Preserving copies of data which enable recovery from a data loss event.
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Create backup iPhone with forgotten encryption password
I'm trying to make a backup from my iPhone, however it's set to be password protected.
I do now know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to ...
2
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1answer
406 views
Time Machine multiple Disks Backup over Network
I have a Mac OSX Server 10.6 with a Harddisk attached to it which has been configured as Time Machine destination. Over the Workgroup manager I have assigned the TM destination on Computergrouplevel. ...
0
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1answer
387 views
Restoring from Backup error - cannot be saved to computer
I have all permissions organized and a single backup in the correct folder. I have 23 GB of space. I have an Iphone 4. I recently synced it and updated to the latest IOS. My contacts were lost, ...
3
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3answers
5k views
How do I use time machine to restore my entire computer, rather than a file?
Is is possible? What is the easiest (most hassle-free) way of accomplishing this?
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0answers
60 views
Time machine backup only on home network
I've set up my Ubuntu server at home to act as a Time capsule using this guide:
http://alisnic.net/blog/use-a-ubuntu-as-a-timemachine-server/
It works very well, and I have two macbooks backing up ...
2
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2answers
557 views
How do I get rid of my encrypted iPhone backups to start from scratch?
Is there a way I can delete all my encrypted iPhone backups for which I forgot the password, so that I can start backing up from fresh?
At the moment I'm stuck in this loop (below) which I can't ...
0
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1answer
38 views
How to backup an encrypted Core Storage volume off-site?
Given a hard disk with an encrypted Core Storage volume (but not the decryption password, because the backup service should not have access to that), how would one go about backing it up in a way that ...
0
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1answer
38 views
How do I restore a Deja Dup backup (done in Ubuntu) in Mountain Lion?
I have pretty much started from scratch on my new installation because I couldn't figure out how to restore the files I backed up on my Linux installation with Deja Dup. I have GPG Keychain access ...
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1answer
39 views
How to move all of my mails to external HD and make them appear only when its connected
I have 200 GB of mails, and I would like to place them in an external hard drive, and to make the appear, in the Mail.app, only when this external HD is connected.
Is this possible?
0
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1answer
342 views
restore Mac OS Mountain Lion to factory settings without discs or time machine backups
I installed XCode 3 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 and now I am getting the Apple BSODs.
Can I do a system restore without having the discs as I seem to have nothing to use, also I have no Time Machine ...
2
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1answer
63 views
Manage iPhoto on external hard disk
Most of my Mac hard drive is filled with iPhoto pictures. I have an external USB hard drive. What to do? Just moving pictures from Pictures/iPhoto Library is not a perfect option as I want to have ...
1
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3answers
148 views
Permanently save iOS backups
Whenever I connect my iPad to my mac itunes backs up it's current state. This is great and I want to keep it this way. Though it overrides the previous backup, which is ok most of the time, but now I ...
0
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1answer
49 views
Why does Time Machine hang/freeze on “Backing up…”?
Lately, whenever I try to back up Time Machine to one particular external drive, it gets past the "Preparing..." stage (most troubleshooting documents talk about fixing problems with hangs in this ...
2
votes
1answer
67 views
icloud backup storage issues
I'm not able to backup my ipod because I have more than 5gb and don't want to pay more. I would love to just put my camera roll on backup, and I deleted the backup for everything else but it still ...
2
votes
1answer
128 views
Sharing large library of Photos and Videos (currently in iPhoto) in different macs at home
currently I have iPhoto on my mac (mountain lion). the library is more than 350 GB (and growing fast). It is only on my computer, but my wife wants to have acces to the pictures too, not only ...
1
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6answers
18k views
Why am I getting a “session could not be started with the iPad” error when syncing?
This morning while trying to sync my iPad I started getting the following error from iTunes:
iTunes could not backup iPad because a session could not be started with the iPad
I've tried the ...
5
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3answers
194 views
Time Machine doesn't backup folders with same name as user
Let's say my OS X user's folder is called Attila and I have a folder with the same name in a folder, e.g. ~/Xcode/Attila/. Now, if I do a Time Machine backup, the ~/Xcode/Attila/ folder won't be ...
1
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0answers
34 views
How do I get TimeMachine to backup a FUSE filesystem?
I have -
/Users/me/Documents/
/Users/me/Documents/ADocument
...
/Users/me/Fuse4XFileSystem/
/Users/me/Fuse4XFileSystem/AnotherDocument
...
TimeMachine will happily backup /Users/me/Documents and ...
2
votes
1answer
36 views
GitHub-Style Collaborative iTunes Backup?
Alright, here's a funny question. I'm a DJ, and I use iTunes locally on my MacBook Air for my music. I also have my backup hard drive, to which I have copied my iTunes library to as the master ...
0
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1answer
65 views
Saving Photos in iPhoto to a flashdrive or other device
I would like to back up my photos from my iPhoto Library (right now, I have about 8,000) and all I have available at the moment is a 10G flash drive.
Eventually, I would like to buy an external hard ...
6
votes
1answer
209 views
Can i create my own back up iCloud account other than the one my ex boyfriend set my iphone up with?
When I first got my iPhone, my boyfriend set it up with his iTunes and iCloud account because I didn't have one of my own. We recently broke up, and he then changed the password for his Apple ID and ...
16
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6answers
72k views
How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine?
I use a Time Capsule for backup and now I want the drive to back up data from an extra Mac. But the drive is filled up with old backups from Mac 1. There simply is not enough space available for the ...
19
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8answers
4k views
What are the downsides to using time machine?
I hear a lot about the good aspects of using Time Machine, particularly the fact that it's so easy to use that people actually do backups!
What are the downsides to using Time Machine compared to ...
2
votes
1answer
166 views
Best rsync options to transfer data between two Mac
I am about to move my data from my old iMac to a brand new MacBook Pro. I would like to start over with a fresh install on B and copy just a subset of my data, reinstalling applications from scratch, ...
0
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0answers
125 views
Time machine error-1
How can I solve the problem - The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time Capsule de xx/MacBook Pro xx.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).
3
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2answers
758 views
How do I rebuild my HDD/SSD from scratch without Time Machine on MacBook Pro?
Ok let me try and sketch the situation;
Hardware
MacBook Pro 17 inch (Early 2011), 1x 750 GB HDD + 1x 140 GB SSD
OS
Lion
Just after I purchased my MacBook Pro I swapped the 750 GB drive for the ...
1
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2answers
6k views
Will backing up using time-machine also backup all the users?
I have two users on my MBP, and IIRC, both are Admin accounts. I want to upgrade to Lion GM, and have the dmg to do that. However, to be safe, I want to have a backup. I am not familiar with ...
0
votes
1answer
83 views
Is there any Cloud Storage GUI for Mac?
On my iPad, I have GoodReader, as well as ReaddleDocs, and both allow me to connect to a large assortment of Cloud Storage providers. On my Windows machine, there are the Cloudberry Lab assortment of ...
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votes
2answers
280 views
logged onto icloud, but contacts and notes are not visible [closed]
I set up an icloud account and backed up my contacts and notes. [Where? On a PC, on an iOS device, on another mac? Please provide the version of software and general hardware class. Also, what does ...
-1
votes
3answers
709 views
Extract Camera Roll from iTunes backup
I had to restore a friend's iPod because they forget their passcode and they lost their camera roll. I can't restore FROM a backup, as the backup has the forgotten passcode on it.
Anyways, on my Mac ...
3
votes
3answers
433 views
Can the content of an iPhone backup be extracted?
After upgrading my device from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 6, iTunes doesn't allows me to restore from an old backup, saying that it is an incompatible backup.
Why is this? Is there any way I could restore from ...
0
votes
1answer
69 views
Time machine backup is very slow (new TM drive and large amount of data)
I have data (mostly photos) on an external WD 2Tb drive (about 930gb)
I have just installed a 3Tb Lacie drive and want to use it as the TM drive to back up the external WD drive and the Mac HD (very ...
1
vote
3answers
1k views
Can I restore from a 16GB backup to an 8GB iPhone
I recently switched to Verizon. My wife's phone was a 16GB AT&T iPhone. Verizon had the 8GB version for free with the contract.
Is it possible to restore from the 16GB backup to the new 8GB ...
0
votes
1answer
198 views
Missing backups from Time Machine
A have a MacBook running Mountain Lion that backups up to a Linux machine over afp (netatalk) using Time Machine.
In Time Machine preferences I can see that the Oldest backup was on 5th March 2012 ...
0
votes
3answers
6k views
Recovery of deleted SMS
I have never backed up or sync'd my iPhone 4S and need to recover deleted text messages.
Are these stored until they are overwritten? When would the overwriting occur on a 32GB iPhone?
0
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0answers
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Question on iPhone 5 backing up in iTunes and Restoring [duplicate]
Question on iPhone 5 if I back it up to iTunes now and if I want to restore my phone and a new one just to get the yellow other down some how do I get my contacts back on my phone and my email? Thanks ...
0
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1answer
173 views
Wipe iphone, switch carriers, get new carrier-locked iphone, restore?
Let's say I have an AT&T iphone 5. I regularly back it up with itunes.
I decide to switch carriers to Verizon. I wipe my iphone, sell it, and get a brand new Verizon iphone 5.
Can I simply plug ...
1
vote
2answers
86 views
Should I stop using my Mac while the hard disk is being cloned?
As one of my backup solutions, I use an app (SuperDuper!, if it makes any difference) to make a clone of my Mac at the same time every evening. Sometimes I am still working at that time. What I want ...
0
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3answers
378 views
How should a user of OS X verify whether backed up data comprises everything required for lossless restoration?
I'm most interested in approaches that compare both:
the original file
the backup
– after the time of backup.
I'm aware of two approaches. Others will be appreciated.
Less interested in ...
0
votes
2answers
65 views
New TimeMachine backup on the same drive
I have recently successfully cleaned my hard drive and restored data with the TimeMachine backup. Now I would like to prepare backup of "new" system. Do I have to clean the drive first?
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vote
2answers
494 views
Uncompress (zlib) files that “S3 Backup” compressed to Amazon S3
On windows I was using "s3 Backup" to backup files to amazon s3. One of the options is to compress with zlib.
As far as I can tell there is no mac version of this app. So now I need to figure out ...
3
votes
4answers
1k views
How would TimeMachine work with two external (destination) drives?
I would like to backup my data to two external drives. That way I would like this to work is that both disks should have have a full backup of my internal disk. Is this the way TimeMachine would work?
...
0
votes
1answer
70 views
How do I access the backup of my iPod Touch?
I backed up my iPod Touch (4th gen) a few months ago on iTunes. My iPod has subsequently died and I want to get at the photos and videos from the backup. But I can't seem to find them anywhere.
Where ...
-1
votes
1answer
22 views
What utilities should I put on an emergency recovery drive or SD card?
I've recently made an emergency recovery SD card for my MacBook Pro. Right now, all it has is a clone of the internal drive's recovery partition, and an encrypted sparsebundle with my 1Password file. ...
0
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1answer
117 views
Stolen iPhone 4 not synced with my PC: are my videos backed up?
Last week my iPhone was stolen when on holiday in New York. I have precious photos and more importantly videos of my son on there. I went to an Apple store in NYC and they advised that my photos ...
1
vote
1answer
436 views
Will updating my iPod delete my files?
I am going to update my iPod to the newest software and was wondering if this will delete the files?
Most of my songs are from my old computer which I now longer have, so I no longer have the songs ...
0
votes
2answers
4k views
Time Machine Error - The backup disk is not available
Problem
My automatic backups for my Macs have recently started failing with the following message (same error if I attempt to "Backup Now"):
Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to ...
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vote
2answers
621 views
Remove unnecessary backups from TimeMachine to get space
I know that oldest backups are removed automatically when there is no space for new ones on TimeMachine. I use TimeCapsule also for sharing files on WiFi, so I’d like to free some space by removing of ...
2
votes
1answer
65 views
Can I use TimeMachine only when on wired connection?
I have a server to which I am backing up a single MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, via TimeMachine.
I would like to only back up when the MacBook Pro has a wired connection to the network. The ...
13
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3answers
4k views
How can I “clean out” my Time Machine backups if Time Machine won't backup because the disk is full?
When Time Machine tries to make a backup, it informs me that it can't because the backup disk is full.
What it's mostly full of (about 700GB of 1TB) is prior backups of the same machine. Time ...
