Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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How to increase local cache for remote disk with AppleTalk (macos + ubuntu with netatalk)
I use appletalk to mount a remote disk for the Time Machine backup (sparse image). I use Activity Monitor to check the data transfer during the backup process (the initial backup, over a ssh tunnel ...
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Missing backups from Time Machine
A have a MacBook running Mountain Lion that backups up to a Linux machine over afp (netatalk) using Time Machine.
In Time Machine preferences I can see that the Oldest backup was on 5th March 2012 ...
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Eject disk and get error message “Disk not ejected properly” when unplugging disk
I have an external USB Western Digital disk I use for Time Machine backups.
I eject the disk, the disk icon disappears. I wait a few minutes, then unplug the disk. I end up with a "The disk was not ...
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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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Need to re mount usb drive to complete time machine backup
(24" 2009 iMac running Lion 10.7.5)
I have a Seagate 1t usb hard drive (have done for about 6 months) . I have mounted the drive and set it up as my time machine backup drive.
It will perform the ...
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Reparing a corrupt Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule won't work
I tried to follow these instructions:
http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machine-sparsebundle-nas-based-backup-errors.html
But after typing in the hdiutil command I only get one ...
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Restoring Contacts
I recently tried to switch to carddav to sync my contacts with gmail rather than the native sync in the contacts application. It didnt real work so I went back to the native sync in the contact ...
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Restore 10.8.2 to original developer settings
So I am at a point in a rabbit hole of troubleshooting programming problems (a lot of it seems to involve my gcc and fortran compilers, but I have long lists of libraries interfering with one another) ...
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Inherit Time Machine Backup Snow Leopard
I have a Time Machine backup of a harddisk with Snow Leopard (HD1). The SATA cable for the disk failed and got replaced. The HD was replaced out of precaution as well. The new HD (HD2) got restored ...
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Time Machine: The identity of the backup disk has changed
I have a stock 2GB Time Capsule that I use to backup two macs using Time Machine.
Both machines have been backing up quite happily until the other day, one of the machines gave the following error
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Offsite backup of Time Capsule
I use the CrashPlan software to run backups of my NAS to an offsite machine. I'd also like to use it for backing up a Time Capsule to the remote machine.
How do I do this so I don't impede Time ...
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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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Correct way to backup via Time Machine to a remote Time Capsule
If I have a MacBook through which I will like to access a Remote Time Capsule via Back to My Mac in order to perform updates to my Time Machine backup on said Time Capsule, which should be the correct ...
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backup 3 drives to one time machine disk - selective restore?
ok, so I have 3 disks that i'm backing up to one external time machine disk.
one is my internal system disk, the other 2 are external media drives. everything is backing up just fine, but if i ...
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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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Airport Extreme: How to share a hard drive over the guest network?
I'm offering my Internet to somebody living in another apartment and used an Airport Express to extend my Airport Extreme signal. Since the Aiport Express only extends the "main" network, the other ...
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Time Machine deletes too many backups
I have had Time Machine set up on my laptop running 10.8.2 since about midway through October. I try to plug my laptop in once a day to get a backup in. I've been noticing that it doesn't seem to be ...
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Slow file transfer between Macbook AIr and Time Capsule
The Problem:
I want to copy files from my MacBook Air to my Time Capsule but it is taking a long time. I calculated the rate to be 1.5 Mbps which is very slow. In other forums they say the rate is ...
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What would cause Time Machine to back up my entire Applications folder again?
I just noticed a great deal of activity with my backup disk, and found Time Machine copying some 30 GB+ of files. A routine (~100 MB) backup had just occurred an hour before, and I hadn't made any ...
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Install a smaller new disk from a big Time Machine backup
i have a MacBook Pro (2012) with a 500GB hard drive.
I would like to install a 250GB SDD drive and i want to reinstall via Time Machine.
The problem is obvious : my Time Capsule contains more than ...
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why when I load recovery mode does it say the last timemachine back up was ages ago
My hard drive is fragmented, so I have decided to restore my machine. I have a external hard drive which I use as my time machine drive. I ran time machine and It said that my last back up was an hour ...
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Where do Safari or Chrome store the flash media data
Where do Safari and Chrome store the flash media files? For example, I use Safari/Chrome to listen Pandora during work time, and all my work is done through ssh to other computers. However, in such ...
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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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“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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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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i think my harddrive died? did an internet recovery, whats the status of my computer? can't restore from backup until i get home
so for some reason my 2011 MBP died on my way to work this morning? when i got in and booted it up, it froze. i restarted it and got a flashing folder with a question mark on it.
what does this mean ...
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Backing up a disk image with Time Machine
I'm storing backup of my Gmail account in a disk image, to cut on number of files on the main HFS+ volume. This makes Time Machine ignore the existence of this volume, just because it's in a disk ...
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Time Machine backups - files greyed out in some file paths
My files are greyed out in some paths in Time Machine.
I am backing up to my Dlink sharecenter NAS box.
Here is a screenshot:
I can't click on, or restore these files on my Desktop. Selecting ...
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Backups.backupdb folder is greyed out on my external time machine drive
I use two separate backup drives to backup my iMac and MacBook. I call one drive Time Machine and the other drive Mobile. On Mobile, it shows a folder called Backups.backupdb and inside it has a ...
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Can I restore my entire system (OS, boot, and Bootcamp) with TimeMachine if the Motherboard is replaced?
I'm about to send my Mac to be repaired and want to encrypt the hard drive before doing so.
Assuming I do a full backup prior to encryption, will Time Machine allow me to
Overwrite my encrypted ...
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/.fseventsd (File System Event Store) is empty?
For some reason my /.fseventsd directory (for the File System Event Store) is empty. I suspect this isn't normal, especially because the .fseventsd directory on my external drives have about 15 files ...
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Almost all files are locked in my Time Machine backups?
For some reason my files are getting locked in my Time Machine backups. I mean, when you "Get Info" on one of them, the "Locked" box is checked. Folders are NOT locked, though.
Is this normal? This ...
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Force Time Machine to perform a deep traversal?
How do I force Time Machine to perform a deep traversal? I've had this happen when I needed to once before, when it took about 120 minutes to go through 500 GB and Time Machine found about 10 GB worth ...
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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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Time Machine not fully encrypted. Is it safe to use?
I'm going to format my iMac today and I've just backed up to an external drive using Time Machine.
But I am using encrypted backup, so Time Machine needs to encrypt the whole drive (after it has ...
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How can I copy Time Capsule backups to a remote location?
Time Machine backups are great, but the disk they are on is located at home and therefore vulnerable to being stolen, lost in fire, etc... Additionally the backups are on a NAS drive where I use one ...
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huge time machine backups with mountain lion [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Time Machine Backing Up Large Amounts of Data Each Time
I have an external 2TB USB disc set up for Backup and experience huge backups. Backing up once a week would ...
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Time Machine target disk over WiFi?
I have a Macbook and I need an incremental backup solution over WiFi. Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme with attached HDD is perfect fit. But I want to find cheaper solution if exist.
How about Mac ...
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Setting up Airport Base Station with Uverse AND Sprint Airave
I'm trying to configure my home network so that I can use a drive attached to my airport base station as the Time Machine drive. I think that to do this the Airport needs to control the DHCP and the ...
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Large drives and FileVault/TimeMachine on Mountain Lion
Trying to use a 3TB disk for my backups, still running into what seems to be a known issue with "block sizes". When will this be fixed or how can I fix it myself before a downstream update?
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Can I get Time Machine to resume making backups to an external drive?
I have an external drive that I use to backup my iMac and Macbook to. There is a single folder on that drive called backups.backupdb. Inside that folder is a folder for my iMac and a folder for my ...
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Time machine with renamed drive
I have my main hard drive ("Desktop HD") backed up via Time Machine. A little while ago, I put a new (larger) drive in my machine, named it "Desktop HD 2" temporarily, and cloned my main drive over ...
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How to troubleshoot Migration Assistant & Time Machine restore issues?
I just made a full backup with Time Machine. Ran it yesterday, and then again today. I have two hard drives installed in my Mac. The primary drive has the OS, Applications, data, etc. The secondary ...
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Time Machine : Can't find deleted files in Time machine
I just took Backup of my mac via Time Machine, the problem is :
I can't see my file in Time Machine which i deleted it from mac.
Is it true that if i delete some files from mac they will be deleted ...
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Can not restore Time Machine back up
I created a time machine backup to a USB drive, encrypted partition, subtracting the OS (since i figured we'd reload OS anyway). I then took the mac to the Apple Store, where they changed the bad hard ...
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Can't revert CoreStorage, can't reformat physical disk
I bought a new USB drive to use with Mountain Lion's ability to target more than one disk for Time Machine backups. When I first set up the drive, I decided to try encrypting it, which I'm now ...
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How to backup external NTFS drive via Time Machine?
I currently have an external, HFS+ drive as my time machine storage that backs up my Macbook Pro Retina (Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8.1). I also have another external NTFS drive (that I share with my ...
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Time Machine does not save PPPoE, VPN settings and install receipts
The question is why? Damnation, every time I upgraded (clean installs, SL to L, L to ML) I had to manually re-enter VPN and PPPoE settings. Since I re-instated my stuff from a Time Machine backup, I ...
