Monday, August 18, 2008
Initial Time Capsule Backup
Monday, August 18, 2008 
This was almost an exercise in futility. The couple initial TC backups from my wife's laptop would run until about 4GB out of 160GB. A few times in a row. Googling showed many things, and I found the error 11, etc. but I couldn't get a clean backup to take hold. Yes, this is over Ethernet, not just 802.11n.
I read that traffic on the network can cause problems. I also noted that perhaps a corrupt file can stop the whole process dead in it's tracks. I placed an ignore on the Applications directory, and set it to start last night around 10PM in the basement, cabled to the TC itself.
Today at noon the backup was still going (that's a bonus... it hadn't erred), and that it was at 60GB out of 160GB. That's progress, but good grief this is taking AGES to complete.
Once the initial is created, I'll untether that laptop and backups after that point should be quick and all done on the wireless network.
This process hasn't been pain-free, I wish this was a bit easier out of the box. Perhaps we'll be seeing a firmware update to Time Capsules, or at least a utility provided as part of the package that will root out any files that could give the backup pause and allow for their removal or exclusion preemptively.
I had thought I bought a pretty expensive wireless router with a drive I could only use without TC integration. I am hopefully this sucker will complete it's task.
Update
Well, got an error around 60GB, but it keeps backing up. Weird. I suppose I can't complain if it actually finishes.
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