[jimbo67]

Thanks Wizardling!

Your suggestion is exactly what I was looking for!!! I installed it and will see what happens next Sunday Morning at 3AM. Now all I have to do is remember to turn on the Backup HD before I go to bed Saturday night!!! ;) I guess a reminder wouldn't hurt! :^0 Jim

[jefferis]

I'm very disappointed. I'm on a G5 with the Time Capsule plugged in via Ethernet to my Mac. While it works great as a wireless hub, it fails as a backup system. The major reason is that if I am working in Adobe CS3, it causes Fireworks and DW to crash and creates end of file errors for the clipboard, and I have to run permission repairs and/or fsck my disk to fix volume bitmap errors. The problem is that it kicks in at unexpected times and puts everything I'm working on into the spinning beach ball of death delays. I cannot afford those kind of system locking crashes. Even force quit doesn't work well when this happens. I quit Time Machine and then eventually regain enough control to force quit FW or DW. It is okay, I suspect if I back up when not in use, but there is no control for setting back up for middle of the night or sometime when it is not in use. If you backup manually, it stays active and starts its auto backup sequence at inconvenient times.
All in all, I'm disappointed and I'd say this program needs major work before it is ready for prime time.
Now I really can't tell how successful was my original backup (it took over 20 hours via Ethernet for 250gigs! I could have cloned it in about an hour!) I had to quit the original backup because it was taking so long and I couldn't work with my development programs. So I don't know if I got a partial backup or a complete one. Subsequent backups were done by restarting the program. So I hope all the files are there.

[moloko]

jefferis, I'd be more inclined to lay the blame for the problems you're experiencing squarely at the feet of Adobe.

As an ActionScript developer, I use Flash CS3 all the time and it crashes on me about 15 times a day. And this is on XP - given Adobe/Macromedia's previous track record on making Mac versions of their software I'd expect the Mac version to be even worse... I've been using Time Machine with a Time Capsule since it came out and have not experienced the problems you have - but then I don't even try using CS3 on OS X, I have a Virtual XP Machine set up for when I need to do Flash work at home (which also means I can use FlashDevelop which is so much better an AS editor than anything on OS X)

That said, it would be better if Time Machine allowed finer control over when backups were run, although it seems from previous posts that people have already put together tools to allow it to do so. I wouldn't be suprised if Apple were to add such a feature in for some future version - they do seem to have been paying some attention to what users have been saying about Time Machine.

[jefferis]

Thanks. I saw the link to the time machine editor and am testing it out. FWIW, I rarely had the freezes and crashes in CS3 before TM and I can't remember FW ever giving me the spinning beach ball of death like that.

[gjucker]

I've spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get a 1TB TC to work with our ISP and I'm wondering if there's some fundamental issue that precludes its use. My ISP uses a Motorola "wireless canopy" (antenna system) to connect to our house. Within the house we have a 3Com wireless router; the latter is what I wish to replace with the TC.

I contacted the ISP and they gave me the needed static IP (72.xxx.xxx.xxx), subnet mask, router, DNS etc. These I faithfully entered using the Airport Utility to upload to the TC. In addition I set up the TC's DCHP stuff to serve (192.xxx.xxx.xxx) IP's within the house (same as the 3Com as far as I can tell). After reboot I got the TC green light, but the Network Diagnostics utility running on my MBP only gives green on Ethernet/Network/ISP and red (failed) on Internet / Server.

I recontacted the ISP but they were not helpful and said to call Apple. I've unplugged both the TC and the antenna, then plugged back in reversed order (with suitable 60s waits in between). Same results.

Any clues, hints or leads? Next stop is local Apple Store "Genius", getting the ISP to send someone out ($), or sending the TC back and punting...

Thanks in advance.

[Glenn_Fleishman]

gjucker said:

I've spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get a 1TB TC to work with our ISP and I'm wondering if there's some fundamental issue that precludes its use. My ISP uses a Motorola "wireless canopy" (antenna system) to connect to our house. Within the house we have a 3Com wireless router; the latter is what I wish to replace with the TC.

I contacted the ISP and they gave me the needed static IP (72.xxx.xxx.xxx), subnet mask, router, DNS etc. These I faithfully entered using the Airport Utility to upload to the TC. In addition I set up the TC's DCHP stuff to serve (192.xxx.xxx.xxx) IP's within the house (same as the 3Com as far as I can tell). After reboot I got the TC green light, but the Network Diagnostics utility running on my MBP only gives green on Ethernet/Network/ISP and red (failed) on Internet / Server.

I recontacted the ISP but they were not helpful and said to call Apple. I've unplugged both the TC and the antenna, then plugged back in reversed order (with suitable 60s waits in between). Same results.

This must be very frustrating. Some suggestions.

1. take your MBP, set it up with the "router" settings you were provided (static address and such), and plug it directly into your customer premises equipment from Motorola. Can you access the Internet? If not, then you were given incorrect info from your ISP.

2. If the MBP works, try going through the Time Capsule settings again, and seeing if you may have set something awry with DHCP or NAT. Is connection sharing turned on and you see a NAT tab in the Internet pane in AirPort Utility?

Feel free to drop me a line via this discussion board if you have other info you want to provide that I might be able to help with.

[gjucker]

Glenn thank you! 1) was an excellent suggestion and produced some interesting results, namely that once I loaded the provided static IP parameters, the System Prefs Network panel's Status would on occasion go to Connected but in about 1s drop to Cable Unplugged even though it was plugged in. I tried a different cable with f/f cat 5 coupler just to see if the connector engagement to the antenna's Ethernet connection wasn't making it, but that didn't seem to change anything (not ruled out altogether though).

Now I know the static IP is right cause it matches the old router's external IP, and hence the router setting xxx.xxx.xxx.1 address should also be correct. Sooo... either 255.255.255.224 is not the right subnet mask, some advanced setting isn't right, or the 3Com to Motorola antenna interface is some non standard variant. Don't have a clue as to how I'd determine the subnet mask from the old wireless router. Do you know?

I've sent a detailed message to my ISP with all the possible advanced options. We'll see if they can be any more help.

Again thanks,
Greg

[BlueDevil911]

I own a macbook and it is my one and only computer source. I tend to download a lot of media files. Most of the files take up several GB or in some cases upwards of 30 GB. I wanted to know if time capsule functions as not only a companion to time machine to back up my laptop but also as a HD that I can save those large media files to so that I can get them off of my laptops HD. If there is not, or if anyone knows of a better device to do so, please let me know. Thank you!

[moloko]

Hi BlueDevil911

Yes, you can certainly do this - though you should be aware that TimeMachine won't back up any files that are stored on the TimeCapsule.

I keep all my music on there so that both myself and my girlfriend can store all our music in the same place. I then occasionally manually back up all my purchased music as well so that there's two copies of it on two separate locations.

[NitaiS]

I just got TC and was trying to install the update linked from the review above but it said I could not install it to "Macintosh HD because it requires v. 10.5.2 or higher. But I am running 10.5.5? any suggestions?