{"id":205,"date":"2008-10-25T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-10-25T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T22:38:00","slug":"one-more-followup-on-the-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/one-more-followup-on-the-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"One more followup on the Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So back in June I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/timecapsule\/\">Time Capsule<\/a> from Apple, a one-terabyte wireless hard drive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to make backups painless, happening in the background over the network.\u00a0\u00a0 Initially I had a lot of trouble getting it to work with my wireless network, having to hard-reset it so many times I eventually recommended &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2008\/06\/do-not-buy-time-capsule.html\">don&#8217;t buy it<\/a>&quot;.\u00a0 Sometime in September Apple updated the firmware, and I recommended that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2008\/09\/ok-so-now-you-can-buy-time-machine.html\">worth trying out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t follow up with any further recommendations because for a while, it just stopped working again.\u00a0 Well, this time it was not the Time Capsule&#8217;s fault: the wireless network it was connected to was having difficulties.\u00a0 These were orthogonal to the earlier problems, in which the Time Capsule couldn&#8217;t even see the network no matter what I did; this time, after restarting the wireless router, the Time Capsule has been working swimmingly.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So, really, now you can get yourself a Time Capsule.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 It&#8217;s already saved my butt more than once, having files backed up every hour that my laptop is on my home network; I&#8217;ve already used the Time Capsule to recover earlier versions of a variety of files, rather than recreate them.\u00a0 (I am obsessive-compulsive about saving many versions of a file, but having it happen automatically is even better than me manually having to remember to save a file with a new version number hanging off the back end &#8211; not that I&#8217;ve stopped doing that.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So back in June I purchased a Time Capsule from Apple, a one-terabyte wireless hard drive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to make backups painless, happening in the background over the network.\u00a0\u00a0 Initially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}