Time Capsule/ Erase Back Up Files

My TC worked for weeks but it suddenly dropped dead and lost connection. I hard reset it and was able to reestablish internet connection although when I clicked on the icon on top right I can no longer get it to back up. When I opened the TM preference, I can no longer find my disk. It only asked me to choose disk but the list is blank. I did the entire set up steps again and was able to reconnect to internet but not backing up but the thing died (lost power with lights out after 10 or 15 mins.
Is there any way I can erase the previous back up files in my TC? I want to send it back to Apple after erasing my files. I have always been a big fan of Apple products but the TC completely shattered my confidence.
Thanks.

It opened into a new pane from which I am supposed to choose the disk but the pane is blank. Now the TC just power itself off after 10 or 15 minutes. I am about to give up. I never had a single problem with my first generation Airport.

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My time capsule erased all my files, is it possible to recover any of it?

My time capsule erased all my files, is it possible to recover any of it?

None of free or lower priced utilities will get the files back. Disk Warrior might be able to get into the drive.
http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
If still no luck, you will need to look into having a professional data restoration service try to get the files.
Unfortunately, no guarantees with either approach above since Disk Utility was unable to repair things and the file structure is likely corrupted.
Good luck in your quest.

My Time Capsule has stopped backing up. I have an Apple Time Capsule which backs up by wireless. For the last 3 days it has not backed up. I get this message: "The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk.

My Time Capsule has stopped backing up.
I have an Apple Time Capsule which backs up by wireless. For the last 3 days it has not backed up. I get this message:
"The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk."
I have gone into Mac Help and followed this down to stage 4:
under shared it lists my time capsule and my husband's iMac - both use the time machine but we have switched his off temporarily. Clicking on my Time capsule I get "Connected" and "Sharepoint" - I didn't have to enter connect or password
I don't understand stage 5: how and where do I select the disk or volume that contains Time Machine backups ? How do I know which it is? My disk utility lists 160.04 TOSHIBA MK... with sub-heading Macintosh HD. It also lists (with a "CD" icon) HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS22N
Under stage 6, how and where do I Locate your backup ? I try dragging my Time capsule from Finder to the Disk Utility side panel but it won't go. What is my computer's name?
Please someone help! I'm completely stumped.
Thanks,
Maggie
Mac Help says:
If you back up to a Time Capsule or network disk:
Open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, and slide the switch to Off.
Open Time Machine preferences
Open Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Open Disk Utility
Make sure the Time Capsule or network disk is turned on and available.
Open a Finder window, select your Time Capsule or network disk in the Shared section of the sidebar, and click Connect. If necessary, enter your user name and password.
On the Time Capsule or network disk, select the disk or volume that contains Time Machine backups. Depending on how your Time Capsule is set up, there may be one or more disks or volumes.
Locate your backup, and drag it to the Disk Utility sidebar.You can identify your backup by looking for your computer’s name in the backup’s filename.

Hello,
Thanks to the great Pondini...
http://pondini.org/TM/C3.html

Can I use my time capsule to back up or save files from my pc?

My time capsule works great with my 2 Macs. I just got a PC and would like to know if I can use the time capsule to back up or save files from my PC?

You can.. but obviously PC is missing TM.. so you will need to use a backup software.
Saving files to the TC is not really recommended.. but as long as you have lots of space is unlikely to cause problems.. the whole idea of TM though is to keep incremental backups on an hourly basis and will slowly fill the TC.. once space is short.. it can get messy.
Also read Pondini who is positively against using it for other files.
http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ3.html
I suggest you read .. skim at least the FAQ so you actually understand what TM - TC is all about.
A USB drive plugged into the PC makes a better backup
1. It is formatted NTFS, ie native format and readable by any windows computer. A TC is a network device.
2. USB drives are cheap. You can use 2 of them and store one offsite.
3. USB traffic is not on the network.
4. Storing files on the TC is bad as it is a backup target not itself backed up.
5. In a pc you can add drive after drive after drive.. (assuming a desktop since you didn't say laptop). Only a Mac Pro can do that in the Mac world.. internal drives are cheaper than a. USB drives, b. network drives. And they are 10x or more faster.

How can I be sure that the back up to my time capsule has backed everything up as when I enter time capsule and interogate the back ups i can't identify individual music or picture files?

How can I confirm that the back up to my time capsule has backed everything up as when I enter time capsule and interrogate the backs ups I can't identify individual photo or music files?

You cannot browse a Time Machine backup with the Finder. To restore individual music files or any other files normally available in the Finder, open your Music folder then "Enter Time Machine" using the Time Machine icon.
Restoring individual photographs is slightly more cumbersome. Apple recommends restoring the entire iPhoto Library, but if you want to locate an individual photograph you could use Time Machine to restore the old Libary. Restore it to an alternate location to avoid overwriting your existing one. Open iPhoto while holding an Option key, open the restored Library, find the photo you need and export it, close iPhoto, re-open it with your usual Library, and import the photo.
Time Machine depends upon a number of sound engineering principles for reliable operation, one of which is "faith"
Your files will remain intact until your Time Machine backup device becomes inoperative.

I am having trouble using my time capsule to back up. I tried repairing through "first aid" Disk 4s2 failed and I have been directed to erase. What is in this disk? Should I erase it??

I am having trouble using my time capsule to back up. I tried repairing through "first aid" Disk 4s2 failed and I have been directed to erase. What is in this disk? Should I erase it??

Only you know what is on the disk.. if you have been running TM to the TC then it will have your backups.. are they important?? Otherwise it will be what you..or others in the house have copied to it.. is that important?
If the first aid has failed the disk then it could be a good idea to erase it.
Does the disk mount in finder so you can see the main directory?

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 backing up

My TC had been successfully backing up both a mb pro and imac. Now it won't back up the mb pro, but imac still backs up. Error message "backup of (computer name which is correct) was not repairable by this computer. It is being mad available with limited functionality. You must back up your data and reformat the disk as soon as possible." I don't know exactly what this means but doesn't look good!
I've tried simply restarting (unplug and replug) the TC. No luck.
Any ideas out there?
Thanx.

I had the exact problem (using Time Capsule to back up two computer on my home network). I did update the firmware on the Time Capsule at some point so I don't know if that contributed to the problem. I erased both files on the Time Capsule hard drive and restarted using only one computer - we'll see if it makes a difference. Painful and potentially dangerous to loss of backup data.

How do i use my time capsule to back up another mac?

How do I set up my time capsule to back up another mac computer?

If you have one Mac backing up already.. you can just use another.. TM is perfectly happy working with several computer on the same TC.. it will create a sparsebundle for its files.. it is a sort of virtual disk.
There is nothing you need do except make sure there is enough space.

I have used Airport Time Capsule with my iMac for several years. I recently purchased a MacBook Air and when it tried to backup to Time Capsule it couldn't because Time Capsule is full. How can I now use the 3TB Airport Time Capsule to back up both?

I have used Airport Time Capsule with my iMac for a couple years. I recently purchased a MacBook Air and when it tried to backup to Time Capsule it couldn't because Time Capsule is full. How can I now use the 3TB Airport Time Capsule to back up both the iMac and MacBook Air? I don't mind losing earlier backups. I have excluded some items from backing up, but since the Airport Time Capsule is full, I can't even begin to back up the MacBook Air.

On your Mac.......
Open Finder > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit in the smaller window that appears
Click on the Disks tab at the top of the window
Click Erase Disk
On the next window that appears, select the Quick Erase option, then click Erase
The operation will only take a few minutes.
Now you are ready to start new backups of both Macs. Back up one Mac first, then back up the other. Do not try to back up both Macs as the same time.

Using Time Capsule to back up Mac Book Pro and external drive

we're changing our main computer in the house to our mac book pro, which is not currently backed up, so i'm thinking of buying a time capsule. our current main machine is an old pc with two external hard drives connected....one used as the main file storage location and the second as a back up location. the main large files on these drivers are photo's, videos and scanned documents. can i use the time capsule to back up the mac book with an external hard drive connected to it? i'm thinking of leaving all the photo's, videos, documents, etc. on the external harddrive but want to be able to back it up to the time capsule as well as backing up the mac book pro. can backing up the external hard drive be set up to activate automatically daily as I think the mac book can? thanks

This is not as simple as it could be..
Firstly the Mac can read the external drives via the PC if they are shared to the network.. it cannot read them directly plugged into the Mac or the TC.
Also the TC is not really designed to store files.. it is a location for backups by TM..
Read some of the stuff Pondini.. our local Time Machine expert.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Q3 here is relevant. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
The hard drives would have to be plugged directly into the Mac to be backed up and they would have to be reformatted to Mac format. So you would need to offload the files.. format and then load the files back.. no trivial task.

Time Capsule deleted my old files

I bought a Time Capsule in February this year and after that it has been around every where I was. I did a first "big" backup from my Macbook Pro and every since that the backup did work automatically in the background.
But recently I did go into some folder of mine and turn on the Time Capsule to check for some older files I deleted and I figured out the Time Capsule goes back only till 6th October this year. So can somebody explain to me where is all my old data from February till October, the files I deleted and the old backups?
I also saw that my backup file did have a name that looked like that: "Dejan's MacBook Pro (4).sparsebundle". So what is the number "(4) doing there and again where and how I can access my old files or what happened?
Thanks!

goes back only till 6th October this year.
Did you update the computer to Yosemite that day.. or perhaps the day after.. ??
The way TM works on Yosemite is still rather mysterious to us.. but if it is like Mavericks .. the backups are still there.. mostly but it will take Yosemite 3 days or so (longer over wireless) to actually index it. The new index function in Yosemite is super slow apparently.
You can manually bypass using TM and directly open the sparsebundle in finder and get your files. See the material in Pondini for help
Q15 in particular but 14-17 is worth reading. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Also please note that when you actually delete files.. not just version them.. at anytime TM can delete the files in the backup.. you are trusting TM as an archive system.. it is not.. and you should not use it that way. See Q12, 20 in same reference.
I also saw that my backup file did have a name that looked like that: "Dejan's MacBook Pro (4).sparsebundle".
You are having network issues.. the same name cannot appear on two computers on the network. The Mac will automatically increment its name so that the old version and the new version can be on the network at the same time.. Of course the old one is not really there.. just its ghost.. somehow apple networks do have ghosting issues.. and it is not uncommon issue.. what is more you might have multiple sparsebundles on the TC.. check out if there are other backups using the older names of the computer.. They will then give you access to your missing files.

Is time capsule is backing up my external drive?

I have my itunes library on an external drive connected to my time capsule via usb. When the tm is docked, i can look at the backup archive to see the files it's backing up. this does not include my itunes music folder on my external drive. In fact, I can't see that the tm is backing it up at all. the external drive isn't on the exclude list in time machine options either. How can i get time capsule to back up my internal and external drives?

I have 2 laptops being backed up to my Time Capsule.
I have my iTunes Library and my iPhoto Library on my Time Capsule.
I use Chronosync to backup my iTunes and iPhoto Libraries to an external drive.
It should have no problem doing what you want it to do.
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html

Can I use the available space on Time Capsule to store media files?

I recently bought Time Capsule and set it up to do backups of my iMac (Snow Leopard).
Since, the Time Capsule has a 1TB HDD, I decided to use the Time capsule to store media files. However, when trying to resolve a Time Capsule issue with the Apple Care technician, he informed me that storing media files on Time Capsule is not recommended. He suggested buying an additional portable disk to store the media files. Wanted to confirm if this is truly the recommendation for Time Capsule.

The Time Capsule was designed for Time Machine backups and that is the recommended use for the device.
If you have plenty of space on the drive, there is probably no harm in using the drive for other data, but as space becomes tight, there is going to be struggle between Time Machine and other files regarding space allocation.
But if you are storing your media files on the Time Capsule disk.....how are you backing up these files?
The advantage in having a separate drive for your media files is that Time Machine will back up both your computer and the separate hard drive. Then you have backups for everything when....not if....a drive fails.

I have 2 different MacBooks (owned by 2 people) connected to my Time Capsule. I want to use the Time Capsule to back up both MacBooks separately from each other. Can one person access the hard drive of the other person, on the same Time Capsule?

I have 2 different MacBooks (owned by 2 people) connected to the same Time Capsule over a wifi network. I want to use the Time Capsule to back up both MacBooks separately from each other. Can one person access the hard drive of the other person, on the same Time Capsule? Is there a way to ensure that the files on the 2 laptops are kept private from each other? Thanks!

If someone really wants to do something, it won't take them long to find out how to do it.
http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
Security on a Time Capsule is a bit like installing a lock on a tent. It will keep the honest folks out, but probably not the others.

Time Capsule/ Erase Back Up Files

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