[muglo] Re: time lapse

That could be the reason, I guess. The TC did work as advertised for a goodish 
while after I bought it in July 2008. But early last year or so the backup 
process started developing eccentricities. In updating a whole volume it would 
skip one or two files within nested subfolders. Among those it frequently 
skipped was my daily journal, which was bad in one way because that's an 
important file to me, but good in another way because since it's a file that 
changes daily I could readily track whether the Time Capsule copy was up to 
date.

This kind of wonkiness, starting so long ago and continuing so erratically 
(often the journal would get updated and something else wouldn't) doesn't 
strike 
me as a likely indicator of the Time Capsule's approaching demise. More likely 
some fluke of the Time Machine software, was my guess. (I'd set TM to ignore 
certain subfolders, but the complaint was that it was skipping files that were 
neither in those subfolders nor in folders nested along with them in other 
folders.)

I think it's reasonable, though, to conclude that the latest problems starting 
in January, when the Time Capsule started going through the usual motions of 
backing up — appearing on the Desktop and noticeably slowing down other 
applications — without actually producing new backup copies on its hard drive, 
was symptomatic of the thing's impending demise. Finally, it began showing up 
on 
the Desktop and staying there, even after its look-at-me-I'm-still-working 
charade. And then it just gave up the ghost entirely, the wi-fi signal giving 
out along with the hard drive motor.

Haven't decided yet whether to replace it or fix it. No great rush, since I've 
got alternative backup and wi-fi in place. 



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From: Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk@xxxxxxx>
To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 7:05:15 PM
Subject: [muglo] Re: time lapse

Could that [the Time Capsule getting ready to die] be why you were having 
problems originally?  Did the time capsule work as advertised when you first 
started using it?  I have been using a usb drive with Time Machine and it works 
flawlessly, the drive is set up on my desk and when I use the laptop there I 
plug in the drive (at least once a week)  One tb drives are less than $100 now 
and seem like a good solution.



Gerhard
gerhardk@xxxxxxx



 

On 2011-02-22, at 11:17 AM, Doug Bale wrote:

The TC died last week.

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