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 to open Internet Recovery on Mac Pro 1.1?
someone donated a MacPro1,1 (so from 2006) and it came without hard drives and I inserted a hard drive and the question mark appears when I turn it on. How can I install an operating system on it? ...
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Time Machine fails in Power Nap
2020 13" Pro M1 connected to QNAP NAS. If I manually run Time Machine it works just fine. However, it doesn't work in Power Nap. I used TimeMachineEditor to schedule a backup at 2am but it never ...
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TimeMachine restore: Can select backup, but get "No macOS system backups were found"
The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup.
I tried to restore ...
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How do I make a time machine backup drive a normal hard drive? [duplicate]
I have been trying to relocate my Logic Pro X's Apple Loops library to a different hard drive. I have everything figured out, except for the problem in which Logic will not accept the secondary hard ...
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What do the `tmutil startbackup` options really mean?
Once you configured your Time Machine setup, you can manually start a backup by running
tmutil startbackup
in Terminal. According to man page, those are the options:
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--auto Run the backup ...
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How do I access protected folders on my Time Machine backup?
I have a Time Machine backup from a different computer, but I don't have access to certain folders (it shows the little red roadsign that access is not permitted). I guess it has to do with ownership/...
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I want data from two older comps transferred/merged onto my new M2 Max under one user
I just used Migration Asst. to transfer from my older Macbook Pro (Late 2013) to my new 16" M2 Max. All good. Now I want to transfer (ADD) the data from a Time Machine backup of a Macbook Pro M1 ...
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Why can't I copy my Time Machine (Sierra) Backup to an External (Case-Sensitive) drive?
I'm currently using my old iMac while my newer Mac is off for repair, and have come across an issue I never have before.
When attempting to back up a copy of my newer Mac's 'APFS (Case Sensitive)' ...
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Can I recover data from a Macbook drive which I overwrote with Windows?
Last night, I decided to try creating a Windows 10 recovery disk and boot from it on my Mac. While I was successful in formatting an SD card with the Windows recovery disk and booting to it, I made an ...
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Time Machine Back Up of external hard drive
I have two partitions on my hard drive. One of them is used for the time machine back up. On the other one I've got files that I would like to back up with Time Machine too.
Unfortunately I can't ...
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What is the safest OS upgrade strategy for MacOS Catalina
I have a 2019 MBP that still has MacOS Catalina installed (10.15.7). Until recently, this has suited me fine. But now, one of my 3rd party apps (Adobe Lightroom) has discontinued updates & ...
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Time Machine Backups hidden files
The other day, I transferred my Time Machine Backups from one memory card to another, but an issue arose. The memory card with the original Time Machine files had all together nine items (folders and ...
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Fix permissions on used and unused Time Machine backups
I have an external hard drive with two Time Machine backups on it. One backup is being used for my current Mac and the other backup is from an older Mac that isn't used anymore.
I discovered that the ...
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Time Machine - cannot access all TM backups
I have a senior pal who came to me for help and I am stumped.
He just ran the latest incremental update to Ventura on a fairly new iMac (not Silicon) and he lost all the many mailboxes he had set up ...
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Time Machine data exists in Terminal but no longer in Finder or the TM app
I have tried searching for it but maybe I am not using the right words. tmutil does also not seem to have anything?
Time Machine started claiming that there was not enough space for the backup (I have ...
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Prevent non-administrator accounts from seeing time machine drive
I have added a standard, non administrator account to my Mac running Ventura 13.2
The new account can read files from an attached drive being used as a Time Machine and I would like to prevent this.
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How to Add ˜/.Trash to Time Machine Exclusions in Ventura?
This topic has been covered in other questions (e.g. this one here: On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? ). However, due to the significant changes in the latest ...
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Is APFS more reliable than HFS+ for a network (sparse bundle) drive?
I do Time Machine backups from my laptop to an SMB network drive. No doubt this is inherently unreliable because mounting a disk image over a network connection can result in the disk needing repair ...
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How to access all Time Machine files for offsite backup
I would like to back up my Time Machine files off site using borg (basically copy them into cloud storage). Here is what my Time Machine drive looks like:
However, when I look at it via the terminal:
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TimeMachine - Unable to access backups from old MacBook due to UID change
OS Version: MacOS Ventura 13.2
I got a new MacBook and before I sold my previous MacBook, I created a backup through TM.
Now on the new MacBook I wanted to access the backup of my previous MacBook and ...
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Switching from MacBook Pro Intel to MacBook Pro M2-Max
I have a MacBook Pro Apple silicon M2-Max on order to replace my MacBook Pro Intel.
I have a few questions:
When I try to restore my system from the Time Machine backup, will my applications continue ...
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How to restore data from a deleted app that uses iCloud?
I deleted an app that stores data in iCloud. Then I wanted to restore the data by using Time Machine on my Mac with macOS 13.2. Unfortunately, when I started Time Machine in the iCloud folder, it does ...
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Specify timemachine backup folder blacklist for specific backup disks [duplicate]
I connected two backup disks in my time machine config, one is at the office and the other one is at home. On the office drive I don't want to backup all mac, so I excluded some folder like downloads ...
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Copy a Time Machine backup for ONE computer to a new external drive
The situation: I'm running Ventura (13.1) on an M1 Macbook Air (2020) and I have a 3 TB external HD, format Mac OS Extended (Journaled), that I use as a Time Machine backup volume for 5 different ...
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Can Time Machine be used to restore an encrypted APFS volume?
I created an encrypted APFS volume on my internal SSD on my MacBook. I also use Time Machine.
How can I use Time Machine to:
a) Restore a previous version of the whole encrypted APFS volume?
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What backup solution is thorough enough to include low level stuff like homebrew? Is Time Machine thorough enough?
I need to migrate to a newer MacBook soon, because my current one is falling apart. But I have a lot of lower level stuff installed / configured such as Homebrew formulae and casks.
I also have ...
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Time Machine issue wont back up [duplicate]
I keep trying to use time machine to back up my Mac. I have a brand new 2TB drive and every time i try to back up now this pops up
"Time Machine could not back up the disk “Macintosh HD” because ...
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Late 2013 27” iMac crashing constantly
In a previous Reddit post, I outlined a dead fusion drive in a late 2013 27” iMac.
Here’s where I’m at now.
I ended up going the route of a Sabrent USB enclosure with the Samsung 970 EVO plus SSD. I ...
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Time machine restore to new external drive
As you read through this post, for reference, the machine on which I'm trying all of this is running Big Sur.
I was using Time Machine to back up an external drive that failed. Having purchased a new ...
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How to restore email from a Time Machine backup?
Does anyone have experience restoring email from a Time Machine backup? This was easier in earlier versions of MacOS, when Time Machine provided a UI through the Mail program itself. Now it seems to ...
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Time Machine inherited, but UID changed
After a clean install of Ventura, I have manually transferred data from when the same Mac had Monterey. I then used tmutil inheritbackup to reconnect to the same external backup disk that I had been ...
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moving backups between external hard disks
One of the external backup disks I use to back up my personal laptop filled up when I was too busy to buy another, so (in a rush) I grabbed another project's backup disk and added my laptop to it too. ...
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Time Machine HD no longer mounting
After coming back from holidays I discovered that the TM hard disk I connect to my Mac has stopped mounting.
The HD was encrypted with FileVault.
I tried with Disk Utility to mount it but it does not ...
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Disk Utility: When verifying Time Machine backups, do I need to run First Aid on each volume and container?
When using Disk Utility (in my case, in MacOS Recovery Mode), to run First Aid on a Time Machine backup on an external hard drive in order to verify the integrity of the backup – is it necessary to ...
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Recovery of partitions erased by Time Machine
I had an external drive (1TB) with two "MacOS Extended (journaled)" partitions. Both were roughly 500GB in size. On the first of it were some files. The second was empty. I wanted to use the ...
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Turn off Time Machine notifications (Ventura) [duplicate]
I keep getting the "No Backups for X Days" notification on my Mac from Time Machine. System Preferences layout was updated for Ventura, so the old answers on how to turn off the ...
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Why can I no longer see my bridged Apple AirPort Time Capsule
After following an article here, I was able to turn off the wireless features of my AirPort Time Capsule, and use the hard drive portion via my network. This worked for over a year, and recently, I ...
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How to check if a macOS TimeMachine backup is encrypted?
Is there a way to check if a TimeMachine backup is encrypted on macOS Ventura 13.1?
In the UI it's not visible:
If I check the files on the network drive I see this:
I have no idea how to check if ...
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How does Time Machine handle backing up an external drive that may be disconnected?
I currently backup my MacBook Air to a NAS using Time Machine and all is well. I often, but not always, have an external SSD connected to my MBA that I would also like to be backed up. If I simply dis-...
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Upgraded from High Sierra to Catalina, lost my Safari session with all my open windows and tabs. Is there any way to recover them?
I had been staying on High Sierra for a long time, with Safari 13 I think, the last version that worked with High Sierra. I just upgraded to Catalina and then immediately upgraded Safari to 15.6.1. ...
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What happens to backups I lose my laptop?
I have a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro that is password protected with a weak password (5 characters).
I want to create a local backup of my Macbook but I am wondering what will happen if I lose physical access ...
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Does Time Machine exclude nothing by default?
I remember when Time Machine used to intelligently exclude files.
Haven't used it for a few years. Just set it up again, and it's been backing up crazy amounts of data every hour.
After some ...
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Back up with Time Machine to a Disk Image?
I know that it ignores mounted .dmg by default, so how would one get around this or do variation of this? I know an indirect path would be to make a RAM disk or mount an external disk and copy it over ...
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Time Machine not recognizing remote target disk size
I am using Time Machine as one of our backup instruments. There is a Mac Mini as a server, which "serves" several directories as time machine targets for different machines. I use the the ...
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How can I recover data from .incomplete and .previous Time Machine backups?
I’m helping someone who has deleted their Time Machine backup by accident. All that is contained within the sparsebundle are .incomplete and .previous folders. I would like to recover as much data as ...
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Time Machine inside a virtual macOS installed through VirtualBox? I want to backup the virtual macOS, not the host macOS. Possible?
And then I want to do something even more voodoo. I want to take this Time Machine backup (from a virtual macOS) and install it on a real MacBook. Feels like it is going to explode, but maybe not.
My ...
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Problems with accessing old time machine backups
I am very new to the time machine option on mac and now facing an issue with it.
I have made a backup of my whole mac in June this year.
Two days I wanted to access a few files that in the meantime ...
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Cannot mount Time machine partition on either external Drives on MacOs
very disappointing. i have a new MBP14 and having the same problem i had wiht my prior MBP. the computer refuses to mount the time machine partion of BOTH of my external drives. I have 2 5TB seagate ...
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Creating a non-TM snapshot of an external APFS volume
I have an external HDD with several APFS volumes containing all my files. I want to preserve a copy of the files at a given time, in case they get accidentally modified or deleted. Creating manual ...
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How to restore a specific file from APFS Time Machine backup drive with tmutil?
I've been using an HFS+ drive for Time Machine, but I recently formatted a drive in APFS as my Time Machine backup drive on macOS Monterey. Now I find the implementation with APFS very confusing.
If I ...
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