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Any Help offered would be greatly appreciated as I am new to learning yet some things with Apple.

Will repost an answer shortly it remains at 20 hours still. Funny that it would not back up because the HD in the TC was not large enough and now that i added the 250GB External HD to the TC it is now BACKING up after a year of Not backing up. because if it now continues to back up that means that it does expand the HD in the TC and allows you to use both the External & Internal HD’s For Time Machine Back Up’s.
#Airport external hard drive time machine how to
I'm using Time Machine to backup my iMac to the Time Capsule, and have also connected the 1TB external hard drive to the Time Capsule, however am not clear on how to access the space on the hard drive and/or files stored therein through the Airport Utility. I am now backing up and will repost a message if it continues to back up when its done. Automatic Wireless Backup Up to Three Times Faster Wi-Fi Designed with Performance in Mind AirPort Utility Printer and Hard Drive Sharing Compatibility and. I previously used a 1TB external hard drive (self-powered, connected to my iMac via USB). Not to discount GORDAN for his post because i was very unsure if this would work.
#Airport external hard drive time machine pro
When I added my old 250GB HD that i removed from my Macbook Pro when I upgraded i put it in an enclosure and hooked it up to the TC and all of the Sudden my TC is now backing up. I found this article and was reading about adding an External HD to the TC.

I upgraded to a 1 TB HD on my Macbook Pro 15″ and now with all the Lion and Logic stuff my back ups were exceeding 500 GB so it would not back up for almost a Year now. Ok i was having problems backing up using Time machine because i have a 2008 TC 500 GB. Stack that on your brand spanking new Time Capsule 2TB, and you’ve got yourself some serious wireless storage capacity.
#Airport external hard drive time machine free
If you feel like doing this, both the Seagate 3TB USB external hard drive and Western Digital 3TB USB external drive are $149 with free shipping from Amazon. This is great idea, and suddenly the Time Capsule became a lot more appealing to me, because this means less money for more storage. In a post where they say the new 3TB Time Capsule price tag is “ crazypants” they suggest you buy the 2TB model and then use your own 3TB drive for a total of 5TB of storage. Spending another $200 just to get another 1TB of storage seems a bit expensive, and that’s exactly where I found the tip on 9to5mac.

You may have seen that Apple announced two new versions of the Time Capsule, they come in 2TB for $299 and 3TB for $499. This is great because it allows you to expand your Time Capsule storage yourself if you run out of space, but also because you can buy the cheaper model and then just attach a huge external drive to create a massive capacity NAS device. It provides the best disk performance required for backing up data: up to. Apparently this feature has existed since the dawn of Time Capsule, but I just inadvertently discovered this. The best external hard drive for Time Machine backups on Macs is Samsung T7 SSD Touch.
