Time Capsule (Apple)
NAS Recovery - Time Capsule (Apple)
Time Capsule is a backup appliance designed by Apple Inc. to be used with its Time Machine backup software introduced in Mac OS X 10.5. Time Capsule consists of a wireless network-attached storage (NAS) device and a wireless residential gateway router.
Time Capsule has the ability to back up system and files automatically and wirelessly. This avoids the need of a separate USB external drives. This device works in OS X 10.5.2 Leopard or higher versions, which enable backup over a network. This feature known as Time Machine automatically creates images of files that are being modified every hour. As it does so, it also compresses older files to save space.
Components of Time Capsule
Time Capsule consists of a full AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n wireless, an Ethernet WAN port, three Ethernet LAN ports, and one USB port. The USB port is used when there is an external hard drive or printer that needs to be shared over the network.
Time Capsule also consists of a Hitachi Deskstar hard drive in the respective 500GB and 1TB sizes. Apple calls the hard drive as ‘server-grade’ drive because Apple also uses this type of drives in its Xserve servers. Apple claims that Hitachi Deskstar surpasses the 1 million hour mean time between failure (MTBF) stipulated for server-grade hard drives.
Time Machine was introduced at Macworld Expo 2008.
