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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How can I change the permissions on my time machine from read only to read and write?
Recently I have been trying to move over from my previous drive that I used for Time Machine to a newer one. I was checking the permissions before the move and I noticed this. I am able to access ...
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Unable to Determine Why Time Machine Silently Failing When Verifying Backup on Network
On my Synology Wifi router I have attached 4 TB drive which has been successfully backing up for the better part of a year. In the last few days the backups have not completed.
Every time the backup ...
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Time Machine Backup Drive Shows Empty Files
I have backed up my MacBook using Time Machine to an external hard drive. Now, when I try to open it on a Mac Mini, it doesn't detect my .backupdb files. I were able to see some of the .backupdb file ...
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How to forget Time Machine password from keychain
When attaching a Time Machine, I am asked if I want to remember the password in the keychain. If I do that, how can I "forget" the password?
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Time Machine backs up complete drive as new data after failing to mount reference snapshot (after a restart)
Since January/February 2020, most restarts of my Mac (High Sierra) cause Time Machine to see the complete content of one of my two (internal) drives as new and copy it fully to my Time Machine ...
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Mounts showing up in Finder even with 'nomount' option in /etc/fstab
I have an APFS volume I mount in my home directory for some extra apps, and when I mounted it with nobrowse in /etc/fstab, it seemed to work fine.
However, after enabling Time Machine, the nobrowse ...
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Migration Assistant won’t copy (some) files, though running through smoothly without error
we’re just migrating my wife’s MacBook Pro to a new one, both most recent macOS versions via a TimeMachine backup. In the process all files are selected, Migration Assistenten on the new mac runs ...
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Is it Possible to Mount SMB share in Internet Recovery?
I'm currently setting up a Time Machine backup on a Windows Server. The simple method is to create a sparsebundle image on the Windows Share and mount that in macOS which works fine. In the past ...
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Restore open Terminal sessions from Time Machine backup?
I just did a Time Machine restore of the full system on Catalina, and seems to have worked pretty well, with one exception - I had several Terminal windows open with bash history, but these haven't ...
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Time Machine converting .backupbundle files back to .sparsebundle for downgrading back from Catalina to Mohave
I'm one of the unlucky sods who accidentally updated wife's workstation to Catalina only to find out the hard way that her CS6 Suite won't really work. Long story short, got back to a fresh install of ...
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Stop macOS from ejecting external disks on logout
I have a Mac Mini running 10.14.6 and hosting file sharing and Time Machine backups on an external drive. Every time a user logs out of the console, the external drive is ejected. This happens even ...
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File » Revert to Previous: Where are versions stored?
Over time you learn some tricks on your Macbook. TextEdit has this really neat feature, where it takes care of autosave and allows you to revert to nearly any prior edit stage of a document.
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Unable to restore Time Machine backup to a different computer
I have a MacBook Pro 2017 that was sent for replacement. The system was always synced with Time Machine.
I have a temporary MacBook Pro 2017 I am trying to restore to, but I can't get it to work.
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Cannot mount encrypted time machine drive after unmount
I have an 3TB external HDD with 2 partitions, one of them is 1TB dedicated to time machine (encrypted).
It works perfectly, but whenever I unmount the partitions (by using right click, Eject via ...
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Stop the continuous pop-up "problem connecting to the server"
My WDMyCloud died and my Mac (Catalina) is continually looking to connect to it.
I get the following message:
I have tried the usual and there is nothing in the login items.
I have run the console ...
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Time Machine Avoid Full Backup after Clean Install
I have an iMac 5K with Mojave 10.14.6. The iMac has an internal SSD and 3 external USB HD drives connected.
All these drives are backupped by Time Machine.
I need to perform a clean install of ...
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Cannot change TimeMachine locking passphrase because of newline character
I accenditally used a passphrase that contains a newline character for one of my TM volumes. So my passphrase contains e.g.
MYPASSPHRASE
Although it should be (without the trailing newline)
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upgrading MacOS to Catalina error "opt" file cannot be copied
Attempted upgrade from El Capitan to Catalina, upgrade stalled with error "opt" file cannot be copied. Tried restarting 3 times.
Error repeated. Booted into Recovery mode using Command R. Tried to ...
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Inherit Backup on macOS Mojave
I used Migration Assistant to move files from my old mac to my new mac, and I want to now inherit backups from my old mac. However, when the prompt came up, I accidentally told it not to inherit ...
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How to backup iCloud only files?
How can I securely backup files, which are purged from the local harddrive due to the Optimize-Storage feature in macOS?
They are NOT backed up in Timemachine
They are NOT backed up with CCC (see ...
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Time Machine can't back up to an attached external USB drive
Mac "A" (iMac, macOS 10.14) has an attached USB hard disk "EXT" (3TB, GUID, macOS Extended, Journaled). Mac "A" can use Time Machine successfully to back up to external drives shared from other ...
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Time Machine Restore Woes (how can I edit my backup)
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro I had to send in for service, as usual it was wiped when I got it back, not an issue as J always have an external drive plugged in for backing up.
This time though my backup ...
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Can time machine be set to store local backups for more than 24h?
I realise that using an internal drive as time machine drive (especially your main drive) does not give you protection against loss of the machine or failure of the disk, but occasionally when ...
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How can I get Time Machine to mount a local sparsebundle - error 45
I'm switching from a local backup disk to a local .sparsebundle so that I can easily save the encrypted .sparsebundle to remote storage.
The following works:
Mount the sparse bundle to /Volumes/foo
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TimeMachine Backup of APFS SSD in Mojave Never Completes
I am trying to setup up TimeMachine to a network attached storage (NAS) drive. My setup is successful, but like many others with an APFS partition (instead of HFS+), TimeMachine never completes the ...
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Missing Enable/Disable Owners on Volume
I have been looking at reformatting my Time Machine backup disk as it has been quite a while and it is throwing occasional errors and needs fixing with Disk Utility.
However one thing that I found in ...
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How to use Time Machine to backup system from ssd
I added an SSD to my Mac mini and installed macOS Mojave on it. (it is already installed on the HDD) I notice that Time Machine is still backing up from the HDD. How can I change the source drive for ...
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Is it possible to set different options for time machine depending on the destination drive?
I have a local spinning drive where i'd like to keep a 1:1 copy of my macbook hdd but i also have a networked time machine with less space where i'd like to skip archiving some "less important" files ...
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Merge two time machine backups into one folder
I have two time machine disks from two macs, first disk has Backups.backupdb/mac1 and the second Backups.backupdb/mac2. How can I merge these backups into one? Or in other words, copy Backups.backupdb/...
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recover files from newer time machine backup after restore to older state
I have recently restored my machine's state (December) to an older state (November), but forgot to save a couple files from December. When I go into Time machine the December state is not available, ...
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Force Time Machine to Compare Against Incomplete Backup
For the past few days I've been running an initial backup of my system (3.5tb total) to a new NAS volume.
This has been going fine, running overnight as it's not the fastest NAS, and while it got ...
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How to encrypt external network drive timemachine backup
I am following this:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/
Which basically says that you have to create a sparse disk image and put that on your external network ...
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ExFAT does not support resizing - how can I partition it in order to use TimeMachine backup?
I have a 4TB external drive formatted as ExFAT file system with single partition, and I've already stored approximately about 800GB of files on it, and I decided to create a partition on this drive to ...
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all file names are strange or "corrupted" in time machine backup
My father bought a new computer and is trying to restore from a time machine backup of the old computer on an external drive. I am helping him using a remote screen view by skype.
On the external TM ...
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Why is Time Machine backing up 200GB, when I've only asked it to back up 7GB?
I've excluded most of my hard drive from Time Machine, so that it should only be backing up around 7GB from my home directory:
But as it's running, Time Machine says it's backing up almost 200GB. Why ...
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Will Time Machine recognize old files after a clean reinstall of macos?
I am about to fully wipe and reinstall macos. However, on my Time Machine backup disk there is not a lot of space left and I am wondering, when I set up Time Machine again after the reinstall, will ...
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If I archive the "DATA" on my AirPort Time Capsule to an external drive will it affect that drive's data?
I'm new to using the AirPort Utility. I just want to backup the data on an old AirPort Time Capsule of a freind's to their external LaCie drive:
I click on "Archive Disk", and I'm prompted with this:
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Time machine - does it do its own encryption, beyond volume encryption?
Time Machine allows encrypted backups. Where does this encryption happen? Is the data written to files inside the time machine volume encrypted? If so: does this mean it's possible to end up with "...
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FileVault is frozen and slowing down computer
I'm having issues with FileVault being stuck while encrypting, and it's causing major slow downs in my system.
I initially had my file system set to case-sensitive, which prevented me from installing ...
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Time Machine keeps quitting
I upgraded a early 2013 MBP Retina to 10.13.2, and obtained a new external 4TB drive to do TM backups to.
Time Machine now pukes after a semi-random period of time -- 20 to 60 minutes. Here's what ...
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Does Restoring a Time Machine Backup Repair the OS?
Ok I understand I can reinstall Mac OS from the Command + R Menu and the OS is reinstalled without touching (we hope) my files unless I erase the disk first.
However, what if I just choose to restore ...
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Cloned a Time Machine backup but the clone has on somes file different permissions
I cloned a Time Machine backup folder Backups.backupdb from one volume to another following Apple's instructions. The contents of both folders look very similar (same amount of files, same file size, ...
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Time Machine won't back-up to external hard drive, any way to fix this?
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When I try to make a back-up using time machine, the back-up gets to about ~500 MB and than halts. The following error is given:
An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be ...
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TimeMachine backup to shared windows drive via SMB?
I am trying to figure out how to reliably back up my 2013 MacBook pro to my Windows 7 desktop, living on the same network. The Windows machine is hardwired and the MacBook is connected via WiFi.
The ...
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Permissions on Time Machine backups
I have two external USB3 disks, each with a Time Machine (TM) backupDB directory. When both are mounted, backups alternate.
Both disks are browsable by Finder from admin account. But the backup ...
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MacBook Pro SSD issue
I brought new SSD 240 GB and I using this SSD by Caddy. The SSD is showing in Finder. I can format it. The SMART Status is verified. But when I try to install any OS or restore my OS, it goes into ...
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Generate recovery key for Mac Time Machine
I encrypted my Mac Time Machine recently, but have unable to figure out how to generate the 'recovery key' in the advent that I forget the password. Is there a simply way to do this on Mac like with ...
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Finder crashes when trying to restore from Time Machine
I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. Using the Time Machine interface, I select a folder I want to restore (from an hour ago). The folder is located somewhere in my iCloud Drive folder. I select "Restore" and ...
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Dual Time Machine setup: does it make sense at all
I have MacMini with 1 Tb Fusion Drive. About 800 Gb is used.
I have 5 Tb USB3 HDD connected to it specifically for Time Machine.
I also have ESXi server (connected via Wired Gigabit Ethernet to ...
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Why are read/write speeds on my Time Machine drive so low?
So I have an external SSD connected with a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter to my retina MacBook Pro. The wire supports speeds up to 6 Gbps. I could write to the SSD itself at such a high speed.
I created two ...