Move external Time Machine HD to Time Capsule. FAIL.

Mac has a USB port. Time Capsule has a USB port. External hard drive can plug in to either. Apple doesn't seem to have anticipated that someone might want to move a disk from one to the other and expect their Time Machine backups to continue to work.
It tries and fails to to an initial full backup, instead of an incremental.
Time Machine could not complete the backup.
This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 1.01 TB but only 763.51 GB are available.
This device has had way to many FAILs.
The cure, as usual, seems to be to start all over using ethernet.
Any convenient solutions?

Maybe too late to try, but the following would be the basic steps to transfer a Time Machine (TM) backup from a local attached drive to the Time Capsule (TC):
o Within TM preferences, select the TC as the destination for backups.
o Start the initial backup to the TC.
o As soon as TM completes the “Preparing backup” phase and before it starts copying data, move the switch to Off.
o Using Finder, navigate to the TC volume. Look for the disk image. It should be named something like Your Mac's Name.sparsebundle. Double-click this file to mount the disk image.
o Drag this disk image to the Trash, and then, be sure to empty the Trash.
o Drag the Backups.backupdb folder from your previous TM backup's (external drive) volume to the disk image where you just deleted the folder in the previous step.
o Eject the disk image.
o Switch TM back On.

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I am about to move my Time Capsule - is there anything I need to do before I power it down. I have a recent backup.

I am about to move my Time Capsule - is there anything I need to do before I power it down? I have a recent backup.

I'm out of time - gonna unplug it. I searched the manual for "power, hutdown, oving, etc" and found no warnings. I'll let you know how it goes in a few days.

HT5096 How can I move my Time Capsule Backup to an External Hard Drive?

Hi
I have run out of space on my Time Capsule so have decided to change my backup drive to an external hard drive of 4TB. I moved the Sparse Disk Image Bundle from the Time Capsule to the new drive and then changed Time Machine preferences to use the new drive as my Time Machine location. Backups work fine but I am still getting Disk Full messages as it seems that the backups are limited to the original 494Gb disk image size.
When I double click on the sparsebundle it mounts the Time Machine Backups Disk Image revealing the Backups.backudb folder but if try to drag that to the External Hard Drive I get the error message "The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup."
Any clues how I get this sorted
Cheers
Steve

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.

Time machine backups wont move to time capsule

i have two mac minis, one is the mid 2010 model and the the other one is a 2006 model. i have successfuly used superduper to finally move my 500 gigs
of time machine backups to the new time capsule. but the older 2006 model has me lost. i am tempted to go to the applestore to make them copy it
if i follow the directions including resetting time machine the best i can get is a pop up box every hour that says the identity of the time capsule cannot
be verified. this does not show up on the 2010 mini
when i tell it to pick the drive theres 2 other drives that i dont even have! those are "HOME" and "NET" on "localhost" i have no idea where its getting
those drive paths. maybe its my readynas , when i go to /Volumes, there is no home or net folders
another problem i have with time machine is for some strange reason there is a range of backups in an old sparse bundle file and i would like to move all the backups for this computer into one main directory, instead of having to browse old time machines. but when i try to copy from one sprarse bundle to another i get an error saying that the backup files cannot be modified

rigormortis wrote:
if i follow the directions including resetting time machine the best i can get is a pop up box every hour that says the identity of the time capsule cannot
be verified.
Is that the message in #C15 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting? If so, are you selecting Use This Disk? If not, exactly what does it say (or post a screenshot).
another problem i have with time machine is for some strange reason there is a range of backups in an old sparse bundle file and i would like to move all the backups for this computer into one main directory, instead of having to browse old time machines. but when i try to copy from one sprarse bundle to another i get an error saying that the backup files cannot be modified
That's correct; you cannot merge one set of backups into another. A set of TM backups has a complex structure, with things all linked together; you cannot alter it. See How Time Machine works its Magic for an explanation.

Work around for streaming movies from time capsules/attached external HD

Can someone tell me how you can stream movies to iPhone/iPad/ATV3 from external HD attached to time capsule via an app or other method ?

This is just a general comment.. There are no apps for TC.. it is not a media player, so it cannot stream to anything.. if you store media files on the TC there has to be a player.. So you have to use a computer.. or possibly the ipad.. which will need a file browser app and a player app, but you do not stream to it.. you stream from it.

Playing movies from time capsule

I was looking for a new hard drive to back up my macbook ... the time capsule seems expensive. I had some questions about it.
If i have the 3TB time capsule, thats more then enough to use time machine and keep it backed up.
1. Can I also use it as an external HD that i want to keep files on to save room on my laptop?
2. If I have a selection of movies that I keep on the time capsule, can I access them right through the time capsule, and have my macbook turned off? or do I have to keep my macbook open for use of iTunes?
Thanks for your help!

1. Can I also use it as an external HD that i want to keep files on to save room on my laptop?
Yes, but let's say that you move some important files from your laptop to the Time Capsule....and to save room on the laptop, you delete the files from the laptop. Now, you have only one version of those important files...and they are on the Time Capsule.
Would you really consider keeping only one version of your important files.....with no backup? In other words, what will happen to your important files when.....not if....the Time Capsule drive has a problem?
2. If I have a selection of movies that I keep on the time capsule, can I access them right through the time capsule, and have my macbook turned off?
No
or do I have to keep my macbook open for use of iTunes?
Yes
You might want to consider something like this.........add an external hard drive to your Mac and move all of your media files over to that drive. Then, the Time Capsule can back up both your Mac and the external hard drive......so you have backups of everything on your Mac and the external hard drive.

Move my movies to Time Capsule

How do I move my movies (mostly home movies) to my Time Capsule so I can free up some space on my Hard Drive- I have 4.62GB left of 250GB- yikes! And then how to I access them on the TC?

Copy and paste them.. there is no secret method. Copy the whole directory your movies are in now and plonk it on the disk in finder. Just like you do any other network drive.
Note the following.
TC cannot backup files.. It simply is not designed to do it.
TM cannot backup files not on the computer or on external drive.. it cannot backup network drives.. so to do any backup you will need to buy a backup software. CCC is cheap.
Where are you going to backup the files.. if you use a USB drive plugged into the TC you will discover a new meaning to slow.. the files are copied to the computer then back to the TC and thence onto the USB drive. It is much better to use a USB drive on the computer.. and once you do that, then the movie files should be on the USB drive and then TM can back them up as per normal.
A movie on the TC is not accessible to most devices without a computer running.. TC may give issues.. they are slow to spin up and quick to spin down.
The TC is not now, or ever will be a media server.. it is a remote backup drive for Time Machine.
Time Machine will have issues with data files sharing the disk. See Q3 here for more info.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

Time Machine and Time Capsule - Failing with Network Problem

My problems with TM/TC have been ongoing for a couple of months now and I am going round in circles - need help.
This is the second post I have made, the first got lost in people suggesting the obvious - so I will try to be a little more specific if I can.
I will detail the current state first - i.e. where I am now - after I will list what I have done so far to get to this point.
Currently, my iMac (intel) is directly connected by Ethernet 1GB to the Time Capsule. The TC is then connected to a Netgear router which in turn is connected to Internet.
I have no network problems at all - internet connection is fine. the Netgear Router has the latest firmware version and is working fine. The porblems i have are nothing to do with this.
The time Capsule is in Bridge mode and getting a reserved dhcp IP address from the Netgear router.
The Time Capsule has been fully reset - i.e. power cable out, hold the reset button, plug in power cable (spark, spark), hold reset button, fast blink for 20 seconds or so, light goes out, release button.
I have re-applied the latest Time Capsule firmware.
I have renamed the disk on the Time Capsule.
I have renamed my iMac and deleted all the time capsule entries from Keychain.
I have re-installed Mac OSX and re-updated to the latest 10.5.6 release.
At the moment I have kicked off a backup with a lot of large files - like music folder, video folder etc excluded. I also have parallels and have excluded the disk image. I have 1 other 50GB disk image which is also excluded.
I am expecting the first initial backup will complete successfully.
I will then remove music and video from exclusions and allow them to backup. I am expecting this will complete no problem. (I do this because the upcoming problem will happen if I move away from the machine - and I dont want to sit there for 2 days).
So up to this point TM and TC have performed flawlessly. The issue that follows started happening before the 10.5.6 update after backing up with no issues for months. At this point I will be able to use TM to browse the backup and restore files. I will be able to mount the sparse bundle and browse files. Spotlight reports no issues and indexes quickly.
If I leave my machine after a successful backup and the hourly update kicks in it will fail with 'A Network problem' basically saying the backup has filed because of a network problem, but is not any more specific, logs show far too much to put the whole thing here, but the following is an excerpt
Dec 23 05:19:49 MickMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1499]: Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:19:50 MickMac hdiejectd[1519]: running
Dec 23 05:19:51 MickMac kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: replay_journal: from: 28864512 to: 30084096 (joffset 0x1d0f000)
Dec 23 05:21:49 MickMac kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: journal replay done.
Dec 23 05:21:49 MickMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1499]: Disk image /Volumes/Backup/MickMac_001ec215ce76.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of MickMac
Dec 23 05:21:49 MickMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1499]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of MickMac/Backups.backupdb
Dec 23 05:21:49 MickMac com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[1500]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 1503 PPID 1 check_afp
Dec 23 05:21:55 MickMac fseventsd[38]: event logs in /Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (3627 125 5482)
Dec 23 05:27:33 MickMac /usr/sbin/ocspd[1539]: starting
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP HoldPendingReqs: holding slot 5 reqID 5400 flags 0x9 afpCmd 34 so 0x7e78cc0
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0x7e78cc0
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/Backup prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: soft mounted and hidden volume so do not notify KEA for /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:30:27 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot -1 error 89 reqID 1 flags 0x9 afpCmd 0 so 0x7e78cc0
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac KernelEventAgent[34]: tid 00000000 received VQ_DEAD event (32)
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac KernelEventAgent[34]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Backup', from 'afp_0V1fqC1mgalO00mE1H0Pyetl-1.2d00000a', dead
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Open Session failed 57 /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: max reconnect time reached 60 > 30 /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEAType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 1248] [LBlkNum 155] [FSLogMsgID 501572642] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac fseventsd[38]: failed to unlink old log file /Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.fseventsd/0000000000ccb02b (Input/output error)
Dec 23 05:31:26 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x14 (UNDEFINED)."
It goes on and on and is repeated every hour. For each one I get an error message on screen saying backup failed due to a network error. However I have tried a manual download over the same period set at an extremely slow rate so that it was downloading during this time and it showed no errors. I.e. the network connection from imac, through TC to netgear and out to internet - and monitored this while time machine showed these errors (i.e. at the same time) and this showed no connection problems at all and completed succesfully.
I know TM uses an internal address to do backups, but uses the same cable and network card to get the job done. I am simply removing the cable as a source of issue although I have also replaced this making no difference.
Applecare are involved and have so far been sent 2 sets of logs and so far have not been able to find the cause. New TC is on its way to try that, although they think it is something on the imac that is causing this.
Sleep mode is turned off although screen sleep is on. The tick is not in the box for putting hard drives to sleep whenever possible.
Now, after this has happened, and back at the machine. I restart both imac and TC. Try running a backup, spotlight starts to re-index - i.e. will mount the backup volume and start the index process, gets to about 90% then fails - again excerpts from log
"Dec 23 09:18:50 MickMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[161]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of MickMac/Backups.backupdb
Dec 23 09:18:50 MickMac mds[32]: (/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/266E0E5F-E002-4EB5-A049-9B50582510FE)(E rror) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Unclean shutdown of /Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/266E0E5F-E002-4EB5-A049-9B50582510FE/li ve.0.; needs recovery
Dec 23 09:18:57 MickMac com.apple.launchd[67] (com.apple.netauth.useragent[147]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 152 PPID 1 check_afp
Dec 23 09:19:48 MickMac mds[32]: (Error) Server: machmsgdispatch: (ipc/send) invalid destination port [msgh_id 14016]
Dec 23 09:29:35 MickMac /usr/sbin/ocspd[197]: starting
Dec 23 09:42:48 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP HoldPendingReqs: holding slot 11 reqID 3204 flags 0x9 afpCmd 60 so 0x8051b28
Dec 23 09:42:48 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP HoldPendingReqs: holding slot 12 reqID 3205 flags 0x9 afpCmd 34 so 0x8051b28
Dec 23 09:42:48 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0x8051b28
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/Backup prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: soft mounted and hidden volume so do not notify KEA for /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Logging in with uam 10 /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Restoring session /Volumes/Backup
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 11 error 35 reqID 3204 flags 0x19 afpCmd 60 so 0x8051b28
Dec 23 09:42:49 MickMac kernel[0]: ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 12 error 35 reqID 3205 flags 0x19 afpCmd 34 so 0x8051b28"
And later....
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x39 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac KernelEventAgent[34]: tid 00000000 received VQ_DEAD event (32)
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: hfs_clonefile: cluster_read failed - 5
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac KernelEventAgent[34]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Backup', from 'afp_0V1fqC1mgalO00mE1H0Pyetl-1.2d000005', dead
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: HFS resolvelink: can't find iNode791959
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x39 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: ore-V1/Stores/6CC2B046-5E28-4179-96B7-9DFF9F7EE431/store.db] [FSLogMsgID 1580919258] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac KernelEventAgent[34]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: dojnlio: strategy err 0x5
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 49664 bytes to the journal!
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x14 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac mds[32]: (/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/6CC2B046-5E28-4179-96B7-9DFF9F7EE431)(E rror) IndexSDB in dbcheckdatastore:store.db : dbgetdatastore: ERR: could not read 4096 bytes
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x14 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac mds[32]: (/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/6CC2B046-5E28-4179-96B7-9DFF9F7EE431)(E rror) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoSync:write err: 5
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac mds[32]: (/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/6CC2B046-5E28-4179-96B7-9DFF9F7EE431)(E rror) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoCreate:Tried to create index when index already existed /Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/6CC2B046-5E28-4179-96B7-9DFF9F7EE431
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac mds[32]: (/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/266E0E5F-E002-4EB5-A049-9B50582510FE)(E rror) IndexSDB in adddirtychunk:/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/266E0E5F-E002-4EB5-A049-9B50582510FE/st ore.db : ERR: Can't write DST header (Input/output error)
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x14 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x14 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]: disk1s2: 0x14 (UNDEFINED).
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac kernel[0]:
Dec 23 09:45:49: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 23 09:45:49 MickMac mds[32]: (/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/266E0E5F-E002-4EB5-A049-9B50582510FE)(E rror) IndexSDB in dbflushdatastore:/Volumes/Backup of MickMac/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/266E0E5F-E002-4EB5-A049-9B50582510FE/st ore.db : dbsyncdatastore: write-errors flushing cache/writing map.
Am I the only one having these problems? any help from anybody please...

Got the same problem with a 3 months old TC.
The replacement TC, does it work now flawless?

How do I play movies on time capsule via apple tv?

i'd like to play movies saved on time capsule (plus external disks connected to time capsule) on apple tv.
can I do it bypassing my mac or the only way is to read it using itunes?
thanks

Welcome to the Apple Community.
All content must be played through iTunes.

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:
Everything will be fine for a few days or weeks, but at some point backups stop working. This sometimes gives errors (Time Machine could not complete backup, I think) or sometimes it just looks like the backup has gotten stuck (reporting 235.32 MB of 22.86 GB for days). With the latter problem it seems to cause other issues with the OS like System Preferences not responding anymore and certain Save As... dialog boxes not appearing.
Every time this happens, what I do is disconnect all users through AirPort Utility and then plug the drive into one of the computers and run Disk Utility on it.
Each time, without fail, there is the error "Incorrect number of Access Control Lists" stating it should be 0 and it really is something in the thousands usually.
The volume is always repaired successfully, but then the cycle continues.
We've tried a couple of different drives and it always ends up happening.
I've seen other posts with similar problems, but nothing laid out exactly like my problem, and no real fix for it.

Yes, indeed. Let me give some background.
I have an old Gigabit AEBS (7.4.2) as my main router with a Gigabit connection to my Time Capsule (500GB, 7.4.2) running in bridge mode. Both run as wireless access points for my network "Hogwarts." I backup several machines to the TC's internal drive with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Practically bulletproof. I backup two media heavy machines to the external drive attached to the TC. The drive is a Western Digital My Book 1.5TB that before the TC came into our lives, ran flawlessly when attached to my iMac as a backup destination. The media machines are Dumbledore, my mini running as a HTPC, and Tonks, my wife's laptop busting with pics and video of our son. Once I started backups to this drive connected to the TCs, I started to have problems with backup. That's the situation. Here's what I've tried to correct it.
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.
What I've noticed when I check the status of the TC when the bakcups fail is that the drive becomes unmounted with no logged error. The client computer either hangs Finder or reports the backup failed. My wife has become so frustrated with hard restarts that she has turned off Time Machine until I fix this. Airport Utility simply no longer sees the drive. The client computer can reconnect over AFP but the drive will not be accessible unless I restart the TC. Then if I do some Disk Utility repairs on the external drive and on the virtual volumes it contains, I can start backups again...until the next spontaneous unmounting of the drive. Which leaves me talking to you as a completely frustrated and disappointed Apple user. This is so not Apple quality experience.
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.

How to get to existing files on external Time Capsule disk

Just got a TC, I like it, does what it says on the tin.
Now I have connected an external hard disk (which contains music & photos) to the TC because I figured my wife could access the same disk from her computer
The problem - although the disk appears as a shared disk on Time Capsule, I can't see any files. I figure this is an accounts problem - I have 2 user accounts setup on the TC but these will have different UIDs to the accounts on our computers.
If I save a file on the disk when mounted via TC, then disconnect and connect it directly to my computer, I see a new folder called 'Shared' which contains the new file.
So it is an accounts issue. But how do I sort things out so that both of us can see the shared files? Just move them all into the shared folder maybe? But is there a better way?
TIA
James

Open the Airport Utility, and select your TC and then Disk > File Sharing pane. Select secure shared disks with a disk password. Now use a single password to login and once login, you can see everything on the external hard drive.

How do I move my Time Capsule from Ethernet back to Wireless?

Problem: i need to back to wireless use of TC from temporary use of TC via Ethernet.
Background:
I have had my Time Capsule set up for years as my Airport / wireless hub and backup. No problem.
Until I went to restore iPhone from Time Machine and, separate problem, need to connect my MacBook Pro to my Time Machine by Ethernet cable in order to get a direct connection (iPhoto was not restoring from Time Machine wireless, kept hitting I/O errors. Worked fine when I did it with direct Ethernet connection, another story).
NOW, I can not see to figure out how to revert back to regular, wireless, Airport hub connection (vs. Eternet direct)
Other information:
1. When I open Airport Utility it does not "see" my Time Capsule at all.
2. Also, it does not let me "see" manual setup, or anything else, except for "rescan" which turns up without any results.
3. The amber light keeps flashing.
4. Previously I turned TC off, then on by unplugging and plugging. Flashing amber light. Same problem.
5. All cables are plugged in tight, from ISP/FIOS cable, to TC via Ethernet, and, hopefully temporarily!, from TC to my MacBook Pro via Ethernet cable (which is what I want to undo, and go back to wireless)
6. I am able to access Internet staying with cable running in configuration in previous point.
Thanks in adv

You could have the TC join your existing wireless network as a client, or you can can connect the Time Capsule's WAN port to the modem/router.
In both cases the TC's "connection sharing" should be set to "Off (Bridge Mode)".
If the TC "joins" the wireless network you can only back up over your wireless connection, so the second option is preferable.

Access to a external time capsule through my home time capsule

How can I access my parents timecapsule through my own at home?
I have no problems in accessing my own time capsule through for example the network at work (using Automator - and a quite old apple Airport/router).
But if I'm at home, and on the home network established through my own time cap, I can't get access to i.e. my parents time cap - again using Automator.
Also I can't get access to my own time capsule through my parents time capsule...
WHY????
...and what can I do?
The answer I get is:
The server may not be available or is not available right now. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.

If this is still actual:
The easiest and cheapest you can do is to connect your Macbook to your amplifier. There are several options for that. If your Macbook has optical out (in the headphone/line-out connector), use that for best quality. Otherwise, use a USB DAC or a Griffin iMic. Alternatively, get a DisplayPort to HDMI converter, and use one of your amplifiers HDMI inputs (in that case all you need is a nice external display or a projector and you have yourself the beginning of a home cinema).

HT201250 Do you need to use a new external hard drive or an erased one to back up once you upgrade to OSX Lion? My time capsule fails ever since I upgraded the new program to my old mac.

I have not been able to back up in Time capsule since I upgraded my mac to MAC OSX Lion 10.7.5.
Do I need a new external drive or an erased drive to get it to work with the lion software?

Either new or an erased drive is fine, as long as it is formated Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
By the way: I find that Carbon Copy Cloner is a much simpler and efficient "clone"(backup) solution, especially if you're using an external drive.
http://www.bombich.com/

Initial time machine backup to Time Capsule failed unexpectedly

Hi everyone,
New MacBook Pro retina, clean install of Mountain Lion, no previous backup to 1 TB third-generation Time Capsule (I deleted the previous .sparsebundle file because it had grown too large). Power Nap enabled in Energy Saver. The initial backup stopped:
Sep 3 00:09:17 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 9.1 GB of 119.55 GB, 223769 of 931533 items
Sep 3 01:15:55 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 10.9 GB of 119.55 GB, 308247 of 931533 items
Sep 3 02:32:25 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 14.15 GB of 119.55 GB, 467275 of 931533 items
Sep 3 02:32:25 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Backup failed because the network destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
Sep 3 02:32:26 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 467294 files (14.15 GB) from volume GigaFlash.
Sep 3 02:32:27 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Backup canceled.
Sep 3 02:32:32 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Share-1/Musa.sparsebundle
Sep 3 02:32:32 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: [SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
Sep 3 02:32:32 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -159; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
Why?

Any or all of the following third-party system modifications may be contributing to your problem:
LaCie drive software
VirusBarrier
I suggest you uninstall them according to the developers' instructions, reboot, and see whether there's any improvement. If there is, you can experiment with putting them back, one at a time, to identify which one is at fault. "VirusBarrier" is harmful and should not be reinstalled in any case.
If there's no improvement after making the suggested changes, post again.

Move external Time Machine HD to Time Capsule. FAIL.

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