How to backup from Time Capsule to external HD?

How to set up files backup from Time Capsule to external HD?
Here is configuration: MacBook + MacAir + Time Capsule (which I use as a storage) + 2Tb WD MyPassport (USB connected to TimeCapsule)
I keep files like photos on TimeCapsule to be available by WiFi and I want to set up my Time Machine to backup picture folder from TimeCapsule to MyPassport HD.

Time Machine can't back up a network volume. You'll have to use third-party software. I don't have a specific recommendation. There is no efficient way at all to back up a Time Capsule, which is why it should only be used as a backup destination, not as a general-purpose file server.

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  • Transferring backup from Time Capsule to external HD?

    Have had many headaches with trying to use Time Capsule wirelessly for backups and also as a router for internet connectivity.
    Finally decided to invest in an external HD with 3T of capacity. It is a 'plug and play' unit, already GUID partitioned and I want to transfer my Time Machine backups (that go back to Nov 2010) in total to this new HD, which is connected to my desktop computer with FW800.
    Here's my question: This article suggests that all I have to do is to drag the  Backups.backupdb folder to my new external HD, but this is not found on my Time Capsule.
    Instead, I have the following:
    [Folder Icon} Desktop (containing 0 items)
    KO's MacPro.sparsebundle
    There is a total of 1.39 TB on the Time Capsule, representing backups for the past 2 years.
    So do I just drag these 2 items to my external HD?
    Also, I'm not confident that copying the files wirelessly is the way to go. However, I've had spotty success with trying to use the TCapsure via ethernet.
    Any suggestions?

    Apple now recommends this method for backup of the TC.. see.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5096
    Pondini covered it ages ago and with better detail.
    http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
    Read the whole thing carefully.. inside the sparsebundle is the backup.. you do not copy the sparsebundle just the backup.
    There is a total of 1.39 TB on the Time Capsule, representing backups for the past 2 years.
    So do I just drag these 2 items to my external HD?
    Also, I'm not confident that copying the files wirelessly is the way to go. However, I've had spotty success with trying to use the TCapsure via ethernet.
    Any suggestions?
    That is never going to work over wireless.
    By the time you get it half way something will happen and corrupt it and you need to start over.
    TM backup are fairly difficult beasties to backup IMHO.
    You must get your ethernet working. I would strongly advise you do this in isolation.. Setup a computer and the TC.. and copy the file across.. no other network connection.. If it still give issues.. something is actually wrong with the TC. How old is it and what model, please give A1xxx from the rubber foot.
    The final method.. is to extract the TC hard disk and put it in a USB holder. Then do a copy on the computer, disk to disk. this is much faster btw if you use sata connection on your Pro.. in fact you can do it in a few hours.
    http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Apple_Time_Capsule

  • Trying to move backup from Time Capsule to external USB drive

    As per the title, I'm getting rid of my Time Capsule and am trying to move the backups to an external USB drive instead.
    Initially I used AirPort Utility 5.6.1 to archive to the USB drive. However, when I switched TM back on, it wanted to do a full backup rather than incremental.
    I then found Pondini's very useful page at http://pondini.org/TM/18.html and decided to try it this method instead. It also made me realise that I'd incorrectly formatted the new drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) when in fact the TM backup was case sensitive. So I thought this could have been the issue, but still persued Pondini's method. I formatted the drive again, this time in the correct format, and followed Pondini's guide, copying the Backups.backupdb folder from the sparse bundle to the new drive, which completed fine. But unfortunately, TM again wanted to backup everything from scratch when I turned it back on.
    Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

    So it looks like I was wrong on both counts.
    I misunderstood AirPort Utility's archive feature. I failed to realise that archiving actually puts the sparse bundle in a separate folder called "Data Archive" on the new drive, so of course TM won't continue using that existing backup.
    It would also seem that I was incorrect in thinking that Pondini's method didn't work. When I tried it again, I realised that TM was in fact continuing the backup. Initially it looks like it's going to do a big backup, but actually only backed up a few hundred megabytes, then everything was back to normal.
    Incidentally, I've also found that if you do use AirPort Utility to archive the backup, you can effectively using Pondini's "How can I copy my TM backups to a different location?" by mounting the spare bundle in the "Data Archive" folder, then dragging Backups.backupdb to the root of the drive.
    I just wanted to post this for completeness and in case it helps anyone in the future.

  • Moving Time Machine backups from Time Capsule to External USB Drive

    Hi all,
    hoping someone out there can help I'm trying to move my time machine backups from my old Time Capsule to my external USB drive. I've already used the Airport Utility to "archive" my Time Capsule to a USB connected WD MyBook Elite.
    Right now my WD MyBook Elite has both the archive, and recent (roughly 5 backups) of both my MacBook & MacMini. I've tried to follow the seemingly simple steps located in the FAQ's here [URL="http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/18.html#id22"]Copy NETWORK backups to be used LOCALLY[/URL] , but I cannot past step 1.
    [Quote]Right-click the new volume on your desktop or Finder sidebar and select Get Info. If the Ignore ownership on this volume box is checked, click the padlock at the lower right and enter your Admin password at the prompt. Then remove the check mark from the box and close the window.[/Quote]
    There is no option to "Ignore Ownership" in Snow Leopard for the Spars Bundle or when expanding it to see its folders.
    Any advice?
    I'm basically trying to combine my backups to unit them into one seemless backup each for:
    Mac Mini & MacBook.
    Thank you in advance.

    Dark Heart wrote:
    [Quote]Right-click the new volume on your desktop or Finder sidebar and select Get Info. If the Ignore ownership on this volume box is checked, click the padlock at the lower right and enter your Admin password at the prompt. Then remove the check mark from the box and close the window.[/Quote]
    There is no option to "Ignore Ownership" in Snow Leopard for the Spars Bundle or when expanding it to see its folders.
    That's not referring to the sparse bundle you're copying FROM, but the new volume you just formatted on the USB drive you're copying TO.
    If you didn't just format the partition, that box may not be shown -- it not, there's no problem and you don't need to do anything in that step.
    I'm basically trying to combine my backups to unit them into one seemless backup each for:
    Mac Mini & MacBook.
    I'm not sure what you mean by that: you cannot combine the backups of two different Macs. You can put them both on the same hard drive, either in two different partitions, or, if any are going to be backed-up over a network, in a sparse bundle.
    If I've misunderstood, please clarify exactly what you're trying to do.

  • How do I remove a backup from Time Capsule?

    How do I remove a backup from Time Capsule? It is taking up 250 GB on the capsule and I wish to remove it.
    I do not wish to erase the Time capsule since I have another backup on there I wish to keep.

    Then you use the TM application to manage the backups. See:
    A  whole  lot  about  Time  Machine for help with TM problems.  Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM.  See also Mac 101- Time Machine.

  • Delete old Backups from Time Capsule

    Deleting old Backups from Time capsule ist very slow.
    How could it be faster?
    Where can i change the preferences?
    Which Programm changes Preferences?
    If its possible answers in German;-)
    Thanks

    Deleting old Backups from Time capsule ist very slow.
    Deleting Time Machine backups can be slow. Löschen von Time Machine-Backups können nur langsam voran.
    How could it be faster?
    Unfortunately, there isn't any settings that you can make to speed them up. Leider gibt es keine Einstellungen, die Sie vornehmen können, um sie zu beschleunigen.

  • Can I remove a specific dated backup from time Capsule?

    Sorry for the long story - but I have tried to provide as much detail as possible as to what is going on...
    Sadly Lion has been a royal pain in the perverbial for me. It is slow (on a Macbook pro that is still within its warranty period so I don't believe that Hardware can be blamed - especially with upgraded ram and a 7200rpm drive) I recently got so frustrated with its clunkyness that I tried reinstalling on a new HDD and booting off that. Showed improvement (clean install vs upgraded and less apps etc slowing down the OS - however it is nowhere near what Snow Leopard was). But while I was at it I did something stupid. In hindsight very stupid - but balls to Apple for putting me in this situation and balls to Apple for letting me do it with no warning about the consequences...
    I connected my old HDD via firewire and tried to access my files that are on it - I couldn't initially as my newly installed user did not have permission. Easy - Add the new user to permissions for folder concerned - apply to enclosed - done - Achieved what I wanted. Files accessed - test complete - sadly I will have to reinstall a clean lion and transfer my files over (restore from time capsule).
    Two Major problems have surfaced. The first is directly related to the topic, the second I might try to repost in an appropriate section...
    1) What I didn't think about is as soon as I modified the permissions Time Capsule treats all the files in that folder as being modified. So it has backed up an entire new version of every file in that folder - a few hundred GB. That has chomped out 10-20% of my Time Capsule. I have no need for these backups and want to delete - say - every back up made since last Sunday when I committed the dirty deed. Seems minor - but this is a major compromise to my current arrangement.
    2) I have MAJOR permissions issues now. Firstly my Aperture library (which was in the folder with added user in the permissions) is fried. Can't be repaired/rebuild or anything. Lion wont do anything so useful as to tell me why - just get the colourwheel of death and the aperture library NEVER opens. Balls to Apple for allowing this to happen so easily. Second I tried to restore the entire pictures folder from Time Machine. It tells me I don't have permission??? WHAT. Double Balls. These are my freakin files - created by this user on this MBP on this install of Lion. I can't see how adding a user can suddenly prevent a long standing user from accessing their files from within their account. By the way the new install on the new HDD is no longer in play - all I am trying to do is continue to use my MBP the way I was before I did the test install.
    My long running affinity for Mac is rapidly waning - I have wasted countless hours trying to regain access to ALL of my pictures - 14 years worth. 1000's of images. I cannot access them on my MBP, Can't restore them from Time Machine. This is the worst computing experience of my life.
    I have tried booting from recovery, repairing permissions etc etc etc. Nothing mainstream solves this.
    Does anyone have some wisdom to address my conundrum - I am seriously desperate here... I have genuinely decided that I will not waste the upcoming long weekend ******* around with this - I would rather forget my 14 years of stored memories and just get on with life... If unsolved by this Friday I will sell my Macbook Pro and iPad and initiate my own version of the post PC world - no computer at all - currently it is doing nothing but wasting my time.

    jameski wrote:
    My only concern about resetting premissions (and ACL???) is that it will exacerbate my backup disk space wastage issue as it will result in full backup of my entire home folder (about 400GB).
    Yup, if you changed the permissions on everything in your home folder, that will change them all back, so they'll all be backed-up again. 
    That will leave me with about 1.2TB of a 2TB TC used up with backups (currently should be about 500GB) - my plan was to have about 1.5TB of my TC available to use for files in the medium term until the need for more backup space pushed me to invest in another drive. TC's are just too expensive to waste like this.
    Mixing backups and other data on the TC's internal HD will, eventually, cause conflicts.  But see #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for some possible workarounds.
    If I do a complete restore from TM (entire account)
    You can't do that.   You can't restore an entire home folder via the "Star Wars" display, because the home folder and default sub-folders (Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, etc.,) are protected.  You'd have to restore the contents of the sub-folders, a rather tedious process. 
    You can do a "full system restore" (OSX, apps, all user accounts & home folders), via a different procedure (Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14).
    to the day before this shambles started - will time machine treat my restored account as a modification of all files and try to back up a fresh copy of everything on the basis that it has been modified - or is it smart enought to realise what I have done and carry on doing only incremental backups?
    Anything you restore via the "Star Wars" display is considered as changed, so will be backed-up.
    A full system restore (usually) results in only an incremental backup, but TM does a "deep scan" to compare everything on your system to the backups, to see what's different.  That will find that everything in your home folder has changed, so back it all up anyway.
    If yes I will likely put all my historical backups onto a cheap 500GB drive and put it in a drawer and start new backups on TC
    Good plan.   You probably know you can always view and restore from those, via the Browse Other Backup Disks option, per #17 in the FAQ.
    After you do that, in theory, you could run the user home folder permissions reset, delete all the backups made after the original permissions change, then force a "deep scan" so the only differences found would be files that really are new or changed; but that's tedious, error-prone, and "iffy."
    Are backups via TC inherently substantially slower than say to firewire drive?
    Oh, yes, absolutely.  Here's a very rough comparison of full backup speeds (see #29 in the FAQ for details):
    There's a lot of variation depending on your hardware and setup, of course.
    I am running my TC through gigabit ethernet as wifi (despite having an ethernet extended AEP in my office) is too slow. I simply cannot get over the serious loss of performance since Lion and more recently the introduction of a TC. It is dire!
    Some folks report WIFI backups slower under Lion vs. Snow Leopard, some think it's faster, others (including me) don't see much difference. 
    However, it really shouldn't make a whole lot of difference for normal incremental backups, as they should be relatively small and quick in most cases, and shouldn't have much impact on performance.  You might want to check the sizes of your backups -- if they seem too large considering what you've changed, see #D4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.  If the sizes are reasonable, but the backups are still slow, or other performance seems to suffer, see #D2 there.
    Are these your only backups?  If so, consider keeping "secondary" backups, to avoid having "all eggs in one basket."  See #27 in the FAQ for some suggestions.

  • HT201250 How can i use Time Capsule as External Drive

    Hey Guys,
         I just have query about time capsual , How can i use time capsule as my external drive as i have 2TB with me i can take the Backup as well i can put all my pic and music in time Machine if i can use as External HD ! Can some one Please help me in this will be highly appreceate.
    Thanks
    Monal Thakkar
    Amrapali Group

    You need to get an external HD for the "overflow" of stuff that won't fit on your Mac.
    Format it for a Mac (see #1 in Using Disk Utility), even if it says it's compatible.
    Then copy what you want to the external HD.  Most things you can just drag and drop; but for iTunes and iPhotos see: Moving your iTunes Music folder and Moving your iPhoto '11 Library.
    Then let your Time Capsule back up both your Mac and the external HD.  See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #32 for info and details.

  • How to restore from Time Capsule to bare hard drive

    This is more for information, than a question, but I really hope that it helps someone else out facing the same challenge.
    Scenario:
    1 complete recent backup on Time Capsule
    2 failed hard drive on Mac
    3 no startup or OS disk
    [My teenage daughter was distraught, as her much loved and much abused MacBook Pro died completely on a college tour; quick diagnosis confirmed that the hard drive was completely toast. And with it, she believed, all of her work this summer on her college applications.
    That was the bad news. Now for the good news. Unbeknownst to her, I had configured her machine to automatically backup to the Time Capsule on the home network.
    Now the problem. We just moved home. No OS disks. No install disks. And I discovered that she hadn't told me that the optical disk drive was also toast. So no way to get a disk in, in any case.
    So I have a backup, and a new hard drive to go into the dead Mac, and (fortunately) a good Mac (actually several). But all of the guides assume that you have some way to get the zombie Mac to boot.]
    Solution:
    1 figure out spec for new hard drive, find one, buy it and install new hard drive in dead Mac (making it a zombie Mac - it moves but it has no real brains) http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA161/en_US/MacBook_13inch_HardDrive_DIY .pdf and http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2010+Hard+Drive+Repl acement/4305/1
    2 mount hard drive as FireWire disk in Target mode by using ⌘T to any good Mac
    3 download Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/
    4 start the process of cloning, which involves creating a (hidden) Recovery HD partition http://help.bombich.com/kb/advanced-strategies/the-disk-center#recovery_hd
    5 do NOT proceed to clone the 'good Mac', ejecting the formerly dead Mac, which was a zombie Mac, and now has a brain again, and shut it down
    6 connect the now undead Mac to the Time Capsule
    7 boot the now undead Mac, and restore as usual from the Time Capsule http://pondini.org/TM/14.html
    [... and thereby obtain many many good father points]

    Read Q14-18 in Pondini.. the grand poohbah of Time Machine.
    http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

  • Why Migration or Restore Utility doesn't find any Time Machine backups from Time Capsule ?

    Hello,
    After a big issue on my system (Lion), I had to do a full restore from Time Capsule and my problems started.
    Here is my setup:
    Time Capsule configured with account-based authentication
    MacBook with OS X Lion (x2) (1 needs a restore)
    I booted from Lion's restoration partitions, then I selected "Restore from Time Machine backup", my Time Capsule is detected. I hit "Continue", the utility asks my login/password. Then...nothing ! It seems that no backup is detected.
    Well, from another computer, I tried to connect with the same login/password and mount the sparsebundle backup...no problems
    To go further, I launched Migration utility from the working computer, then tried to restore from Time Machine backups....no backup is detected again !
    Solution:
    I had, from Lion's restoration partition, to mount the Time Capsule drive, then the sparsebundle image (the backup) from Terminal.
    After that, the restoration utility was able to detect the "local" mounted sparsebundle backup image.
    Aftermath:
    Not a single Apple utility, designed to restore my computer, was able to detect my Time Capsule's backups.
    I was able to use the command line utility to be able to restore my computer.
    Question:
    Did I miss something ? Am I the only one to do that to restore from a Time Capsule configured with account authentication ?

    I'm sorry I didn't get your point. I didn't find any answer in this FAQ.
    For the record, I checked my backups with Disk Utility, no damages were found, so it should work out of the box.

  • HT201250 How to backup the Time Capsule to an external drive using Time Machine?

    Most of my data is on my Time Capsule since the hard drive on my iMac is too small for my music/movies/pictures and also so multiple devices can wirelessly access the data. I want to back up the files from my iMac and the Time Capsule on an external hard drive using the Time Machine. However, it seems that the Time Machine ignores the Time Capsule as a data source. How can I get this to work?

    No, I don't believe this solves your problem.
    TIme Machine can be used with a Time Capsule as a backup solution from connected macs and their drives but not from network drives, NAS or Time Capsules.
    Thus, if you store files for LAN access on a TC internal drive, and want to back them to the USB/external drive attached to that TC, you cannot use Time Machine to do so.
    Time Machine has not way of backing up ANY Time Capsule or NAS or WInPC or other networked drive, as far as I can tell. You will have to use some other backup software.
    This is exactly what I bought the TC for myself (tried to use the internal drive on the TC as a NAS for my LAN, storing my music and photos and documents and bought a LaCie 2TB USB3 extneral drive to connect to the TC and hoped to be able to use Time Machine to backup the internal drive to the LaCie drive....but this does not work, as TM cannot backup from a network drive or TC device.

  • How do you eliminate older backups from Time Capsule?

    How do you eliminate older backup copies from a older model of time capsule?

    Randoolpyh wrote:
    How do you eliminate older backup copies from a older model of time capsule?
    You shouldn't have to.  Time Machine will delete them automatically when it needs room for new ones.  If you're running Leopard, though, and have the Warn when old backups are deleted box checked in Time Machine Preferences > Options, it won't.  Just remove the check and run a backup.
    If you have other data on the TC's internal HD, that's going to cause trouble sooner or later.  See #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for some possible workarounds.
    If you still want to delete individual backups, or all backups of selected items, do not use the Finder.  See #12 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions, and note the pink box there.

  • Incremental backup from time capsule (time machine backup) to external disk

    I have two questions regarding backing up a time capsule backup.
    I would like to backup the time machine backup of my Macs from a time capsule to an external hard disk. The time capsule is a first geneneration one with 500 GB. The external hard disk has 500 GB as well with USB and firewire ports..
    First question: What is the best way to connect these two hard drives - I am using a MacBook Air with two USB ports ?
    Second question: What backup software could I use to do incremental backups - I tried ChronoSync but it is not picking up the changes of the sparcebundles ?
    Thank you for every valuable advice
    Regards

    CAAN wrote:
    I have two questions regarding backing up a time capsule backup.
    I would like to backup the time machine backup of my Macs from a time capsule to an external hard disk.
    Backing-up your backups is generally not a good idea. If there's a problem with the original backup, it will be copied to, and perhaps magnified on, the copy.
    You'd be much better off making "secondary" backups separately. See #27 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum), for some suggestions.
    About the only alternative is to "archive" the TC's contents to a USB drive connected to it, but that's not incremental, and has other downsides as well. See #Q6 in [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

  • How can I remove backup from time capsule?

    I have a new Imac and transferred my documents and settings via time capsule from my previous Imac to my new Imac.
    I have removed my account and data etc from my first Imac and gave this one to my daughter.
    When trying activate time capsule on my new Imac I can not make backups because there is not enough space.
    Also I can not make the machine understand that the backup on the time capsule is from the data on this new Imac.
    So my only option? Is to delete all the backups from my timecapsule and start new.
    How do I delete the backups from my timecapsule?

    If you want to completely erase the Time Capsule drive and start over.....
    Open AirPort Utility - Click Manual Setup
    Click the Disks icon
    Click the Disks tab just below the icon
    Click Erase
    The "Quick Erase" option will only take few moments

  • How  to put the backup from time capsule on my new hard drive?

    Hi,
    I have a new hard drive (1TB) in my MacBook. I want to put my backup wich is stored on a TimeCapsule so I have my computer "restored".
    How do I proceed?
    Thanks for any help!

    Hello,
    Thanks for the help!
    I took all the steps for restoring my Mac with the Time Capsule since my backup is stored in it. I was expecting the magic with the help of the migration assistent program. But everything comes to an halt because the new hdd in my Mac runs Snow Leopard. I can not install Lion on it. I tried it with the App Store (and some tricks) and even the migration assistent tried to install it but then called it an error...!
    So for now I am stuck withe the assistent telling me to reinstall Lion and a Time Capsule who want connect to the computer anymore    
    Thanks for any tips.

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