Swapped out old 500GB orig TC for 2TB TC

Question

Picked up a 2TB Dual-band to replace my current (working) 500GB original non dual-band version.
the 500 was used mainly for timemachine backups, and now with the 2TB I plan on keeping my TImeMachine back ups and also serve a small music library to my itunes
so my question is this; i want to take the sparsebundle images from the 500 to the 2TB, but i already set up the 2tb with my iTunes music and the name of the drive in the 2tb TC is "Multimedia" which is also the same as my 1tb external (just to make it easier to plug in my external and play music off the external when im not connected to my network), and the original 500 TimeCapsule drive name was Data.
Is there a way to keep my current back ups and make my mac back upto the old sparebundles on the new 2tb timecapsule under the "Multimedia" drive name?
thanks.
edit:
Okay...well it worked, sort of...I'm just curious though since now it says capacity at 497GB;
so it must still be reading the data from the old TimeCapsule? I havent done an update yet, i was just testing to browse through it to make sure everything was intact (it was)
So assuming, once I actually get a new back up going it should say Space capacity: 2TB~
As of now its Available space on the new 2TB is 1.7TB

Answer 1

FrankBobandy wrote:
I did transfer them over to the new time capsule.
That's where the problem lies. When you create a +sparse bundle disk image+ yourself (via Disk Utility), you give it a +maximum size.+ It's actual size starts out at zero, then grows to the maximum as things are added.
When Time Machine creates a sparse bundle for your backups, it sets it's maximum size to the size of the partition it is on -- even if there are 2 or more, they all have the same maximum equal to the size of the partition. When you copied the sparse bundle, the maximum size came along with it.
You might be able to change the size, but reports of whether it actually works are, pardon the pun, sparse. I don't have a Time Capsule, but can't get it to work on the sparse bundle on the USB drive attached to my Airport Extreme, so I can't give you precise instructions.
Specifically, it won't let me make it smaller than the partition it's on, which makes me think Time Machine has put something special on it that prevents it from being changed. Several folks have reported that attempts to modify a TM sparse bundle, or get TM to back up to a sparse bundle created manually, do not work.
Open the TC via the Finder. Double-click the "partition" it's on (Data, I think?), and also open Disk Utility. What you need to do is see the sparse bundle, but don't mount it. Instead, drag it to the Finder's sidebar and select it there. Then select +Images > Resize+ from the Disk Utility menubar.
After a short delay, DU should give you a small window for the Resize. Click the down arrow to open it up. Specify the +New Size+ you want and click the +Resize Image Only+ button, then the Resize button.
See what happens. If there's a problem, select +Window > Show Log+ from the menubar.
I doubt this will work. Most likely, your only option is to erase the HD or delete the sparse bundles and let TM start over.
But hey, it's worth a shot!