Time Capsule

In article <0001HW.C3DF5EB1009D7BC7B01AD9AF RemoveThis @news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft RemoveThis @mac.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:06:01 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote
> (in article <visjr3995gf4pvflasoqm8t2urqtu7p2i0 RemoveThis @4ax.com>):
>
> > I see Time Capsule listed for sale in the on-line Apple Store. I've
> > looked around for some reviews as I want to decide whether it's my
> > best local backup solution or not. (I've been holding off getting
> > local external hard drives).
> >
> > But I haven't seen any working reviews yet.
> >
> > What have you seen?
>
> Time Capsule is an excellent buy considering that you are getting both an
> Airport Extreme and a "server quality" hard drive in a single package.
>
> The big plus is that you can partition the Time Capsule drive so that it can
> be the recipient of backups from multiple computers accessing that drive
> wirelessly.

Why would you have to partition the drive? The backup structure of Time
Machine allows for more than one machine, does it not?

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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:35:58 -0600, Tom Stiller wrote
(in article <tomstiller-39E6EE.17355818022008.TakeThisOut@newsgroups.comcast.net>):

[responding to my preceding posting to his response in which I spoke
positively about the Time Capsule's ability to serve as a wirelessly
accessible recipient of backups]

> Why would you have to partition the drive? The backup structure of Time
> Machine allows for more than one machine, does it not?

Actually I didn't mention partitioning the drive at all, and it is true that
any drive can be the recipient of Time Machine backups from more than one
computer.

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In article <visjr3995gf4pvflasoqm8t2urqtu7p2i0.TakeThisOut@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard.TakeThisOut@brazee.net> wrote:

> I see Time Capsule listed for sale in the on-line Apple Store. I've
> looked around for some reviews as I want to decide whether it's my
> best local backup solution or not. (I've been holding off getting
> local external hard drives).
>
> But I haven't seen any working reviews yet.
>
> What have you seen?

I think the biggest reason you haven't seen any reviews yet is that as
far as I know no-one has actually received one yet.

G
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TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft.TakeThisOut@mac.com> wrote:

> > Why would you have to partition the drive? The backup structure of Time
> > Machine allows for more than one machine, does it not?
>
> Actually I didn't mention partitioning the drive at all...

Oh, but you did:

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"The big plus is that you can partition the Time Capsule drive so that
it can be the recipient of backups from multiple computers accessing
that drive wirelessly."


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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:59:37 -0600, Mike Rosenberg wrote
(in article <1icisp0.3szqqx1y2e04aN%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com>):

> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft.DeleteThis@mac.com> wrote:
>
>>> Why would you have to partition the drive? The backup structure of Time
>>> Machine allows for more than one machine, does it not?
>>
>> Actually I didn't mention partitioning the drive at all...
>
> Oh, but you did:
>
> Message-ID: <0001HW.C3DF5EB1009D7BC7B01AD9AF.DeleteThis@news.supernews.com>
>
> "The big plus is that you can partition the Time Capsule drive so that
> it can be the recipient of backups from multiple computers accessing
> that drive wirelessly."

Ouch! Nothing like getting caught! :-(

What's even worse is that I went back to look at my original posting in the
thread and didn't catch the word "partition".

So now it is time for extreme humility.

Perhaps I was thinking that, outside of Time Machine, one can partition the
drive for differing uses.

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On 2008-02-18 23:11:29 +0100, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft.DeleteThis@mac.com> said:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:06:01 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote
> (in article <visjr3995gf4pvflasoqm8t2urqtu7p2i0.DeleteThis@4ax.com>):
>
>> I see Time Capsule listed for sale in the on-line Apple Store. I've
>> looked around for some reviews as I want to decide whether it's my
>> best local backup solution or not. (I've been holding off getting
>> local external hard drives).
>>
>> But I haven't seen any working reviews yet.
>>
>> What have you seen?
>
> Time Capsule is an excellent buy considering that you are getting both an
> Airport Extreme and a "server quality" hard drive in a single package.

BTW, what does it mean that "server grade" sentence? Anybody tried to
look inside the Time Capsule what kind of drive they have installed and
if it possible to swap it for bigger drive in the future??


>
> The big plus is that you can partition the Time Capsule drive so that it can
> be the recipient of backups from multiple computers accessing that drive
> wirelessly.


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