? Command to Mount USB drive attached to Time Capsule ?

Looking for the terminal commands that would let me mount and unmount the USB drive I have attached to my Time Capsule so that I can have a shell script to mount the drive, RSync some folders, and then eject/unmount the drive.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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  • Problems with USB external drive attached to time capsule

    Hi,
    I bought a WD 1 TB my book as a supplemental backup drive, as I've pretty much maxed out the space in my 500 GB TC with backups form two macbooks. It's attached to the TC via the USB 2.0. For the first few months everything worked fine. Now suddenly neither machine can access the WD drive. It shows up in the Aiport utility but not in the finder. When I plug it directly into one of the macbooks it accesses fine, but I bought it specifically to use as additional network backup drive.
    Where have I gone wrong? I updated the firmware for the WD drive, and everything appears fine on the TC and the macbooks. I poked around on the forums and found many a complaint about the WD drives, but I couldn't find a solution to my particular problem.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks.

    The first thing to try is a nice long power cycle of the network if you have not already done this.
    Power everything down, order is not important. Wait 5-10 minutes.
    Start the modem first and let it run 4-5 minutes by itself. Then start the next device connected to the modem the same way. Keep powering up each device the same way until all devices are powered on.
    Any help?
    If no luck, the next thing to try is connect the WD drive directly to your computer and "Verify Disk" using Disk Utility.
    Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
    Then click "Repair disk"
    If indicated, "Repair Permissions" on the disk.
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  • How to back up external drive attached to time capsule

    How can I backup an external 1 TB drive containing my itunes library that I have attached to my time capsule usb port to my time capsule?
    Over the weekend I purchased a timecapsule and I love it! I thought the idea of not having to mount and unmount my usb external drive from my laptop would help with my itunes library intergrity (keep loosing large chunks of music). I have now plugged the drive into the timecapsule usb port but the only configuration time machine allows that I can find is to tell it what not to back up on my laptop and now that the external drive is not attached to my mac it doesn't even appear. what now? I want to get this completed prior to upgrading to snow leopard.

    go system preferences > time machine > options and make sure the external is not excluded from backups.
    that's it. time machine should automatically backup any drive connected directly to your computer (unless it is told not to and given there's sufficient space on the TC).
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  • Searching external hard drive attached to Time Capsule

    I have a 1 TB Time Capsule which I use for backing up my 2011 MacBook Pro and for providing my WiFi. I also have a 1 TB external hard drive plugged into my Time Capsule which I can access via WiFi. I can go to Finder on my laptop and browse the folders/files on my external hard drive. It appears under Shared in the sidebar of the Finder window. I can open files from it and I can save files to the drive, so it appears to be working fine. I have hundreds of gigs of files on the drive. But when I was recently hunting for a specific file, I noticed that my Spotlight wasn't doing a very good job at finding files on my external hard drive. I tried many different searches - by name, by type, by date - and had no luck. But as I was searching, I realized that I had more files of certain file types than Spotlight was showing me. So I tried searching for files I first confirmed were actually on the external drive. And again Spotlight failed to find them. If I used a partial filename search, it would find some files that matched but not the ones I was looking for.
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    It should be HFS+.. it may work with fat32 but that is a lousy format.
    The actual format of the drive is irrelevant to the PC.. the TC offers SMB connection.. so it is a true file sharing device.. the format used to store the files cannot be directly read by windows but is "interpreted, translated" via the firmware of the TC.
    BTW this is true of all network storage.. A NAS can store files in whatever format its OS requires.. freebsd like freenas might use XFS.. or linux use EXT2 or REISFS.. it makes no difference as long as it offers that store to the windows (and apple) network as SMB.. then windows can handle it.

  • Can't access a USB Drive connected to Time Capsule from a Windows PC.  Apple Care can't/won't assist.  HELP!!!

    Trying to get my Windows 7 PC to access the USB Drive that is connected to my Time Capsule.  I have a Fat32 Formatted USB drive connected to a 2TB Time Capsule and I'm trying to get access to that drive from a Windows 7 PC.  I've attempted to map the network drive (based on some 3-4 year old articles I could find online) but any time I access a file from the PC, the Time Capsule "freaks out" and disconnects all connections to it which forces me to unplug it to restart the Tim Capsule.  I'm at a loss now as to what to do.
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    First off, Archon23, what you want to achieve is possible.  I have access to both my Time Capsule (TC) and the USB drive connected to it, from a Win. 7 and Win. XP machine.
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         From Windows HomeNet - Time Capsule:
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    One caveat before proceeding:  I am not well versed in Windows Networks, Windows Sharing and Firewall settings so some of the following may not be elegant, may not be absolutely required, and may not be the best way of getting there.  But it is what I did to see both the TC drive and it's attached USB  drive on the Windows side of my network..
    1.) First, I added Airport Utility to the Inbound rules of Win 7 Firewall
    While poking around my Network Sharing and Firewall settings trying to figure this out, I got a Pop-up recommending I do that.  AND I did that. Oh, and while you are at it, make sure you have a Home network established. 
    2.) Next, on a hunch, I installed a USB Wi-Fi Adapter (under $20) to my Win PC, enabled that Wi-Fi connection and disabled my Ethernet connection.  I was getting no where on this matter with my Ethernet connection to a DSL Gateway.  But with a Wi-Fi connection to my AirPort Express Base Station, I made progress.
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  • USB HD attached to Time Capsule - how to backup it with Time Machine

    Hi.
    I have a time capsule, and a small USB HD connected to it.
    This drive I use it as a NAS, a file server for all my home network.
    It's so convenient.
    But I would love its content to be backed-up by Time Machine,
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    I could mount it and back it up to my laptop, which in turn would be backed-up by Time Machine for example (I don't know how to do it).
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    TIA, alex

    Welcome to Apple Discussions, alexfromfrance in Shanghai .
    As long as the USB HDD is formatted in HFS+, Time Machine will recognize it and ask if you want to use it as a back up for TM if you plug the drive into a USB port on your Mac. If asked, you should click NO. Under TM Preferences, you should click Options and see if this drive is EXCLUDED. If so, uncheck it.
    If you need to re-format it (and lose all your content), it would need to be plugged into your Mac directly via USB (not through Time Capsule) using Disk Utility.
    If you are asking if a HFS+ USB drive can be plugged into TC directly and backed up by TM, I'll be attempting this in the next few days (when I have time to move the data off the HDD onto another drive).
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  • IPhoto on External Hard Drive Attached to Time Capsule

    Hi,
    I can't seem to find the answer to this question on any of the forums.
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    What I want to do is have just the one library which can be displayed on my Mac Mini and editied using my two laptops.
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    Is this possible to do?

    I read your question a while ago and since nobody has jumped in .. let me have a go..
    Yes, I should say it is possible to have your iphoto library on the TC.
    It is older post but still should work.
    http://gigaom.com/apple/using-time-capsule-as-a-media-drive/
    Second point... don't do it.
    Here is why..
    1. Extremely slow. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/7
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    2. More importantly .. there is zero backup. If you do want to backup, you have to drag the files off the USB disk, across the network and back onto a drive connected to your computer.. Net gain.. zero.. you still have to have a disk connected to a computer.
    Use the Mac Mini, a drive connected by firewire is hugely faster. Even usb drive direct from the computer over the network is faster.
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  • External Drive attached to Time Capsule failing to work consistently

    This problem has been occurring since we started using an external drive attached to our Time Capsule as a backup destination for Time Machine over a year ago:
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    Yes, indeed. Let me give some background.
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    I had a year's worth of backups. Went to the Genius Bar who recommended starting over after they checked out my setup over Back to My Mac. They couldn't find anything wrong and supposed my backups were hopelessly corrupted. So I followed their advice with Dumbledore and archived those for Tonks. Trying to start over with Dumbledore fails within the first 75 of 500 GB to backup every time. I've redirected syslog reporting at Debug level from the TC to my iMac and formatted the external drive several times. I have done disk repairs on the drive, Dumbledore's sparse bundle, and the TM volume contained in the sparse bundle. I've only gotten the "too many ACL's" error. The WD drive comes with SmartWare software I've used to check the S.M.A.R.T. status (100% OK), test the drive (100% OK) and deactivate the Virtual CD partition used to, among other things, encrypt the drive. My drive is unencrypted and have made it as plain vanilla as I can: GUID with one 1.5 TB Mac OS Extended Journaled partition.
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    The only shot in the dark I've seen is that the TC repeatedly updates its DHCP lease every 5 minutes or so despite having a 4 hour TTL. Weird.

  • Format for external hard drive attached to Time Capsule

    What format should I used for an external hard drive attached to my Time Capsule that will allow both my Mac and PCs to read and write to it?

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  • Unable to access drive attached to Time Capsule.

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    dougkramer wrote:
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    see this user tip: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/2.html
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  • Automatically Mount USB Drive on TC

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