Not sure if I should have started over or not...

I bought a 2TB time capsule on Saturday. Following the directions, all seemed to be going well for my initial backup. I had roughly 200GB on my system to backup.
Everything appeared to be going smooth and when I left for work this morning, it said it had 75GB left to go.
I came home for lunch and the first thing that caught my eye was the light on the TC blinking yellow.
Turns out my wireless went down sometime this morning.
Once I got the wireless reset and all the lights were green again, I clicked the backup now button. It spent some time "indexing" and then started backing up the remaining 52GB.
I'm hoping that was the right thing to do and I end up with a working initial backup when it's done.
From reading other posts here, I'm not sure that I made the right choice and I should have erased the initial data and started again.

jeffforbes wrote:
I'm hoping that was the right thing to do and I end up with a working initial backup when it's done.
Yes, that's fine (as long as it eventually completes). There's really no functional difference between an initial backup and incrementals.
From reading other posts here, I'm not sure that I made the right choice and I should have erased the initial data and started again.
No reason to do that.
The one thing you might have done was to connect via Ethernet cable for the initial backup -- that should be 2-3 times faster than via a good WIFI connection, and more reliable, too. If you ever have to do a very large backup again, or a full or large restore, do that via Ethernet, too.
If it fails again, just connect via Ethernet and let 'er rip!

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