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 - can it share external drive with Windows backups?
I just got a 2TB external hard drive, and I want to use it to backup my 3 Windows computers and my MacBook Pro. If possible, I would like to create 4 subdirectories on the external drive - one ...
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Will restoring from Time Machine carry over hard disk error?
The Disk Utility detects some hard disk errors(inode problem, size mismatch). I am going to upgrade to a new hard drive and use Time Machine to restore the system, but I am worried that these existing ...
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Is is possible to add tag, notes or labels to backups made by Time Machine?
Is it possible to add label, tag or notes to Time Machine backups. Lets say after fresh reinstall of OS X - label it as "Base System 1" then after few days (at some point with more software/work) ...
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Time Machine - List of Files that were backed up
I'd like to know to see which files are getting backed up by my time machine? I often see a large amount of data being transfered and I'm not sure sure what it is.
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Why is my “Encrypt backups” option greyed out for local (USB) time machine disc?
I'm using Mountain Lion on a new MacBook Pro (retina) with a local USB drive for backup. From what I've read searching around (including other questions on here) I should be able to encrypt my time ...
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Time Machine won't backup with Mountain Lion Server
I have a Mac Mini with OS X Mountain Lion Server installed. I've turned on Time Machine in the server app and selected an internal disk to backup clients to. On my iMac, I have turned on Time ...
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Time Machine tries to connect when I'm away from home
Recently when I'm away from home, my MacBook Pro keeps displaying the following message "There was a problem connecting to the server" and the name of my AirPort Extreme with a hard drive connected.
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Renaming “A's MacBook” to “C's MacBook”
I see that my Mac is called "A's MacBook" on the network.
How do I rename it (i.e., change the hostname) to "C's MacBook"?
That's the question. Here are the details:
Having read various suggestions ...
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Are TimeMachine backups password protected?
If someone was to steal my external hard drive would they need to input my password to be able to read the TimeMachine backup data on there?
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Time Machine and the dreaded negative sign
I am about to modify the file ownerships in my Time Machine disk, which uses ACLs.
Since it is my (only) backup disk, I thought I'd solicit comments on the script before I run it. The objective is to ...
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Time Machine Error -36
I have a NAS device attached to my router. I'm using it as a backup device for my Mac Book Pro. I'm getting the following error:
The backup disk image /Volumes/SHARE-1/MacBookPro.sparsebundle ...
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How does Time Machine handle an external drive shared between two Macs?
I have a new MacBook Air (13" with 128Gb SSD) and my wife has an old MacBook (120Gb HDD) and we're planning to both use the same 1Tb external HDD to store our iTunes and iPhoto libraries and the same ...
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Time Machine backs up a huge quantity of data on every run
I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and a Time Capsule. In the last few days every backup took over 100GB of data. I don't know if there is some issue with permissions or something similar, but to ...
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Is there any way to see what OS X is doing when it's booting up when no chime is played? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I see the system status during boot?
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 ...
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Restored from Time Machine but NO applications
Really puzzled here. Had a power cut and imac (27", OSX 10.8.3) wouldn't restart/boot up afterwards.
Tried unplugging, restarting, safe start, zap pram etc. no luck, just 'Apple logo screen'
Used ...
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GitHub-Style Collaborative iTunes Backup?
Alright, here's a funny question. I'm a DJ, and I use iTunes locally on my MacBook Air for my music. I also have my backup hard drive, to which I have copied my iTunes library to as the master ...
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Can I use TimeMachine only when on wired connection?
I have a server to which I am backing up a single MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, via TimeMachine.
I would like to only back up when the MacBook Pro has a wired connection to the network. The ...
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Are there any files which are NOT restored from a Time Machine backup but taken from the recovery partition?
I'll get a replacement Mac soon, so I'll have to restore from a backup. Apart from the home directory and the applications, does Time Machine also backup the usually hidden Unix folders like /etc, ...
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How to backup Airport Extreme USB drive with Time Machine
I have a drive connected to the Airport Extreme using its USB cable. I want to back up this drive using Time Machine (or some other practical method, though I trust Time Machine more than other ...
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Isn't it redundant to have Versions as well as Time Machine?
Versions and Time Machine seem to me to offer duplicated features: both do hourly backups, and their interfaces for browsing previous versions of files are very similar. The only difference I can see ...
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Backups using Mac Mini Server & Time Machine
I'm currently trying to set up a fool-proof plan to secure backups of all of our files all the time.
What I'm generally thinking is using our Mac Mini Server I can backup our files (3 - 6 iMac's ...
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How do I get Time Machine to work during Power Nap
I tested Power Nap on my MacBook Pro Retina (Aug 2012) and my Time Machine backup hasn't made any progress. Even the hard drive light is out while the machine sleeps.
Energy saver is at the default ...
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Can I use the same Time Machine drive with OS X 10.5 and 10.8?
I have an external 500 GB hard drive that I used to use for Time Machine backups with my PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.5 (Leopard). However, I now use it with a white MacBook running 10.8 (Mountain ...
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How do I continue to use Time Machine backups after switching my hard disk?
I replaced my HD with an SSD (256 GB), and restored the contents from my Time Machine backup (external HD 320 GB).
Now, after a day of working, I plugged in my external HD to make the next backup. ...
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Scripting the unhiding of Library folders on Time Machine disks
Here's the context: I have about 400 students with Time Machine backups from Lion computers. We wiped and re-imaged their laptops with new software AND with Mountain Lion. We just discovered that you ...
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Will Mountain Lion's Time Machine read data from a NAS and back it up to an external USB drive?
So, I have most of my data on a NAS.
Can I configure time machine to backup both my iMac's internal drive as well as my data stored on a NAS? All of the backups are to be stored on an USB drive ...
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Is Time machine able to restore my Windows Partition?
I have 2 partitions on my computer. One with mac os x, another for Windows XP. I want to replace the disk with another one and I wanted to know if Time Machine will be able to restore the Windows ...
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Time machine stuck on cleaning up/ Error -47
I have been using time machine with the same disk for a year or so and until now it was fine. But since yesterday, it gets stuck at "cleaning up" and if I say "stop backing up" nothing happens. I ...
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Time Machine Backups are incredibly slow, not doing what they should
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro that got a new HDD, top case, and RAM within the last week. The previous HDD failed and was replaced by Apple. Using Carbon Copy Cloner and restoring various directories ...
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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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Restoring Time Machine backup do a different user folder location
I have a 27" iMac. Its original 1Tb drive failed a few days ago. I decided to replace it with a 2Tb drive and replace my CD/DVD drive with an SSD drive. The SSD drive is small - 128Gb. I intend to ...
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Mounting a disk as though it were an external disk
Here's the setup:
We have a corporate Time Capsule (or series of them, rather) with encrypted backups in the server closet. My Mac currently backs up to that.
I've just completed encrypting an ...
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Time Machine forgets old backups?
I use a 2 TB drive for Time Machine and have used the disk for about a year or two.
Today I wanted to check on an old file (an old version of MonoDevelop) and found out that my oldest backup is from ...
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Any side-effects when sharing a Time Machine backup disk between Lion and Snow Leopard?
Is there anything to consider if I want to share a Time Machine backup drive between a Lion machine and a Snow Leopard machine (a USB drive that I would be rotating between the two computers)? ...
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Time Machine backup on per app basis with application preferences?
When backing up using Time Machine, all your applications are backed up along with their preferences.
I know that the preferences are restored when doing a full system restoration.
However, what if ...
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Importing preferences from a Lion time machine backup to Snow Leopard
I've recently installed Lion on my macbook, and did not back up any of my files. I did a Time Machine backup under Lion, and wish to go back to snow leopard.
What can I import from my time machine ...
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How do I restore a case-sensitive, journaled Time Machine backup to a case-insensitive, journaled filesystem?
I would effectively like to switch from a case-sensitive journaled filesystem to that of a case-insensitive journaled filesystem. Booting into Lion's recovery allows me to format the drive as I wish, ...
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Time Machine can't find AFP/SMB shares
I have an Ubuntu NAS setup with both SMB and AFP shares, both of which I can access from my Windows machines and Macbook Air. I have also verified that I can copy files to these shares from my MBA.
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Clean Install of Lion OS X / Optimizing My Machine
I downloaded Lion OS X (an upgrade on top of Snow Leopard) but my MacBook pro is becoming quite slow now. I'd like to install a fresh new copy of Lion OS X. I know how to do that, I can just ...
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Repairing Time Machine volume taking forever
Over 18 hours and counting, currently in the "Checking multi-linked directories" phase, but it's been there all night long.
I see disk I/O, not a lot, but some. I assume its from the TM drive as the ...
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Network Drive for backup (and archive and iTunes)?
I have several Macs (10.6) on a wireless home network and want to add a network HDD, primarily as a drive for Time Machine to back up to. Having heard bad things about Apple's Time Capsule, I'm ...
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Time Machine multiple Disks Backup over Network
I have a Mac OSX Server 10.6 with a Harddisk attached to it which has been configured as Time Machine destination. Over the Workgroup manager I have assigned the TM destination on Computergrouplevel. ...
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Time Machine backup to Airport Extreme AirDisk
I thought it was NOT possible to use the USB hard disk attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a backup destination for Time Machine backups. This was mostly due to Google results as ...
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MBR-partitioned HDD: How to encrypt Time Machine backup?
I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him ...
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How can I restore my system, using Snow Leopard, after hard-drive replacement?
I had a nearly full 500GB drive in my MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard. As the near-full capacity was becoming problematic, I bought two 1TB drives, went home, ran Time Machine on one of them, and ...
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Time machine freezes mac?
I had just installed new SSD on main bay and move HDD instead of SuperDrive on my 2011 MBP. All works perfectly but Time Machine. It freezes entire mac when I trying open Options on Time machine ...
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Backing up an External USB Drive to TimeMachine then Restoring Without Drive Connected?
I have just configured my iMac to backup my external USB harddrive in addition to the internal drive.
I have just tested restoring some files from the TimeMachine backup, by selecting the USB drive ...
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Restore from Time Machine after installing Bootcamp
Can I setup Time Machine to backup my Mac and then install Bootcamp?
Then after installing Bootcamp, can I go back to that restore point so Bootcamp will be gone?
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Encrypt existing unencrypted Time Capsule backup
Since Mountain Lion Time Capsule can now backup to encrypted sparsebundles. This is great and easy to setup for new backup locations, just select 'encrypt backups'. However, I have backups for around ...
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“Failed to upgrade encrypted tmbootpicker.efi” in Time Machine backups
I've noticed the error "Failed to upgrade encrypted tmbootpicker.efi: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=-50 "Could not find any Apple_Boot corresponding to the encrypted volume..." ...
