How do i back up my windows 7 pc to time capsule?

how do i back up my windows 7 pc to time capsule?

Can you see the TC disk in win7?
If not, you need to setup the TC correctly. ie use all SMB compatible names.. not apple names with spaces and apostrophes. Short, no spaces, pure alphanumeric.
On the file sharing page set the correct workgroup, generally WORKGROUP.
And if you can set the guest account on, to read and write.. makes life easier.
In the windows computer load airport utility for win7. That includes bonjour for windows and access agent to the disk. This is not 100% essential but makes things easier.
Open windows explorer and type
\\TCname or \\TCIPaddress into the address bar.. replacing that obviously with actual name or IP.
Now apple do not provide backup software for windows. And win7 home editions cannot backup to network drives.. pro and ultimate can.. thanks bill for product differentiation.. no matter, MSbackup is the worst possible backup utility ever made. There are literally hundreds of backup softwares available for windows.. 99% of them can do network backups. Even on home editions. Buy or try one you download.
I use Macrium Reflect.. free to do disk backup.. you will have to pay for it to do incrementals.
Genie Time Line has a Time Machine like look about it.. but is expensive.
Look up reviews of suitable windows backups. Or use robocopy and script it.

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How do I back up my Windows PC to Time Capsule

I know it must be easy...

know it must be easy...
And it was....very easy using Genie Timeline Pro.....but I haven't used a PC for a year or two, so cannot say that things are the same.
Worth a look....and probably worth the money....but not cheap.
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HT1175 How do you back up additional hard disks to time capsule? Which disks etc. to you choose?

How do you back up additional hard disks to time capsule? Which disks etc. to you choose?

I can read your question a number of ways.
If you mean a disk plugged into your computer you wish to include in Time Machine backup.. just make sure it is HFS+ formatted and remove it from the exclusion list in the TM preferences.
If you mean a disk plugged into your TC for backup,
You can plug a USB disk into a Time Capsule as long as it is compatible.. and the disk is formatted HFS+, ie Mac OS extended Journaled.
You need a USB powered hub if you want to use multiple hard disks and even one might still need a hub.
Not all external drives are recogised but for example the Touro Deskpro works fine.
You can buy them up to 4TB.. how much added space do you want.
Also notice that USB 2 on a TC or AE is slow.. I mean half the speed of the same disk plugged into your computer so consider if speed is relevant to you.
You cannot use TM to backup network disks.. again I am not 100% sure what the question means.

How do i back up my iphoto library to time capsule?

I was told I can back up my iphoto's library to my time capsule but I'm not sure how to do this. Any help is appreciated.

If you've set up Time Machine to back up your computer to it and haven't moved the library off the internal drive, it's already been done.
If you've set up Time Machine to back up your computer to it and have moved the library off the internal drive, ensure the drive holding it isn't excluded in the Time Machine pane of System Preferences.
If you haven't set up Time Machine, either turn it on or drag the iPhoto library from the Pictures item of your home folder to the Time Capsule manually.
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How do i back up iphone and ipod to time capsule?

Set up my time capsule and go to go with macbookpro. Downloaded Airport to iphone and do not know how to back up to this network. Still backing only to cloud.

You cannot backup directly from iOS to time capsule. You can however download an app to access SMB device as a file server. The iphone and ipad are designed to work with itunes.. if you use it with a Mac and it is running itunes then the files will be backed up to the TC as part of the normal TM backup.

How do I back up an iPad to a time capsule?

How do I set up an iPad to back up to a time capsule?

iPad is not designed to backup to the TC.. it backs up to cloud or to iTunes in the computer.. iTunes then backs up to TC using Time Machine.
You can install a file browser on the iPad. eg filebrowser.. and store some files.. but that is not a backup.
See apple doco on backup of ios.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

How can I back up external hard drives to time capsule?

I own an iMac and have two external drives hooked up to it. I also have a time capsule. Is it possible to back up the external drives automatically or manually to the Time Capsule?
-knarfy

I don't think Time Machine would work, but SuperDuper! (to a disk image on the Time Capsule) or Retrospect, or another backup program could do it.

How do i back up my windows partition to my time capsule hard drive

how do i back up my windows partition to my time capsule hard drive

TC/TM do not support backing up NTFS file systems. Use a separate NTFS-formatted external disk (USB/Firewire/Thunderbolt) and configure it as a Windows Backup/Restore destination. W8+ also supports File History.

How do i keep my mac from sleeping during time capsule back-up?

How do I keep my mac from sleeping during time capsule back-up please?

In System Preferences>Energy Saver, set sleep time to "Never".
Clinton

How do I transfer back up data from my old time capsule to my new one easily.

How do I transfer back up data from my old time capsule to my new one easily.

Before you do this, do you really need all of the old backups that go back many weeks and months? Most us only ever need to go back a week or two to pick up a file that was accidentally deleted, but that's about it.
Sure, It is tough to think about deleting all the old backups, so a suggestion would be to keep the old Time Capsule around for a month or two....just in case....but start new backups on the new Time Capsule. Once you have a month or two of backup history on the new Time Capsule, then you might decide to erase the old Time Capsule and sell it....or just keep it around as a spare hard drive.
I've tranferred backups a few times in the past, and used up a lot of space on the "new" Time Capsule to do it, and have found that it is far more trouble than it is worth.
But, you may disagree.

I recently purchased a brand new Airport Time Capsule 2TB. I already am using the previous generation time capsule to back up all my computers data. May I ask how can I complement the usage with my new time capsule?

I recently purchased a brand new Airport Time Capsule 2TB. I already am using the previous generation time capsule to back up all my computers data. May I ask how can I complement the usage with my new time capsule?

By default your new Time Capsule will broadcast an unsecured wireless network with a network name of something like: Apple Network NNNNNN
Most likely your iMacs will be connected to the wireless network created by the Virgin Media router. However, both should see the Apple Network under the AirPort icon's drop-down menu as another wireless network that they can connect to. Is this not the case?

How to make more than one partition on Airport Time Capsule?

how to make more than one partition on Airport Time Capsule?

Only for the very brave......
Open up the Time Capsule (voids the warranty)
Pull the hard drive
Place the hard drive in a separate enclosure
Connect the enclosure directly to your Mac
Use Disk Utility to partition the hard drive
Reinstall the hard drive back in the Time Capsule
For the rest of us.....
The next best thing might be to set up one or more disk images on the Time Capsule, which will allow you reserve a given amount of space for each disk image.
Open up Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Click on the New Image tab
Navigate to the Time Capsule
Set up the disk image by naming it and specifying how much space you want to reserve

ADVANCED: Is manually editing a SparseBundle partition the best approach for backing up 2 Macs to 1 Time Capsule?

Problem/Question: I want to back up 2 macs to 1 Time Capsule, AND provide each of them with an equal amount of space.
Issues:
— to ensure one doesnt "out backup the other" - AND since it isnt possible (practically) to Partition the HDD within the Time Capsule
or in other words: to prevent 1 computer from taking more space for itself by providing an equal amount of backup space to each computer)
*Without manually removing the HDD inside the Time Capsule, docking it and partitioning it in DiskUtility and then remounting it into the Time Capsule...
I understand that it is possible to restrict the size of the SparseBundles, so in theory, one could make at 2TB Time Capsule have a 1TB a sparsebundle for EACH computer, and thus would leave each computer with a maxium 1TB each of backup space.
Following Pondini's instuctions for SparseBundle editing here:
http://pondini.org/TM/A8.html
Is this reccomendable? Any issues I would encounter? or other suggestions for how to proceed?
Thanks
—James
PS - Manditory complaining moment: Why can't Apple just enable a Partioning option in AirPort Utility so we dont have to worry about this?!

The disk space is not adequate for the operation.. archive off the existing backup if you need it.. then start a new backup from each computer.. once you have a new clean backup then set one to 1TB (remember a 2TB only formats to 1.8TB though, so you really should set one sparsebundle to 800GB.. and leave the other one to fill the remaining space.. the disk must have 10-25% free space remaining for backups to work.
Note what Pondini says..
It may not "stick" on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and 10.6.4, and on some occasions, Mountain Lion.
This is not a 100% solution.. Even on ML it did not work reliably.. and if that is the case you can almost predict Mavericks will be worse... before it gets better.
James died before Mavericks came out so unfortunately we have no more information.. but Mavericks and how it handles sparsebundles could well be different.

How do I safety dispose of an old, unusable time capsule? If at all possible, I would like to recycle.

How do I safety dispose of an old, unusable time capsule? If at all possible, I would like to recycle.

If the TC is dead.. then you need to open it to erase the hard disk..
See http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Apple_Time_Capsule
There is nothing you can do in a dead TC to delete your files and if you have info in a TM backup it is a risk.
Apple will exchange the dead one if you buy a new TC.. but they have no return program for the TC itself.
Once you wipe the disk it is safe to put it back and sell on ebay or wherever.

How do I upload pictures to my blog from time capsule?

Hi,
I just started using Time machine, or time capsule (not sure what the difference is). I had to back up my laptop because I only have 185 GB on my computer. I'm a photographer so I take tons of pictures. I started backing up my computer to the time capsule and then had to delete the original files off my computer to make enough space. Currently I have 1 GB of space left on my computer. I need to delete basically all of my photos on the computer so I have more room to even load new pictures onto the computer.
My problem is I need to access these pictures in time capsule so I can load pictures to my blog or website. I know how to look at the pictures in time capsule by going to iphoto and clicking the file thing, but there must be an easy way to upload pictures to the web from time capsule.
Basically if I can't use my pictures to upload them onto my blog/website my business is doomed... Please help me!

Suggest that you consider a few things here:
The Time Capsule (which is hardware) uses Time Machine (which is software) to make backups of the original files on your computer. The reason that you need backups is to have a copies of your important data in two different locations.
The reason for this is that when....not if....a disk drive fails on either your computer or Time Capsule, you at least still have a good copy of important files on the other drive.
If...you move the "original" files on your computer to the Time Capsule drive......all of your images are on the Time Capsule.....and you have no backups. When....not if....the Time Capsule drive fails, you lose everything.
I suggest that you consider the following:
Add an external hard drive that will attach directly to the USB or FireWire port your computer and move your the iPhoto library to that location.
Then, Time Machine will backup both your computer and the external drive, so you have your "originals" on one drive and backups on another.
The bottom line here is that the Time Capsule and Time Machine should be used for backups....not for everyday use. With an external hard drive attached directly to your computer, it will be a simple matter to navigate to the image file using iPhoto and "export" it to the desktop or another folder for uploading.
The Time Capsule is not meant for this type of use.

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