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I have encountered a disk error on my Airport Time Capsule telling me this:
After taking it to the Genius Bar the said that it isn't repairable but you can archive this to a USB Hard Drive, So I purchased a WD My Cloud 2tb NAS Drive that has a USB 3 connection to which I was told could archive on to. Unfortunately this isn't working have I done something wrong?
Airport Time Capsule 802.11ac
If the Time Capsule disk needs repairs, then I'm not sure whether it can be used to Archive its contents.
I assume that the NAS has been formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), correct? Otherwise, the drive cannot be used for the archive operation. Things would be simpler if you had a simple USB drive, not a NAS.
What steps did you take to try to archive the contents of the Time Capsule disk to the USB disk?
The advice is wrong.. you cannot archive a disk that needs repair.. it must be removed from the TC and special recovery tools used to extract the contents.
You also bought the wrong product.
You need a plain USB disk.. what you purchased is a NAS.. and the USB port is for backup of the NAS.. To my knowledge it cannot be used for a direct connection to the hard disk.
And in this case.. both wrongs don't make it right.
But you can start doing backups to the MyCloud.. as a network device it is able to do time machine.
Do you have files that are important to recover?? If not then you can try a full one pass erase of the disk in the TC.. all files will be lost in the this low level format.
Is the TC still in warranty or less than 3 years old so under applecare .. if so Apple should just replace it.
Thank you, you've answered my question which I was hoping I didn't have to hear.
how to archive a airport time capsule to a nas drive
