Tima capsule stop to work

i've changed the name of my network and my time capsule stopped to work properly. actually time machine says "i cannot activate the image of back up disk"
i've tryed to initialize the disk with the disck utility and now from the disck utility TM is all free (no space allocated) but Time Machine continues to try to make incremental back up and doesn't work !!! i've tryed to cancel with zeros old backups space but is too long (it takes 7 days)
with the disk utility i've changed the name of the disk

That's right, I can't connect after a Hard reset. I get the same message.
" Connection Failed
The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again."
When I use a program to identify wireless networks the Time Capsule shows up.
Would the fact that I had a different name for Time Capsule before I Hard Reset create some sort of a problem?

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My time capsule stopped working. amber light comes on for a few seconds then turns off.

my time capsule stopped working. When I try to power it up the amber light comes on for about 10 seconds and then turns off. That's as far as it gets. Any ideas on how to solve this problem.

Kazandjaz, Welcome to the fourm! There is a 99.5% chance that your problem is caused by a failed internal power supply unit (PSU)! If you have operated it for about 18 months or so, that is the cause. Take it to your nearest Apple dealer and ask them to check it out.

My Time Capsule stopped working suddenly. The led won't lit up even if I do a hard reset.

Suddenly I noticed that my Time Capsule stopped working. The led doesn't light up any more and there's no noticeable activity in it.
Is it possible to recover my backups?

Dead TC power supply syndrome is standard on all Gen1 and Gen2 TC.
It has plenty of info on the web.
https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem s/apple-time-capsule-repair
As far as HD is concerned it will mostly be ok. Either fix or remove the TC hard drive and use in USB box, as mentioned.
If it is Gen3 there is a different problem.
Tell us the actual model number from the rubber base.

Why did my time capsule stopped backing up?

Why would my time capsule stop backing up, it is set to delet when the drive is full?

LaPastenague wrote:
Many people report that TM no longer deletes old backups as it should.
That does happen sometimes, but for many different reasons.
TM should never run out of space
Yes, it can. First, remember that it deletes entire backups, not the backups of individual files. Second, it won't ever delete the last remaining backup.
So if it needs to do a very large backup, there needs to be room for the last remaining backup, plus the new one, plus some workspace. That's why we recommend that the TM drive be 3-4 times the size of the data it's backing-up. If it's much less than that, and there's a need for a large or full backup, there may not be enough room.
as i understand how it works, it should simply give a warning that the old backups need to be deleted.
That's how it worked on Leopard, if you had the "Warn when old backups are deleted" option checked -- the backup would fail if there wasn't room. All you had to do then was remove the check, but many folks didn't understand that.
So, effective with Snow Leopard, the option is now "Notify after old backups are deleted," and that's what happens -- old backups are deleted automatically when necessary, and a notice is sent only after the new backup completes.
It seems that after an upgrade install of the OS.. TM ceases to have the ability to delete old backups.. it simply runs out of space and refuses to backup.
Normally not. Some have turned out to be users who actually did a "clean install," erasing their internal HD. If you do that, and don't use either Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant to put your data back (and transfer Computer Settings), the erased drive is treated as a different one. In that case, TM will do a full backup, so requires a lot space.
However, effective with Mountain Lion, TM does add more space for "padding" than before, sometimes quite a bit more, so a drive that was barely large enough on Lion or earlier may be too small now.
EDIT: A good way to figure out what's going on is to look at the log messages, either by using Console and filtering for backupd, or via the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting
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Time capsule stopped

I have a Macbook white and upgraded to the Yosemite. My time capsule stopped working. Any solution?

If within warranty or applecare on a computer Apple will replace.
Otherwise it is dead.. power supply burned out.. absolutely standard fare for TC. How old is it and what Generation?
Fix, https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem s/apple-time-capsule-repair
Find a repairer.. not an Apple one as they consider it a consumable and will not fix or repair.
Or dispose of and buy a new one.

My Time Capsule does not work with existing WiFi

Following a question solved on March 24 by LaPastenague, but gone bad again.
Apple AirPort Time Capsule
I felt the need for a physical backup of my data, as I would not completely trust the different clouds. I use, and have used Dropbox for 4-5 years and are very satisfied with that, but I am still not sure if or when a political lunatic will shut off the internet.
I purchased the Apple AP Time Capsule 2T, because all my other stuff are Apple, and that it's wireless. My old backup is Maxtor 300 GB.
Since we stay 2-3 weeks on two locations, one in Norway and one in Sweden (two different countries) we must use Mobile Broadband 4G, cables or fibre connections are useless for us, and we don't have it up to the houses. I have one mini router for each country, we bring with us iPhones, iPads, iMac, Apple TV, APExpress. When we pass the boarder I change the mini router, and the system continues working perfect on the WiFi, except the APExpress that needs to be reconfigured, but then it works.
The APTC was difficult to make working as it would not accept to be in an existing network, but with good help from the Apple Community, LaPastenague, with forcing the TC connect to the APE with Ethernet cable in bridge mode, ref "My Time Capsule does not work with existing WiFi" from March 24, the problem was solved and all gadgets worked together in a perfect harmony, until we changed location.
Now, as I have my second WiFi network, and the APExspress is reconfigured, it's like the TC thinks, I am the base boss here, I am not taking orders from APE one more time, and it simply does not work, not only that, it fluctuates all the time.
I have a slight feeling that the two WiFi bands are making the trouble as during the configuration of the TC sometime the last figure 6 and 7 pops up, and that has something two do with the two different 2,4 and 5 GHZ bands
So, I am curious if you have any idea ?
I am thinking of returning the TC if I don't make it work now, but how do I delete all the data that's on it?

I can deal with the last question first and easily.
I am thinking of returning the TC if I don't make it work now, but how do I delete all the data that's on it?
Open the airport utility .. go to the disk tab and select erase.
When you select erase you will get mulitiple options.
Quick removes the file table but does not delete the files,, it takes 2min or less.
A Zero out data is the secure way,, by writing 0 ie low level drive format.
It can take several hours..
7 pass will take a week.. not recommended..
35 pass erase is ridiculous.. it would take a month.. put an ax through the TC. It is quick and better.
Now, as I have my second WiFi network, and the APExspress is reconfigured, it's like the TC thinks, I am the base boss here, I am not taking orders from APE one more time, and it simply does not work, not only that, it fluctuates all the time.
The fact that it did work and has now failed might point to faulty unit.
The only way to tell is reset it properly to factory and start over.
Universal Factory Reset.. any model TC or AE.
Unplug your TC/AE from power or turn off at the power point.
Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on.. all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. (this is often difficult without a 2nd person or a 3rd arm).
Release it when the status light flashes rapidly. If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have missed it and try again.
Note..
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations of the router.
No files are deleted on the hard disk in a TC.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
Generally having multiple wireless AP should not cause problems.. but it is better to set channels manually.. so it doesn't go beserk rotating channels.
Remember to keep all names short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Sadly though the Apple routers have no logging now and no SNMP and almost nothing to help diagnose a problem, so if it continues .. take it back to apple.. they have given you no other method of fixing it.

I have two time capsules, one for work and one for home, how do I set up the work time capsule to only back up my work files?

I have two time capsules, one for work and one for home, how do I set up the work time capsule to only back up my work files? Also, how do I add co-workers to my work time capsule and wife to my home time capsule? Thank you!

You cannot have two different TC setups.. at least until Mountain Lion.. it did introduce some changes but I am not sure if you can setup two different configurations for TM.. you can use two different devices to back up to. I doubt this will help you.
You might be better using a real backup software.. superduper, CCC, chronosync etc.
The TC by default is available to any Mac in the network to do backups. TM will sort itself out and put each computer on a different backup. These are kept in separate sparsebundles.. so that is all fine.

Time Capsule backup not working anymore after upgrade to Snow Leopard

Hi,
after I upgraded to Snow Leopard I started the backup process with the time capsule. Within several days I tried this about 5 times and the iMac crashed or froze after some time doing the backup - but it never completed.
I then deleted the whole content of the time capsule and started a fresh backup. Now I receive a message after some gigabyte that there was a problem and I should try it again. Again the backup has not finished so far. I tried to reduce the amount of files to backup by excluding folders - no chance. Since the upgrade to snow I was not able to complete one single backup.
Any ideas or similar experience?

I have had a similar problem. I have the latest 1TB Time Capsule and backup worked fine in Leopard. I am backing up over my home wireless network. The backup starts, but at some point it freezes with the spinning pizza wheel if I click on anything. Everything freezes with no possibility of force quitting any application.
I tried trashing the plist for Time Machine, but that didn't work. Tonight I'm going to try a backup with the computer connected to the Time Capsule by Ethernet.
I can access my existing Time Machine backups on the Time Capsule.
This is a frustrating situation. But for this, SL works great, but this problem is a critical one.

Backup to Time Capsule stopped due to network problem

I have been backing up for a month or so. Now my time capsule stopped backing up. I get the following error message:
There was a problem connecting to the server "Time-Capsule.local".
The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connections, and then try again.
Here is my setup.
Internet comes in via an airport extreme. I extended the wireless network of the airport extreme to the Time Capsule. I try to backup my MacBook Pro (Lion 10.7) wirelessly to the Time Capsule. The Time Capsule is visible in the Airport Utility, has an IP address and I can access it without a problem. When I go to the settings for time machine I can see the Time Capsule and even select it. But then I get the above error message.
I tried checking the network but to me everyhting looks fine. Not sure how to start trouble shooting this. Who can help?

mikefromswiss wrote:
I have been backing up for a month or so. Now my time capsule stopped backing up. I get the following error message:
There was a problem connecting to the server "Time-Capsule.local".
The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time.
It's eventually just a hang.
Switch off the wireless on all computers.
Power off the Extreme and the TC
Wait a minute or two
Power on the Extreme and wait until the light is steady green
Power on the TC and wait untill the light is steady green
Reconnect the computers one after one
Lupunus

Time Machine backup to Time Capsule stopped ...

Time Machine backup to Time Capsule stopped ... and seemingly endlessly keeps on preparing for the next backup. Did anyone encounter this problem too? Thanks! Daniel

7/4/08 9:13:06 AM com.apple.backupd[250] 2008-07-04 09:13:06.613 diskimages-helper[297:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
7/4/08 9:13:06 AM com.apple.backupd[250] /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
7/4/08 9:13:06 AM com.apple.backupd[250] 2008-07-04 09:13:06.614 diskimages-helper[297:1603] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskImagePluginFactory for factory 7F1FD83E-6684-11D8-968F-000A957703C0 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x51fa30 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
7/4/08 9:13:07 AM com.apple.backupd[250] 2008-07-04 09:13:07.110 diskimages-helper[297:1603] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
7/4/08 9:13:07 AM com.apple.backupd[250] /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Vir tualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
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7/4/08 9:13:08 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[250] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of G4’s Computer/Backups.backupdb
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7/4/08 9:13:12 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[250] Forcing deep traversal on source: "Hard Drive" (mount: '/' fsUUID: C5625712-89CC-3B4B-99B9-F6DB1DC28614 eventDBUUID: F6938DB2-A057-4D7E-A9FC-9BF0AD86DC9D), {1, 1, 1, 0}
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Time capsule stopped saving suddenly

Hi
All of a sudden my time capsule stopped saving on the time machine. Actually, I do not know what really happened that time machine is not anymore saving to time capsule.
I reseted the capsule but nothing has changed..still no saving, though I have lots of space on my Mac
Any idea, please
Thanks

Check Pondini's Troubleshooting pages for your specific situation http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Time capsule: will it work wirelessly without disrupting my wireless system?

Time capsule: will it work wirelessly without disrupting my wireless system?

This type of setup is difficult, and not officially supported by Apple for good reason.
Before you attempt this, you should know that this type of setup will require a "double hop" wireless connection for backups.
In other words, for your Mac to back up, the wireless signal must travel from your Mac to your wireless router......hop one.....and then travel from the wireless router to the Time Capsule....hop two.
This doubles the chances of an error occurring and unfortunately also doubles the amount of time that it will take for a backup to occur.
I've tried this type of setup a few times as an experiment. It gives new meaning to word "SLOW".
In addition, the Ethernet ports are disabled in this type of setup on the Time Capsule, so it is not possible to use them for any purpose.
Bottom line....the fact that the Time Capsule can possibly be configured this way.....does not in any way imply that it should be configured this way.

Time capsule hard drive working slowly on mavericks

I would like to know why time capsule external drive works so slow after Maverick update ? Cause now if you want to open folder in time capsule external drive it takes a while till it opens ? After it opens you you cant see any files for a while to just after some time it appears.

Thanks LaPastenague, but interestingly, the issue turned out to be rather esoteric.
We have a headless Mac running as a home theater pc. Apparently, it tried to do an hourly TM backup just as Carbon Copy Cloner (which runs a completely seperate backup) put the computer to sleep after it completed its backup.
So when the home theater Mac woke up, for some reason it kept having trouble attaching to the Time Capsule disk to do a TM backup...
...which is what was making my TC hard drive spin up and down and up and down and up...
As soon as I fixed the error and the home theater Mac made a successful TM backup, all was well once again.
(And I've since installed TimeMachineEditor, so these types of backup collisions won't happen anymore.)
Hope this helps someone else down the line...
Thanks!

HT201514 Time capsul stopped working and now cannot be mounted

After hourly backups for the last month (since I bought Time Capsul), Time Machine just stopped. Initially, the message in Time Machine was "backup delayed". I clicked on "backup now" and that message disappeared -- so did Time Capsul. Now Airport Utility no longer "sees" Time Capsul.
-- Time Capsul is the 3TB model, purchased a little more than one month ago.
-- I am backing up roughly 700 GB of data
-- Both My iMac and my Macbook Pro run on OS X 10.7.5
My iMac is connected to Time Capsul by Ethernet cable.
My Macbook Pro is connected wirelessly
Neither the iMac nor the Macbook Pro can "see" the Time Capsul, or find it in Airport Utility. Both my iMac and my Macbook Pro have been backing up flawlessly for more than a month. The backup stopped yesterday with the message "backup delayed", as previously stated.
Is there an explanation and a fix for this problem? That's a pretty short life span for a month old $500.00 purchase.

My Mac book Pro does, in fact, see Time Capsule and is able to do a backup via wireless connection.
My Internet connection works fine -- Time Capsule light is green.
As to your question of: "Did you upgrade to 10.7.5 after the first faulty update was released?", I can't answer that question. I have no memory of a notification of a faulty update. I do, however, have the build 11G63 installed.
Would it be beneficial to do a factory reset?
Don't you just love it when nothing makes sense.. !!
Yes, do a factory reset of the TC..
Using the airport utility, on whichever computer can connect.. give the TC SMB names for everything.. TC network name, wireless names, and hard disk name.. that means, short, no spaces, pure alphanumeric.
In Lion use the 5.6 utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
The v6 airport is a toy.. plastic hammer.. suitable for toyland networks.
You might need to reset the TM in the computers..
A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Are you using the TC as router or in bridge? What broadband do you have?
Check for instance the ethernet is working from the connectivity led on the ethernet port of the TC.. it will show green.

New time capsule stops working with http connections

I have the latest 2TB Time Capsule. I've been getting a weird issue where my I can no longer can do http connections (i.e. browse the internet) but I can still use other internet capable services like Skype or Steam. It seems that traffic through port 80 just seems to stop working. All of my devices on my network experience the issue. I have even exchanged Time Capsules but the issue still presists.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Here's a traceroute when things work:
traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 3.637 ms 1.030 ms 0.924 ms
2 69.254.248.1 (69.254.248.1) 10.644 ms 10.237 ms 10.590 ms
3 te-7-1-ur02.olathe.ks.indepen.comcast.net (68.87.234.209) 10.453 ms 10.177 ms 10.519 ms
4 te-4-4-ar02.independence.mo.indepen.comcast.net (68.87.234.5) 10.464 ms 11.360 ms 13.087 ms
5 68.87.234.29 (68.87.234.29) 11.762 ms 12.583 ms 13.066 ms
6 be-20-702-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.89.37) 28.948 ms 21.847 ms 24.969 ms
7 he-0-11-0-0-pe04.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.58) 22.267 ms 22.081 ms 21.251 ms
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 72.14.237.110 (72.14.237.110) 26.647 ms
    72.14.237.108 (72.14.237.108) 25.617 ms
    72.14.237.110 (72.14.237.110) 53.230 ms
11 72.14.232.141 (72.14.232.141) 33.403 ms 33.622 ms
    209.85.248.228 (209.85.248.228) 34.010 ms
12 216.239.46.193 (216.239.46.193) 33.824 ms 33.433 ms 34.014 ms
13 * * *
14 google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 37.414 ms 34.587 ms 34.306 ms
Here's the output when it doesn't:
traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute: unknown host 8.8.8.8
I just changed my DNS. I'll report back in a day to say if it fixed anything.

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