Q: Is an external drive attached to a Time Capsule supported for Time Machine?
I want to have two time machine backups - one on the internal drive of a Time Capsule, and one on an external USB drive attached to the Time Capsule. Is backing up to an external drive officially supported?
I know backing up to an external drive attached to an Airport Extreme is not supported, and know from experience this ends up corrupting your data quite often. The documentation isn't clear about whether Time Capsule's external drive is supported as a Time Machine backup disk.
Thanks in advance.
Posted on Jan 23, 2014 3:41 PM
It has always been supported on a TC.. and is now also supported on the latest Airport Extreme.
The drive must be Mac formatted.. this is essential part of how TM works.
I know backing up to an external drive attached to an Airport Extreme is not supported,
It is now..
See the details here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Airport.html
What was different about a TC and an extreme on the earlier versions was never made clear.
Posted on Jan 23, 2014 3:46 PM