My Parent's have a 2012 Time Capsule that looks looks like it bit the dust and stopped broadcasting the wifi. I crack it open, pop out the hard drive, and it appears to be fine. I'd like to copy the back up off the hard drive and drop them on to a new 4th external hard drive, that is connected to there new router. However it appears the time capsule and time machine back up file structures are not exactly the same. The TimeCapsule HDD has 3 partitions, with "DATA" having the .sparsebundle s for each computer that back up to the time machine. When looking at a Time Machine file structure, everything looks to be Backups.backupdb. I'm suspecting that there was some apple magic in the controller that wrote to the time capsule HDD that allowed it to back up more than one computer.
If I copy the .sparsebundle to a new formatted HFS+ drive, canI pop that new drive onto the USB port of a modern router and let time machine the old back ups?