Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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How to automatically make Mac shutdown after Time Machine Backup
How can I make my Macbook automatically shutdown after a Time Machine backup?
I have a 40GB worth backup to do but I keep having to cancel it to go to bed. Would be great if I could leave it on to do ...
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Time Machine stuck on “Preparing Backup”
I have a MacBook Pro from 2009. It came with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but I upgraded to 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
A few days ago, I tried to backup my files on an external hard drive, like I have ...
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Is TimeMachine doing his backups even when no account is logged on?
I wonder if an account has to log on to trigger the Time Machine backup or does it fires itself without any session active?
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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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Is TimeMachine Apple's System Restore?
I have recently moved to Mac from Windows. Rarely I find that I may have to use System Restore to fix an issue that the OS has incurred. What I would like to know is whether Time Machine is the Mac ...
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Setting up Airport Base Station with Uverse AND Sprint Airave
I'm trying to configure my home network so that I can use a drive attached to my airport base station as the Time Machine drive. I think that to do this the Airport needs to control the DHCP and the ...
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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 does a Time Machine backup not complete when destination is a Shared Volume?
I have six Macs in my house, all running the latest, greatest version of Snow Leopard. I also have an eMac (PPC) running Leopard 10.5.8. I use the eMac as a file and print server. The eMac has two ...
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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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Any ideas why my Airport Extreme identifies itself as a Time Capsule in Time Machine?
I recently noticed that Time Machine on both my Macs (Mountain Lion, 10.8.3) seem to think that my Airport Extreme base station (AEBS) + USB hard drive is actually a Time Capsule. Screenshots below. ...
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External backup drive unmounted, then endless churn
I have a 5 year old Seagate USB2 drive for backups, used for a few months with time machine on my Retina MBP.
Lately, I've been getting an error that it was improperly ejected (I didn't actually ...
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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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What files to I need to restore to restore a wordpress site with time machine (Mac OS 10.8.3) [closed]
MY boss damaged his wordpress site. What files do I need to restore to restore it to how it was yesterday? He is running Mac OS 10.8.3.
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How to restore Airport settings?
I've just reverted from Lion to Snow Leopard while maintaining a time machine backup of Lion.
In Lion I used to 'remember' many wireless networks, and also have configuration for connecting from my ...
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Warn if a Time Machine backup is still in progress before shutting down or sleeping a Mac
Before I shut down or sleep my Mac, I want to be warned if a Time Machine backup is still in progress.
Is there such a thing? Or at least something that makes it very obvious that a backup is in ...
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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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Time Machine hasn't been backing up the full system since before 10.8.3
Look at your hard drive. Now look at me. Now look at a recent snapshot in your Backups.backupdb directory from after the 10.8.3 release (March 14th-ish); now look at mine. Hopefully, your snapshot ...
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How to disable or delay “Time Machine hasn't backed up your computer in x days” message?
Mountain Lion has a very useful feature where it can alternate between multiple backup destinations. I use this to back up to both a network share at home and an external drive I keep offsite. Because ...
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How long (time/duration) should a complete restore on an iMac from Time Machine take?
I was getting long boot times when I would log onto my account and even my kids' accounts on my iMac (2008 Intel Core 2 Duo). Then I could not launch Disk Utility and other standard, pre-installed ...
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Older time machine backups not showing after renaming the backup HDD
I have a HDD for time machine archives. In Finder I renamed it, then made it start a new backup. Now none of the older backups show when I enter in Time Machine mode. I get why this is happening but I ...
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Time Machine on Time Capsule backup verification never seems to complete
I have a MacPro running Mac OS X 10.7.4 with a Time Capsule connected by Ethernet. When Time Machine runs a verify of the backups it seems to stall at 72%, and if I let it run a LONG time I think I ...
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How to retrive my iphone 3gs backup files in windows 7
I was using iphone 3GS and using Dell windows 7 system. Last week I had cut and pasted (not deleted from my system) my iphone backup files in to my pen drive. I accidently lost my pen drive & ...
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Airport Extreme: How to share a hard drive over the guest network?
I'm offering my Internet to somebody living in another apartment and used an Airport Express to extend my Airport Extreme signal. Since the Aiport Express only extends the "main" network, the other ...
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Move of time machine backup: unable to “restore”
I want to use a new hard drive for time machine. I try to restore the old backup into the new disk using disk utility. It fails with the following error :
source volume is read-write and cannot be ...
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How to set up encrypted Time Machine backups to a remote drive?
I have an external drive which I used to do encrypted TM backups to, via a direct USB connection (i.e. the entire drive became encrypted - Lion).
I would like to switch to wireless backups but ...
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Is it easy to mount my Time Capsule after a clean install (without any restore) so that I can copy individual files from it?
People say it is possible but I am suspicious. I want to clean install and start fresh with nothing. Then I can access my Time Capsule that has my backup and copy any files I want. How easy or ...
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Alternative backup solution for a mac?
I know that we can easily use time machine. However, i wonder if there exist any other way to backup the data on my macbook? Since I do a lot of modification to the system and sometimes make it has ...
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backup without using TimeMachine [duplicate]
I have NAS(DS212J) and I used TimeMachine to backup Retina macbook pro. But it always crush after some period.
Is there any software as like SyncBackupSE(freeware) for Windows that it backups data ...
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Need to retore applications folder from an old time machine backup
I have a macbook air running OSX 10.7.5. I have had a problem with the App Store not connecting. Apple could not resolve it, so I have done a clean install. Now I wish to restore various folders from ...
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fseventsd is at 100%CPU when time machine on external hard drive is connected
When I connect an external hard drive with storage space and also time machine on it, in activity monitor it shows a process call fseventsd taking up 100% CPU and it slows down my computer to a halt ...
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Time machine backup/restore: “This user's data doesn't need to be transferred”
So, I had a MacBook Pro 15", Late 2011, that I've been using daily since I got it last October. I set up time machine and every day after work, I would bring my laptop home and plug it into my time ...
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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 permissions set to 711 after a restore
Had to erase and restore my internal drive on my MacBook Pro. I selected restore from Time Machine my settings, User accounts, and Applications after doing a fresh install of 10.8. Now my Time Machine ...
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How do I use time machine to restore my entire computer, rather than a file?
Is is possible? What is the easiest (most hassle-free) way of accomplishing this?
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Time machine backup only on home network
I've set up my Ubuntu server at home to act as a Time capsule using this guide:
http://alisnic.net/blog/use-a-ubuntu-as-a-timemachine-server/
It works very well, and I have two macbooks backing up ...
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scripting keychain - disk image - timecapsule
If I click though the gui configuration of time capsule in 10.8 and choose encrypt back ups, 3 things are installed in my keychain.
I have scripted the creation of these 3 keys but am having ...
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Can I select only a few specific folders to back up with Time Machine?
Can I select to backup only few folders with Time Machine ?
If there is not an "official one", does somebody know a trick to do it?
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Getting Time Machine to only back up when idle
My TM backups are causing some disruption to my work while they're running, be it a backup to a network drive that's taking up all available wifi bandwidth or a backup to an attached zfs volume which ...
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Time Machine cannot write to network drive under Mountain Lion
I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and have only one problem. Time Machine, which worked under Lion on a WD Sharespace network drive, not gives a message that it cannot find the drive. Despite that, ...
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Is it safe to thin out Time Machine backups by deduplicating files?
When I move a large file between folders, I notice that Time Machine takes a long time on the next hourly backup. Apparently, it is quite stupid and considers a file move just like a deletion and an ...
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Console reports “sandboxd deny mach-lookup” … Should I modify system.sb?
I'm getting two errors in the console at the same time TimeMachine is running and taking FOREVER to make any progress.
1/4/13 9:41:38.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(5838) deny mach-lookup ...
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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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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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How to get particular folders from time machine backup?
I'm going to perform a clean install of OS X. I have a Time Machine backup.
I want to restore just particular folders, not everything. Is that possible?
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Cannot “Enter Time Machine” from Mountain Lion
Upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday. Time Machine backups continue to run without any reported errors. (Backups are to a HD shared by a Lion Server on the network).
Problem is When I choose Enter ...
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Why does Time Machine hang/freeze on “Backing up…”?
Lately, whenever I try to back up Time Machine to one particular external drive, it gets past the "Preparing..." stage (most troubleshooting documents talk about fixing problems with hangs in this ...
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Where are my Pages documents?
Recently replaced iMac hard drive through recall program. Used Time Machine/Seagate Backup Drive. Everything seems to be restored but my Pages documents. How do I find them?
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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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Time Machine doesn't backup folders with same name as user
Let's say my OS X user's folder is called Attila and I have a folder with the same name in a folder, e.g. ~/Xcode/Attila/. Now, if I do a Time Machine backup, the ~/Xcode/Attila/ folder won't be ...
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Why don't my Time Machine backups get corrupted?
I have a theoretical question about Time Machine. I've used TM for several years (since Leopard), and have never once had a problem.
Here's my question: When I restart my machine, why doesn't the ...
