Hi.
So my Time Capsule died but the HD was still working. Rather than getting another Time Capsule, I replaced it with an Airport Extreme and I put the working HD in an enclosure.
I plugged the HD into the USB port (on the iMac, not the Airport Extreme) and three volumes mounted:
- Data
- APConfig
- APSwap
I went into Time Machine and selected Data as the desired location for backups and it immediately tried to do a backup. The backup failed because it said there was not enough space on the disc. It looks like it is trying to backup the entire HD from my iMac when all I want it to do is save the latest version. I might be wrong but I think it is failing to recognize that there are existing backups there that can be updated and so it is trying to backup everything.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Should I be plugging the external HD into the Airport Extreme and selecting the Time Capsule option?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
JB
So my Time Capsule died but the HD was still working. Rather than getting another Time Capsule, I replaced it with an Airport Extreme and I put the working HD in an enclosure.
I plugged the HD into the USB port (on the iMac, not the Airport Extreme) and three volumes mounted:
- Data
- APConfig
- APSwap
I went into Time Machine and selected Data as the desired location for backups and it immediately tried to do a backup. The backup failed because it said there was not enough space on the disc. It looks like it is trying to backup the entire HD from my iMac when all I want it to do is save the latest version. I might be wrong but I think it is failing to recognize that there are existing backups there that can be updated and so it is trying to backup everything.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Should I be plugging the external HD into the Airport Extreme and selecting the Time Capsule option?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
JB