Preserving copies of data which enable recovery from a data loss event.
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what are some good apps for backing up all iphone data to dropbox?
I'm already using the Dropbox iPhone app, but it only backs up my photos.
Basically, I'm looking for the iPhone equivalent of the Android "SanDisk Memory Zone" app, which automatically and regularly ...
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Why is my iCloud backup taking 10 hours?
This is my first backup, and the back up size is a little less than 600MB and I did a speedtest on my iPhone and was getting ~4Mbps upload with 10Mbps download. Why is that?
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How can I back up a complete IMAP account?
I have a huge IMAP email account that contains a lot of subfolders and a lot of messages (dating back to 2005). Is there a simple way to back up these folders and messages so I can delete them from ...
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Is there a way to backup Evernote to Dropbox?
I'd like to be able to use a little bit of the space in my Dropbox account to create a backup of Evernote. This way if anything happens to Evernote cloud service I'd still have access to the Dropbox ...
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137 views
Backing up to an internal drive of another machine
I have a mac laptop that I want to back up to an internal drive on my Mac Pro. The drive I want to back up to is blank and not the OS drive. They are connected via ethernet, but I do not see the drive ...
2
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1answer
305 views
Gyroscope in iPhone 4S doesn't work [duplicate]
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iPad doesn’t rotate anymore
I have a problem with my iPhone 4S. Its gyroscope doesn't work. But not at all. Sometimes it sets in vertical position and sometimes in ...
2
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1answer
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Sync iPhone and dead mac
I have an iPhone 4 loaded with data (apps, contact, and photos)
iOS 4.x (not using iCloud), This phone was synced with my iMac and worked fine... Suddenly, my hard drive crashes. All my data was on a ...
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1answer
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Time Machine: Can I back up different clients to different disks?
I've got a Mac Pro that I use as, among other things, a Time Machine server. This is currently backing up three machines, including itself. Can I install two disks into the server and have Time ...
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iPhone encrypted backup password forgotten [duplicate]
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I forgot my local backup password to unlock the iPhone backup file
I have forgotten the password used to encrypt my iPhone 4 iOS 6.0.1 backup. Is there any way to ...
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Creating Multiple iPhone encrypted backups
Is it possible to create multiple encrypted backups with different passwords in different iTunes?
For example, if I create an encrypted backup in iTunes 1 with password 'abc' and then plug the ...
2
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2answers
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Is is possible to add tag, notes or labels to backups made by Time Machine?
Is it possible to add label, tag or notes to Time Machine backups. Lets say after fresh reinstall of OS X - label it as "Base System 1" then after few days (at some point with more software/work) ...
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1answer
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Time Machine External Backup Disk Icon
I bought a new external hard drive to use with Time Machine: The Western Digital "My Passport for Mac" 1TB USB 3.0 Hard Disk Drive. This is the second hard drive Time Machine uses, the first one being ...
2
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1answer
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How do I continue to use Time Machine backups after switching my hard disk?
I replaced my HD with an SSD (256 GB), and restored the contents from my Time Machine backup (external HD 320 GB).
Now, after a day of working, I plugged in my external HD to make the next backup. ...
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1answer
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Restore user data, settings and apps from hard-drive copy
Here's the situation:
My GF's MacBook Pro broke, OS would not start at all
I inserted Knoppix Live CD, booted and just copied all of the files from her HD to folder on external HD
I've reinstalled ...
2
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2answers
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iPhone 5 stuck on “your iPhone is being restored”
I got an iPhone 5 and restored it from the iCloud backup of my iPhone 4. Now when I look at the iCloud backup settings for the iPhone 5, it says "Backup options will be available when your iPhone is ...
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3answers
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How can I move photos from iPhone to my local disk?
This has me stumped. I have nearly 4GB of photos and videos on my phone, and I want to put them into my computer's pictures folder.
I have opened Windows Explorer and found the photos in the weird ...
2
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3answers
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What tools exist to recover a file I clobbered using cpp in terminal?
I accidentally typed cpp Scriptname.py DestinationDirectory, intending to copy the Python script into the folder.
I realized afterward that I should have used cp, but now my Python script is ...
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4answers
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How to change the location where iTunes stores backups of iPhones?
When I sync my iPhone 4 with my iTunes, the latter starts to make a backup before doing the actual sync. This backup often takes a lot of time to make, which is very annoying. What is even worse ...
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3answers
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Using Time Machine with Virtualization (Parallels, VirtualBox, VMWare, etc…)
Since a single small change to a VM file should (I think) cause the entire multi-gigabyte file to be backed up again, are there any ideas I can use to more effectively backup my machine?
Assume that ...
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3answers
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How do I backup Mac Server?
It sounds like Time Machine doesn't backup everything on Mac Server:
http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/restoring-mac-os-x-server-from-time-machine/
So what options do I have? Ideally I'd ...
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2answers
176 views
Moving from iDisk backups to new online storage service [closed]
For several years I've been using Apple Backup 3 for my periodic backups and then uploading them to my iDisk. Since iDisk is getting the axe in favor of iCloud I need to find another solution for ...
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Backup MBP to a network attached Disk Drive
Im kind of stuck with this... im following this link?
I get these errors that are in the image.
aka they timed out for some reason.
im upto 5b, stackexchange wont let me put a image...
image ...
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Requirements for backuping large OSx to some larger external storage? Some easy Apple way to do it? [closed]
My iTunes stores my OS X, iPhone and iPad settings. I got this kind of problem in OS X that stores the essential things such as settings and backups. According to this thread here, I need to format ...
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3answers
798 views
How effective is a Time Machine backup?
I'm having a problem with Office not installing correctly and not being able to update. I have one last resort which is Backing up and formatting my system.
However I would like to know how effective ...
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1answer
479 views
Where does Time Machine store its cache? Mine is sometimes corrupted
Whenever a backup is run, Time Machine says "Preparing Backup...". During this stage, it looks for what files have been changed since the last backup by comparing changes in the Event Log (I assume) ...
3
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3answers
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How to backup Bootcamp partition via Time Machine?
I just started using Time Machine for backup of my late 2009 MBP.
So far it's backing up only OS X partition and ignoring Bootcamp partition.
I also see the point Time Machine completely ignores NTFS ...
2
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3answers
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What is the difference between using backup software and copying?
I acquired a backup program - SuperDuper! - recently, and ran it, backing up Macintosh HD to another partition. It seems to me like it just copied everything. My question then is: What is the ...
3
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2answers
329 views
if I restore from my cousins backup would it change my iOS?
Both my cousin and I have backups on my PC and we both have the iPhone 4. However, she has Sprint and iOS 5.1.1 and I have AT&T and 6.0.1.
Could I use her backup to downgrade my iPhone to iOS ...
3
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0answers
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How do I save all MMS (with text, images & videos) from a non-jailbroken iPhone? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Extract SMS messages off iPhone 4
I've got a non jailbroken iPhone 3GS (iOS 4.2.1) with a lot (hundreds) of text messages and MMS. A good number of theses MMS contain ...
0
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0answers
414 views
iPhone synced with multiple Apple ID's- how do I create a backup?
I bought a new iPhone and downloaded (transferred) content from my friend's computer through iTunes. Later, I used a different Apple ID to purchase few apps. Now, I want to backup all of my apps on my ...
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2answers
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What is the best backup strategy for macbook pro laptop?
I have a lot of data on my macbook pro retina laptop and i am looking for the best backup strategy. I have previously had a windows desktop with an external harddrive connected all of the time and a ...
0
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2answers
349 views
How to backup my iPhone 4S contacts to a CD?
Even though iTunes is backing up all my contacts while I'm syncing, the backup still exists on a computer. So I would like to make a backup on another physical medium, just in case my computer or ...
2
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1answer
335 views
Time Machine - Is it backing up system files, preferences, etc?
Problem
My iMac is one which falls under a hard disk replacement program due to a possibly faulty disk made by Seagate in 2010. Because of that I will be soon sending it off to Apple for the disk to ...
3
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4answers
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Why does my phone say I can't backup to iCloud even after deleting lots of video?
I have an iphone 4s and I got an error message saying it can't do a backup because I have more than 5 GB to backup (more details listed on my question here). When i go into the detail i see that the ...
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0answers
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“tmutil” claims many files are different, but Time Machine doesn't back them up?
I was trying to use the "tmutil" utility in Terminal to diagnose a Time Machine problem I had. This utility is used to compare two Time Machine snapshots to see what files are different between the ...
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Time Machine thinks “Latest Backup” is same as current version even though its not?
I've noticed an interesting thing with Time Machine and how it compares the current version of a folder with the Latest Backup version. I have a folder with a single text file. For some reason, when I ...
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0answers
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iMac 27inch (late 2009) -Recovering Mail Rules from cloned drive
Apple recalled my late 2009 iMac recently and fitted a new hard disk. I backed up the entire disk using SuperDuper before it went away, and also had sets of Time Machine backups to hand just in case.
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1answer
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What to do when Time Machine backup is taking forever?
Yesterday I bought a 500Gb external USB drive for the sole purpose of backing up my laptop, which has 45Gb of data. After turning on Time Machine, it began the first backup, but after an hour or so ...
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1answer
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Can I configure and start TIme Machine from the commandLine
I have a problem with my MacBookPro, the left click button on (any) mouse and the trackpad doesnt respond to any clicks, so the only thing that works properly is the keybaord.
I havent been able to ...
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2answers
281 views
iOS: Advantage of fresh install over backup restore?
Are there any advantages in setting up a new iPhone from scratch over restoring a backup of the old one?
I have now my third iPhone and I always used the backup of the predecessor to get it set up. ...
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1answer
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Back up and shut down
At the end of the day, I would like my MacBook Pro to back-up to both Time Machine and Backblaze (or verify that it has done so) and then shut down. Could someone write please write a script that ...
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1answer
174 views
Time Machine deleting backups from several months ago (but not the oldest)?
During its "Cleanup" phase, Time Machine has recently been deleting backups from several months ago—even though these aren't the oldest backups, and my backup drive isn't full.
My backups go back to ...
4
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1answer
203 views
iTunes 10.7: Does listening to songs change their mp3-files?
I use iTunes to listen to music and I use Wuala to backup my mp3-files. Before recent versions of iTunes, I never had any problem with that.
But with more recent versions (I don't know when it ...
1
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1answer
163 views
Disable sparsebundle backups on Network-attached time machine (Lion)?
I am running OS X Lion/10.7.4 and have set up a network disk hosted on an Ubuntu server using directions I found online. Time Machine recognizes the disk and backs up to it. However it backs up as ...
4
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3answers
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Western Digital external hard drive is constantly ejected
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups, and recently my iMac has started to randomly eject the hard drive, preventing backups. It tends to happen while ...
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3answers
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Time machine backups and deleted files
If I delete photos from my current iPhoto library which have been backed up on time machine, will it be possible to recover these photos from my time machine backup once they've been deleted from my ...
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Why are files moving to 'backup' in storage when I delete them off my macbook pro?
Back in the summer I bought an external hard drive for my MacBook Pro because I make videos on YouTube and they obviously take up a lot of space on my computer. The first couple of times I plugged the ...
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0answers
175 views
How can I manage two different contact lists in iTunes?
I'm trying to work out how to best manage having two separate contacts lists, mine and my husbands, to back-up in iCloud and sync to our individual phones through iTunes?
Could you assist with this?
...
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2answers
660 views
Is there a way to change iPhone backup location?
I don't have enough disk space on my PC to store whatever is backed up by iPhone. Is there a way to change location to where iPhone backs up the data? I want to back it up to my external hard drive.
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1answer
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Spotlight's Privacy tab not backed up by Time Machine?
I just did a full restore from Time Machine and noticed that my Spotlight Privacy tab was empty. Am I correct in assuming that this information is not backed up by Time Machine? I believe it's stored ...
