Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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Airport Extreme + USB Drive vs Time Capsule
The price between an airport extreme and 2TB Time Capsule is quite a lot (£100) and as far as I can see the only different is that the Time Capsule has a hard drive built in.
Is there any problems ...
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Why is the HFS Plus attributes file unusually small, for only a while, after using Time Machine to restore a Lion system?
Once after using Time Machine in Lion Recovery OS to restore a system, I noticed that the attributes B-tree was unusually small.
Initially I was worried (had Time Machine failed to backup some ...
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If I encrypt a Time Machine backup disk, is the entire disk encrypted or just the Backups.backupdb directory?
If I check the "Encrypt backup disk" checkbox in Time Machine (in OS X Lion), I get this warning:
Will just the Time Machine "Backups.backupdb" directory be encrypted, or the entire disk? In other ...
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Command Line method to backup using two Time Machine disks
Does anyone know of a command line method to select the active Time Machine disk? I would like to alternate between two backup disks for redundancy. I would like this to be automated, presumably via ...
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Does restoring from Time Machine also restore installed applications?
I am planning to upgrade my late 2009 MacBook Pro (running Snow Leopard) by replacing the 250GB hard drive with a new 1TB drive. I have been maintaining Time Machine backups.
I plan to install the ...
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How do I access the user Library from a Time Machine backup? [duplicate]
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How do you access the user library on a time machine backup
I need to access my library folder in a time machine backup that is from a different mac.
How can I do this?
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Does my Time Machine backup disc need to be dedicated?
I have an external HD that's about 60% full. The remaining space is more than enough for a Time Machine backup of my hard drive. If I enable Time Machine using that disc, will it erase my existing ...
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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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What is the rsync command to restore from a TimeMachine backup
I couldn't get my TimeMachine backup to restore, so I just used rsync. What are the flags I should use? I just used:
rsync -av /path/to/backup /path/to/restore
Can it be that simple?
My backup was ...
