Using time capsule to back up PC

I have an older timecapsule 1g wifi N and and am thinking of using it to extend my network (Use my newer gen 2gb) time capule hooked up to my modem and to back up my macs. I would also like the older time capsule to beck up my WIndows 7 pc through wifi. Is this possible and hat steps/software would I need.
Thanks

You still want the old TC tied into the network.. so it should be in bridge and plugged into the network somewhere.. if you don't do this then you need to figure out how you will have dual networks.
How is the win7 computer connecting to the network now?
What version of win7? You can use MS backup if it is pro or ultimate.. otherwise you have to buy a backup software.. there are 1 zillion available.. 99% can backup to network drives.. only MS would be so stupid as to differentiate products by making home version unable to use network.
Genie Time Line Pro is a Time Machine like backup for PC.
Macrium Reflect is a good cheapie.. free to do full disk backups.
Check out the zillion others. I cannot live so long.

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can i use time capsule for back up my movies and watching them with my bravia tv.
i mean can i use this for external hard disk drive to back up my movies and watching them with tv that has a lan port or wi-fi technology.

Only if the TV is a media player.. the TC is dumb as a board router with a hard disk.. there is no DLNA which I suspect the TV requires.. you can get a player like the WDLive and it will play movie files from the TC to the TV.. remember the TC is nothing but a file store.. no servers .. no nothing.

Using Time Capsule to back up external hard drive

I just purchased a Time Capsule with hopes to backup an external hard drive. I thought I could have it plugged into the Time Capsule USB port and run TIme Machine from my computer. Then, I was told that I couldn't do that but would have to plug Hard drive to my laptop and backup to Time Capsule that way. Now I was told that backing up should work (but not supported) but if I ever have to restore, could be problematic.
What is the scoop on this? Can I back up this way successfully? I am looking for recommendations for backing up this external hard drive which we use a shared drive.

busybees2 wrote:
What is the scoop on this?
you cannot use time machine to back up an airdisk (a drive connected to a times capsule or airport extreme. what will work is to back up to a drive connected to a TC
I am looking for recommendations for backing up this external hard drive which we use a shared drive.
have a look @ ChronoSync.

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.

How do i use time capsule to back up two mac books

i would like to back up an addtional mac bood
I had used it to back my home macbook and then my college student came home and backed up her mac book pro and now the time capsule has her name on it and i can not use it to back up my macbook.
Do I have to divide it somehow??

No, the TC can be shared between 2 MacBooks out of the box. It looks like the 2nd user has reconfigured it, so you'll have to configure it (using AirPort Utility) back to be your chosen name.

Using time capsule to back up a partitioned external drive

hi - I am using a 3TB external hard drive to back up my mac with time machine. I have partitioned the external hard drive so that 2TB backs up my mac and the remaining 1TB (well slightly under 1TB) is used to store media files. So far so good, everything works flawlessly. My only problem is that I would like to back up my media files. I had hoped I could use an old 1TB time capsule (works fine) via ethernet cable to back up the media section of my partitioned external hard drive. That does not appear to be possible, certainly via time machine it isn't - any solutions?
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That does not appear to be possible, certainly via time machine it isn't - any solutions?
Is it just excluded in the TM preferences.. the drive used for backups obviously won't be included but a partition should be possible.
If not, then just copy the files.. one disk to the other.. or use a program like superduper or CCC.. etc.

Best practice to use Time capsule for back-up of 3 different products (MBP 15 OSX lion, MBP 13 OSX lion and MBA 13 OSX mountain lion)?. Only the MBP15 is back-up regularly.

When I want to save data of the MBA13 on mountain lion (wireless) with time capsule, hois there any best practice to perform?
After that, assuming that data are back-up, can we easily differentiate data in time capsule belonging to MBP15/13 and MBA13?

Unfortunately, Apple left off the Ethernet port....the most important port in networking....on the MBA, so your first backup of the entire Mac will need to be done using wireless.
That may take a day or two unless your MBA has a Thunderbolt port on it in which case you could add a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter and connect the MBA to the Time Capsule for the first backup using an Ethernet cable. It will probably only take 3-4 hours or less doing it this way.
Once you have the first complete backup done, other subsequent backups can be done using wireless since they will ony take a few minutes, on average.
Both Macs will backup to the Time Capsule using Time Machine automatically. Backups will be kept completely separate, so one Mac will normally only be able to "see" its own backups.

HT201250 Using Time Capsule for Backing Up a RAID Array

I am setting up an 8TB RAID 0 array at home. I am going to use 4 - 2TB FW drives. I already have an SSD in my 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac but am speed hungry and since I have the drives, I figure I would play a bit. I know it is vital to have solid back-up for this, but I am unsure of the best back-up solution. I am wondering if I can attach 3 - 3TB drives to my 1TB Time Capsule and use the combined 10TB in Time Machine to back it up? To date I have backed up each drive separately, but am realizing the folly of that and want to explore RAID 0 at the same time as explore a new back-up solution. Everything I read tells me I need a drive for backing up the RAID array that is at least as large as the combined total of the array. That doesn't make sense if the array is so large... I can't find anywhere if Time Machine supports spanning mulitple back-up drives.

According to the document linked below, you can, but it may not have the performance to back up that much data. Over Wi-Fi, forget it.
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Using Time Capsule to back up Mac OS and Windows XP

I am running Mac OS and Windows XP on my MacBook Pro using Bootcamp. What operating system should I use to install my Time Capsule so I can perform backups from both operating systems?

Hmmm... Time Capsule is a wireless router/HDD combo device. You must be talking about Time Machine. Time Machine is Mac OS X 10.5.x only. It will not backup your BootCamp partition. You may need a third party app (e.g. Winclone) to back up your XP partition. Your TC HDD should be accessible from your XP OS, so you have the hardware to back up to.

Using Time Capsule as back up only vs Time Capsule as Router

Greetings!
I currently have a Time Capsule, Airport Extreme & Airport Express. I currently use my TC as my main router. Because of the reduced speeds that I get when "incremental back ups" occur I was considering going back to using my Airport Extreme as my main router.
My question is.... is anyone else doing this? I want to know if this would resolve the reduced speed/network issues since the TC would no longer be the "source" for the network.
I still want to use the TC as my back up source, but would like to get back my network and internet speeds back to what it was before I used the TC as my main router.
Thanks for any feedback and suggestions!

Smokerz
Thanks for the info.....
My biggest problem is that I really need to run everything wirelessly. My office is outside of my home (which has two very thick brick walls between the office and the house. My signal in the house is rather poor unless I have a device inside which means I can't use ethernet since it is some distance away.
I guess I am going to have to find another alternative.
Anyone else using TC as the "middle" WDS?
Thanks for your help.

Possible to use Time Capsule as back up for one computer and not another?

Here is what I want to do. I want to use this as a router wireless router for wi-fi. I have a mac so I want my data to be backed up automatically. now my brother also has a laptop and want him to use the wifi, but i dont want him to access any of my backed up files. is this possible? what are the steps? he has a pc thanks.

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the warm welcome.
Yes, I did some research on the echolife and I don't think it has WDS functionality available. I do have another 3Com router that I'm thinking of firing up again. I know it has WDS functionality. The question is, would the Time Capsule be compatible with it in order to extend the network? I am not keen to shell out for another Apple base station if at all possible.
Regards,
/Brian

Can we use time capsule to back-up IPAD air ?

I Just bought a time capsule 3 TB with the intention of doing backup of my 2 IPAD air and also to back up an existing Asus Laptop whcih runs on windows 7 ? How do we run either time machine or else to accomplish this.

You cannot directly backup an iPad to TimeCapsule. You can backup the iPads to iTunes on your Computer, and then use backup software to backup your computer to the Time Capsule whihc would include your iTunes library and as such the iPad backups .
There is no TimeMachine for Windows. But any number of Windows backup packages can backup to TimeCapsule / Network Drives

Can i use time capsule to back up to different macs?

time capsule,
can i use it to back up 2 macs -
i just bought an i mac and will be using both my imac and macbook pro and want to back them both up - is this possible?
and when restoring from time capsule - ie from my macbook pro to my new imac can i only bring certain things or must i import the whole set up?
thanks

You can backup both.. no issues there.
TC and TM keep each backup separate. There is nothing you need to do.
Restoring one computer to a different one is messy. You cannot do a full restore.. the drivers etc are different.
You need each computer to have a working OS, and you can then pickup certain items from the backup.
Pondini gives the best info for this.. Look at his FAQ
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
14-17 on restore

Can you use Time Capsule as back-up without using Time Machine (ie 10.4.x)?

I have not upgraded to Leopard but own a Time Capsule (long story). Is it possible to back-up my data on the TC without using Time Machine (since that works with Leopard but not with 10.4).
Thanks for help, thoughts, free cookies, etc

I just called Apple technical support with the same question... Here's what worked for me: go to the Utilities folder and open the application called 'Airport Disk Utility'. When it opens, make sure both 'Automatically discover AirPort Disks' and 'Show Airport Disks in the menu bar' are selected. An icon will appear in the status bar. Click on the icon, then select your time capsule from the 'Airport Disks' list. The Time Capsule icon should show up on your desktop as a network-type icon. After that, you can 'drag & drop' your files onto drive the Time Capsule -- same as with any generic hard drive...

Using time capsule to back up two drives?

Hello.
I haver done a search on this but am unable to find a clear answer.
I work on a macbook pro with a hard drive attached, keeping my large files off my system drive.
I currently back up both the system drive and external work drive with superduper, which works, but I want something automatic.
My question is, can I partition a time capsule and have time machine back up to two drives wirelessly? Meaning everything is safe without me having to do anything...
Thanks in advance.

Apologies!
The answer came up in the 'more like this' section on the right. Glad it's possible...

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