@RayZ if what you want is to get a single back up finished, my biggest recommendation is to use the exclusion list in the time machine settings to remove everything but your basic user directory....

@RayZ I can't prove anything, and I gave up after the backup stopped backing up because I couldn't bear to do the whole cycle of getting a fresh backup set up. What I know is that like I said, it was...

@Kevin_Z OK well I hope they are going to send me a hard drive to plug into it, because I broke the one I used before by having it plugged in. Also I hope there's a detailed guide they will send me,...

@RayZ Absolutely not. It's trash. This feature should be removed from the boxes and manuals wherever it appears. It simply doesn't work reliably. I tried and re-tried, leaving my computer on for days...

@user007 Yeah. I have an ancient Time Capsule, which was slow as hell for backups but fairly reliable and Apple replaced it twice for free over the 8 or so years i've owned it. Needed a new thing for...

So for the record, my attempt has succeeded with an initial backup of about 60GB using MacOS Extended (Journaled) as the disk format. I'll have to see how well it lasts and how stable it is, but this...