Is Time Capsule supposed to do this? I don't think so...

I have 170 gb of data on my iMac and I've had a 1TB Time Capsule for around 6 months now. As I type this I have 235gb of available space on the Time Capsule! I was under the impression you do your first backup, say 100gb, and then every thing you add AFTER that initial backup just adds to Time Capsule. Mine seems to copy the whole load of data every now and then which is soon going to fill the capsule and then what?? This latest episode has begun because last week my iMac hard drive died and after I got it replaced I restored all my data from my Time Capsule. That worked fine but as soon as Time Machine did its next back up, which its doing right now, its copied the whole 170gb back onto itself! Seems a bit stupid to me! Is it a setting thats wrong because the Time Capsule is obviously working? And what happens when all the 1TB of space has run out?
Help please

Per chance are you using Parallels and running any Virtual Machines (VM) on your iMac? If so, Time Machine will back the entire VM every hour as it will appear to TM that a this single VM file has changed. To prevent this, be sure to exclude the VMs from the TM backups.
Per Apple, here are a few other reasons why this may be happening:
o You performed a full restore.
o Your Computer Name (in Sharing preferences) was changed--when this happens, TM will perform a full backup on its next scheduled backup time.
o If you have had a hardware repair recently, contact the Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Retail Store that performed your repair.

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See remote access here.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport?view=documents

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Yes, absolutely.

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1. Ethernet .. are you using ethernet?
2. Change the name of the TC to short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
3. In the file sharing page change the workgroup to WORKGROUP.
4. In the same area, change the guest access to on read and write.
5. If you setup homegroup on the PC get rid of it.. TC is not compatible with homegroup.
6. Turn off ipv6 in the network settings for ethernet. (since you are going to be using ethernet).
From Mac version utility it looks like this.
Go to the admin tools and ensure that bonjour for windows is on.
Manually type the IP directly into windows explorer.. do not open via MyComputer.
\\10.0.1.1
Because the error message is important.

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AirPort Utility should be here: Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
If it is not there, you can download it from here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/#airport
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This will work very well. You can run a CAT5e (or CAT6) Ethernet cable up to 330 feet...or 100 meters...with virtually no signal loss.
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Have recently bought a Time Capsule but realised that it won't do what I want with my Linksys ADSL wireless router. I think I understand how to make it work with an AirPort Express, but would appreciate it if someone could confirm my ideas before I buy even more hardware!
My situation is that my ADSL line comes in to the house on the ground floor. There's no extension phone sockets and I don't want or need them. My home office is on the first floor.
What I want is to have my ADSL modem and a wireless device on the ground floor, the Time Capsule in the home office with mac and XBOX making wired connections to it, and a USB printer also connected.
If I get a DSL modem and then connect an AirPort Express to that, can I then set up WDS so that the Time Capsule becomes an extension of the WLAN and I can connect the devices to the Time Capsule via wires? Or do I need an AirPort Extreme to do this instead of Express? Or is it just plain not going to work?
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One other thing: I found it easiest to reset both devices to factory default settings and use the Airport Utility wizard to set up the WDS network on both devices. Good luck!
My network:
DSL ]--[ Time Capsule )))((( Airport Express

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as many of you do, I use time capsule as airport, too...
It worked fine for 6 months or so after I bought the new time capsule. (I bought it in September 2012.)
Since the beginning of this year, I had to reset, and power off and plug it in almost every week, then now I need to reset and power off and back on again every day...
When I first set up the time capsule, I followed the instruction with the manual.
But, now I am so lost and don't want to reset every day for wifi connection.
Anyone has problem like me or knows how to solve this issue?
Please help..
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For PC it is important the wireless has names that are compatible.. short.. like 10 characters.. but 2-20 is fine. no spaces.. and pure alphanumeric.
Use WPA2 personal only.. with pure alphanumeric password .. again 10-20 characters should be fine.
The latest firmware is a dud. Go back to 7.6.1
Open the airport utility.. click on the TC and holding the option key click the actual version number..
Go back to 7.6.1 is simple.. just select it and away it will go.. ignore future requests for upgrade.. you can also tell the utility not to check weekly for updates. You will need 5.6 utility for this I think..
So do the firmware downgrade.
Then do a factory reset and follow the name information above.. for TC name as well btw.. wireless name/s and disk share name.. which by default is data and that is fine.
So some instructions in...
The Factory Reset.
Power down the TC.
Hold in reset. and keep holding it in. Be Gentle! It is a tiny surface mount switch with a plastic lever.. Attempting to push it out the other side of the TC will not make the switch turn on better.
(I fix TC and have several reset levers bent over and jammed or broken off).
Power on the TC.. remember with the reset held in.. this needs three arms.. a friend or power switch you can get to with your feet..
Keep holding in reset for about 10sec until the front LED flashes rapidly.
Release reset and wait .. the boot will be slow as it deletes previous setting.. only from router side and pulls out the factory defaults. No files are deleted on the hard disk.. but the name of the TC may change.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn’t downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.
Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.
You can also load airport utility into a pc and get access to all the settings. Untick the box for firmware updates.. it will still bug you occasionally.. regardless of the setting.. just ignore it..
You might still need to do the occasional reboot of the TC as well.

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If you need to do it .. the hard way.. just open the TC.
You need a heat gun (hair dryer on hottest setting works fine).. to heat the rubber mat up to very hot.. I usually take 5min or more just heating it, evenly as possible. Lift on one corner and keep heating whilst peeling off the rubber. I use a pair of leather garden gloves as it needs to be so hot you cannot hold it for long.
Really hot the rubber easily peels off with all the glue on the rubber.
Now undo the 10 small philips head screws and carefully lift up the aluminium base plate. There is a fan plugged into the board so don't pull. You can disconnect the plug carefully and lift it completely off.
You can then press the reset switch with a small screwdriver or the like.. careful not to short anything if you use metal.
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You can try a more permanent repair.
Plastic flexing as hinges is not an engineering solution .. but you can get a scrap of metal, thin brass would be ideal... drill a hole in one end and use a small dia screw.. I would tap it and run a screw from the inside, using a short screw so only the end of the screw is visible. Coat the inside with silastic so it cannot short anything. Depends on your handyman type skills I guess.
Strange that it would break.. Must have hit hard!!

I gave up on getting a single SQL to do this; I don't think it's possible?

Guys
I asked a little while ago about a loyalty points system where the loyalties could not be revoked once awarded, so any refunds would make the points system "go into debt" internally and only start issuing loyalty points when the debt was cleared. Got an excellent SQL to do just that, and then they switched requirements on me.
Now, loyalty points can be revoked at any time. It might be that on the 10th Sept a refund transaction dated in MARCH will be inserted that effectively wipes some loyalty points off the balance.. So I'm thinking that I have to mark transactions with a date of when they were used to create (or revoke) points
I'm wondering if someone will sense check my logic and confirm that there isnt a way to do this with read-only SQLs:
An UPDATE query runs, looking for transactions that have not already participated in the points scheme (points_date is null), and meet certain criteria, and setting their points_date to the current trunc(sysdate) -- this ensures that a transaction inserted in retrospect (i.e. inserted long after the date the transaction occurred) will have an effect on points
An hour later a select query runs on all transactions that have a points_date that is not null, grouping up by the card number (cards earn points) and the value of all transactions is summed. Transactions are classed according to their points_date; those that have a points_date before today contribute to the previous_total_spend and all transactions contribute to the current_total_spend. Because there is 1 point for every $10 spent, the amounts are divided by 10, and then FLOORed/CEILed to provide a quantized representation of the number of points a card had yesterday and what is has today. The delta of the number of points from previous to current represents the number of points that should be awarded or revoked.
I have to sum all transactions for all time rather than just do a simplistic "divide every tran by 10 then floor and thats the number of points" because customers who always spent 9.99 wouldnt accumulate any points ever when the should be entitled to one point upon their second purchase (taking their spend to 19.98)
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with t as(
select '20090301' as points_date, 15 as tran_amt, '1234' as card_num from dual
union all
select '20090302' as points_date, 11 as tran_amt, '1234' as card_num from dual
union all
select '20090303' as points_date, 15 as tran_amt, '1234' as card_num from dual
union all
select '20090304' as points_date, 42 as tran_amt, '1234' as card_num from dual
union all
select '20090305' as points_date, 84 as tran_amt, '1234' as card_num from dual
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card_num,
spend_today,
spend_before,
spend_today/10 as points_today,
spend_before/10 as points_before,
CASE
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      CEIL(spend_today/10)
    ELSE
      FLOOR(spend_today/10)
END as quantized_points_today,
CASE
    WHEN spend_before < 0 THEN
      CEIL(spend_before/10)
    ELSE
      FLOOR(spend_before/10)
END as quantized_points_before,
CASE
    WHEN spend_today < 0 THEN
      CEIL(spend_today/10)
    ELSE
      FLOOR(spend_today/10)
END -
CASE
    WHEN spend_before < 0 THEN
      CEIL(spend_before/10)
    ELSE
      FLOOR(spend_before/10)
END as quantized_points_delta
FROM
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      card_num,
      SUM(TO_NUMBER(tran_amt)) as spend_today,
      SUM(CASE WHEN points_date < '20090307'--TO_CHAR(sysdate, 'YYYYMMDD')
            THEN TO_NUMBER(tran_amt) ELSE 0 END) as spend_before
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      t
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      card_num
) totsBy changing the hard coded dates (will be based on report run date when live) you can simulate days passing..
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Well I'm leaning the other way. I think my present MBP will be the last Apple product I buy.
With the way Apple is going, all New Mac computers are sealed unit that don't allow the user to upgrade them in any way. They are getting more expensive initially. They are impossible to fix, even by Apple. All the parts are either soldered to the Logic Board or glued inside the case parts. The add on warranty only covers manufacturing defects and is expensive. And to fix one out of waranty is close to if not more then a new system.
The only thing different in a Mac, and most other products Apple sells, is the operating system and the cases they come in. As for the OS both have their glitches and at this time there are no viruses that infect OS X. There is more software available for Windows. More choices as to what hardware you can use or upgrade to at a later date.
Mac computers are becoming large iPads or iPhones with built in keyboards.
jeremy_from_rome wrote:
And as for the question: PC or Mac, the consensus that I hear from colleagues and friends is just as you state it: stay with Mac, be patient, work at it, and you’ll never look back! Thanks again

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Like the subject says I have a AEBS dual-band downstairs in my office and a Time Capsule dual-band connected to the AEBS by an ethernet cable upstairs. I would like to create a single network in the house that utilizes both routers. Am I better going the wired network (bridge) or the WDS route? Currently the primary router (AEBS dual-band) has a guest network and the Back to MY Mac feature enabled.
My first question is the Airport Utility doesn't see the Time Capsule connected to the AEBS. How can I make the Airport Utility recognize the Time Capsule, so I can configure it.
My second question is how should I configure the Time Capsule so I get the optimal speed? I assume the wired connection to the AEBS, but I read somewhere that I lose many of the features on the primary router (AEBS dual-band) if I go this route. Should I be plugging the ethernet cable in the WAN port of the Time Capsule or one of the LAN ports?
Thanks for your help!!

Welcome to the discussion area!
A few thoughts...
Ethernet is always the best way to connect two devices together, if possible. This will provide the maximum bandwidth and speed for your network and should also be far more reliable than using wireless only to connect your AEBS and Time Capsule together.
You indicate that you have the Guest network option enabled on your main router, the AEBS. Since the Time Capsule will be configured as a "bridge"...whether you use ethernet or wireless...you should understand that it will not be possible to have a Guest network configured on the Time Capsule. In other words, the only "Guest" network will be the one provided by the AEBS. This signal may or may not be adequate throughout the house. Are you OK with this?
I have not used Back to My Mac, so I cannot predict whether this will be affected or not by adding the Time Capsule to your network. I don't think that the TC will affect your capability with BTTM, but can't say for sure. You might want to wait for input from other users before you try to reconfigure your system.
Post back when you have the answers concerning BTMM and are ready to configure the Time Capsule using ethernet on your network.
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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Hi all,
I am not a techy, but I get by. I am going to install the Time Capsule and I realized that I don't think this will work with my existing U-Verse Fiber wireless network. After some thought, I believe I should just use this for wireless backup and peripheral operations rather than the internet as my current wifi also operates the televisions in the house.
I'm hoping to get some guidance from the community as to how to use this device without having to purchase more equipment or re-wiring my entire home. Can I just plug it in and use it for wireless backup or will it interfere with my internet service (which I am happy with)?
Any thoughts?

Welcome to the discussions!
You are correct to allow your existing setup handle internet connections.
The simplest setup would be to configure your Time Capsule to "Join" the wireless network created by the U-Verse router. Your computers will be able to backup via wireless assuming that you have a good connection.
If your U-Verse router provides ethernet ports for devices (it likely does), you would also have the option of connecting the Time Capsule to the U-Verse router with an ethernet cable. This would make sense if the Time Capsule will be located near the U-Verse router as ethernet is both faster and more reliable than wireless.
Not to get too technical here, but if you connect the TC this way, you will set Connection Sharing on the TC for "Off (Bridge Mode)".
If you connect the Time Capsule via ethernet, you would also have the option to setup the Time Capsule to "create" its own wireless network. So, you would have two wireless networks available...one created by the U-Verse router and the other created by the Time Capsule.
If you have computers capable of wireless connections at "n" speeds, they could connect to the Time Capsule and your other "g" devices would connect to the U-Verse. In fact, if you purchase a new dual band TC, it will be capable of creating two wireless networks on its own.
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