If I connect an external hard drive to the Time Capsule, all it automatically back it up?

If I connect an external hard drive to the Time Capsule, will it automatically back it up? Or do I need to somehow configure it in TIme Machine?

A HDD attached to the Time Capsule (TC) will not automatically back it up, nor can you configure Time Machine to do so. However, you can use the AirPort Utility to archive the contents of your TC's internal HDD to this attached drive.

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    I connected an external hard drive to the Time Capsule but can't get it to work.

    And are you using a powered USB hub? The USB port on the Time Capsule is under powered, so you almost always need to use a powered USB hub, even if the hard drive has its own power supply.

  • If i connect an external hard drive to my time capsule will it be backed up on time capsule?

    I recently connected an external hard drive to my time capsule using the usb port on the time capsule.  Will that external hard drive be included in the time machine back up?  If not, how do I include it?

    Time Machine cannot back up a hard drive that is connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule.
    If you want to backup the hard drive, it must be connected to your Mac to be included in Time Machine backups. Additional settings will need to be made if you do this, so post back for details if you need them.
    If you cannot connect the drive to your Mac, then you will need to use another backup program like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper or Chronosync to backup the hard drive to the Time Capsule.

  • If i connect an external hard drive to a time capsule, can i access this drive via internet?

    If i connect an external hard drive to a time capsule, can i access this drive via internet?

    If the drive can be accessed in local lan, then it can be accessed from internet assuming you have setup using one of the remote access methods.
    See remote access here.
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport?view=documents

  • How to proceed on transferring the content of an external hard drive into the time capsule.

    I just bought a new MBP and a 2T time capsule but i don’t know how to proceed on transferring the content of an old external hard drive into the brand new time capsule.
    The old external hard drive is a carbon copy of another external HD which was my time machine backup but unfortunately someone stole it from me…  so I was thinking about transferring the content from the old external hard drive to the time capsule and then set time capsule as the new time machine backup.
    Is there anybody whose can give me a hand and tell what is the best to do?
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    Configure Time Machine preferences. Be sure to remove the external drive from the Exclude list.
    Mac Apps - Apple Support
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  • Could I use a USB hub to connection both a printer and an external hard drive to the time capsule?

    I am planning on purchasing a new router.  The Time Capsule looks amazing.  However, I have Macs and PC's in my how.  So, I need to know if I can connect a printer (for all computers) and external hard drive (for the PC's) by way of a USB hub on the Time Capsule.  I've read that you can do this with the Air-Extreme.

    Couple of comments:
    You will need to use a powered USB hub to connect multiple devices to the USB port on the Time Capsule
    The hard drive for use with the PCs will not be compatible for use with the Time Capsule if it is currently formatted for Windows NTFS, which it likely may be if you have been using with the PCs.
    Same info applies to the AirPort Extreme.
    The following hard drive formats would be supported:
    Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
    MS DOS FAT32

  • Can I connect an external hard drive to my time capsule to add virtual hard drive space?

    I would like to make a 4 TB external hard drive available wirelessly on my home network.  I have heard that I could connect it to my router or my Time Capsule to do this.  Is this possible?  Is there any special setup I need to do to enable this to work? 
    Additionally, I have two Macbooks in the house and have recently purchased a second Time Capsule.  I would like to back up each computer to its own Time Capsule.  Is there a configuration that would make this possible?
    If the two Time Capsules are connected together via an ethernet cable (in extend the network mode), and one elects to back both of their computers up to the primary Time Capsule, does the primary use the secondary Time Capsule's hard drive space to continue backing up once it becomes full?
    Thanks in advance for any advice you all may have for me in this situation!

    See if Pondini can help http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html

  • Connecting a external hard drive to a time capsule

    I have a 2T Time Capsule and I have two computers that are backing up to it so its about full, my question is if I hook up an usb 2T external drive will it just become part of my Time capsule and look like there is a 4T time capsule and continue to back up the same?

    Boyse wrote:
    I have a 2T Time Capsule and I have two computers that are backing up to it so its about full, my question is if I hook up an usb 2T external drive will it just become part of my Time capsule and look like there is a 4T time capsule and continue to back up the same?
    As Tesserax says, no, Time Machine backups can't "span" two volumes.
    But . . . if 2 TB isn't large enough to keep a reasonable "depth" of old backups, you can connect the USB drive and back one of the Macs up to it, instead of the TC's internal HD.
    Your best bet is probably to leave the old backups for that Mac on the TC's internal disk, until you're sure you don't need them anymore, since you can view and restore from them via the +*Browse ...+* option (per #17 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions).
    It's a hassle, and will take a looooong time, but you could copy the sparse bundle for one of the Macs to the USB drive and continue backing-up to it. See #18 in the FAQ.

  • I just connected an external hard drive to my Time Capsule.

    I have Mountain Lion installed on my 2010 MacBook Pro.  The external HD is not showing up. Is there something else I need to do or is it supposed to show up in the sidebar of Finder?

    Click the Time Capsule icon in the Finder sidebar on the left.
    If the drive is formatted correctly in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), you will see two folders representing the drives.
    One is "Data" (unless you have renamed it) representing the Time Capsule drive
    The other is your hard drive. Double click it to mount it on the desktop.

  • HT1178 Am I able to access my external hard drive through the Time Capsule when I'm away from my home?

    I am out of town a lot and I do a lot of photoshop/scrapbooking.  I would like to have my pictures and supplies on one hard drive that I'm able to access whether I'm at home or way.  Do you know if this is doable with the Time Capsule?  I know I can use the iCloud option but I'd rather not if I don't have to.
    Thank you,

    So if you don't want to use iCloud and BTMM, how are you going to locate the TC on the internet??
    There are several possible ways to directly access TC.. using AFP only.. ie you must use a Mac.
    The TC has to be setup correctly to allow remote access or the router you are using does.
    But more importantly what IP is the ISP going to give you.. have you purchased a static public IP?? If not your IP is constantly changing and you need to use a dyndns service to provide a connection to the TC.. this is what icloud and btmm do.. but they hide it to make it useless to any other service.
    TC does not have a dyndns client that is available for use by enduser.. so you need a decent router that does allow access and dyndns and you can bridge the TC behind it. All a lot of work to avoid icloud.
    For more details just google remote access time capsule.. there is plenty of info, youtube videos etc.

  • Plugging in an external hard drive to the time capsule

    Hi,
    I am a little confused by the discussion I have found on this topic. I am a recent PC to Mac person. I have a new MacBook Pro, a Time Capsule I recently bought and an iOmega external hard drive (houses ALL of my music). Is it possible to plug my iOmega drive into my Time Capsule and have my MacBook Pro be able to read the music off of it. Like iTunes and stuff?
    Thanks

    I think your on to something with regards to the external power. I plugged a 320 GB Western Digital external (USB powered) in my time capsule and instantly the amber light started flashing and I received and Time Capsule disk error. As soon as I unplugged it the time capsule went green and said the problem was resolved. The 320 external HDD works fine when I plug it straight into my Mac.

  • How can i connect an external hard drive to my time capsule?

    I can see it though my airport utility but not my network.

    goldenmaestro wrote:
    I have the same problem, it is NTFS formatted, is that a problem?
    Sure is.. The TC cannot use it.. cannot see it or read it.
    You need to connect the disk to the Mac, format it HFS+ and make sure it is GUID type disk not MBR windows type. Although you can also use fat32 IMHO that is really backward step.
    Windows can still write to it, as the TC or airport can offer SMB to the network.. it is irrelevant the format of a drive plugged in.
    The USB port is underpowered in the TC.. even though the hard disk is powered you sometimes need a powered hub.. and not all powered hubs work.
    Also note USB is slow.. connected to a network device it is double or triple slow.
    It is far better to plug the USB drive straight into the computer and use it in native format to the OS of the computer.

  • I want to take files from my PC (using a Seagate external hard drive) then plug this Seagate External hard drive into my Mac Book Pro and move the files from the Seagate External Hard drive onto my Time Capsule. I do not want to put these files on my Mac

    I want to take files from my PC (using a Seagate external hard drive) then plug this Seagate External hard drive into my Mac Book Pro and move the files from the Seagate External Hard drive onto my Time Capsule. I do not want to put these files on my Mac. How do I do this? Where do I put these files on my Time Capsule? Will it affect the functioning of my Time Capsule?

    Mixing files with data is not always great idea.
    See info here.
    Q3 http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
    Why not just connect the PC directly to the TC by ethernet and copy the files over?
    It is hugely faster and much less mucking around.
    In windows load the airport utility for windows.. if you have not already as this will help you access the drive.
    There is more info here.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1331

  • I have an external hard drive from my time capsule that stopped working on me. I am attempting to access the data with a hard drive reader on my MAC. I am able to see the drive in disk utility and under system info USB. But I am unable to access the data.

    I have an external hard drive from my time capsule that stopped working on me. I am attempting to access the data with a hard drive reader on my MAC. I am able to see the drive in disk utility and under system info USB. But I am unable to access the data and it does not show on the desktop when connected.

    Ok if disk utility was able to verify the drive I doubt there is any problem.. are you trying to open a TM backup??
    You need to mount the sparsebundle then check the actual info inside the bundle.
    Don't use disk warrior.. if the disk has verified then unless you deliberately deleted files there is nothing that is going to do.
    Pondini has a lot of stuff about getting access to the sparsebundle.
    http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
    But if you have copied info to the TC that is now gone.. and the disk is ok.. I am not sure.. the TC will not have deleted the files itself.

  • 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.
    So, this led me to think the index is corrupt. I'm not sure if this problem is related to my recently upgrading to Lion or not, since I haven't had to search the drive in awhile. I tried to force Spotlight to recreate the index on the drive by using the Privacy panel trick (of the Spotlight Preferences) but that didn't work. I then tried to get Spotlight to recreate its entire index and I think all that did was recreate the index for my internal harddrive.
    So, are there things I need to know about attaching an external hard drive to a Time Capsule that I perhaps forgot to do? Should I be able to search the drive with Spotlight? Do I have to somehow force Spotlight to look in external drive when doing a search or is it supposed to search everything it can?
    I should mention I have been having a little trouble with my Time Capsule as well. I recently had to erase the drive and set up a whole new backup since the backup was failing - not sure what happened to it, but it seems to be working again now. But I did notice yesterday that my Time Machine hadn't backed up all day but it was not giving me a warning message. It was just sitting there not backing up. I had tried resetting my PRAM and after doing so, my Time Machine was back to backing up. I'm not sure if the PRAM reset helped with that or if it was just the restart of the laptiop.
    One more thing - I feel like since upgrading to Lion I have had to restart my laptop more than ever. Things just start acting funny, especially when I am using Safari and I find myself resetting Safari and then restarting my laptop all the time. Odd.

    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.

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