Time Machine set up on Time Capsule with data already on it

I've had a Time Capsule for a while, using it with my Powerbook G4 running OS 10.4. I put a lot of data on it including my entire iTunes library. I just got a new MacBook Pro with OS 10.5. Now I want to set up Time Machine. Can I do this on a Time Capsule with data already on it? I haven't given it a try because I don't have the data on the TC backed up (I know I need to fix that). TM won't require me to erase the volume first will it?

I discussed this issue with Apple Care at one point in the past when I was considering doing something similar to you.  They informed me that Apple does NOT recommend or support using Time Machine over a network (ethernet) connection.  They said Time Machine was not designed for it.
Hope this helps

Similar Messages

  • Time Capsule with Backup unable to be connected to and restored

    I have recently rebuilt my iMac to 10.6.8 - I was previously on the same OS but wanted a clean install.
    My entire mac was backed up to a 3tb Time Capsule
    Having rebuilt I would like to restore some data from the Time Capsule but the iMac is now refusing to see any data on the time capsule.  When I manage the Time Capsule from Airport Utility I can see that there is about 1gb used.  If I share the disc and allow connectivity I can even see the sparsebundle, but Time Machine and Migration Assistant do not see a valid Time Capsule with data that can be restored from.
    I am not 100% that I have anything stored here that I can recover elsewhere.  The key data was stored in multiple places as I never like to rely on 1 - however I would like to get to the bottom of this as I want some confidence in this for the future.
    Any advice welcome.
    Paul

    The problem is that Migration Assistant doesn't recognise ANY backup partitions on the Time Capsule.  I can see the Time Capsule drive and when I select them I have to provide a password but it fails to connect or fails to find a usable backup.  But as I mentioned if I manually connect I can see the sparsebundle.
    I'm quite happy to start again, but really want to recover some of the data on the drive.  If I can't recover now under these circumstance (ie voluntary rebuild) I will have no confidence that the TC will be there when needed under an involuntary rebuild.
    The machine has been rebuilt under exactly the same machine name and administrator names, although I guess these could both have unique identifiers.
    Paul

  • HOW TO SET UP time capsule with time machine?

    I have not been successful in setting up time capsule with the time machine,can someone give me steps to follow?

    What part are you having problems with?  You need to make sure File Sharing is enabled on the Time Capsule (which is done in AirPort Utility).  Then you just connect to the Time Capsule either wirelessly or via ethernet cable and when you go to Time Machine setup your computer should recognize your Time Capsule as a valid storage for Time Machine backups.

  • How can I see the old backups of my previous Macbook done by Time machine in a Time capsule with my new iMac?

    How can I see the old backups of my previous Macbook done by Time machine in a Time capsule with my new iMac? I've changed from a Macbook to a iMac because that one stopped working and I cannot use it anymore. I've been able to import all the data of the last backup of the Macbook when setting the new iMac, but I cannot access now to the old backups of the Macbook and there are information that wasn't in the last backup and I would like to recover. Thank you very much.

    Yes, you can ..
    Read Q17 here.
    http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
    Strongly recommend his whole section.. 14-17 and read it carefully to understand the ways you can make TM work for you.

  • How do I set up my time capsule with my PC and BT home hub

    Hi, I really need help.
    I have a new time machine I am having trouble setting up. I have a BT Home Hub that I have hard wired to the TC to the WAN port. I have Connected my PC to the Ethernet port. The PC will not find the TC.
    I also need to Wi-Fi attach other laptop PCs to it.
    PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP?
    Ade.

    You might have an IP collision ..
    unplug the wan connection to the home hub..
    Restart the Time Capsule with a single ethernet connection to a pc plugged into its LAN port.
    Make sure the pc is getting an ip address. Open airport utility and see if you can now access the TC.. !
    When you say PC do you mean windows machine?
    Windows can have some issues accessing the TC.. especially if you have the windows computer on win7 running homegroup.. which is a wretched piece of incestous connection between win7 exclusively.

  • Time Capsule with an established wireless set up

    I am trying to advise a colleague with the following set up:
    A Macbook pro connecting wirelessly via a Netgear DG834G modem/ router.
    She would like to add a Time Capsule to this combination with the following criteria:
    Keep the DG834G as the wireless provider, but add the Time Capsule with Time Machine to wirelessly back up the Macbook Pro and also utilise the spare USB connection for an Epson printer.
    Is this a logical set up and are there any particular pitfalls? Can she start with an Ethernet connection to do the initial Time Machine back up? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

    She would like to add a Time Capsule to this combination with the following criteria:
    Keep the DG834G as the wireless provider, but add the Time Capsule with Time Machine to wirelessly back up the Macbook Pro and also utilise the spare USB connection for an Epson printer.
    Like the AirPort Express Base Station (AX), the Time Capsule (TC) can be configured to join an existing wireless network as a wireless client. As a wireless client it will both continue to perform as the destination for Time Machine backups and act as a printer server for a single or multiple (using a USB hub) USB printers.

  • How do i set up the time capsule with only a wireless net work? it keeps asking me to plug in a cable and i do not have one.

    how do i set up the time capsule with only a wireless net work? it keeps asking me to plug in a cable and i do not have one.

    Are you using a v6 uitlity.. because it is a toy.. ??
    Get v5 utility and then you can hold down the option key and select the right mode.
    If you have lion, just install it.. For ML follow this.
    How to load 5.6 into ML.
    1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
    Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
    2. Download and install unpkg.
    http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
    Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
    You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.

  • How to set up time capsule with BT Infinity

    how to set up time capsule with BT Infinity

    The easiest and sure way is to use bridge on the TC as the method of connection. The TC then becomes a device in your network and gets its IP from the main router that I presume BT supply.
    Method is,
    1. Plug the TC WAN port into the BT supplied modem by ethernet.
    2. Plug the computer you are using for the setup into the TC by ethernet.
    3. Run the airport utility .. go to internet tab on the top menu..
    In the bottom option, Connection Sharing choose off (bridged mode)
    4. Go to the wireless page and setup wireless connection as you like it.. using whichever band you want. And make sure security is set to the highest setting, wpa2 personal. Put in a decent wireless passkey.
    5. Press the update and fix whatever else the TC will show as needing fixing.. usually security stuff.
    6. You can then disconnect the ethernet and connect by wireless if you want. Any port on the TC will now be a LAN port, including WAN.
    This is assuming BT supply a wireless router with built in vdsl/other type of modem. If so you normally will not be able to bridge the modem, unless BT are using pppoe authentication which they haven't in the past.
    If you really need to use the TC as a router then you will need to work out an alternative method. You can double NAT by placing the TC in the DMZ of the BT router if that is an option. It is not without issues in general.

  • How do i use a Time Machine from another computer from Time Capsule with multibackups

    Can Iuse a Time Machine from another computer from Time Capsule with multibackups

    Not sure what you are asking here. 
    Time Machine is software on a Mac that is used to backup that Mac to a Time Capsule hard drive.
    Are you asking if another  Mac can backup to the same Time Capsule that other Macs are already using?
    Or, if not....please clarify on exactly what you want to do.

  • Can i access my old macbook pro's 'Time machine' saved on time capsule with a new laptop

    How can i access my old macbook pro's 'Time machine' saved on time capsule with a new laptop.
    Also why can i only EITHER have the capsule attched to the internet OR have it as my backup external hard drive?? Things are not running smoothly can someone please help?
    Many thanks,
    Cirsflan

    Answered in your other thread.. keep to one. Just confusing running two threads with the same question.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4863146?tstart=0

  • I keep getting this error when trying to backup time capsule with time machine. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data-1/Dan's iMac.sparsebundle" is already in use.

    I keep getting this error when trying to backup time capsule with time machine. The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data-1/Dan’s iMac.sparsebundle” is already in use.

    Make sure that no other Macs are backing up at the time.
    Pull the power cable from the back of the Time Capsule
    Count to ten
    Plug the power cable back into the back of the Tme Capsule
    Wait a few minutes, then try a backup again.

  • Time Machine/Time Capsule with ext hard drive backup probem

    I installed Time Capsule with no problems. A 1 TB LaCie hard drive is attached by usb cable to the TC. The LaCie is seen by finder and I can open, edit and save files to it and so can the Macbook Pro on my network.
    Time Machine backed up my internal hard drive on my Mac just fine, but Time Machine refuses to see the external Lacie drive so it cannot back it up.
    Here is the situation:
    1. If I go to Time machine preferences and click Options there are no volumes or folders listed as Do Not Back Up. nothing is there.
    2. If I click Change Disk the name I gave my Time Capsule is listed as it should be but the LaCie drive is listed also as if it were possible for me to back up to that also. The LaCie's name is there with the name of the Time Capsule in parenthesis. Isn't that odd?
    3. When I select the LaCie icon on my desktop and select Get Info in the Sharing & Permissions section it says, "You have custom access" below it says
    Name Privilege
    (unknown) Read & Write
    everyone No Access
    I am new to Mac in general and this permission and sharing thing is still a bit mysterious to me so I don't know if these sharing & permission settings are usual or weird and could be contributing to why the back up of the LaCie drive is not happening.
    This is the final hurdle I have in absolutely convincing my small but vocal office that switching to Macs all around was a great idea.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    External hard drives connected to Time Capsule are not backed up by time machine. I solved this by connecting the hd directly to my mac and sharing it. That's not the solution I was hoping for but it will do for now.

  • HT3275 does anyone have step by step instructions for how to replace .sparsebundle to make time capsule with time machine work again.   i accidently deleted it  thank you

    does anyone have step by step instructions for how to replace .sparsebundle to make time capsule with time machine work again.   i accidently deleted it  thank you

    Error message Pop-up reads:
    Time Machine could not complete the backup
    The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data-1/myname.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error - 1)

  • Have 2009 time capsule  with 6 month old iMac  very slow cox said i needed to replace with a new time machine with newer wifi ??

    have 2009 time capsule with 6 month old iMac  very slow  ...cox said to replace with new router or extreme with new wifi ???? confused

    Replace the Time Capsule with a new one or replace your router with an Airport Extreme Base Station that has faster Wi-Fi. Or you could just connect your old Time Capsule using an Ethernet connection from the Time Capsule to the computer's Ethernet port.

  • Setting up time capsule with existing wireless router and another time capsule

    Hello,
    I just bought my first mac (MBP) and a time capsule. We already have a wireless router, and my brother has an imac and his time capsule connected to it. The apple support people said that i couldn't use my new time capsule as a backup for my files because it would have to be in bridge mode and that would cause all sorts of problems and the backup would probably fail. That I would have to use my brother's time capsule to back up my files.
    Is this true?? I find it hard to believe this issue hasn;t come up before.
    Thanks,
    Deborah

    Thanks, Bob! If I may impose on you a little bit more, would you be able to guide me a little bit in terms of the setup?
    Would I need to connect my time capsule directly to the router for first time set up?
    If so, would I have to keep it connected to the router all the time after the first time set up, or can I keep it in another room?
    Our wireless network was created back when we were a Windows household, so we still control it using Network Magic on an old laptop.
    I unlocked the network (using Network Magic) when I tried to set up the Time Capsule (wirelessly, and before calling Apple), and after entering the network password my macbook recognized the TC and I got the good little green light on the TC. As soon as I locked up the network, I got the flashing amber light on the TC and airport utility couldn't find it anymore (using Airport utility version 6.1)... I unlocked the network again, the light turned green. I locked it back up, the light started flashing amber again...
    Thanks, I really appreciate your help!
    Deborah

Maybe you are looking for

  • To change the Email retrieval logic for MSS in Portal

    Hi All, In standard MSS Business Package for employee selection Iview, under column email, manager get an option to send mail to employee by clicking on highlighted send option. At present the option "SEND" get highlighted if the email value is maint

  • How to Unload Classes?

    i have created custom classloader. now i want to unload classes those are loaded by custom classloader. i know that the classes will be unloaded when its classloader is unloaded. so i want to know how to unload cusotm classloader. In ClassLoader clas

  • How do I configure JNDI using Tomcat5.5 and Microsoft SQLServer

    Dear All, I wish to know about the advantages of using JNDI concepts over the normal Database connectivity using DriverManager class. Can anyone explain me about the advantages of using JNDI over other technology and how it would be helpful in the We

  • Watching correlation status in the ABAP stack

    Hi experts, I remember that there was a program or transaction in the ABAP stack of PI  where you can watch the BPM correlation parameters. Does anybody remember wich one? I am unable to find it. Regards Gonzalo

  • Why do I have a black square in the middle of my page

    I convert a pdf to word and it has a black square in the middle of the page.