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Q: air time capsule is not accepting external hard drive content in back up

Own a mac air and have an external seagate hard drive. Bought airport time capsule and want to include or transfer the seagate content to the airport time capsule. I used the seagate drive as external hard drive but want the content to be available in the airtime capsule. When trying to generate back up (while seagate is connected) it only inclydes the content on the mac air flash memory. In the air capsule menu I do see the seagate but I don't believe it is excluded from the backup? Again I want it included in the back up.

Thanks!

airport time capsule with mac air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 11:18 AM

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Q: air time capsule is not accepting external hard drive content in back up

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  • by LaPastenague,

    LaPastenague LaPastenague Nov 11, 2013 12:38 PM in response to Realrose
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    Nov 11, 2013 12:38 PM in response to Realrose

    The list is backwards.. anything on the list is excluded.. it has to be off the list to be included.. by default external drives are excluded.. you must remove it from the excluded list to include it.

     

    Please note.. sharing content of an external drive via a Time Machine backup is not going to work.

     

    Time Machine is designed to create an exclusive virtual disk on the TC for that particular computer.. although other computers can access it .. it is specifically designed to be difficult.. nor are files in formats that can be used directly.. the file has to be restored to the computer.

     

    Time Capsule is not designed as a NAS and usage of it that way is often going to lead to problems.

     

    Read the info in Pondini how best to avoid the worst aspects of that.

     

    Q3 here http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

     

    Remember if you share files from the TC they have no backups and Time Machine cannot backup network drives.