Setup Multiple Users

Hello,
Just installed a 1TB Time Capsule with the intention of backing up 3 machines (Mac Pro, iMac and a Macbook. Wireless is working. The Mac Pro has been backing up to a second disk on the unit. When I selected Time Capsule as the backup it said it needed 780GB to do the backup. That's almost the entire Time Capsule.
How do I setup Time Capsule to backup 3 different machines? Are they protected such that one machine can't see the other backups?
Regards,
Jared

jared95 wrote:
Hello,
Just installed a 1TB Time Capsule with the intention of backing up 3 machines (Mac Pro, iMac and a Macbook. Wireless is working. The Mac Pro has been backing up to a second disk on the unit. When I selected Time Capsule as the backup it said it needed 780GB to do the backup. That's almost the entire Time Capsule.
How much is on the Pro? Check via a Finder window, or the +Estimated size of full backup+ below the exclusions box in Time Machine Preferences > Options.
Note that Time Machine usually needs 2-3 times the space of the data it's backing-up, to keep a reasonable "depth" of old backups. See #1 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
If there's not enough room on the Time Capsule's internal HD for all your Macs, you can connect a USB drive and back some up to it. See #Q2 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). But note that if you've been backing a Mac up to a directly-connected drive, you can't move that drive to the Time Capsule and continue backing-up to the same set of backups. See #18 in the FAQ.
How do I setup Time Capsule to backup 3 different machines? Are they protected such that one machine can't see the other backups?
Mostly. One user can see another user's backups, but unless allowed by the permissions on the Mac, can't see inside them, or restore from them, just as one user on the same Mac can't see much inside another user's home folder.

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