
Click Archive
Allow plenty of time for the backp to occur since all of your backup history will be archived. Normal Time Machine backups will not occur during the archive process.

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yesterday i bought me a brandnew airport extreme station. i would like to use it for creating a wifi-network in my flat. besides i would like to connect my external 500GB lacie-harddisk with the airport extreme. in the past i this harddisk was connected with my imac over the usb-port. unfortunately timemachine does not recognize my harddisk. in the timemachine setups i can choose my harddisk but when the backup-process should start, timemachine stops immediately and tells me that the backup-volume wasn't found. whats wrong? does anybody know a solution?
Greets from Germany
Thomas

pantomas wrote:
why is my setup not supported? i read on this page
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
in that very article, in the second sentence, it clearly says *Time Machine can’t back up to an external disk connected to an AirPort Extreme* ...
so whats my mistake?
a misunderstanding ? say you have 2 Macs on your network. one of them has an external hanging off it. the other Mac could back up to that drive via your network ...
some users, however, successfully back up via an extreme and some don't get it to work. you might be one of 'em.
JGG

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My data is on my MBP and on 2 external HD, one for my music and one for my photo. When I was using TM to backup everything on a third external HD everything was running smoothly, and I could see on the external hard drive, 3 folders with of data on each of my 3 drives: MacintoshHD for my MBP, Disk1 for the music and Disk2 for the photo. I was simply hooking my external HDs to my MBP before doing a TM backup. As a result, I could easily restore one or the other.
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Sometimes posts slip through. Apple themselves are supposed to pick up posts not answered after one day.
Anyway everyone is busy with Yosemite bugs now.. !!
However, now I have on the TC only one file, a sparsebundle file, which, I guess, contains the backup data for the 3 drives (the MBP and the 2 externals). How does it work if I want to restore my MBP after a big crash. Can I chose to only restore the MBP HD without the two external?
This is correct.. your Mac is storing all its backups in the one file.
Read our expert Pondini about how this works.
http://pondini.org/TM/32.html
He shows how to recover multiple volumes..
My advice is not to do it.. Buy a better standard backup .. eg Carbon Copy Cloner.. and use that. It is far superior to TM and makes a direct clone or a sparsebundle on a network drive of just the one disk.. much easier to restore.. much more reliable.. much easier.. much better. It does cost $40 but that covers all the computers in your home.
I do both TM and CCC backups and am happy to have both.. TM works very well when it is behaving.. but is dreadful when it fails.. CCC can produce bootable clones.. so you can have a computer that fails running in 3 min.. it is super easy and super safe.. you can immediately see the backup is good.

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Hello,
This is something I have experience with. If you want to you can go here to see my full set-up.
www.KenosisStudios.com
I am in a pro scenerio where I often need and use 50-60 tracks simult. at 24/96khz. I used to use a Glyph rack with 7200rpm drives and when I started out I spent unreal time on the phone with Emagic, Apple, Sweetwater, and Glyph tech support to try every option of getting ProTools HD results out of my track count. I am no tech guru, so don't live by my words alone, but my personal experience states the following;
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