For the past several years I’ve happily used an Apple Time Capsule as my router and one of many backup drives, but it’s been getting a big long in the tooth as the number of items on my network has grown. I recently upgraded to a new router but wanted to continue using my Time Capsule, and it’s very large drive, for LAN backups.
A post in Apple’s discussion forums helpfully kicked off how to reset the wireless settings for the Time Capsule and prepare it to just live on the network as a drive. After following those instructions, all I needed to do was:
- Open Time Machine Preferences on my device;
- Select ‘Add or Remove Backup Disk…’;
- Select the freshly networked disk;
- Choose to use the pre-existing backup image, and input the encryption password for the backup.
Voila! And now my disk–with all its data–is available on the network and capable of continuing my Time Machine backups!
Excited Pixels 