Can't access the internal Time Capsule disk

I bought the Time Capsule a few months ago when I got a 13" MacBook Pro for my wife. The idea was to be able to back up both MacBooks automatically. At 2TB I expected to be able to use the Time Capsule as a NAT to archive some files I didn't want filling up the MacBooks but wanted infrequent access to. Within the last week I noticed that the Time Machine backups had stopped and I could no longer see the TC data disk in finder. I now understand that the TC shouldn't do both backup and archive on the disk. I am trying to "archive" the TC disk onto a 1TB USB drive attached to the TC using the Airport Utility. After 23 hours, 130GB of 681GB on the TC disk has been archived onto the 931GB USB drive. My questions are: Will it ever finish the archive successfully? Is the archived file a bit by bit copy so I can save the files I archived onto the TM disk then erase the TM backups? If I erase the TC disk, will I get it back to a state where I can use it as a strictly TM backup disk for the two MacBooks?

No, reset will not touch the data.. but your TC name or even disk name could have changed and you will need to fix any connection to it. It will also reset passwords which could have been set.. and so you will have to change that.
Mountain Lion seems to be painful in how the finder was setup.
The TC should appear under shared. Make sure you have it turned on.

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