Time Capsule arrived

We finally took the plunge and got a 1TB Time Capsule to replace our current 500GB Maxtor hard disk which has been backing up Kathy's and my MacBook since we upgraded to Leopard (around the time of my last blog post actually - yes I am lame for not blogging for so long).

So far I am liking the Time Capsule. Right now I have it set up in bridge mode and am still using the LinkSys WRT54G as the main router. Here are some of the tradeoffs between the two routers:

* Time Capsule has a built in hard disk which can be used for wireless backup
* Time Capsule supports USB printer sharing (thinking of moving the inkjet printer to be shared this way - it's currently shared by the Mac mini)
* LinkSys supports dynamic DNS which I am currently using... Time Capsule supports Back to My Mac, but doesn't seem to support dynamic DNS
* LinkSys has 4 100Mbit ports plus 1 uplink port, Time Capsule has 3 Gigabit ports and 1 uplink port
* LinkSys is 802.11g, Time Capsule is 802.11n
* Time Capsule requires a reboot for any configuration change, which takes 30 seconds or something. Config changes on the LinkSys happen much faster.

Overall, I think I should be able to totally replace the LinkSys with the Time Capsule, but the first challenge is to transfer our last 9 months of backups over to the Time Capsule. This is not as simple as you might think because the Time Capsule needs backups in sparsebundle disk image format, and the backups we have are just stored as files on the hard disk directly. I have an idea for how to get this working which is taking a while. If my plan works I will post an update on how to do it for anyone who's interested.