Preserving copies of data which enable recovery from a data loss event.
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Is TimeMachine Apple's System Restore?
I have recently moved to Mac from Windows. Rarely I find that I may have to use System Restore to fix an issue that the OS has incurred. What I would like to know is whether Time Machine is the Mac ...
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Restoring iPhone's state from a dd hard drive image
This article, Recover Lost Data From Your iPhone, in its "Method 1" suggests a promising method to backup iPhone's entire state, that is iOS settings, apps, email settings, media files, that is ...
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How to backup iPhone without first deleting all data?
So I bought a new iPhone 5 64GB and I enabled iCloud backup. For a while now it has not been able to backup my iPhone, since the 5GB of iCloud storage quickly ran out. I didn't feel like upgrading my ...
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Iphone 5 backup file
I have just gotten rid of my iPhone 5 but did a full backup of picture and such beforehand because i wasn't fond of the phone. I do not plan on getting another iPhone. Is there a way i can get my ...
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Cloud-sycning MS Office documents on OS X/iOS
I understand that iCloud does not synchronise MS Office Docs. What other options are available to synchronise and back-up my MS Office Docs across MacBook, iPad, etc.
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Once backed up iPhone to iCloud, can I delete an app and redownload it with same data?
Let's say I'm sick of Angry Birds, I delete it from my phone. I back up my phone daily to iCloud.
In a few months when I want to play it again, will all my data be there (or is it different ...
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ios restore to previous version/model - without jailbreaking the original?
My non-jailbroken iPhone 4S needs to go for a warranty repair, and I want to restore its data to an older non-jailbroken 3G or to another even older jailbroken 2G, but of course itunes refuses to ...
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How to restore iPhone 5 from iOS 5 backup?
I had an iPhone 4 with iOS 5 which I regularly backed up using iTunes. Then I used a Android device for a little over a year. Now I'm back on iOS with an iPhone 5. So I'm trying to setup it with the ...
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Time Machine backup to Airport Extreme AirDisk
I thought it was NOT possible to use the USB hard disk attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a backup destination for Time Machine backups. This was mostly due to Google results as ...
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Recover iPhone backup manually from iCloud
I had the misfortune of a stolen iPhone 4 a few months ago. In the interim I've decided not to get a new iPhone.
I can view my iCloud storage page and see there is a 1GB file there. There are random ...
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How to restore Airport settings?
I've just reverted from Lion to Snow Leopard while maintaining a time machine backup of Lion.
In Lion I used to 'remember' many wireless networks, and also have configuration for connecting from my ...
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How can I recover iPhone data lost after iOS upgrade?
I've had my iPhone 4 for about 3 months and when I connected it to my computer today I was prompted to update the iOS, so I did. But somehow I didn't realise that it meant I was going to need some ...
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New restored iPhone getting “iTunes couldnt not back up the iPhone because the backup session failed”
I looked everywhere and I can't solve this.
I looked at Error trying to backup both iPhone4 and iPad (1) after 4.3/iTunes/XCode updates and didn't solve my problem
EDIT: I have a used phone (1st ...
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Making checks before rsyncing external drive on OSX
I have the following issue on OSX though I guess this could equally be filed under bash. I have several encrypted portable drives that I use to sync an offsite data store or as an on-the-go data store ...
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Time Machine - can it share external drive with Windows backups?
I just got a 2TB external hard drive, and I want to use it to backup my 3 Windows computers and my MacBook Pro. If possible, I would like to create 4 subdirectories on the external drive - one ...
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How can I use Terminal to copy all files of a certain type from a failing hard drive?
I need to use terminal to copy my Pictures folder from a failing harddrive onto another drive, but I can't actually change into the folder and use just cp *.jpg ~/Documents. Is there a way to do this ...
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Why is my icloud backup taking so long?
I just created an icloud account and i am backing it up and it says it will take 3 hours. I have no pictures on my phone so i think its just backing up contacts, reminders, etc. Does anyone know why ...
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How to make an iPad backup when buying a new device?
I'm going to resell my iPad 3 to buy a new one.
I need a simple way to backup everything from current iPad to be able to restore to the new one. This includes iBooks library with pdfs aded from ...
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Change iPhone file permissions wihout jailbreak
I want to delete some apps (games) but backup their save game data.
Since there's no way to save your saved game data the only way to backup this files is using something like iFunBox and copy both ...
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Older time machine backups not showing after renaming the backup HDD
I have a HDD for time machine archives. In Finder I renamed it, then made it start a new backup. Now none of the older backups show when I enter in Time Machine mode. I get why this is happening but I ...
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How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB?
How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB?
I followed the standard procedure and my contacts were wiped out on my iPhone so I am scared about backing them up.
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How to retrive my iphone 3gs backup files in windows 7
I was using iphone 3GS and using Dell windows 7 system. Last week I had cut and pasted (not deleted from my system) my iphone backup files in to my pen drive. I accidently lost my pen drive & ...
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iPad stuck with “iCould Backup” message — can't use it!
Yesterday I opened my iPad to discover a weird message I'd never seen before on my screen, that I cannot get rid of:
It prevents me from interacting with anything else on the screen!
So I plugged ...
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What is the best way to backup photos & videos from iPhoto online?
I'd love to use Dropbox to back up all my photos and videos, especially from iPhoto. But I'm not exactly sure the best way to do this is, given that I know that my 2 computers with iPhoto directories ...
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What backup methods preserve kMDItemDateAdded?
The attribute kMDItemDateAdded corresponds to the "Date added" column in the Finder, and is especially useful for the Downloads directory. Unfortunately, this attribute is not part of the filesystem ...
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How to recover data from iPhone backup files WITHOUT the info.plist, status.plist, manifest.plist, manifest.mbdb, and manifest.mbdx files?
I have iTunes 10.5 and Mac OS X version 10.6.8.
I would like to restore my iPhone from backup.
iTunes detects all my backups EXCEPT one, which happens to be the backup I want.
I looked in the ...
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Exclude apps from iPhone/iPad backup?
I own both an iPhone (4S) and an iPad (mini), running iOS 5 and 6 respectively. The two of them are quite filled with large apps (roughly 40GB in total) and thus my Macbook is getting crowded. This is ...
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Alternative backup solution for a mac?
I know that we can easily use time machine. However, i wonder if there exist any other way to backup the data on my macbook? Since I do a lot of modification to the system and sometimes make it has ...
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restore MacBook from sparse image
I recently wiped my MBP hard drive as well as installing a new SSD.
I have a sparseimage backup of my old drive (created with Carbon Copy Cloner) that I want to restore onto the SSD.
I've tried to ...
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What exactly is included when I backup my iPhone 4 using iTunes?
I have read this question Does an iTunes iOS device backup include everything on the device? but it doesn't seem to be explicit/succinct enough and I can't find a clear list of what exactly is and ...
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infection in ~Library/Application Support/Mobilesync/Backup/xxxxx
ClamX is finding phishing infection in the Backup folder on my MacBook Pro with 10.7.
~Library/Application Support/Mobilesync/Backup/xxxxxxxx
Does this mean that either my iPhone or Mac is infected?
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
