Even Apple say that Time Capsules are too slow to use to open content from, but if you have more than one Mac, you can set them all up to use the same Time Capsule and it will organise itself as neded so that each machine has a unique set of backups.
On 13 Sep 2014, at 13:30, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I know nothing about Time Capsule management, but could you not partition the > drive? If you have 3TB of space, maybe divide it up, giving 1TB to general > media storage so all the computers in the house can access that content, then > 2TB to Time Machine backups? > On Sep 13, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Time Capsule is an excellent choice. In addition to being a network backup >> target, it's also an 802.11AC Wi-Fi base station and router. So it can make >> your network go faster and more reliably, too. :) >> >> Back To My Mac is actually supported by Time Capsule, too, which means that >> if you shared an Apple ID you could reach someone's Time Capsule across the >> net. However this probably isn't the best solution for backups, because >> Time Machine always occupies as much space as it can get irrespective of the >> underlying disk used. Without some complicated command line foo, it's >> difficult to restrain Time Machine for the selected disk. Therefore, use >> disks only for backups, or only for some other purpose, but not both. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
