Can I use part of my 3TB as a network drive.

Time Machine uses my entire 3 TB for backup. is there a way to partition the 3Tb and use part as a network drive?

No, you cannot partition a TC.
See Pondini about how to use data on a TC.
Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

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Posted: Jul 23, 2009 1:49 PM Reply Email
Here is what I want to do. I currently have a time capsule used for one end of the house. Currently my 2 kids rooms are in an addition that I have run a cable from the time capsule to each of their rooms. If I want to give them wireless for that part of the house could I add another TC, for wireless and they can both backup their macbooks to that time capsule.
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Best regards.
Thanks
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