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Time Capsule for OS X Time Machine

30 Responses (Add) | Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 8:26am

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This caller is wondering how I feel about Time Capsule. I already have one on order! Time Capsule is a revolutionary backup device that works wirelessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It automatically backs up everything, so you no longer have to worry about losing your digital life.

Backing up is something we all know we should do, but often don’t. And while disaster is a great motivator, now it doesn’t have to be. Because with Time Capsule, the nagging need to back up has been replaced by automatic, constant protection. And even better, it all happens wirelessly, saving everything important, including your sanity.

Time Capsule includes a wireless 500GB or 1TB hard drive1 designed to work with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. Just set Time Capsule as the designated backup drive for Time Machine, and that’s it. Depending on how much data you have, your initial backup with Time Capsule could take overnight or longer. After it completes, only changed files are backed up — automatically, wirelessly, and in the background. So you never have to worry about backing up again.

Time Capsule is your one place for backing up everything. Its massive 500GB or 1TB server-grade hard drive gives you all the capacity and safety you need. So whether you have 250 songs or 250,000 songs to back up, room is the last thing you’ll run out of. And considering all that storage and protection come packaged in a high-speed Wi-Fi base station starting at $299, data isn’t the only thing you’re saving.

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toshibatobe

February 8th, 2008
at 11:49pm

I got the terabite time capsule

leodime

February 9th, 2008
at 12:07am

The Mac Side has you Chris!

ssolkemserB

February 9th, 2008
at 12:20am

Chris would make a fortune if he’d get paid for every mac they sold that he recomended…

Dickheadgotfleas

February 9th, 2008
at 12:21am

theres only four bars chris

vahnx1337

February 9th, 2008
at 12:33am

So you have time capsule plugged into your internet. You enable time machine on your mac(s). Does it then in the background wirelessly transfer your HDD in a blob without you noticing? Can you check in on the percentage done on each machine? Can you say plug in a windows pc and drag/drop files for backup manually without hurting the ‘mac blob’?

cherrion11265

February 9th, 2008
at 1:29am

Time Capsule is an Apple rip of. They copied Windows Home server. Home server has a lot more functions.

creativeatheart

February 9th, 2008
at 1:33am

dont forget the dot underneath the bars in the menu bar

davidkbrown

February 9th, 2008
at 1:48am

Yeah! Mr. Oizo in the beginning :)

Dickheadgotfleas

February 9th, 2008
at 1:57am

um………where? cus i dont see it…..i even zoomed in all the way

Joeusesamac

February 9th, 2008
at 2:37am

Very cool device, I also have an airport extreme which is better than the prior wireless device I had. I guess I could ebay the airport extreme I have.

christm3

February 9th, 2008
at 3:57am

when does ur mac pro arrive ?

cphellp

February 9th, 2008
at 5:34am

Time Machine needs a lot of work …

eliotschreiner

February 9th, 2008
at 6:41am

Like Microsoft has never copied any of Apple’s ideas…

nelson1tom

February 9th, 2008
at 9:37am

give the airport to a school

jetsandmets93

February 9th, 2008
at 12:40pm

hey i ahve a question – when its formatted, what is the difference between journeled and not journeled

KrnSidez

February 9th, 2008
at 11:58am

Chris give your AirPort Extreme to a school. That would be a great gift to your local school. AirPort Extreme is a great product with great re-sellablity. i ordered the 500GB Time Capsule. it will sync great with my new to be soon MacBook.

~~~~Google

MichaelForian

February 10th, 2008
at 3:29am

Good job Chris! I think I might order one of the 1TB Time Capsule’s in a few weeks!

btw, if I could I would give you credit for my Time Capsule!

biggdizzae

February 10th, 2008
at 9:47am

PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS OVER TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKs

Lao Bu

February 10th, 2008
at 1:31pm

The problem with Time Capsule (and a big problem at that) is, according to the latest issue of Macword magazine, that Time Capsule won’t back up FileVault encrypted directories. That is, unless the user logs out and runs Time Machine from another account, and even then the FileVault directory is backed up as a single, huge, encrypted file. Good for security perhaps, but useless in real life. No one is going to use it that way. The big advantage of the 802.11n Time Capsule is it can back up over Wi-Fi — perfect for notebooks. However, anyone with a notebook Mac absolutely should be using FileVault encrption in case the computer is lost or stolen. Hence, Time Capsule is useless for notebook Macs. Maybe the next revision will fix this deal-breaker. It’s a pity Apple didn’t think this through better, but maybe they were in a rush to release it, like iTunes 7 and Leopard, both of which were released in semi-finished state.

psp12345678998765432

February 12th, 2008
at 8:51am

hey he got a mac pro with 16gb of ram

tooomp

February 12th, 2008
at 8:59pm

Don’t you like bury time capsule in your yard or something?

gibson1948

February 13th, 2008
at 8:23am

can anybody tell me the name of the song this video starts with?i really like this song,thank you.

David R

February 14th, 2008
at 10:42pm

The above comment says that Time Capsule won’t backing up FileVault directories, or actually will, but will only back them up as one big file on logout. Although everyone on the internet seems to think that’s how FileVault works, with Time Machine, that’s actually wrong. It works that way in *Tiger*, or in a FIleVault volume you migrated from Tiger to Leopard. If you created the FileVault volume in *Leopard*, it works completely differently. Leopard uses sparse banded encryption for its FileVault volumes. When you plug in the backup device to a Leopard machine, it automatically backs up the machine, changes only, FileVault encryption included, without having to log the current user out. And it’s pretty fast too (this is the setup I run). You can’t use the Time Machine pretty GUI interface, but you can click into the backup device and see your files (separated by date) and grab them from there.

I’m really interested in whether Time Capsule works with Leopard and FileVault. Unfortunately, per the above, as with the above, there seem to be about 10 people on the planet who actually understand this, and apparently none of them write for Macword :(

latino77

March 22nd, 2008
at 2:35pm

im planing to buy 1T time Capsule do u think its worht the money? is it a good router? is it fast?

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