[moonlighter]

Thanks for posting this. After reading it I figured I'll run Disk Utility on my TimeCapsule drive and wouldnt you know it, it reported ERRORS GALORE!

"The volume Time Machine Backups was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk."

Fired off a repair...

So I assume Time Machine is either accessing only the 'good' parts of the disk and wouldn't know about the issues, or, in an attempt to make it 'easy to use', simply swallows all potential errors without ever reporting them back and just keeps happily chugging along? Ouch.

[moonlighter]

Update: Just after Disk Utility reported that the disk volume has been successfully repaired (yay!), I stumbled over this Apple Technote http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4522 which specifically says "Important: Do not use Disk Utility to erase, verify, or repair a Time Capsule disk." BOOM!

[hiraasht]

Has the Disk Utility repair caused any damage to your Time Capsule? Have you found out any way to figure this out?

You can pull the HDD out and then do a check with Disk Utility of you have a HDD bay. But then again that would void the warranty on your Time Capsule if it is under warranty.

[moonlighter]

I can't tell for sure if it caused any damage, but it doesn't seem so. I did restart the TimeCapsule as suggested in the Apple Technote and it came up fine; I haven't investigated the issue more since though. I might dive into it again once I have a bit more time, perhaps there is a way to access some logs on the device?