Slow Time machine interface with time capsule

The complete backup of the 250GB over ethernet took me about 6 hours. The time capsule is now connected wirelessly and the backup is successfully performed every hour. However trying to recover pictures from iphoto I realized that the time machine interface is so sloooowwww that it is useless (it takes for ever to move from one time point to another). Is there a way to speed up or to use another user interface? Doesn't time machine store a catalog locally ?

I understand that Time Machine and TCD are integrated into your application-there is a thread here somewhere about it. Launch iPhoto and it is in your Apple Menu somewhere as in "browse backups",I hope that this might help,let us know.

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Slow time capsule

Hi, I have a brand new 2TB time capsule (802.11AC model). I believe I have it set up correctly, and it “works”. It’s just painfully slow, and can’t see all of the attached hard drives. Plus, the drives drop in and out randomly.
It has yet to manage a Time Machine backup, as it is going to take “7 days”. The most it’s managed so far is 40gb out of 500gb (That took a whole day), but it resets every time I shut the lid.
I accessed one of my hard drives, and pulled a 110mb file from it to my desktop as a test. It took 5 minutes to transfer.
I either have it set up totally wrong, or it’s faulty. I’m not sure which.
How do I get it to see all of my drives, and perform at the correct speed? How do I stop the drives from un-mounting themselves (randomly)
To aid in troubleshooting, my setup is as follows:
My modem is a modem/router. (A Belkin.)
I ran a Cat 5e cable from a LAN port on the Belkin to the WAN port of the Time Capsule.
I connected a 4 port USB hub to the USB port, and connected 3 hard drives (2x 1tb desktop drives, and a 500gb portable drive). At present, I can not see one of those 2tb drives. I have experimented with different ports on the hub. It is always the same drive I can’t see.
I hooked up my Xbox, and my Smart TV to the Time Capsule via Ethernet.
The distance between the modem and Time Capsule is about a meter (However, the modem, TC, and Hard Drives are all situated behind my TV, with an Xbox, Wii, and Blu Ray plugged in (but not on) below it. (May be interference?)
I forget which port I used, but I also direct connected my laptop to the TC for setup.
Once all devices were connected, I attached the power, and it switched on. It auto detected, and the setup seemed to work just fine. Although in airport utility, the “internet” is often yellow when I first open it, before switching to green, but the internet is always working in reality.
I am not sure if the internet is coming from the Belkin, or being routed to the time capsule and then received from there. (Or both). I now have 2 networks I can access. “Ben And Grazi’s Beach Pad” (My original network), and “Bens WiFi Network” (Which was created when I setup my time capsule. Bens WiFi Network seems to be slightly faster for Time machine backups, but still far too slow (3-4 days).
As for the hard drives, of the 3 plugged in, I can only see 2 (All 3 work fine direct connected to a computer). And they drop in and out constantly. Opening them, and moving info to/from them takes far too long.
There is also another drive on my desktop called Data. I know now this is the 2tb on the time capsule. I opened Time machine, set it as my destination for backups, and started a backup. It then created yet another “drive” called “time machine backups.” Is it normal to have “data” and “time machine backups” appearing on my desktop? Why are they both needed? My TC is just for Time Machine. It is not partitioned.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Ben

I would start over.
Do a factory reset on the TC...
Factory reset Gen 5
Hold in reset for about 5sec until the status light flashes quickly.
If your AirPort Time Capsule still doesn’t respond, do a similar reset to the Gen1-4.
Unplug your AirPort Time Capsule .. hold in reset and power the TC back on.. without releasing the reset.. wait until status led flashes rapidly.
And I would open the airport utility and erase the TC drive. Just a quick erase is fine.
I suggest you do the above in complete isolation from the network.. Plug the TC directly into a computer using ethernet. Make sure it is gigabit capable cable and computer. Wireless seems to be needed sometimes to get the setup to work.. but once finished turn it off. No USB drives plugged in.
Setup the TC.. give it all short names, eg TCGen5
Do not use spaces and do not use apostrophe in the name..
Your wireless names are too long and can cause issues.. although not directly relevant to this.
I would set separate names for 2.4 and 5ghz. eg tc5ghz tc24ghz
Use WPA2 Personal security.
Make sure the TC partition is called data.
Now do a file copy from the computer (wireless off).. to the disk of the TC. You should get speeds that are well over 100mbit.. 30-60MB/s at least.
If not, I would return the TC for apple to test.
If it works ok.. return the TC in bridge mode to the network.
Test it again with a computer plugged in by ethernet. It should not change speed.
Then plug in the USB drives. Make sure you use a powered hub.. a standard hub will draw too much power from the TC even if all the disks are powered. this is a problem all TC experience. Some hubs are not recognized at all. Some hard disks will not be recognized even if they work on the computer. It can be extremely fussy about USB.

Slow fast slow time capsule

Hi, I've had several days of issues with time capsule, now it is backing up though. It starts of very slow, then my HD starts making loads of noise so I check the time machine prefs and the thing is screaming along, MB after MB like how I'd hoped it would be. Now it's slowed right down again!
Is there a reason it works like this?
Thanks

Your not alone, there a loads of peaople out there with the same problem. I've got the same problem too. Only recently has this problem manifested itself.
There a few suggested solutions on the internet, most seem to be with adding open DNS addresses in your network config panel. This hasn't resolved my issues. Others suggest adding a linksys router between the modem and Time Capsule...but spending more money on known problem doesn't seem the way to go. Wish I could help...

Slow Time Capsule & Now Error when trying to set up

My first problem is that the Time Capsule is so much slower then the Airport Extreme. Web pages take ages and ages to load. It is very obvious. The apple store said it would be faster, but I am just not seeing it.
Now onto todays problem. Suddenly we could not print at all through the Time Capsule. I tried unplugging and plugging in everything again, restarting etc. Now the TC will not work at all. All it does is flash orange. I hit the restart button and have tried the Airport Utility. It keeps telling me it found problems and to hit continue to resolve but then says "an error occurred, please close the configuration window and try again". Keeps doing this. I plugged in AE and it is working like it always did, and it is so very nice to have the speed again. The TC is still flashing orange.

Did you ever get this "slow page load" issue resolved? I am having the same issue.

Leopard trash hangs; repair permission slow, time capsule erased

since i have installed my leopard upgrade in order to install my time capsule, trash hard to empty and repairing permissions deletes my time capsule backup and capsule says i have no backup (which, when you do your first, it takes 24 hours, so it is not something i want to repeat!). anyone else having these problems? right now, i don't empty trash and don't repair permissions if i want to keep working.

marezdotes wrote:
since i have installed my leopard upgrade in order to install my time capsule, trash hard to empty and repairing permissions deletes my time capsule backup and capsule says i have no backup (which, when you do your first, it takes 24 hours, so it is not something i want to repeat!). anyone else having these problems? right now, i don't empty trash and don't repair permissions if i want to keep working.
Clearly something is radically wrong with your system. Repairing permission should not result in a backup being deleted. I suggest that you disconnect your TimeCapsule and repair permissions and also check your HD for errors and repair if necessary.
Permission repair takes up to 20 minutes with Leopard because of more extensive checking, but it should be done before starting a backup. You do not want to backup an HD with bad permissions, which is what you seem to be doing.
Your trash being hard to empty may also be tied to your permission errors, but it could be something else.
You need to be more specific in spelling out the problems you are having.

Very Slow Time Capsule WiFi Speeds - Disappointing

Hi,
I've read a lot about this in the TC posts, but have yet to see a solution. The wireless speeds on my 1TB TC is solidly slower than my old Linksys router. Whereas my Linksys can manage speeds greater than 12,000kb/s, the TC can only manage around 6 max. Most of the time, it's much slower. I've disabled backups, and nothing is different other than removing the Linksys, and replacing it with the TC. Needless to say, this is very troubling. And yes, I've applied the recent airport update to my mac, and the system update to the TC.
Has anyone found a solution for this, and if not, has Apple confirmed this as an issue.
Help!

OK, I'm not sure about this, it's just speculation, but I have an idea. The problem with AEBS, and why it couldn't be used to backup to USB drives reliably, is that the data being sent there was not acknowledged, i.e. there was no receipt from Airport saying, "I successfully received that data." I would imagine lots of wireless routers don't bother acknowledging - if the data gets lost, another request will surely get sent again. ACKs tend to slow things down - satellite cable modems even pre-acknowledge packets due to TCP's problem with ACK latency. TCP requires decent timing and ACKs to perform well. But you can't have that on a backup solution. You need to ACK the data. So the TC (and now with the firmware upgrade, AirDisk) have to ACK the data, which slows things down, which makes your wireless seem slower. Again, this is all just speculation, but I think it's a reasonable theory.

Slow Time Capsule Wireless Speed

I've had my 500GB TC over 2 weeks now, and it's taking absolutely AGES to back up each time. Some occasions it only has to back up MB's worth of stuff but it still takes ages.
Why is this, and what can I do about it?

Just to add some of my experiences to the debate.
I use a late-2008 TC and connect it wirelessly to an ISP supplied modem/router and a late-2008 iMac. Because of limitations with the modem/router, I had to use 802.11n at 2.5 GHz. The internet connection is via the modem/router and internet usage from the iMac is fine in all circumstances (it does not go via the TC).
Performance was pretty good with 7.3.2 but when I originally tried to upgrade to 7.4.1, TC backup became very slow and pretty unreliable. In my case, restarting the router got things going again but TC usage was always a pain. So, I reverted to 7.3.2 and ran beautifully for several months.
Then I tried 7.4.2 when it came out and my regular hourly backups became very slow, typically taking 70-80 minutes rather than 2-3 minutes. However, in contrast to 7.4.1, the connection to the TC was very reliable if slow, somewhat different to my experience with 7.4.1.
Switching back to 7.3.2 and TC was back to normal.
Being curious and having time, I decided to try changing things and see what happens. First tried dropping the wireless to use 802.11g. Result with 7.4.2 was excellent - probably a little faster than 7.3.2 with 802.11n. Tried 7.3.2 with 802.11g and that was as good as 7.4.2 with 802.11g.
Then tried letting the modem/router select the wireless channel and 7.4.2 with 802.11n became a lot better but remained at least twice as slow as 7.4.2 with 802.11g (but not 30 times worse).
So, what do I conclude from that? Not exactly sure but there would appear to be something amiss with the 802.11n support on the 2.5 GHz band for the "old" single band TC when using 7.4.2. Perhaps it is more susceptible to interference or something but when faced with identical circumstances (just switching the firmware level, no other change), it is definitely worse to very much worse.
For now I am happy with 802.11g and 7.4.2.

Slow Time Capsule file transfer to Itunes player

Lightning grounded into my house a week ago and so the TC had been blinking amber. well I was finally able to reset it by hitting the reset button and unplugging TC at same time then waiting for quick flashing and then plugging back in. also had to get a new wi fi router. well before that all happened I was able to click on a song in my TC and then it would for let's say a 20mb file take about 20-25 seconds to hear on Itunes. NOW after I had to reset TC it takes almost 5 minutes to download a 5mb song. any suggestions as why it is taking so long now. and how to fix. I have a 2008 Macbook. 10.5.8 operating system and TC 4th Generation. my new router is a Linksys E1500 Wireless N with Speed Boost. any help greatly appreciated.

After a lightning strike ethernet ports can be damaged.. check the actual ethernet speed as I stated by copying a file via finder to the TC and back to the Mac again. Use a single large file .. several hundred MB.. open the activity monitor and you can see the ethernet speed. If it is slow.. the port could have blown.. try other ports on the TC or try wireless.. with the ethernet disconnected.
If all the ports are damaged.. sorry but you need a new TC. There is no way to fix it.
You often find the port will have dropped to 10mbit.. that is very slow. If the fastest transfer speed you can get is around 10mbit you can suspect blown ports.
For file storage use a true NAS.. synology or QNAP.. they are pretty well fully Mac compatible now.
At least they have proper raid setup and proper backup. All missing on the TC.

Non-Time Capsule network hard drive as Time Machine drive? (D-Link DNS-323)

I'm considering burying a D-Link DNS-323 and plopping a few internal HDs into it to use it as a networked Time Machine backup system.
As far as I've been able to tell, the D-Link DNS-323 will format the hard drives as EXT2, not GUID. Will I still be able to use it as a Time Machine backup drive? Has anyone gotten this setup to work?
Thanks for any and all advice!

his article describes how to get TM work with NAS units (ReadyNAS) - I am currently running this configuration and it works like a charm on wireless. Highly recommended - you just have to modify parts of it for other makes of NAS but on the Mac side you should be fine.
Follow the instructions carefully - it's easy to get ahead of yourself.
Here is the article:
http://www.readynas.com/?p=253
Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS
April 20, 2008 by yoh-dah
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The following is a summary of how to make Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS by DavidB based on initial contribution by btaroli and refinements by sirozha and a host of others on the ReadyNAS Mac/OSX Forum. We are thankful of the Mac enthusiasts who frequent and contribute to the ReadyNAS forum.
Ok I’ve just converted a second machine to use the NAS for networked Time Machine backups, and this time things went straight through without any mistakes. Here’s the run-down:
This example was done using a Mac Mini with a hostname of “magpie”, running OS X 10.5.2 and connected via 802.11g to a ReadyNAS NV+ (RAIDiator 4.01c1-p1 http://1.00a041 with AFP patch loaded). I’ve created separate AFP shares for each machine (”TMmagpie” in this case) and set them to be accessible just to the “owner” of the machine. I could have set up one share to contain Time Machine backups for all clients, but then it could be possible for a user to access someone else’s private data within the backups.
Do make sure to keep the hostname simple — i.e. don’t have quotes in it like “Maggie’s Mac”, or the process will fail.
With the share set up on the NAS already, everything else we do is local to the client (magpie in this case). Some of the commands I list here are run within Terminal.app, although there are alternate (GUI) ways of accessing some of the functions.
This machine had previously been doing Time Machine backups to a local Firewire disk, and part of the process outlined here is to copy the contents of that disk to the NAS so that further backups build on top of the existing ones. No need to throw away the old backups!
1. In System Preferences, turn Time Machine off.
2. Find the MAC address of the machine’s internal Ethernet port:
$ ifconfig en0 | grep ether
This should produce a single line of output, such as:
ether 00:16:cb:af:91:d7
Even if the network backups will be done using a different port (e.g. AirPort: usually “en1″) the system will use the address of en0 as part of the system identifier.
In this case the identifier that Time Machine will use is “magpie_0016cbaf91d7″.
3. Make a new “sparsebundle” on a local disk (NOT the Time Machine disk!). This sparsebundle is a virtual filesystem image which we’ll copy to the NAS, and Time Machine will then access it remotely (that way Time Machine’s not limited by the filesystem features of whatever NAS it’s using: all the funky stuff happens within the sparsebundle). By default sparsebundles can keep growing until they fill up the NAS, but in this scenario we keep other things on the NAS as well as backups, and we’re going to limit the sparsebundle size to 140 GB. We called this one “Backup of magpie” as that’s the default name created by Time Machine, but in fact you can call the volume anything you like.
$ hdiutil create -size 140g -fs HFS+J -volname "Backup of magpie" magpie_0016cbaf91d7.sparsebundle
created: /Users/david/magpie_0016cbaf91d7.sparsebundle $
This Mac Mini hasn’t had things like developer tools loaded: hdiutil comes with the OS. We make the sparsebundle manually so we can impose the size limit, and we do it on a local disk because of a bug that prevents creation of a sparsebundle remotely on the NAS (although they can be used when in place). The sparsebundle doesn’t start at 140 GB: it grows as more data is put in the filesystem inside it, up to a maximum of 140 GB.
4. If you’re not going to copy the contents of an existing Time Machine disk, skip ahead to step 9.
5. Mount the sparsebundle:
$ open magpie_0016cbaf91d7.sparsebundle
You’ll see “Backup of magpie” appear as a mounted volume in Finder.
6. Copy the old Time Machine backups to the sparsebundle. In Disk Utility:
Click on Time Machine disk on the left panel, then select the “Restore” tab:
1. Drag the local Time Machine volume to the Source field
2. Drag the sparsebundle volume (”Backup of magpie”) to the Destination field
3. Select “Erase destination” (possibly not mandatory)
4. Restore
This will take a while, depending on how much data is on the drive…
7. If you selected “Erase destination” in Disk Utility, the volume name will have been copied from the local Time Machine disk. Rename the new volume back to “Backup of magpie” (or whatever name you chose).
8. Unmount (”eject”) the sparsebundle volume.
9. Mount the NAS share the sparsebundle will be mounted on (”TMmagpie” in this case). I mount all our shares via AFP, but you can presumably use CIFS also. Once it’s mounted, it will be accessible within Terminal.app as /Volumes/TMmagpie.
10. Copy the sparsebundle to the share:
$ rsync -avE /Users/david/magpie_0016cbaf91d7.sparsebundle /Volumes/TMmagpie/.
Depending on your network (802.11g, 802.11n, 100bT, 1000bT, etc) this can take a long time!
rsync is smart enough to only copy the new bits of a file, so you can stop and re-run that command if necessary without re-copying everything.
In the meantime you can go ahead and use the machine. Just don’t turn Time Machine backups back on yet.
11. If the local copy of the sparsebundle is in an area that will be backed up by Time Machine, remove it before proceeding. We don’t want to double the size of the Time Machine backup for no good reason!
12. In the Time Machine System Preferences panel, select “Change Disk…”. It will display a list of volumes you can backup to. If the share containing the sparsebundle isn’t listed (you did mount it, right?) it’s probably because it’s not mounted from a Time Capsule or another OS X machine. To show the share in this display you’ll need to have executed the following command in Terminal:
$ defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
You’ll need to log out and in again for this to have effect (select “Log Out” from the Apple menu: you can Restart, but logging out will do). Now mount TMmagie again, then try Time Machine’s “Change Disk…” again.
13. Select the share on the NAS (”TMmagpie”) as the new destination for Time Machine backups.
Time Machine will automatically turn itself back on and schedule a backup to begin in two minutes. If you didn’t populate the sparsebundle with the contents of a local disk, this first backup will be a full backup and can take a very long time (depending on things like your network infrastructure). If you did pre-populate the sparsebundle, this backup will be an incremental backup and shouldn’t take long at all (depending on how much has changed on the machine since you turned Time Machine off in Step 1 of course).
Once the backup has started, keep going with the remaining steps in this list while the backup is running.
14. You can now eject the TMmagpie share. Time Machine will automatically mount the sparsebundle file directly (during backups you’ll see “Backup of magpie” mounted).
15. Unfortunately Spotlight will try to index the contents on the “Backup of magpie” share, which will slow down the backups significantly. To avoid this, as soon as the share is mounted for the first time go to Spotlight’s Privacy panel in System Preferences. Use the ‘+’ button at the bottom, select the “Backup of magpie” share, and Spotlight will then ignore it. If Spotlight has already started indexing it, it should immediately stop and the backup will speed up.
That’s it. Congratulations! New Time Machine backups should happen every hour, and you can access all the backup files via the usual Time Machine interface.With magpie this has allowed us to disconnect the local 200G Firewire disk previously used for Time Machine backups: this drive was significantly noisier than the Mac Mini itself!
GOOD LUCK!
MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Mac OS X (10.5.6) NetGear ReadyNAS, Linksys Routers,

Extremely Slow Time Machine Backup after upgrading to 10.8.3

Time machine backups are taking an extremely long time on my retina MacBook Pro 13 inch after upgrading to 10.8.3. It's taking many minutes just for a kilobyte to be backed up. I've tested transferring something to the disk and it's lightening fast so there's nothing wrong with the disk.
Is anyone having similar issues or know of a fix?

I had the same problem with slow backups. Called Apple 5 times and went through all the hoops checking plists, airport, and then erasing using my airport utility and the first backup of about 25-30 gigs went fine, but the second backup would take between 1-2 hours. By the time it was finished it was ready to do another backup.
After looking at community fixes I found that my Comcast Norton Anti Virus was the problem. Upon speaking for the 6th time to Apple I was told that should have been the first thing they asked, since antivirus programs check each file going to the time capsule. Even unchecking the scan external drives did not help.
I removed the Norton AV from my system and replaced it with the IAV from apple store (free) and my backups are back to normal. I timed a 100 meg using Ethernet/LAN and it took 9 minutes 32 seconds from clicking backup now, searching for backups, preparing backup, backingup, and cleanup. My Wifi connection on 10 megs took only 1 minute 29 seconds.
Now my backups run so fast I don't even see them working. Also the constant updates to Norton were casuing my backups to be 100 megs or more each time due to daily Norton updates. Now I get backups in the order of 10-20 megs - depending up what I have put on the machine. If I put music on it increases the size of the files installed.
I recommend anyone having this slow time capsule problem to turn off your full antivirus program no matter what you are using and watch the difference in speed. I am so happy! No more 2 hour backups and 45 minutes to 1 hour preparing backup! good luck

Slow internet using Time Capsule

Hi!
I have a Time Capsule and are experiencing problems with the WiFi speed. There's nothing wrong with my internet connection because when i plug in the internet caple straight into the computer I get great speed all the time.
The Time Capsule is placed about 10 cm from my new iMac so I guess there's gotta be something wrong with my frequency or channel. I've scanned my network and I've tried to use channels that are free from other WiFis but it still doesn't help. I can have 100 mbit speed in one second and then the next i can barely browse a web page.
I've also tried changing the radio mode but I don't know which one to choose. Right now I'm trying 802.11a/n-802.11b/g
Any suggestions?

I have the same mountain lion 10.8.5 and I found that my time capsule was going all the time, It took so long for it to backup, it was making me unable to get speed from my wifi connection, since when one backup competed a new backup started. I was buffering trough movies and have 50+ Mbits of Internet download speed.
I posted this reply after talking to apple 6 times on the 'time capsule slow' on another board:
I had the same problem with slow backups. Called Apple 5 times and went through all the hoops checking plists, airport, and then erasing using my airport utility and the first backup of about 25-30 gigs went fine, but the second backup would take between 1-2 hours. By the time it was finished it was ready to do another backup.
After looking at community fixes I found that my Comcast Norton Anti Virus was the problem. Upon speaking for the 6th time to Apple I was told that should have been the first thing they asked, since antivirus programs check each file going to the time capsule. Even unchecking the scan external drives did not help.
I removed the Norton AV from my system and replaced it with the IAV from apple store (free) and my backups are back to normal. I timed a 100 meg using Ethernet/LAN and it took 9 minutes 32 seconds from clicking backup now, searching for backups, preparing backup, backingup, and cleanup. My Wifi connection on 10 megs took only 1 minute 29 seconds.
Now my backups run so fast I don't even see them working. Also the constant updates to Norton were casuing my backups to be 100 megs or more each time due to daily Norton updates. Now I get backups in the order of 10-20 megs - depending up what I have put on the machine. If I put music on it increases the size of the files installed.
I recommend anyone having this slow wifi or slow time capsule problems to turn off your full antivirus program no matter what you are using and watch the difference in speed. I am so happy! No more 2 hour backups and 45 minutes to 1 hour preparing backup! good luck

Why are photos inaccessible In time machine interface

I,recently posted something similar to this dilemma a couple of days ago on this discussion board. I also have had zero responses to this issue,must be that I am the only person that has experienced this problem,or maybe no one understands the words in context that I used in my previous post in regards to this problem with TM and iphoto. Since I posted the other day I have reformatted my external hard drive that I use for TM . I'm still having the same issue that I previously stated in the next paragraph that I had written in similar context a couple of days ago.
When I open iPhoto and then start Time Machine and I get the Time Machine interface with pages of iPhoto interfaces I am not able to access any of the photos on the interface while in TM. If I exit out of TM I am able to access any of the photos. When the iphoto interface is present in the TM interface an and you click on a event or a photo the interface doesn't open the photo it just retracts further into the interface of TM. It is though the interfaces are stuck in the middle of the screen. Has any one experienced this with TM?
I,will wait and hope that someone has maybe an answer to this problem. If not I will be going to talk to a genius at the local Apple Store.

I'm using ilife 09, this was installed sometime at the end of March. I cannot recall having any issues prior to the install of 09. I just recently noticed this dilemma the other day. I don't recall having this problem prior to install of 09 of course I haven't needed to use it until now. I know that I can replace the photos by using finder and going to that particular folder that they are stored in,but the point of TM is that you should be able to use the interface of any application and recover what you need.

Disk Utility hangs ("not responding") when attempting to Repair Disk on Time Capsule sparsebundle. Help.

I am trying to improve the performance of my Time Machine backup and retrievals via my 2nd Gen. Time Capsule from my iMac Core 2 Duo hard drive with SL 10.6.8. The incremental backups generally take 20 - 40 minutes each hour generally with fewer than 100 MB of data being backed up. I have read through numerous threads on these forums about Time Capsule and Time Machine issues as well as the very helpful Pondini site (http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Home.html) and have tried many other suggestions (listed below), but have been unable to attempt a Disk Utility repair disk on the Time Capsule sparsebundle file.
After locating the sparsebundle 'file' in the finder under Shared/TC/Data, I am only sometimes able to drag the sparsebundle into the Disk Utility volumes and disk window. About fifty percent of the time, Disk Utility hangs when attempting to drag in the sparsebundle. If I am able to get it listed and click on "repair disk", then the beach ball begins to spin and nothing happens. This occurs whether or not I first use AirPort Utility to "Disconnect All Users" from the Time Capsule. I have given it over one hour to attempt the repair disk, but nothing happens, i.e., not a single message shows up in the detail window. The beach ball just spins, and Disk Utility shows up in red as "not responding" under the Force Quit menu.
Also note that on my new Macbook Air, Time Machine runs quite quickly via this same Time Capsule from my new Macbook Air using OS X Lion (which seems to indicate that the Time Capsule drive itself is OK).
I would appreciate any tips on getting Disk Utility to run "repair disk" on my sparsebundle, as I seem to have exhausted most other options (see below) for improving Time Capsule performance -- aside of course, from wiping the Time Capsule clean and starting all over.... (which I really don't want to do, and from what I've read, has not helped some people who've tried this anyway).
Many thanks!
Although I would like to focus this thread on the Disk Utility / sparsebundle "Repair Disk" problem, I should mention that I have tried the following other things:
1. Repaired disk permissions on my hard drive
2. Used Disk Utility to run "repair disk" on my hard drive after starting up from a SuperDuper external backup
3. Run DiskWarrior on my hard drive, again, from a separate startup disk
4. Did the "full reset of Time Machine", a la Pondini Troubleshooting #A4
5. Changed my computer and Time Capsule names to simple short names with only alphanumeric characters and no spaces
6. Ensured that my Time Capsule is being accessed only via ethernet
7. Relaunched the finder
8. And finally, attempting to use Disk Utility to repair the sparsebundle - thus the nature of this post

OK, no takers out there, but I answered my own question (sort of).
The answer is that even though Disk Utility shows up as "not responding" under the Force Quit menu and appears to hang, it is actually still working. A bit of patience shows that after about an hour, my Disk Utility was able to show the 1.44 TB Time Machine sparsebundle from Time Capsule in the disk window on the left hand side. Once this appeared, I was able to click on "Repair Disk" (note that prior to doing this, I had to "Disconnect All Users" from my Time Capsule using the Airport Utility program; otherwise you will get a "could not unmount disk" error). Again, the Repair Disk function appeared to hang Disk Utility as it showed up as "not responding" under the Force Quit menu. However, after about 8 hours, Disk Utility did run the entire Repair Disk protocol on the sparsebundle. The results DO NOT show up in the Disk Utility details window - so even if you are patient enough to let it complete, you will not see anything and may think that nothing happened. However, you can find the familiar results of the Repair Disk function by looking on Console - find the "DiskUtility.log" under Files: ˜/Library/Logs.
Unfortunately, I was hoping to find a problem that would have been subsequently repaired which would result in dramatically increased Time Capsule speed, but this was not the case. Disk Utility showed everything to be "OK" and I am stuck with a very slow Time Capsule....
(And of note, my new Macbook Air (OS Lion) Time Machine functions blazingly fast on both backup and retrieval to and from the very same Time Capsule - even though, these are occuring wirelessly via AirPort -- granted the size of this sparsebundle is an order of magnitude smaller at this point, i.e., only 10 GB right now)
Would still be happy to hear of any similar experiences or tips on getting Time Capsule to work more quickly.

HT201510 Airport Time Capsule

I need help to set up the Airport time capsule?

The Modem is from Nordnet which is connected to a satellite dish receiver it's a Newtec NTC/2252.AA modem.... that probably doesn't mean too much.
I want the time capsule to provide a wireless network, which should replace my existing wireless network.
So I have removed the existing wireless router from Nordnet and connected the Time capsule directly to the Nordnet Modem via an ethernet cable.
I did have connectivity at the first attempt first with a steady green connection led. but after trying to connect to the time capsule with my iMac wirelessly I could not and now I do not have a steady green light anymore but an amber flashing. I could never connect to the internet via the capsule but I had the Time Machine connected with the Capsule and it was functioning ok as my back up.
So I reconnected back up my previous wireless router etc and disconnected the time capsule and all functions of the router functioned ok as it did previously.
so now im trying again to use the airport capsule to run both the wireless internet and do my back ups and i just cannot get past GO.
When I open the airport utility, I only see the internet connection ( the globe) and its connected to the internet via the modem. I see also on the left drop down window which identifies the Airport capsule but when I try to connect to it, it fails giving an error message "Unexpected Error" and i can go no further.
I have done a hard reset on the capsule and tried again but cannot see the time capsule anymore.
I have run the System Information on the Network and copy pasted this information as below as you may see what the problem is.
Wi-Fi:
WiFi
Type: AirPort
Hardware: AirPort
BSD Device Name: en1
IPv4:
Configuration Method: DHCP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Ethernet:
MAC Address: b8:09:8a:ca:02:ad
Media Options:
Media Subtype: Auto Select
Proxies:
Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Service Order: 1
Automatic:
Active Location: No
Services:
Bluetooth DUN:
Type: PPP
IPv4:
Configuration Method: PPP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
PPP:
ACSP Enabled: No
Display Terminal Window: No
Redial Count: 1
Redial Enabled: Yes
Redial Interval: 5
Use Terminal Script: No
Dial on Demand: No
Disconnect on Fast User Switch: Yes
Disconnect on Idle: Yes
Disconnect on Idle Timer: 600
Disconnect on Logout: Yes
Disconnect on Sleep: Yes
Idle Reminder: No
Idle Reminder Time: 1800
IPCP Compression VJ: Yes
LCP Echo Enabled: No
LCP Echo Failure: 4
LCP Echo Interval: 10
Log File: /var/log/ppp.log
Verbose Logging: No
Ethernet:
Type: Ethernet
BSD Device Name: en0
Hardware (MAC) Address: ac:87:a3:20:1c:d5
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Wi-Fi:
Type: IEEE80211
BSD Device Name: en1
Hardware (MAC) Address: b8:09:8a:ca:02:ad
IPv4:
Configuration Method: DHCP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
IEEE80211:
JoinModeFallback: Prompt
PowerEnabled: 1
RememberJoinedNetworks: 1
RequireAdminIBSS: 1
RequireAdminNetworkChange: 1
RequireAdminPowerToggle: 1
Version: 2200
Bluetooth PAN:
Type: Ethernet
BSD Device Name: en4
IPv4:
Configuration Method: DHCP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Thunderbolt Bridge:
Type: Bridge
BSD Device Name: bridge0
IPv4:
Configuration Method: DHCP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Model Identifier: iMac1571-5A60-9E35-AFDEE673E10F
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac15,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
I can run other reports as you would like to request.
i would certainly appreciate your help.
regards,
Anthony

Time Machine restore interface is almost unusable with Time Capsule

Recently I set up a Time Capsule to use for Time Machine backups. The backups are fine and go relatively quickly, put the space interface is unbearably slow! First, it takes forever to connect to the backup volume, then once the screen slides into the space interface, it hangs for about 30 seconds before it does anything. Then I'll get around a 5-second burst of responsiveness, and then another 30 seconds of unresponsiveness. Does anyone know what might be the problem and how I can fix it?

I feel exceptionally stupid.
The default window that appears on the restore interface was set to a particular folder from a drive that I do not backup on Time Machine. I was trying to go to the date that I wanted to restore from first instead of navigating to the file I needed to restore. Once I chose one of the drives/folders that I back up on Time Machine, all was fine. I wish Time Machine would make the distinction obvious by graying out excluded items right away (when you go back in time, that does happen but not in the 'present' screen).
Hope above helps in the future for those who may encounter the same problem before having had their first cup of morning coffee.
It is good to know that Time Machine is working as it should, and I count myself one of those fortunate ones who do not have to use Time Machine to restore files that often (hence this elementary question: file under "my computer's not working because I didn't check to see if it's plugged in before calling customer service").

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