Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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Time Machine with only one internal disk
Is it possible to use the time machine backup system without an external (or second) HD?
I know that the protection to disk failure will not be guaranteed anymore, but the file accidental deletion, ...
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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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Is USB 3.0 overkill for Time Machine hard drive?
I have two 500 Gb hard drives. One is USB 2.0, the other is USB 3.0. My intention is to use one of these hard drives for Time Machine, and the other for storing media files on (mp3s, mp4s mostly).
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Is my private key available in the Time Machine backups? Where can I find it?
I've used Time Machine on my Mac to perform backups of my Lion install. My SSD failed and I installed Mountain Lion on my machine.
Now, I want to recover my private key from my backup so I can ...
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Can I encrypt data on an external hard drive without reformatting it first?
I back up to an external NAS drive with 2 partitions, one using time machine and the other superduper to make a bootable copy of my mac.
I would like to encrypt the data on there but from what I've ...
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How to backup a Mac running Tiger?
I need to do a full backup of a Mac running Tiger. If I use Time Machine will it capture everything I need to restore a user's data after a clean install of Lion? Are there other better mechanisms I ...
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Copying Time Machine backup, destination takes more than original size, are hardlinks being expanded?
I'm copying the backup folder of Time Machine, but it's taking too long, the backup is 90GB and the copy already reports 160GB and there's 60% to go yet, so I suspect it's copying hardlinks as ...
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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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Recovering iWork from backup
I recently changed my MBP 13" 2009 to the newer MBP 13" 2012.
I decided not to recover from Time Machine and install everything manually as to make a clean start.
Although I do not have my iWork ...
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Time Machine without Airport?
I'm a very new Mac user. I just bought a MacBook Pro and I'd like to use the Time Machine backup. Unfortunately, it seems like I can only keep my laptop mobile by using an Airport router. I was hoping ...
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Time Machine Backing Up Large Amounts of Data Each Time
I've got 2 time machine drives. I have one at home that gets used on the weekend and another that gets backed up to during the week. I recently replaced the one at my office. The only thing that is ...
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How can I use tmutil to figure out which files just got deleted?
I'm on Lion and until ten minutes ago I didn't know that the nifty new tmutil existed. But now I'm a little uncertain with all its options and sub-commands which to use to try and figure out what went ...
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Time Machine Backup to Samba Share under Mac OS Lion
In earlier versions of Mac OS you could enable TimeMachine to use Samba-Shares as a Backup-Target using this:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
and create ...
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Time Machine restore on new OS
I have a Time Machine backup of my MacBook running Lion. My install of Mountain Lion just failed, and I'm going to format the drive and install Mountain Lion anew. Will I still be able to restore my ...
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Restoring a MacBook from backup
I have a MacBook Pro that is just being ridiculous, so I'm planning on erasing the hard drive and restoring from a Time Machine backup. I hear that Time Machine will only restore from backups that ...
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After a Time Machine restore, now it won't do incremental back up
Due to the Thunderbolt 1.2 update, I had to restore from a Time Machine Backup, but after that, Time Machine won't do incremental back up any more.
The hard drive has 250GB of free space... It was ...
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Restoring Lion/iCloud iCal from Time Machine
Well I managed to delete my calendar, which was being synched via iCloud with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Can I repopulate my iCal calendar from a Time Machine backup? ~/Library/ contains a folder ...
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Where does Time Machine store its settings?
I'm looking for the file that contains all the Time Machine exclusions entered in its Options dialogue. I know that (some of?) the scheduling related settings are stored in the ...
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How do I use tmutil to figure out what's wrong with my Time Machine?
How do I use tmutil to figure out what is wrong with my Time Machine as it keeps backing up huge amounts of data each time it back-ups although nothing has changed since the last back up?
I'm ...
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Can the Time Capsule back up multiple drives (internal and external) at the same time?
I have a 500 GB internal HDD on my MacBook Pro and a second 500 GB external USB drive as well.
Is it possible to tell Time Machine to back both the internal and external drives up to one Time ...
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How to coerce Lion Time Machine into offering backup history migration?
This article describes a feature I heard about from multiple sources about an automagic backup migration process that Lion will do for you. Essentially, when migrating to a new machine, you can ...
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Time Machine over SMB/CIFS share?
As far as I understand there's no way to make Time Machine with SMB/CIFS; you have to connect using AFP.
Is that true ? Is there a way to make it work ?
I'm using OS X Lion.
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Do encrypted Time Machine backups work across a network?
I see that Lion offers the option of encrypting TIme Machine backup volumes, which seems like a Good Thing. After reading up a bit on this, it seems clear that it will handle the situation where the ...
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How to backup Bootcamp partition via Time Machine?
I just started using Time Machine for backup of my late 2009 MBP.
So far it's backing up only OS X partition and ignoring Bootcamp partition.
I also see the point Time Machine completely ignores NTFS ...
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Is it possible to use Time Machine on a shared USB Hardrive?
I've a iMac with an external HD derserved to Time Machine. I also have a MacBookPro.
Is it possible to make this config :
Share the disk on the iMac so that the MBP sees it on the network
Ask Time ...
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how to store Time Machine backups on NFS and keep metadata?
There is a Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) desktop, it stores Time Machine backups on a separate partition. Also there is an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) server with NFS daemon running, it exports a /BACKUP disk. This ...
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How will the free update to Mountain Lion work? [closed]
I am planning to buy a MBP 13" in the coming days. Although as soon as I buy it I will remove its HD and replace it with Crucial M4 256 SSD. Will that stop me from getting free update to ML?
If so, ...
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Can a Netgear ReadyNAS be used as a Time Machine Backup Destination?
We have a NAS (a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+) in our office with tons of free space that we'd like to connect to our Mac Mini Server, mount as a disk and then use as a Time Machine Backup Destination.
This ...
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Send background email alert if Time Machine backup fails
Curious if there is an easy way to send a background email alert if a Time Machine backup fails (or continuously fails rather than just one time)
I've found TM Error Logger however, it cannot run in ...
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Time Machine fails backup to a time capsule's attached hard disk
I've been backing up my Lion OSX system using Time Machine to an second, external drive connected to a time capsule. It has worked but stopped working.
The menu says "Faied" and the time machine ...
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When Time Machine says it's 'Verifying Backup…' what is it actually doing?
I have a third-party NAS drive (Western Digital MyBook World II) which I used for time machine backups in Snow Leopard. I've upgraded to Lion and the first backup has spent over an hour 'Verifying ...
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Backing up Time Machine to an external disk also used by other machines - no sparsebundle?
I moved to using an external disk (a Drobo) on 1 machine as a Time Machine backup for all of my machines. I've got 2 of the machines backing up perfectly, but the problem is with the machine that the ...
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How does Time Machine estimate required space for backup?
For over 6 months now, every Time Machine backup requrests around 15GB of space for backup, but sometimes only backups up 200MB. That is a big difference.
Does anyone know exactly how the required ...
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Is the first boot after a full system restore from TimeMachine supposed to take a long time?
I have had the hard drive in my iMac replaced and now I'm trying to restore it from my TimeMachine back up. I thought the TimeMachine back up was corrupt but maybe I'm just not patient enough, or I'm ...
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Can Time Machine on a server use quota?
We have enabled Time Machine on a Mac OS X server (10.6) with a big RAID drive. The server will be used by many users for their backup. How can we set quota so that every Time Machine backup takes up ...
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How to prevent sleep while a Time Machine backup is in progress?
I'm one of those greatly suffering from the problem with TM in which the entire backup sparsebundle on a NAS gets corrupted if the Mac goes to sleep in middle of a backup operation. There's a long ...
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Can Time Machine back up different data (or different exclusion lists) to different drives?
Mountain Lion includes a feature to configure multiple Time Machine locations and to back up to those locations when they become available (plugged in external drives, accessible network drives, etc). ...
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Apple Time Capsule will not start -up, light stays amber
I unplugged my Time Capsule today to tidy up the wires. After plugging back in it refuses to start.
Have tried resetting by sticking pencil in the back
Tried leaving, it's been stuck in Amber for 3 ...
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(Batch) moving iTunes songs to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Artist/SongName
I have three albums by Jack Singer. They are in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Jack Singer/SongName.
I also have one album by Jack Singer and his band. Those files are in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes ...
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Clean Lion install, keeping Time Machine history?
I have a 2011 unibody MacBook Pro, and have been gathering kludge on it for some time, and on previous machines (2007 MacBook Pro, 2004 Powerbook) whose data I've migrated over using the Migration ...
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Deleting undated files from Time Machine
I just bought a new MacBook Pro with Lion. I restored my files and apps from the MacBook with Snow Leopard, etc., from Time Machine. All seemed to have uploaded correctly, but after using several ...
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Can I flag a time machine backup so it never gets overwritten
I'm about to upgrade to lion and at some point in the future I might want to restore back to a snow leopard time machine backup.
However, recently my first time backups have been overwritten.
Is ...
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Can Time Machine restore from one large hard drive to two smaller ones?
I'm about to put a SSD (60GB) into my MacBook Pro, the disc drive is coming out and the current drive (320GB) will sit in a bracket in its place. I'd like to use the SSD as the main drive for the OS, ...
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Can I setup a single Sparsebundle in RAID 1?
My goal is the following: use my iMac as a TimeMachine Server (under OS X Lion Server) to backup my MBP via the network.
What I did is to choose, in the TimeMachine Server configuration, the internal ...
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What is the right way to maintain Time Machine backup history for a HDD with two partitions?
I have two user partitions (not counting any hidden/system ones like Lion Restore etc.) on my MacBook Pro's internal HDD: Volume_A (100 GB) and Volume_B (20 GB). My Time Capsule has been keeping ...
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How can I back up 2 internal drives to a single Time capsule?
I recently reinstalled Lion on an SSD and have all my media on the original HDD on my MBP. I was hoping Time Machine would recognize my existing backups in Time Capsule but it wants to start a new ...
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Why won't disk utility let me remove a partition from my external hard drive?
I have an external 1.5 TB hard drive split evenly with a partition for backup and a partition that was used for Time Machine on my previous computer (OS X Lion).
Now I'm using this hard drive with a ...
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Quicksilver accessible script for disabling and enabling Time Machine?
I'd like to disable and enable Time Machine at will via Quicksilver.
'nuff said.
Do you're thang, nerds. :)
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Does TimeMachine has an higher priority than the sleep delay?
When a long backup will soon occur or is running, will it go on and end even if the enter-sleep-mode settings is foreseen earlier?
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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 ...
