Apple Time Capsule 2TB

Apple Time Capsule 2TB


Question about Apple Time Capsule 2TB

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mgammenthaler

7 years ago

Wanted for HomeOffice, 2pers: simple backup solution (MBP + MBAir), additional network drive, improve WiFi (replacement D-Link DIR655). TC the right choice or are there better solutions? Am grateful for all inputs and setup suggestions.

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titschme

7 years ago

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What do you mean by additional NAS and what is HomeOffice? The TC is absolutely not a NAS and not a real backup solution for an office as it does not have a second hard drive to do RAID or anything like that. It makes a copy of your MB, which you can then copy back to a new MB. If the TC hard drive breaks, so does the copy. I had a TC and partitioned it, so I had 1TB for MB copy and one as NAS. But that was quite a manual game, and the integration as a drive in the Sierra OS was interrupted again and again. So I would not recommend that. You can also use TC and additionally backup important files to a cloud (Swisscom offers this for free for swisscom subscribers). That would be a scenario where you mirror the data twice. This is not a real backup either, because it only copies the contents of the hard disk. By backup I also mean that the data is somehow mirrored, so that if you delete a file on the Mac, it should still be there in an old backup. But that would only work with professional cloud backup providers. Or even real NAS. Conclusion: TC for home use for simple MB mirroring and copying yes, professional, at least only TC rather not:

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mgammenthaler

7 years ago

Hey Titschme, thanks for your answer. It's really intended for private use, simple mirroring of the laptop is enough for me, I don't need mirroring of the backup disk....
I imagined it like this: the tc is used as a backup disk for timemashine, an external one is connected to the USB port as a network drive... or a partition like you described, but that's probably not the best of all worlds...
you had a tc... what's your solution now? better invest money in a synology ds?
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