Preserving copies of data which enable recovery from a data loss event.
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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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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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Why does a Time Machine backup not complete when destination is a Shared Volume?
I have six Macs in my house, all running the latest, greatest version of Snow Leopard. I also have an eMac (PPC) running Leopard 10.5.8. I use the eMac as a file and print server. The eMac has two ...
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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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Error when restoring a iOS 4.3.5 backup onto a iOS 5 device
I have tried several times with several backups, but i keep getting the message that the backup is corrupted or not compatible.
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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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Time Machine stuck on “Preparing Backup”
I have a MacBook Pro from 2009. It came with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but I upgraded to 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
A few days ago, I tried to backup my files on an external hard drive, like I have ...
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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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How do I restore itunes library onto another computer
I followed all the steps as suggested for backing up and restore iTunes library in the apple support website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751 but I have problems with the 'choose library' part in ...
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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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How to jailbreak iPod Touch 2g without losing data?
I have an iPod Touch 2nd Generation, 8GB that runs firmware version 4.2.1, and currently it is not jailbroken.
I want to jailbreak it using redsn0w version 0.9.6b4. I have found these instructions. ...
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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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iCloud backup does not show up in restore list
The only iCloud backups that show up in the list when choosing to restore a brand-new iPhone (4S) are ones from November last year. However, I know that there should be much more recent backups than ...
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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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backup without using TimeMachine [duplicate]
I have NAS(DS212J) and I used TimeMachine to backup Retina macbook pro. But it always crush after some period.
Is there any software as like SyncBackupSE(freeware) for Windows that it backups data ...
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Need to retore applications folder from an old time machine backup
I have a macbook air running OSX 10.7.5. I have had a problem with the App Store not connecting. Apple could not resolve it, so I have done a clean install. Now I wish to restore various folders from ...
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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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Remove missing pictures in iPhoto
My iPhoto (iLife 11, version 9.1.5) committed sepuku. No fear, I have backups.
The backups I restored, instead of having 182GB of poorly taken pictures, ended up taking 276GB. Something failed with ...
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Time machine backup/restore: “This user's data doesn't need to be transferred”
So, I had a MacBook Pro 15", Late 2011, that I've been using daily since I got it last October. I set up time machine and every day after work, I would bring my laptop home and plug it into my time ...
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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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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, ...
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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 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 ...
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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 can I combine text messages from my old iPhone with my new iPhone?
I just bought a new iPhone 5 and used it before restoring the backup from my old iPhone 4. Now I would like to restore the backup from my old phone without loosing the text messages already on my new ...
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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 best to restore BootCamp partition from Acronis TrueImage backup?
The replacement for my dead Macbook Pro Retina arrived yesterday, and the Mac side of things was restored from a Synology NAS in 30 mins, which was great...
But on the BootCamp partition, it's a ...
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Which iSCSI initiator should I use on Lion?
I am setting up a video editing / encoding workstation based on a mac mini and a freenas box for mass storage. We plan to use iSCSI to share the disk with the mac and had planned on using GlobalSAN's ...
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Console reports “sandboxd deny mach-lookup” … Should I modify system.sb?
I'm getting two errors in the console at the same time TimeMachine is running and taking FOREVER to make any progress.
1/4/13 9:41:38.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(5838) deny mach-lookup ...
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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?
