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Apple Releases Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware Update

In addition to other updates detailed earlier, Apple today released Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n) Firmware 7.3.2. Apple provides no details on the update, specifying only that it includes "bug fixes." The firmware update requires AirPort Utility 5.3.2 or later and weighs in at 4 MB.

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47 months ago
Cool! Will do this update later on my TC and MBP. :D
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47 months ago
I don't know about anyone else out there but after the update Safari is WAY faster!
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47 months ago
Updated without issues. Working fine.
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47 months ago
What would be great would be the ability to back-up the HD inside Time Capsule to another external drive via Time Machine. Not all of us want our back-ups inside TC as some of us use it as a NAS. No luck with this update.

Seems to be working fine, didn't notice anything new.
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47 months ago
No problems have popped up since the update.
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47 months ago

What would be great would be the ability to back-up the HD inside Time Capsule to another external drive via Time Machine. Not all of us want our back-ups inside TC as some of us use it as a NAS. No luck with this update.

Seems to be working fine, didn't notice anything new.

Not via Time Machine, but you can do an exact copy via the TC firmware. The problem is that I don't know how you are supposed to use this copy in case of a failure, since there is no copy FROM the external drive, only TO the external.
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47 months ago
Does Time Machine still work with the Airport Base Station? There were reports that the activation of this feature might have been a mistake on Apple's part in the last update. Hopefully they aren't going back on it.

I'm considering between the Airport Base Station and the Time Capsule right now and I'm thinking of just going with the ABS to save money if TM is still supported on AirDisks.
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47 months ago

Does Time Machine still work with the Airport Base Station? There were reports that the activation of this feature might have been a mistake on Apple's part in the last update. Hopefully they aren't going back on it.


I think by now we can be pretty confident that the only reason Time Machine backups via an Airport Base Station were ever disabled in the first place was because of bugs. It's a common practice of Apple's to disable features, even major ones, if there were major bugs at the release deadline (see also the inability to edit appointments on the iPod Touch).
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47 months ago

Does Time Machine still work with the Airport Base Station? There were reports that the activation of this feature might have been a mistake on Apple's part in the last update. Hopefully they aren't going back on it.


I am wondering the exact same thing. Once I have confirmation that it'll still work, I'm going to update. Anyone want to be the guinea pig? :p
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47 months ago

I am wondering the exact same thing. Once I have confirmation that it'll still work, I'm going to update. Anyone want to be the guinea pig? :p

TM is still working perfectly fine via NAS to AEBS
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