Questions tagged [time-machine]
Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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"Compress item" inside Time Machine backup
Trying to compress (by right-click + "Compress item") an item inside a Time Machine drive's /Volumes/drive_name/mac_name/Latest folder will put the resulting .zip file on /Users/user_name/Desktop on ...
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Removing Spotlight index for a no-more-existent Time Machine drive
Suppose that an old full Time Machine drive is attached to a new macOS installation, and configured as the main backup storage (but no backup of the new position already begun). Spotlight started ...
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Inheriting Time Machine and merging old history
Last year I replaced my MacBook Pro's internal OEM SSD with a larger one from Other World Computing. A side effect of that migration was that my main drive was renamed from “Macintosh HD” to “OWC ...
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What non-essential directories can I exclude from TimeMachine?
I want to have the most # of backups of my actual files, not of temporary files, and easily restorable data.
What can I exclude from a Time Machine backup to get the most efficient backups?
(I use ...
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Can't restore from Time Machine server
I have a Mac mini running 10.14.5 as a server. In System Preferences / Sharing I set up a shared folder on second internal drive HFS+ formatted drive for time machine backups. Backing up and entering ...
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Time Machine is skipping files and folders. How to fix?
Running OS X 10.10.2 on a Early 2009 Mac Pro. System installed on a 256 GB solid state drive. 10 GB of memory.
I'm having a problem with Time Machine where it's not backing up some of my files and ...
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Time Machine backing up way more space than hard drive contains
I have a new MacBook Air running 10.14.5 (Mojave, non-beta). The drive is 500GB and formatted APFS.
The initial Time Machine backup has been running for about 24 hours and still isn't finished.
But ...
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Time Machine Backup Failed
Ive been using my Time Machine for almost 3 years without any problems. It's a 3 TB LaCie. This week it has decided to stop backing up my work. I tried repairing the disk and unmounting and remounting ...
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Difference in encrypting a sparse bundle for Time Machine before or after mounting the drive?
I created a sparse bundle to use as my Time Machine back up
hdiutil create -size 800g -encryption -type SPARSEBUNDLE -fs "HFS+J" -volname TimeMachineEncrypted TimeMachineEncrypted.sparsebundle
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Partition external SSD (Win10 already installed) for Mac
My situation:
I successfully installed Windows 10 on a Samsung T5 external SSD (size of 1TB) which I can boot into using my MacBook Pro 13" (2017 model w/ 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports). Under Windows, the ...
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Why is my external HDD active when I'm not using it?
I have a partitioned external HDD (orange LaCie), with one partition for Time Machine. All partitions are Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). The HDD is GUID Partition Map.
I'm not (consciously) ...
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External HD (Time Machine) sleep issues
I have a 4TB WD external hard drive with three partitions on it, one being a Time Machine partition. When a Time Machine backup is running and the computer goes to sleep, it triggers a few different ...
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How can I read a time machine backup on a Windows PC?
I want to recover some files from a time machine backup (an external harddisk) but the I have only access to a Windows 10 Pro PC right now.
Is it possible to read from the time machine backup from a ...
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Lost space after removing bootcamp partition via bootcamp assistant [duplicate]
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i lost 150gb space after deleting the partition via boot camp assistant and the disk utility won't recover it or partition it as one disk
i tried to recover by timemachine but the disk ...
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If Migration Assistant is interrupted, will it resume from where it left off?
I stopped my MA and started it again and the new estimated spaces to transfer are different (I took a picture before the first attempt). Just want to make sure that’s what’s happening, and not that ...
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How to completely reset or remove and restore Safari in Mojave
Safari is bugged in my macbook. It's a macbook air 2019 with mojave 10.14.5
The problem is I can't delete bookmarks nor save new ones on it because it ask to keep or remove firefox bookmarks, which ...
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Use Time Machine disk as regular disk without deleting all the files
I have a disk that was a Time Machine backup for some photo files. I now want to use that disk as a regular disk. Can I do that without erasing the photo files?
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Is it necessary to "Restore" files from a Time Machine backup if I can already access them directly from the backup disk using Finder?
I have an external hard drive that I've separated into two partitions: one that I use for additional file storage, and one that I use as a dedicated Time Machine backup disk. Something has gone wrong ...
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Retaining current files in Dropbox after restoring Time Machine backup
My mac recently had a software problem and I need to restore a time machine backup to get the mac working again.
I do not want to restore any dropbox files to their earlier state, especially since I ...
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Time Machine Backup: separate configurations for different drives?
I have limited storage on a NAS to which Time Machine backs up documents. I’ve excluded system file directories and a few more to save space. I also have a large portable drive. A few times a year I ...
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external hd mac ntfs 3g could not mount
I got an external hd "clickfree hd" but when trying it with my Mac I get the following error:
ntfs 3g could not mount, error
I have tried NTFS-3G, MacFuse and FuseOSX. I'm running Lion but this ...
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What is the best approach to ejecting disk while in sleep mode, scheduled?
So, I have an external HDD which is being used for Time Machine.
After getting to home, I usually connect my MacBook to a HDD via Hub and put it into sleep mode. Because I sometimes get back home ...
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Using Time Machine with 2 internal drives
My sister's 2012 MacBook is running terribly slow, so I adviced her to install an ssd. Since there are budget constraints, the best option would be to install de HDD in the optical bay place for ...
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Finding and Renaming Mislabeled Duplicates
I inadvertently formatted a Time Machine backup external hard drive. I was able to recover many of the files, but not the names of those files.
All of the recovered files have generic names like "...
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Backup disk not recognized by Time Machine
I am having trouble getting Time Machine to recognize my backup external HD, which is mounted and has been used successfully (yesterday) before.
Background: I just partitioned my drive to do a Boot ...
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Creating different quotas for specific machines with Time Machine?
I've got Ubuntu server 18 running AFP (Netatalk 3.1.12) and avahi dæmon. This takes the role of a time machine server I use with currently one mac. I would like to use this with several other macs, ...
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Add Time Machine files to an existing account with Migration Assistant
I have a Time Machine backup from Mac A (now retired), containing 4 accounts worth of data. I would like to add the data from one of these accounts to an existing account on Mac B (replacement for Mac ...
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Error on TimeMachine (unable to backup)
Until the mid-april I was used Time Machine with no problem but now no backup is possible (Time Machine starts, finds the drive, prepares the copy and stops). In the log I have found the following ...
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Error creating backup disk image 512
Trying to utilize the new smb capabilities (4.8.2) to share a Time Machine capable drive to my new 2017 MBpro running High Sierra. I can get the drive to show up in the TM manager, and successfully ...
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Pulling out WhatsApp from backup - without restoring iPhone
I have Mac (now Pro, then Air)- and iPhone backup regularly using TimeMachine.
Is there a way restoring only backed-up text from WhatsApp without restoring entire iPhone?
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Can't delete old TimeMachine backup
In terminal, trying to do the following:
$ sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458/
Deleting: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458
I get ...
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After Security Update 2019-003, OpenLDAP is corrupted. How can I recover?
I installed the Security Update 2019-003 this morning. The update went awry, and produced on (postgres) induced panic on the host, a second attempt succeeded. After the update, slapd will not launch ...
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iMac runs from external SSD. How do I use Time Machine to back up the external SSD to the internal HDD?
I am using an external SSD as my iMac boot drive, and that is terrific. I want to back that up using Time Machine and have the back up on my old internal HDD in the iMac.
How do I do it?
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efficient duplication of Time Machine backups to remote location
I have been using both Arq and Time Machine for backup for years, but a year or so ago I got unlimited Google Drive space and decided to try making a remote backup (with Arq) of my Time Machine drive.
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Where is Time Machine restoration software installed?
I am seeking to upgrade a MacBook Air MacBookAir4,1 (11-inch, Mid 2011), running OS X El Capitan and Office 2011. The SSD is documented here.
If a Time Machine backup is made, does the new SSD need ...
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Interpreting various First Aid error messages
Can someone provide documentation or their own knowledge to interpret the below messages? I've researched this diligently but no post has the same combination of messages that I have. There are 5 ...
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Transfer time machine backups from unmountable HDD
I am attempting to access time machine backups on an external hard drive that I have, and transfer them over to a new HDD. Both drives are 2TB. The drive with the time machine backups will not mount, ...
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iCloud (re)uploading all my documents again
I have recently bought a new Macbook Pro 13" (i7, 16GB) and to do the switch from the old one to this one, I have installed Mojave and restored it from my other Macbook Pro's Time Machine backup. This ...
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What actions create cloned files on APFS volumes?
As you know, High Sierra (HS) includes a feature called “file cloning.” [EDITORIAL NOTE: Initially I'd written that, based on my discussion with the developer, I gathered Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) ...
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Can I restore my data to an older version of macOS?
I had to send in my old Mac (10.11) for screen repair, and worked on a replacement MacBook with 10.14. Now, I'd like to transfer my data back from the replacement's Time Machine to the old Mac. I don'...
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Does Time machine backup apps data and OS configuration? [duplicate]
Does Time machine backup apps data and OS configuration or just apps and files?
Coming from Windows with a 3rd party full disk image backup(Note :I mean a disk clone, not the Windows' default backup ...
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Restoring CCC or TimeCapsule from MacBookPro (2017) to new (2018)
I had a MacBook Pro 2017 stolen. Luckily I have 2 backups:
Time capsule (day old)
Carbon Copy Cloner USB hard drive (30 days old)
MacBook Pro 2017 was running Sierra (or High Sierra?) now I forgot
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How do I configure Time Machine to backup my Macs to iCloud?
I have the 2 TB iCloud storage plan and back up my iPhones and iPads there. How do I configure Time Machine to do the same with my MacBook Pro's and Mac Mini's?
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How to connect to SMB network drive only when on network?
I use an SMB network drive as a Time Machine backup from a Macbook on my home network.
What is the correct way of "lazily" connecting to that network drive so that it automatically connects when I'm ...
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Time Machine says "Next backup: When disk is connected" even though disk is connected
After upgrading to MacOS High Sierra, Time Machine now says "Next backup: When disk is connected", even though the disk is indeed already connected. Also, automatic backups are still being ...
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I am trying to clone a 2TB drive that has mac os x 10.6.8 onto a smaller drive but dont know what I am doing
I have a Mac Pro that I cant install an OS onto at the moment because I do not have snow leopard. I do have a bootable 2TB Western Digital drive that comes from an identical Mac Pro that has 10.6.8 ...
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Delete all backups of specific file/folder with tmutil
I'm trying to delete all backups of specific items through the command line. I can accomplish this using the GUI through the following steps:
Enter Time Machine
Navigate to the file to be deleted ...
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If I exclude a folder from Time Machine, will it be deleted from old backups?
I want to save space on my backup drive by excluding some folders I don't care about. I also want them to be deleted from my old backups so I can keep them for longer.
If I add folder exclusions, ...
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Gap in Apple Messages sent/received during macOS reinstall
I backed up my Mac with Time Machine, erased the drive, and reinstalled 10.14.4 from USB. After the install process was complete, I restored my data from the Time Machine backup I had made a couple ...
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Replacing HDD with SSD; what about non-APFS/APFS?
iMac 27-inch, Late 2013, macOS up-to-date
I would like to back up my internal HDD (non-APFS) with Time Machine. Then erase the HDD. Then have the HDD replaced with a new internal SSD. Then restore ...