Preserving copies of data which enable recovery from a data loss event.
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Time Machine Backup at night only works when Laptop lid is opened
Important: I back up to a time capsule, via wifi.
I set my computer up to automatically wake up at 2:58 AM.
At 2:59 AM I run a script that launches "caffeinate -s", in order to prevent my MacBook to ...
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Time Machine/Time Capsule: What is the difference between “Waiting for index to be ready (100)” and “Waiting for index to be ready (101)”?
What's the difference between these (100) and (101) indexing processes?
Having finally created a successful backup to Time Capsule using Time Machine under Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63), I'm still ...
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Backing up an External USB Drive to TimeMachine then Restoring Without Drive Connected?
I have just configured my iMac to backup my external USB harddrive in addition to the internal drive.
I have just tested restoring some files from the TimeMachine backup, by selecting the USB drive ...
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“Failed to upgrade encrypted tmbootpicker.efi” in Time Machine backups
I've noticed the error "Failed to upgrade encrypted tmbootpicker.efi: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=-50 "Could not find any Apple_Boot corresponding to the encrypted volume..." ...
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Moved my time machine backup drive to another computer, can see it but won't recognise old backups
I've been using an external hard drive on my MacBook for time machine for a year or so. Now I have a Mac Mini too and have connected the external hard drive to that for the same purpose.
I want to ...
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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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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 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 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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How can I omit FCPX Render Files from a Time Machine backup?
I want to be able to add my Final Cut Projects and Events folders to Time Machine, but annoyingly Apple have decided to put a Render Files folder within each and every Events folder.
Is there a way ...
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Huge time machine backup on NAS needs to be compacted
I am backing up to a QNAP NAS latest firmware using their Time Machine functionality which works great. I run VMware Fusion and learned that it isn't a good idea to backup the VM's. My TM backup for ...
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Timemachine encryption restore/backup?
I'm trying to automate the creation of an encrypted sparsebundle and configure backup for a 10.7 machine using a TimeCapsule. I've created the script below
http://pastebin.com/D2nQk1j1
#!/bin/bash
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Restoring Win7 image to new bigger partition in Mac OS Mountain Lion
I had 80% of my HDD for Mac and 20% for win7... I needed more space on Win7 so I did the following:
Created disk image of Windows partition, using Mac's Disk Utility
Used Boot Camp Assistant to ...
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iCloud seems to delete Notes taken on my Mac when offline
I have just set up the Notes.app on my MBP (Running OSX 10.8.2) to link up with my iCloud account so that I could begin working with synchronised notes.
I make a lot of notes while I am out and about ...
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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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Why is Mountain Lion saying it can't do time machine backups to my time capsule hard drive?
I've got a MacBook Air that has been successfully backing up via Time Machine to my Time Capsule hardrive. Since I updated to Mountain Lion I'm getting the following error:
the backup disk is not in ...
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How can I mount a backup drive only on demand?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" with the SuperDrive removed. As the primary boot drive I have an SSD, and in the SuperDrive slot I have a larger spinning disk.
Each night, I use SuperDuper to clone the SSD ...
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Trouble backing up my Mac (with Time Machine) to my WD passport
I just bought a 1 TB WD passport (external hard drive) to backup my Mac. I'm currently operating on a Mac OS x 10.5.8 (Leopard) with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
To format the drive I
erased ...
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Cannot access backups in Time capsule
I have a Time Capsule which I originally used with a MacBook Air running Snow Leopard.
Now I purchased a new MacBook Air with Lion and am trying to transfer my old backups on the Time Capsule and I ...
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Backup/Copying external Hard drive to Time Capsule
I'm trying to copy everything on an External hard drive to my Time Capsule. I figured plugging it into the Time Capsule would be quickest. But if I start the copy on my Macbook (wireless) will the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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).
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Time Machine backup is 10% of actual disk size
I used a brand new external HDD and had time machine do a backup. My HDD size is 481GB, but the only space used on the external HDD is 40GB. Under the users directory, I do not see my own folder ...
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MobileBackups not working
Some time ago, when looking at my Storage in System Information, I noticed that the occupied size for Backups is Zero KB. My first guess was, I may have turned local backups of and therefore tried ...
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iPhone error message - “Last backed up to icloud: Unknown”
I tried to back up to iCloud through my computer with my phone attached and I get a message that says:
Last backed up to iCloud: Unkown.
I went to settings on my phone (iPhone 4) and to the ...
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Moving /.MobileBackups to USB or SD drive on Mountain Lion / OSX 10.8.2
I've used the excellent tutorial found here Any way to change the location of Time Machine local backups (./MobileBackups) to another drive?
to move the local snapshots folder off of my SSD and onto a ...
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Backup and Removal of photos from iPhoto Library
I have a large number of photos within iPhoto 11 and I want to backup and reduce the size of my local iPhoto library to free up disk space on my laptop.
One scenario I've tried is:
Show iPhoto ...
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Why is m y iPhone backup so large?
I've already synced my phone to iPhoto and emptied the camera roll.
There is no application data category listed that is more than 100 MB or so, and yet it says that the backup is 4.9 GB. There ...
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Cannot recover system Volume after renaming backup volume name
In an iBook G4 running Tiger (10.4) I have a situation where I created with Disk Utility a "Restore" full backup of my system Volume to a partition on an external USB disk.
My system Volume ...
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How to seed TimeMachine backup on Linux/Ubuntu?
I've set up a TimeMachine Netatalk share on my Ubunutu server that I would like to use for a TimeMachine destination. However, I don't want to do the full backup over the network - it will take a ...
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Time-Machin back-up through IP
Is it possible to use "Time-Machine" with an external hard-drive through an IP?
I have an external HD connected to a Raspberry Pi and I have installed SSH. What I am hoping to achieve is this:
I ...
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How can I backup and restore only the “Dashboard” (do a 3 finger up swipe to see it)
I have several notes I saved on my dashboard that I would like to retrieve. I have them saved on a time machine backup, but due to a virus I re formatted my system.
How do I restore my Dashboard?
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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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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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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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“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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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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How to stop Time Machine from creating entirely new backup of external drive?
I've included an external drive to be backed up into Time Machine. For a few days, the drive was disconnected, however, so only Macintosh HD was getting backed up. I recently re-added the external ...
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iCloud nuances and specifics when backing up or restoring?
Backstory
I upgraded from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5.
This is the processed I used in order to migrate my data over.
Plug-in and Sync completely the iPhone 4 -- Making sure to backup to the ...
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Apple RAID configuration vs Hardware RAID
I am researching external HDD's capable or RAID 1 to store a large amount of video content during overseas filming. After filming, the content will be brought back to the office and offloaded onto our ...
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Raid backup drives and hard drive speed
I use two different Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II drive systems. The first is for my movies and music and is a 2 TB mirrored drive (Raid 1,4TB total). The second is a 1 TB mirrored drive ...
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How to delete an individual machine (which I do no longer own) from Time Capsule backups?
I decided to take advantage of Mountain Lion's ability to encrypt backups, and I noticed that the Time Machine app is capable of deleting individual backups.
That being said, I've got other backups ...
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What is a good way to backup a disk mounted to an Airport Extreme?
So I'm overly cautious about having backups of my stuff.
I have 3 MacBook Pros
Mine
My Wife's
My old one which now serves as our iTunes/iPhoto server, etc...
I also have a 500GB disk attached to ...
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Facebook deleted email addresses from Contacts, how to restore?
Most of my contacts that I'm also connected with on Facebook, no longer have any email address in Contacts. Sigh!
The problem is described here:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13197
I ...
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Time Machine secondary disk backup
I have two disks in my Mac Book Pro (the other is in the ODD bay). One of them is SSD and the other is a bigger HDD for photos and iMovie projects I use seldom. I tend to eject the HDD so that it ...
