Moving music and video library off my HD onto a Time Capsule

[Parasitic]

Somebody tell me if this is doable:

1. Go out and buy a TC.
2. Set it up and running with time machine and as a network HDD
3. Move all my music and video files off my local HD and onto one of those network partitions on the TC
4. Reorganize my iTunes library so that the media files are now played off the TC instead of locally.
5. Synchorize my iPod with my computer, only with the media files off TC instead of locally.

Can this be done?

 

[Kmax82]

It is, but what if the TC drive fails? Are you going to have another method to recover that data?

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Put your media on a third drive hooked to the time capsule then have the TC back up that drive. that way you have two copies.

there is a way to setup your time capsule to sync over the internet BTW, I read about it. So in theory you could access your music anywhere.

For me time capsule seems laggy though. Like file copying seems slow. Anyone know any tweaks to fix this?

 

[Parasitic]

So I just looked around and it seems that there's really no way to partition that TC drive without doing some dismantling...so if I placed my TM backups along with music and video on the same drive would there be some sort of deleting action going on if the drive gets full?

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
So I just looked around and it seems that there's really no way to partition that TC drive without doing some dismantling...so if I placed my TM backups along with music and video on the same drive would there be some sort of deleting action going on if the drive gets full?

There is a way to partition - you can do it in the airport util. the drive I think. On your DATA drive (the TC drive) you can create folders and stuff, one would assume it would count this as "used space" and TM would do its thing by deleting older files.

 

[Pabster]

It can be done. In fact, I do it. :laugh:

Time Capsule works great as your iTunes server. Just be sure to have a full backup, preferably two or three, and one of them off-site.