Can i do wireless backup without time capsule

I have a hard drive on my wireless network, hooked to a PC. Is there any way to acess this for backup other than a USB connection?

With Time Machine, no. With third-party software, maybe, but it will be inefficient.

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Wireless backup without time capsule

I want to backup my Mac wirelessly to an external hard drive (a seagate) connected to my linksys router via the USB port. Time Machine does not recognize the drive; it appears as if Apple is forcing it's customers to buy time capsule even though it may be redundant and otherwise unnecessary. Is there a way for me to wirelessly backup my Mac without buying Time Capsule? Thanks.

You can use your hard drive, try using disk utility on it to repair the drive and permissions. Note: The hard drive your are trying to use must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Check this link, http://www.macworld.com/article/132140/2008/02/timemachine2.html

Migration Assistant can not find my backups on Time Capsule

Yesterday I installed a fresh copy of OS X leopard and wanted to recover data from time capsule using migration assistant,the first time that I connected to TC using migration assistant it found everything on my TC and was calculation the size of that account there but suddenly it went away and now when I connect to time capsule it says (migration assistant) that there is 0 backup found. I can myself recover some data from time capsule which I stored just as a disk drive which means that the hard drive of TC is working , the sparsebundle is even there . but no result.
Even when I want to go to time machine with the icon in menu bar it takes too much time says; connecting to server but nothing happens !
Please help all the data from years ago are there !!
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For backups on a Time Capsule, you may have to mount the sparsebundle first.
Open Finder. Click on Time Capsule -> Time Capsule Disk -> yourbackup.sparsebundle. Double-click on it and press Skip when prompted. Your sparsebundle should now be mounted on your Desktop.
Try to +Browse Other Time Machine disks+ via the ctrl-click on the TM icon.

Wireless Backup w/ time capsule

I was thinking about getting time capsule. I do have a question about wireless backup though. I travel a lot and I wondered if I were to leave my time capsule at my house and travel out of town will I still be able to backup things on the time capsule via other methods.
Is it possible to backup files via the airport feature. Like using the airport on my cpu to connect to the internet to backup files onto my time capsule at home which is also connected to the internet through airport.
I hope that this makes sense. Any advice is good advice. Thanks again.

Good question. In theory, this should be possible. In practice - and whether TimeMachine will be designed to support it - we really don't know. A definitive answer will have to wait until Time Capsule ships and we have more information.
There is one other issue - which is that Time Capsule's public IP address may change from day to day (which is typical of the dynamic IP addresses provided by most ISPs). Unless you keep a computer on your home LAN running 24/7 with an update client for a service like http://www.dyndns.com/ , or you put Time Capsule behind a separate internet router with a built in dyndns update client, you won't know what IP address to reach Time Capsule at while you are on the road.
In practise, it might be easier and more convenient to backup to something like a .Mac account while you are on the road.

How can I make a backup without Time Machine?

I'm finally upgrading to Mountain Lion, but my Seagate GoFlex harddrive isn't letting me backup via time machine. do I have to reformat the harddrive to be used with time machine? or is there an app I can download so I can get a clean install of OS X without having to loose any of my files or apps?

The disk for Time Machine should be firmatted as HFS+
If you want to do a backup so that you can do an erase & install, I suggest that you make a bootable clone with either CCC or SuperDuper.
Allan

Wireless backup to Time Capsule too slow?

Hi to all,
I have a working wi-fi network: a 500gb time capsule + 2 airport express (the old b/g model); the capsule is WDS main, each express is a remote wds.
*normal network file transfers run at acceptable speed*, however time machine has a lot of problems:
(1) the first backup ~80gb was made via 1Gb ethernet in a few hours -- perfect
(2) incremental backups take a VEEERY long time to do... basically nothing. here's a log: 40 minutes to transfer 1KB!
Sep 2 06:13:30 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Starting standard backup
Sep 2 06:13:30 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/DoubleStar Storage
Sep 2 06:14:03 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Disk image /Volumes/DoubleStar Storage/SilverChariot_001f5bec24ca.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of SilverChariot
Sep 2 06:14:03 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of SilverChariot/Backups.backupdb
Sep 2 06:28:29 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 384.11 GB available
Sep 2 06:28:29 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:28:59 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:29:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:30:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:30:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:31:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:31:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:32:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:32:44 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:33:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Sep 2 06:50:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Sep 2 06:51:48 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Copied 343 files (1 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 2 06:51:52 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Starting post-backup thinning
Sep 2 06:51:52 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Sep 2 06:51:52 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Backup completed successfully.
Sep 2 06:52:11 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Sep 2 06:52:14 SilverChariot /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[635]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
(3) time machine is indeed very fragile. if I put the computer to sleep while t.m. is running, the next time I read this in console:
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
and it takes 4 or 5 hours to backup few MB
in this case, network activity is high: it seems that macbook is downloading a lot from time capsule... anyway it stays a lot of time in "preparing backup", and even when it starts backup, it backs up soooo slowly.
here's what I tried:
(1) format time capsule and restart
(2) erase spotlight index in macbook, reindex everything with time machine off, then reactivate spotlight
(3) turned off wds remotes and connected directly to time capsule
any other hint?
thanks, MH

Here's a new conjecture: TM via ethernet works smoothly.
May this be related to wi-fi encryption (I use WPA2)?

My Housemate can't access wireless internet via Time Capsule...

Happened all of a sudden after working fine. He's the only PC user in the house.
He's asked me to do a reset on the wireless network.
Any suggestions? Walkthrough?
Thanks in advance!
Time Capsule 2TB

Just do a reboot of the TC.. ie pull out the power cord.. count to 10.. plug in the power cord.
If that doesn't work.. try this.
Same as what I just posted here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4780145?tstart=0
Use SMB names.. important for windows..
Fix the channels.. use different name for 5ghz.
And WPA2 Personal security.

HT201250 wireless backup using time capsule

my first back is taking much more time than expected. Notes do say that the first back up wull take some time, which is expected. BUT over the last 48 hours it has only backed up 3.4 GB out of a measured 80 GB. The math says someting is very wrong with the duration. Or is it? Can anyone give some clues. Simply, all I have done is set the backup disk and started the backup and the left the device alone. The wireless connection is strong (signal) but the external HDD sounds like it is constantly in "pain". Always been like it.

It's much better (2-3 times faster and more reliable) to do the initlal backup via Ethernet.
If it's only done 3.4 GB in 2 days, something is terribly wrong. You might want to cancel the backup, connect via Ethernet, and start over.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #29 for a rough guide to how fast it should run.
If it's considerably slower, try the things in the green box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Kernel panic with wifi backup to Time Capsule

I have had no problem with wireless backup to Time Capsule until recently when I would consistently get a kernel panic during the backup. Is it a corrupt file? How would I isolate it? Or could it be a directory problem that DiskWarrior would fix? I can mount the backup image on my desktop OK.
I suppose I could erase my backup image on the Time Capsule, but I dont want to lose all that data. And if I did, what is the best way to archive that TIme Capsule backup image?
Thanks for any help.

Arthur Simonsen wrote:
I have had no problem with wireless backup to Time Capsule until recently when I would consistently get a kernel panic during the backup. Is it a corrupt file? How would I isolate it? Or could it be a directory problem that DiskWarrior would fix? I can mount the backup image on my desktop OK.
First, Repair your backups per #A5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.
If that doesn't help, here's a bunch of kernel panic info:
Apple Support - About kernel panic messages
Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ
The X Lab - Resolving Kernel Panics
Apple Developer - Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics
Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics
I suppose I could erase my backup image on the Time Capsule, but I dont want to lose all that data. And if I did, what is the best way to archive that TIme Capsule backup image?
If your backups are ok, erasing the drive probably won't help. But to "archive" the backups, see this Apple article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1281

Can time capsule be used for wireless backup without serving as a router?

can time capsule be set and used for wireless backup without serving as a router?

Not if you want it to work.
If you do want stand alone .. ie a TC sitting all on its lonesome with no internet connection.. then reset to factory and start over..
The TC has to be in router mode so it can handle dhcp and addressing.
Ignore all the problems.
BUT then you can connect your computer to TC for backup
OR
you can connect to main wireless router for internet..
You cannot do both.. at the same time.
UNLESS you have ethernet connection.. to either main modem or TC.. if you have two networks and two different network clients, then you can do both at once but the setup is tricky.

Wirelessly backing up without Time Capsule?

I read that it's possible to wirelessly back up without Time Capsule as long as the external drive is connected to another Mac. Can anyone help please?

1. You can do what you are now doing. You could transfer files via your home network using File Sharing.
2. Partitioning is done using Disk Utility. See:
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
4. This can be done as you are now doing it. You can share the backup drive from the desktop computer if you have a home network. Select the drive. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. Check the box labeled "Shared." Now open Sharing preferences and check the box, "File Sharing." If the shared drive is not in the list then use the Add [+] button and add the drive to the list. On the other computer you should see your desktop now listed in the Finder's sidebar under Servers. Click on the desktop name then click on the Connect As link in the upper right. Log in as a registered user using your admin account on the desktop and enter your admin password on the desktop account. You should now see an array of folders you can access including the shared drive. Double-click on it and it will mount on the Desktop. You can now use it like any other drive. For more help with this process select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "sharing."
Now, you can use a lot of different software for doing backups, syncs, etc. Here are a few:
Backup Software Recommendations
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
Silver Keeper
Super Flexible File Synchronizer
Synchronize Pro! X
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
All of the above can use a networked drive as a source or destination for backing up or syncing files.

I am trying to update my time machine backup on time capsule, but time machine keeps trying to create an entirely new backup (evidenced by the 200GB backup size). How can I get time machine to modify my old backup rather than create a new one?

I am trying to update my time machine backup on time capsule, but time machine keeps trying to create an entirely new backup (evidenced by the 200GB backup size). How can I get time machine to modify my old backup rather than create a new one?

It must have found the old backup corrupt.. so you will more than likely have little choice. You can archive off the old backup if it is still useful.
You can also verify it. See A5 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
He also has some info on this problem. eg C13.

I have used Airport Time Capsule with my iMac for several years. I recently purchased a MacBook Air and when it tried to backup to Time Capsule it couldn't because Time Capsule is full. How can I now use the 3TB Airport Time Capsule to back up both?

I have used Airport Time Capsule with my iMac for a couple years. I recently purchased a MacBook Air and when it tried to backup to Time Capsule it couldn't because Time Capsule is full. How can I now use the 3TB Airport Time Capsule to back up both the iMac and MacBook Air? I don't mind losing earlier backups. I have excluded some items from backing up, but since the Airport Time Capsule is full, I can't even begin to back up the MacBook Air.

On your Mac.......
Open Finder > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit in the smaller window that appears
Click on the Disks tab at the top of the window
Click Erase Disk
On the next window that appears, select the Quick Erase option, then click Erase
The operation will only take a few minutes.
Now you are ready to start new backups of both Macs. Back up one Mac first, then back up the other. Do not try to back up both Macs as the same time.

Can I simply just use my Time Capsule as a normal External Hard drive? A wireless external hard drive?

Can I simply just use my Time Capsule as a normal External Hard drive? A wireless external hard drive?

I am not sure what you mean by normal external but yes, it is a network hard disk drive.. and you can use wireless.. the only trouble then is, if there is no ethernet connection and internet is by wireless to a different router, then you cannot do both at once.

My 2 TB Time Capsule's memory is full because it will not automatically delete old files as it is supposed to, so it is giving me zero backup of my two computers now. How can this be fixed so my Time Capsule deletes the old data and saves the new?

My 2 TB Time Capsule’s memory is full because it will notautomatically delete old files as it is supposed to, so it is giving me zerobackup of my two computers now. How can this be fixed so my Time Capsule deletes the old data and savesthe new?
Neither my local computer consultant nor I have been ableto change any of the settings in Time Machine to correct this problem. Working with the choices in the TimeMachine, there does not appear that there is any way to change the frequency ofthe backups either, so, after a year has elapsed, the time capsule is full, andmy only choice appears to be to erase all the current data on the Time Capsuleand start over, something that I do not want to at all let alone repeat on anannual basis. My questions are:
What can be done to have my Time Capsule delete old filesas it is supposed to do, so it has memory available to allow my computers toback up?
Is this a software problem that can be fixed online or isdoes this require a mechanical fix of defective hardware?

How much data is being backed-up from each Mac? (see what's shown for Estimated size of full backup under the exclusions box in Time Machine Prefs > Options).
Is there any other data on your Time Capsule, besides the backups?
Most likely, there just isn't room. Time Machine may be trying to do a very large (or full) backup of one or both Macs, and can't. Since it won't ever delete the most recent backup, there has to be enough room for one full backup plus whatever it's trying to back up now, plus 20% (for workspace).
Also see #C4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for more details.

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