Replacement Time capsule

How can I replace with a new an old Time Capsule and Time Machine backup, then move to the new TC?

The configuration of the airport utility has an option to replace an existing airport.

Plug the new TC on the network... Start airport utility... He will try to extend Ethernet but just select options... and choose "Replace an existing device" instead.

We do NOT recommend copy older backups to the new TC... It's much better to start the new Time Machine backup and after a few months of use and a good amount of history built upward and then erase the old TC.

You can do... Plug the old TC in the news once you have finished replacing and using ethernet on computer... Copy the sparsebundle from one to the other... It is often unusable... so a total waste of time... but it is up to you.

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    https://discussions.Apple.com/message/29612657?ac_cid=sa123456#29612657

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    In more than two years old now, it went well replacement... so buying the current model, I don't think that is a good buy...

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    Simply divide this player and make it available to the network... you can make backups TM on networks... and USB2 connected directly on a Mac is still faster than the backup network for a TC. At least a computer then backup to local drive... much more reliable in this way.

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    Alternative method.

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    My screen is a bit old, but it should always be there.

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    It works for most. FOR THE MOST PART.

    As a BTW... your name is terrible.

    All new Mac OS since Mavericks use the default SMB protocol.

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    Hej!

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    How long this problem has been going since then?

    In Europe the warranty period may be 2 or 3 years by law.

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    If you do not have access to the warranty or replacement.

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    Erase use the single-pass option.

    It is a low level disk format. (Don't bother with 7 and never even dream of using 35).

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    Almost impossible.

    The time Capsule has not deleted the backup... Only from time Machine can do without you open the disk in the Finder and deleted manually. TM can delete the backups for all sorts of reasons, but the most common is corruption. The backup failed a check and were found damaged beyond the point of usefulness.

    If you have opened the disk in the Finder and the sparsebundle TM went then restore could only be made by removing disk using undelete software as rescue diskwarrior or data... because it would break and the CT also any warranty, and extremely unlikely that work as used space is probably now assigned to the new macbook sparsebundle... I would not bother.

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