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I still have my little AirPort Time Capsule tower. It’s been nearly a decade and that thing has been dutifully backing up my data every single day, save for a few hiccups over the years. I switched it from hourly to daily to maybe get some extra years out of it, but man. I absolutely love that product. The NAS marketplace even to this day hasn’t made a product as simple and seamless as the time capsule - plus it’s a great router!
You might want to do a test restore just to make sure the disk in there is still good. A decade is a long time for a mechanical disk, and you might just be writing your latest files to the disk dutifully every day while bad sectors linger elsewhere on the disk.
Just saying... verify your backups. And I mean by doing a restore, not Apple's verify which doesn't actually check every byte.
It's usually good to have at least two backups anyway.
I bought an m3 iMac a couple weeks ago and used my time capsule to migrate everything. Worked perfectly!