Originally Posted by
goalie
regarding a full restore via time machine and using apple's time capsule......
fwiw, when i had to do a full restore this past july after i replaced the laptop h/d due to a hd crash, the full restore worked flawlessly and all settings were retained. it just takes time based on the speed of your machine and in my case, as i was restoring from goalie-parents time capsule, it also took time due to it being done over wifi
I use my Time Capsule with a couple of macs. What I suggest for the initial backup--as opposed to the incremental backups--is to go ahead and run a wired connection between the Time Capsule and your Mac but only for that first backup. Do this also if you need to do a full restore. That way you can take advantage of the speed of the wired connection for the large data transfers.
I've not had any issues with my TC and it seems to tolerate the occasional power outage just fine.