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| saspro wrote: I know this is fairly Apple hardware specific but I'm posting it here. | |
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| Author: | saspro [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Apple recalls Time Capsules |
I know this is fairly Apple hardware specific but I'm posting it here. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3351 |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:11 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules | |||||||||
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules |
My mates Time Capsule falls within the allotted serial numbers, but he hasn't had any trouble with at all. Mark |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:47 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules | ||||||||||||||||||
The PSU transformer units inside them have a something like 1 in 3 failure rate inside warranty, so they've obviously decided to recall them all rather than deal with irate users who have had them go pop at an inopportune moment. Jon |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules |
*counting the moments until koli arrives and gets all aerated.* |
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| Author: | EddArmitage [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:44 pm ] | |||||||||
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I doubt he'll bother. |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules |
Just wondering how many of us use Time Capsules. *raises paw* I use one to make sure my laptop is backed up every hour. The thing with portable computers is that people often forget to back them up regularly. 
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules |
I do have one but I actually stopped using it as a backup device a while ago as backing up over the network was comparatively slow. These days I use it as a convenient NAS device and do my Time Machine backups to a second drive on the machine instead. As far as I'm concerned Time Machine is more for 'oh crap I need that file and I just changed it/emptied the waste bin' than for disaster recovery. I do an image backup to a USB drive for that. Jon |
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| Author: | Nick [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:31 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules | |||||||||
I bought mine reconditioned (with a shiny PSU), and I've ripped the hard-drive out anyway so I wouldn't be able to send it back to Apple in any case.
Yeah definitely - I couldn't imagine waiting for it to transfer the almost 150GB I have backed up over wi-fi!  Not quite sure what you mean about the image backup to USB though - do you mean you have a USB drive plugged into your Time Machine and use the backup archive feature?? That's something I intend to setup sooner or later when I've got a caddy available. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules |
Time Capsule isn't really needed in my situation. My MacBook gets sync'd to my Mac Pro thrice an hour and the Mac Pro has an internal Time Machine backup. When I can be bothered (bad, I know) I do a Carbon Copy Cloner image thingy to my server. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:36 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules | |||||||||
No, I use SuperDuper to clone my main disk to a USB hard drive as a scheduled job every week or so. You can't actually boot from it but I could certainly rebuild my PC and clone it back if I had a major fail. It's a lot easier to put away in a cupboard somewhere else to give me a bit of data security of my house gets burgled say... Jon |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:09 pm ] | |||||||||
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How do you do that? 
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:23 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Isn't there a version of rsync on Macs? |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:21 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There is, but I've got something a little easier to manage than that: ChronoSync, rather expensive to start with, but I'd highly recommend it. It offers really good control over what does and doesn't sync. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:30 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Apple recalls Time Capsules | ||||||||||||||||||
It is faster than USB on the iMac!  I recovered my iMac last week, it took a few hours to restore the machine. I then copied all the data from my iMac to my Sony laptop via Gigabit (20 minutes) and used Acronis "Non-Stop-Backup" on the Sony (Acronis' equivalent of Time Machine), it finished in under 15 mintues on an e-SATA drive...
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