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At first glance, the system is remarkable. It lets you see all your backups in a long row leading towards a Black Hole. You choose the date of restore and then drag it towards the restore point and the computer will go into restore mode and its done. You can choose whether or not to keep or delete the new change you just made.

This was obviously designed with the time capsule in mind.

The best thing about Leopard Server and Time Machine is that if you happen to be running Mac groups like I am, you can choose to make the computers auto delete records on specific dates and times. The system also features MOBILITY which synchs cache files to whatever desktop a user uses and can delete them later on.

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Also I'm assuming you can specify a date and time to backup. So like say when your sleeping and not needing to use alot of bandwidth. I guess this dosn't apply if you don't sleep or run a 24hr business. ]]>Feb 29th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
http://forums.macworld.com/message/620287#620287

Hmm... Engadget editors, would you please try partitioning the drive in a firewire/USB enclosure and then putting it back into Time Capsule?]]>Mar 2nd 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
1) When it is backing up over Wi-Fi, how much does your network speeds decrease? Is there a noticeable change in download speed of a simple website?

2) When it is backing up over Wi-Fi, does it slow the computer down at all due to processor/RAM use? It does a good amount just over Firewire, so I would assume the same slowdowns can be expected here... if not worse.]]>Feb 29th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
Hell, I've had IBM ship me systems with 2 different brands of hard disk in the same RAID system.

So I doubt Apple is limiting it to one drive of manufacturer. Same specs though probably.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/lol, I hear ya.
Actually, hoping moving to a 5Ghz band will clear up my dropout issue, as my neighborhood seems to be 2.4Ghz saturation city right now, on every channel.]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
And yes obviously WHS does more but I think the original question was more about backup. Obviously the other pro with WHS is that you can install it on any old computer.

The obvious pro with Time Capsule is that you don't need an extra device on wasting power... its multifunction. As long as you don't require the Media capabilities of the WHS. I don't think it would be hard though for Apple to expand the functionality to more directly compete with WHS. I would seriously love a router with built in WHS (or similar).]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/2. Can you use an external hard drive with it through the USB port?
3. Is the speed okay when performing a search in the shared volume? Or is it painfully slow?
4. Does it still drop every connection when you modify NAT port mapping?]]>Feb 29th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
That is very cool. I was thinking I'd have to tediously set up the 5GHz as my main, and reconfigure the 2.4 as a secondary, based on this:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Designing_AirPort_Networks_Using_AirPort_Utility.pdf

But if it will do it for me, I'm in :D

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http://brianpuccio.net/change_time_machine_backup_intervals
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http://storagemojo.com/?p=378

"" One of the most intriguing findings is the relationship between drive temperature and drive mortality. The Google team took temperature readings from SMART records every few minutes for the nine-month period. As the figure here shows, failure rates do not increase when the average temperature increases. At very high temperatures there is a negative effect, but even that is slight. ""]]>Feb 29th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/I still doubt between the 1TB and the 500GB version.]]>Feb 29th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
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http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/wireless.html

"And if you want to share both a printer and an additional hard drive, you can. Just connect a USB hub to Time Capsule. "

"Because it mounts as a wireless hard drive, Tiger and Windows users simply access Time Capsule directly from the wireless network for exchanging and storing files quickly and easily."

So yeah. It's a WAP/router, it's NAS, it's a wired/wireless network backup solution, it's a central print hub.]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Like your neighbors apartment? ;)

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It might be too much to ask for this built-in and configurable with a single checkbox, but a man can always dream...]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
Can Time Capsule be used ONLY as a Time Machine backup? Basically, I'd like to have this double as a media storage drive for all my iTunes and iPhoto libraries and such--so that I can access my photos and music from either of my laptops over WiFi. If those files have to be part of the backup, that's fine. I'd just like to be able to access them from any computer in my house. Is this a possibility?

Also, how does it work backing up multiple computers? ]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/
Can you hook up additional drive(s) via USB to increase the storage? ]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/time-capsule-first-impressions/Feb 29th 2008 4:10PM