Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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Cleaning up time machine
Is there a way to remove some of the absurdly old back ups from my time machine so I can continue using the disk that is now too full?
Or is this even the best idea?
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Any way to extract notes from iPod Touch backup?
Is there any way for me to extract notes from an iPod Touch backup? I had forgotten to back up the notes on my old iPod Touch and subsequently lost all my notes on it. It's been a year and a half now, ...
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How can I avoid Time Machine starts to back up files right after the Mac is restarted?
Sometimes I have to restart my Mac Mini because an application blocks it.
When I restart it, Time Machine starts to back up files right after 10 seconds I restarted the Mac, and it makes it slowly (I ...
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How to get particular folders from time machine backup?
I'm going to perform a clean install of OS X. I have a Time Machine backup.
I want to restore just particular folders, not everything. Is that possible?
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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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Where are my Pages documents?
Recently replaced iMac hard drive through recall program. Used Time Machine/Seagate Backup Drive. Everything seems to be restored but my Pages documents. How do I find them?
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Why don't my Time Machine backups get corrupted?
I have a theoretical question about Time Machine. I've used TM for several years (since Leopard), and have never once had a problem.
Here's my question: When I restart my machine, why doesn't the ...
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Terminal bash name
Right now I have a Mac Mini. I migrated macbook pro data from a time machine, but I didn't do it from the beginning of my startup. I used the migration assistance to migrate the data. However, I'm ...
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Time Machine server with rotated disks
I'm setting up a Time Machine server on my Linux box using netatalk. To provide redundancy, I want to periodically swap out the disk netatalk is using.
AFAICT, from the perspective of the Macs, the ...
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Restoring OS X Server Data from Time Machine
How does one restore OS X Server data from time machine on another server?
I had a Mac mini with OS X Server (Mountain Lion). It had Time Machine backups and this weekend the server experienced a ...
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What to do when my Time Machine drive is getting disk errors?
My Time Machine drive is getting disk errors. I used Disk Utility and ran "Repair Disk" on my Time Machine partition (NOT the drive) and I got the error "Incorrect number of directory hard links" ...
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Disable TimeMachine Drive in Finder
When I open a Save as dialog, Finder starts to scan my external TimeMachine drive which needs to "boot up" some seconds. This makes the dialog very unresponsive, because it waits for the drive to be ...
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How to create hand-made Time Capsule
I've got a WiFi router (Asus) and an external HDD, connected to it by USB.
The router gives access to the HDD by FTP and SMB protocol.
It's working good as external storage for my MacBook Pro, but I ...
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Why can I not reject the exclusion of a partition in Time Machine?
I have a MacBook Air 11-inch Mid-2012 running OS X 10.8.2. I have an external hard drive connected via USB. The hard drive has two partitions: an HFS+ partition that I use for Time Machine and a NTFS ...
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Time Machine after formatting still works?
I would like to format my mac, and be able to access old files, photos... from my previous time machine backup.
I have backed up my mac with time machine and I am uncertain if after formatting I will ...
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TimeMachine restore issue
Times ago I did a "restore from time machine backup" in order to restore all my files on a new SSD I bought for my macbookpro (with OSX Lion), and all went fine.
Today I installed Mountain Lion on ...
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Can I fix this problem backing up Time Machine to an external HD via Airport Extreme?
I'm using a MacBook Pro and I decided to try using my WD Passport external HD wirelessly by connecting it to my Airport Extreme. I had previously used this external HD for storing things as well as ...
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Couldn't Modify Partition Map using external disk
Seems the most common relationship to this error is using Windows on a separate partition. Here is my problem. I have a 1 TB external disk that was used half for Time Machine and half for general ...
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Selectively restore from a time machine backup created on snow leopard to a different machine running mountain lion
I have a current time machine backup on USB from an older machine running snow leopard 10.6. How can I selectively restore applications and data from this time machine disk to a new mac running ...
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Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes?
Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes?
You know, that what you might click and add in TimeMachine Settings > Options ...
Can't find ...
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Time Machine Question
Is it possible to use Time Machine such that I can restore the machine to specific date in time? By restore I mean fully restoring the exact same files system wide.
For instance, today I'm sure that ...
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Time Machine performing a mobile Backup to a location I can't find anywhere
First of all:
I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.4 on a recent MacBook Pro, have a local USB hard drive (1TB) Time Machine is configured to use for backups – this works perfectly fine.
Additionaly, I once ...
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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) ...
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Restoring my current Time Machine (Lion) with my DVD of Leopard?
I have bought a new HD and I want to remplace the one I have in my MBP. In wonder if I will be able to restore my current backup made by Time Machine, since I've upgraded my OS to Lion (Using Apple ...
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How to backup NAS using Time Machine
I just purchased a new Iomega NAS IX2-200 4TB. I need to regularly backup this NAS. Time Machine would be the best option. How do I setup so the Time Machine will backup this NAS to my external Hard ...
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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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Move an old Time Machine folder (NOT volume!) to a different disk
I have an old Time Machine backup that I moved from its volume to a folder on a different disk. Now I want to move it to yet another volume. The problem is that the volume where the backup folder is ...
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Can't delete copied Time Machine files
I'm trying to move my time machine backup files all under Backups.backupdb to another drive. I initiated a file copy overnight. In the morning I saw that only certain backups(folders with dates) got ...
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Why does Time Machine only backup after a reboot?
I have a Mini running Lion Server that has a USB hard drive attached to it for backups. I also have a MBP running Lion that I've set to use that same drive as a remote backup destination over the ...
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Time Machine Backup to a Windows computer
Is it possible to do a time machine backup from a MacBook Pro to a Windows 7 PC?
(i.e. use Windows 7 as a time capsule)
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How can I use more than one connected drive for Network Time Machine backups on Lion Server?
In Leopard Server, via Server Admin, you were able to enable multiple partitions to be Time Machine Backup Destinations. In Lion Server, there seems to only be an option to have one Time Machine ...
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Snow Leopard Time Machine backups are not visible in Lion
I upgraded to Lion recently. I noticed tonight that backups performed on Snow Leopard do not show in the Time Machine interface so I cannot restore from them. If I browse my backup volume I can see ...
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Desktop icon for drobo changes
I have a Drobo which is attached to my MacBook Pro via USB. When I boot into OSX Lion (and Snow Leopard before it) I would get a Drobo icon on the desktop. The icon looks like a shiny rendered picture ...
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How do I delete just the Time Machine files on my Drobo external filesystem?
I have a folder on my Drobo called "HFS+ Private Directory Data" and it contains old Time Machine data. I cannot delete it and do not want to reformat my drobo. I have tried 'option' trashing and ...
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Using time machine backup data from newly installed OS X Lion
I need to replace my HDD to SDD, and I think of upgrading to OS X Lion.
Can I use my old backup in time machine HDD from Snow Leopard when I have clean install with Mac OS X Lion? I mean, can I open ...
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Lion AFP Time Machine Backups
I have a MacBook Pro & a Mac Pro, both have fresh installs of Lion. I've also set up the Mac Pro as a Lion Server. I've set up a few AFP shares on the Mac Pro & I notice there's no "Time ...
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How can I make Time Machine work with my Netgear WNDR3700 router?
The story is this:
I just upgraded to Mac OS Lion and as it turns out it won't work with my Samba share in the way Snow Leopard used to, for TimeMachine backups. After a bit of Googling I found that ...
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Time Machine not starting when I connect the HDD
I have a 500 GB WD My Passport with two partitions on it, one of which is set as a Time Machine backup drive. The problem is that the backup doesn't start automatically when I connect the HDD. Any ...
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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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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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Move of time machine backup: unable to “restore”
I want to use a new hard drive for time machine. I try to restore the old backup into the new disk using disk utility. It fails with the following error :
source volume is read-write and cannot be ...
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scripting keychain - disk image - timecapsule
If I click though the gui configuration of time capsule in 10.8 and choose encrypt back ups, 3 things are installed in my keychain.
I have scripted the creation of these 3 keys but am having ...
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Clicking help on Time Machine “to improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you” message cancels it?
On a fairly new machine running 10.8.3 I'm getting the message:
Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “<disk>”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new ...
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Time Machine error - The backup disk is not available - Using internal disk for TM
I have an old Mac Pro that I would like to use as a Time Machine server for my small company. I just put in some spare hard drives in the unused bays, and set up a mirrored RAID set to use for Time ...
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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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If I turn on FileVault for a TimeMachine drive, are previous backups encrypted
I have been running TimeMachine for a couple of months, but just now decided to encrypt my backups. Having ticked the box for encryption for my backup drive, TimeMachine nows says I have no previous ...
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Can I restore from a Time Machine backup without booting to the Recovery HD?
At work we have a Time Machine drive on the network. I'm trying to restore one of our machine's backup to an external drive. When I boot into the Recovery HD, I can't reach the network drive. Is there ...
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Time Machine Backup causes Macbook Pro to hang
My Macbook Pro has suddenly started acting pretty funky. I will be running Blender for a few minutes and then it will turn on the fans and they will start getting faster and faster. I checked the CPU ...
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TimeCapsule crashes OS X in every backup in PowerNap
From connection of TimeCapsule / TimeMachine setup my MacBook crashes every night when it tries to do the backup on PowerNap. I find it restarted in the morning not sleeping in state I left it.
When ...
