Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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TimeMachine backup username changed and unable to restore after HDD replacement
I'm in a bind! My late '09 iMac running OSX 10.7 (Lion) was repaired under the Seagate warranty replacement for a faulty 1TB internal HDD. Prior to taking it to the Apple Store for the repair, I ...
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I am sharing an external drive with two partitions through my Time Capsule. I am sharing them over WAN but can only see one partition?
I recently purchased the 1TB LaCie Rugged external drive. I created a 120GB HSF+ partition titled "HSF" and a 790GB MS-DOS partition titled "Drive".
I am currently sharing the disk over WAN but I ...
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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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How to undo a Time Machine restore?
I just attempted to restore a folder from TimeMachine. I was expecting that TM would ask me where to put the restored folder (as it has done in the past, IIRC), but this time it didn't, and instead ...
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Weird issues ejecting external hard drive
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups (and storage of a few other large files). Recently (since Mountain Lion, I think) I've been getting the following ...
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Can't ping a linux server with MacOSX. Software related
I'm having an huge problem with my Mac, from months.
I have at home a linux server, a CuBox. It's running Archlinux, running fine. Everything works.
But the Mac can't ping the CuBox.
I will paste ...
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Time Machine sharing external hard drive with windows
Is it possible to backup both Windows 7 and Mac OS X to the same Time Machine?
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Using TimeMachine backups after changing (short) username on OS X?
I changed my (short) username on OS X Mountain Lion using the instructions mentioned here.
I am guessing that would sort of invalidate all the TimeMachine backups I had till now. Is there a way to ...
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How can I set up my Time Capsule to talk with my laptop over the LAN?
I have a Time Capsule that I'm having trouble getting to register with my MacBook Pro off of the LAN. The LAN is a DHCP network that should be assigning addresses dynamically.
Time Machine ...
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Can Time Machine be setup to back up only one folder?
I am beginning to make a project on my Mac, let's call it MyProject, and it's the only thing on this computer that is worth backing up.
Therefore, I will only need Time Machine to back up just the ...
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Will time machine wipe out my old time machine backups if I move it to a new mac (or upgrade os x)?
I recently had the IT guys here at work wipe my hard drive and upgrade my mac to 10.8 from 10.6. And other than spending a few days getting it up and running again and spaces being jacked it is going ...
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Time Machine error in server.app 10.8
I currently have a Mac Mini with 10.8 and server.app 2.2 installed. The server is currently only set up with File Sharing and Time Machine services running. It is handing out network Time Machine ...
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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 does deliver higher transfer speed for Timemachine backup to ubuntu? NFS or AppleTalk (netatalk)?
I want to do Time Machine backups to an ubuntu server. It is a hosted remote machine, not in my LAN.
So far, I have found two approaches to realize the connection between the computer and the backup ...
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Use time machine for backing up a different computer
I've been over many faq's and troubelshooting but can't seem to find an answer to this.
I'm currently running my mac from an external HD. My internal got corrupted, I can't repair it with disc ...
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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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external hd mac ntfs 3g could not mount
I got an external hd "clickfree hd" but when trying it in my mac i get
ntfs 3g could not mount, error
i have tried, NTFS-3G, MacFuse, FuseOSX
im runnig lion,
and seems not to be working,
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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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How select date of full backup to restore with Time Machine - NOT the latest backup
My hard drive died after files started disappearing for a couple days. I ended up getting a new Mac since the computer was old anyway.
I'm worried that the last couple days of Time Machine backups ...
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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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How do I reinstall the OS when buying a MacBook Pro since no install media was delivered to me?
I just bought a refurbished MacBook (through a reputable retailer) and 3rd party external drive for Time Machine backups. There are no install discs and my concern is that after the warranty ends (90 ...
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Moving from Snow Leopard directly to Mountain Lion with Time Machine
First time I've asked a question here but I've used Stack Exchange for answers to many many OSX questions so, first off, great big thanks for that.
I searched the archives but didn't find an answer ...
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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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Backing up a large sparsebundle using Time Machine
I use a large (presently 16GB) sparsebundle as a container for all of my professional work. This is convenient for me because it is an isolated, secure, "portable" entity where all of my work can be ...
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How do I eject the Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?
How do I set Time Machine to eject my external Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?
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Time machine error backup failed with error 11
I have a western digital 2TB hard disk (wd caviar green) connected through a unitek sata hdd docking station with my macbook air (10.8.2).
When I try to backup with time machine, the backup fails ...
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Time Machine stopped backing up my iPhoto library a year ago, lost all photos
I recently got my iMac's HDD replaced and when I restored my computer, every single Time Machine backup stretching back to last October contained the same size iPhoto library (+/- 100MB), which was ...
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Account on Mac restored from Time Machine has FileVault turned off
My Mac book pro was stolen.
ML 10.8.2.
I successfully restored all system from Time Machine backup.
I remember having turned on FileVault on my user account on original system.
But on restored system ...
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Can't find Excel 2011 Auto-recovered spreadsheet
Yesterday morning my colleagues Excel 2011 (on Mac OSX 10.8) crashed. He reopened Excel and was asked if he wanted to recover the previous document. Yes, he said and then got a document named ...
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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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What differences are there between using the Server.app Time Machine server and simply sharing the attached backup HDD?
I'll get a Mac mini next week and apart from other things, I'd like to use it as a backup server via Time Machine and an external HDD.
As I want to be able to access the HDD from remote anyway, I ...
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Mountain Lion Time Machine can't reliably connect to LaCie 2big NAS
I've been using a LaCie 2big NAS to back up my Macs for a year or two now, and it's generally worked fine. Now, however, we've got a couple of Mountain Lion Macs in the house, and it's stopped ...
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Correct way to free up Time Machine space
I manage a Time Machine backup for a photographer. We had a 2TB drive for photos and a 2TB drive for the Time Machine backup of those photos. The Time Machine backup drive has run out of space and ...
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Having trouble deleting old Time Machine back-ups after a restore
Due to migrating several computers over time, my MacBook Pro was bogged down with lots (and lots!) of old apps, files, etc. that I wanted to get rid of. So, I backed up to Time Machine as usual, then ...
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Lost first backups - time machine
I seem to have lost my first backups, they disappeared from time machine!....
Is there a way to get back to them?
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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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What does Time Machine back up?
Does Time Machine backup system files, kernel files and other OS-related files?
I have corrupted system drivers and files and I want to do a fresh install of OS X but I also want to back up my ...
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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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Time Machine wiped my external drive despite pressing “Don't Use”
I have an external hard drive(formatted as FAT32) that has been in use on/off for years. I even had backups on it (not using time machine). I mounted this hard drive, it was taking a while to mount. A ...
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Using crashplan to backup a time machine disk
So, crashplan themselves say it can't and shouldn't be done, because of hard links and how TM works... But can't it, really?! Isn't there any way around it?
Reason I want to use CrashPlan is because ...
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Repair Time Machine sparsebundle that will no longer mount
I messed up my Time Machine backup in some way. I'm no longer able to mount the sparsebundle file as I get an error stating that there are no mountable filesystems.
I used the hdiutil command to ...
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Should time machine backups be encrypted
I am new to the Mac and was setting up my Time Machine. However, it seems Time Machine also backs up information in the keychain.
I was wondering if that means I should use an encrypted disk to store ...
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HOME dir on another disk, how do I restore from TM backup?
I have two disks in my MBP. One is small SSD for the OS and applications, and the other is slow HDD for my HOME folder, downloads and stuff like that.
I have Time Machine set up. Everything seems to ...
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Time Machine stuck on “Preparing backup” whenever returning from Boot Camp to OS X
I have Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. Whenever I go into Windows 7 and then go back to OS X Lion, and then run a Time Machine backup, Time Machine is stuck on the "Preparing Backup" stage for a ...
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How to restore a missing Recovery HD partition
I bought a second hand Macbook Pro which came with OSX Lion installed, when I wanted to clean it I found out that it had no Recovery HD partition. I confirmed this through the Disk Utility (enabled ...
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Time Machine is doing very large backups
Background: I bought new drive for Time Machine backup. First backup took about an hour and backed up about 80 GB (let's considered as good behaviour). Second backup was supposed to be above 70 GB ...
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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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Custom Scheduling of Time Machine backups
How can I customize the schedule at which time machine backups.
I am annoyed by looking at the number of times I see the TimeMachine backing up several MBs every hour and then the cleanup.
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Time machine out of space / Merging time machine backup
I have a 15 inch Mac Book Pro that is my main machine. At some point, in the
second half of 2011 I purchased a 750GB external hard drive to configure Time
Machine on my laptop. This is my main method ...
