Time capsule drive and external drive won't wake up

I have a time capsule purchased in August (2TB) and a 2 TB WD MyBook external drive plugged into the usb slot on the time capsule. Given my computer is a laptop, it is nice to be able to put the external drive somewhere where it doesn't have to be plugged and unplugged with laptop use. The WD external drive houses my itunes library and is pretty sensitive and loses data whenever not powered down cleanly.
The problem:
Time Capsule drive and WD drive seem to go away and not allow me to access them no matter what I try. The only way to get them responding is to pull the power plug on the time capsule and power back on. This needs to occur each time I want to access either drive. When attempting to connect via finder I get connection failed errors.
I have no connectivity problems with airport. Access to network is fine, so I know the TC is not totally dead, just the part that lets me access the hard drives. It is interesting that time machine appears to be able to access the drive on the tc without problem but I'm not sure how confident I am that this is true just because it is telling me so.
Any suggestions? anyone else seeing this?

I am having this issue as well.
The behavior seems to be that the drives are available after a reboot and for some time afterwards. Then at some indeterminate time, the drives become unavailable. The Time Machine backups stop with a "Backup Delayed" message and I have to go to the Time Capsule and reboot it by removing the power and re-inserting it.
When the drives are unavailable, the wireless router functions are still active since I use this router as my gateway to the internet.

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No it is not possible.. Guest is just that.. a guest that is allowed permission to access the internet but none of the local files.
To give a person access to the TC they must have password to access your normal network..
From there it is up to you how you do this.. people cannot actually access files on your computers unless you give them share and password permissions for that.. you can even setup accounts on the TC although I recommend against it.. if you want shared photos anyway. All security on a TC is illusion.. merely pressing the reset and it is all blown away.. so if you are concerned about security don't put stuff on the TC people should not access.. or like your TM backups ensure they are encrypted.
A person can then access you TC and the photos.. but what else on the network??

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is their another way like to use my time capsule as an external drive not using time machine?thanks

You do not have to use Time Machine.. but the TC is hardly suitable for a NAS.. it has no means to back itself up and is relatively slow. Still that is up to you..
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No, I don't believe this solves your problem.
TIme Machine can be used with a Time Capsule as a backup solution from connected macs and their drives but not from network drives, NAS or Time Capsules.
Thus, if you store files for LAN access on a TC internal drive, and want to back them to the USB/external drive attached to that TC, you cannot use Time Machine to do so.
Time Machine has not way of backing up ANY Time Capsule or NAS or WInPC or other networked drive, as far as I can tell. You will have to use some other backup software.
This is exactly what I bought the TC for myself (tried to use the internal drive on the TC as a NAS for my LAN, storing my music and photos and documents and bought a LaCie 2TB USB3 extneral drive to connect to the TC and hoped to be able to use Time Machine to backup the internal drive to the LaCie drive....but this does not work, as TM cannot backup from a network drive or TC device.

Can I extend time capsule by adding external drive connected TC via USB?

Hi,
I use my TC drive for backups, i's now full. Can I extend time capsule backup drive by adding external drive connected TC via USB? If yes, how do I his? I have 1TB WD external drive connected via the TC's USB, I can see the WD drive in the finder and the TC set-up...but I don't know where to go from here...
Thanks for your help
Steveru

Welcome to the discussions, Steveru!
I think what you are asking is can you simply continue Time Machine backups by adding the new USB drive, correct? The answer is not exactly. See below for details.
To use the new USB drive for Time Machine backups, you'll need to Open System Preferences (gear icon) on the dock and open Time Machine. Click on Select Disk and click your USB drive to highlight it, then click Use for Backup. Here's the rub....Time Machine will make a new full complete backup of everything on your Mac's hard drive. There's no way to avoid this. After that, it will continue to make scheduled incremental backups just like it did before on the Time Capsule.
If you ever need to go back to your original backups on the Time Capsule, you'll need to right-click the Time Capsule icon on the dock and choose Browse Other Time Machine Disks.
When the USB drive start to fill, you may decide that you no longer need all the old backups on the Time Capsule disk since you should have a good history of backups on the USB drive at that point.
So, you could erase the Time Capsule disk and then start backing up to the Time Capsule disk again. At that time, it will also make a complete backup on the first pass and then normal incremental backups from that point forward. When the TC begins to fill again, then you could erase the older backups on the USB drive and start backups again on that drive. Then switch to the other drive in the future to keep things going indefinitely. If you go with this type of flip flop plan, you should always have a solid history of many months of backups at any given time.
Will a plan like this work? I don't answer a question on the forum unless I've done it myself. This has been working well for me for almost 3 years.
Pondini, the resident expert on Time Machine and Time Capsule affairs, may have some comments on this as well. If you haven't already seen his excellent guide, Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule or +Time Machine FAQ+, these are the best available sources of information on this subject on the Internet.
Or, if you don't want to erase any your backups, you could of course keep adding a new USB drive when the current drive is about to fill.

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I need an external drive to back-up my MacBook Air. In addition, my iTunes library of music, TV shows & movies is pretty enormous and I'd like to move it from my MacBook to an external drive to free up space on the laptop.
I will need to access my iTunes library from my Apple TV and the MacBook. I also have an iPad which will need to sync with the external drive.
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Thanks.

Is the Time Capsule the right piece of kit for the job?
Not really, no.
TC is a dumb as board hard disk in an airport extreme router. It has no media servers.. no backup.. it is slow and designed for TM target for laptops. The major one here is lack of backup. Any files you put on the TC can and will be lost at some point.. and to backup you need to have a computer connected to it with an external hard disk.. and a 3rd party backup because TM is too dumb to back up network drives.
TC is designed to spin up slow and spin down quickly at the end of backup. You will have issues when you stream media from it.
ATV needs to connect to itunes server.. not the library. You will still need a computer running. Same for lots of things.. since apple designed their system to be dependent on itunes.
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My Time Capsule recently filled up. I have 2 computers I'm backing up - a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. I purchased a larger external hard drive and connected it to the Time Capsule, and it appears to be backing up the Mac Pro just fine. I was thinking that it might be useful to have the MacBook Pro back up to the older smaller drive, since its drive is smaller than the Mac Pro's. So my question is - now that the Mac Pro is completely backed up on the new drive, can I just get rid of the old back-ups on the smaller drive and start backing up the MacBook Pro to it? I don't have a lot of need to find old files or go back to older revisions at this point. I'm mainly concerned with catastrophic failure (as recently happened), so as long as I have the latest backup, and can restore from it, I'm happy with that.
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If it is gen1 or gen2 both power supply and hard disk is already well past the useby date. Consider a replacement or using USB drive so you are not caught with the backup gone when it fails.. although it usually isn't bad.. if you only have backups on the TC. It is people trying to use them as a NAS who really hit the brick wall.

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cookmj wrote:
my question, can the time capsule be included in the backup of the mac mini to the external drive ?
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SuperDuper
ChronoSync
JGG

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I;m considering time capsule and i wanna know if it can be used as a regular external drive just for storing data

My point was he could get a network drive for less money and do the same thing if he has a wireless router. I don't consider using it just for storage as overkill. I did not say it should be used for just for TM. Mine will also be used for storage and TM. That is the point of Time Capsule it can be used in numerous ways and as a wireless base. That is a big thing with it as it is wireless. It could be used stand alone as a storage drive but you would not be using it to it's full potential by using it in that manner. If he wants to spend the money on it and use it like that is great. He asked a question we tried to answer as best as we know how. If the advice is not what he wants to hear we can't help that. Some people come on here and want to buy something without knowing all the details of what it can do. That was why I gave a link to it.
No matter what you say or call it, it is way more than a storage drive.

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Hello, I was thinking of purchasing a 500 GB Time Capsule. I know that one day this size will be too small for my stuff, so my question is if I was to then plug in my external 750 GB USB drive to the Time Capsule, would I then have a second drive available for me to do my back ups? I am not expecting some sort of RAID where I'd have a 1.25 GB drive, just want to know what happens when a second drive is connected to the Time Capsule, does it show both drives as possible Time Machine drives?
Cheers and thanks,
Andrew.

Hello, thanks for your reply, but as I mentioned in the posting, I am not meaning of extending the capacity. What I am asking is if Time Capsule allows you to select both the internal (Time Capsule) drive and the externally connected drive to use as a back up. And the reason that I am thinking of the 500 GB version is that I cannot afford the 1 TB version at this time, but know that I will need more capacity later. So in the Time Machine Preferences can you press the Change Disk button can you select the Time Capsule drive or the Externally connected drive to the Time Capsule?
Cheers and thanks.
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mn3:
I'm sorry to hear about all your troubles!
In the future, if you have an issue that occurs twice or more in a short period of time, you need to start looking at what's going wrong so you can keep things safe.
With regard to those external drives:
You may want to invest in the application Disk Warrior; it can repair many errors that Disk Utility isn't able to touch.
Odds are what happened is you thoroughly corrupted the directories on the drives by yanking the USB cords instead of ejecting them properly. If the directory is corrupted, it's no easy task to get the data saved!
A few questions about the drives:
1) What are the brand names?
2) Have you used these drives with other machines in the past?
3) Do the drives have their own power supplies?
4) Were they connected directly to the iMac?
Some questions about your computer:
1) Have any other peripherals caused you troubles?
2) How large of a hard drive does the computer have & how much space is free?
3) How old is the iMac?
4) Do you have the original install discs?
Lots of questions, but the answers should be helpful.
~Lyssa

Time Machine, iPhoto and External Drives

Hi!
My Mac Info:
Macbook Pro Retina OS X, Version 10.8.5, Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 8GB
I have 0KB out of 120.47GB.
Audio - 2.33GB
Movies - 37.12GB
Photos - 28.66GB
Apps - 6.98GB
Backups - 0KB
Other - 45.38GB
Ok...the scenario, let's say...
I backed up in Jan '14 on Time Machine on a G/Drive 1GB. (got it.)
In Feb '14, I ran out of space on my Mac, so I deleted photos to make room and did another backup, photos and everything. (got it.)
In Mar '14, I backed up again.
Question 1.
In the Mar '14, back up, it only backed up the photos from my iPhoto library that were current, it did not back up the deleted photos.
So how do I see a complete photo library? The deleted photos and everything on my G/Drive? This scenario was fictitious, however I'm in a situation where I've been deleting photos in iPhoto and backing up to make space since Dec 2012. I don't know how retrieve a true library that has everything! (The photos that I have deleted, btw, have not been duplicates.)
Oh, the reason, why I want a complete photo library is because I want to externally print a album of our 3 yr old son. But when I go to the back ups, I can't tell which files have still have the photos that I deleted. So, how can I piece together all of the photo libraries for 1 comprehensive library without showing duplicates?
Question 2.
My external drives
G/Drive, S/N 7DGVE8MA - 1TB (I use this for Time Machine).I have used 295GB
WD My Book, WD P/N WD5000h1Q-00 - 500GB, (Backup to my G/Drive).I have used 45GB
Are these good external drives?
Many, many thanks!

Your profile shows 10.6.8 - you might want to update it.
If you are backing up using Time Machine, do you have a backup prior to when you started deleting photos that you could restore?
There seem to be multiple problems with WD drives in the discussions, but whether WD is a bad brand is hard to say.

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I know the answer is out there somewhere but I've been googling longer than it would take some one in here to answer my newbie question
I'm making a total switch from PC to Mac. So I'll be getting a Macbook Pro and a Time Capsule for back up.
Since my girlfriend is getting a Macbook too, it would be nice to share movies and picture via the TC.
Will it just show as an extra drive in the Finder?
Will my Mac automatically connect to the drive when I connect to the internet(TC)
I will be bringing my Mac in and out of the apartment, so it would be nice if it just did as much as possible by itself.
Am I understanding it correctly that it will work as wireless router when connected to the internet modem?
Is there anything I should be aware of?

Nerdfield wrote:
I'm making a total switch from PC to Mac.
welcome to the bright side of computing
So I'll be getting ... a Time Capsule for back up ... it would be nice to share movies and picture via the TC.
you might want to consider using the TC for backups only and rather put the shared content on an USB drive connected to the TCs USB port.
take the time to browse through [this_|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/FAQ.html] user tip.
Will it just show as an extra drive in the Finder?
yes, you can access the TCs drive (and the USB drive connected to the TC) via the finder. it will look like this
the folder data represents the TCs drive while the other folder is a USB drive connected to it. click on either folder and the drive will mount on the desktop.
Will my Mac automatically connect to the drive when I connect to the internet(TC)
once everything is set up, your Macs will connect to the wireless network created by the TC automatically.
Am I understanding it correctly that it will work as wireless router when connected to the internet modem?
correct.
Is there anything I should be aware of?
check out above user tip.
JGG

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