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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tmutil status shows time remaining but Time Machine preference pane says "Calculating time remaining"
all. I'm running macOS 11.4. I using a new Time Machine backup destination and want to know how long it's going to take to finish. The Time Machine preference pane continually says Calculating time ...
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Can't Find Safari History File (Time Machine)
I am trying to restore my Safari history and saved passwords from a Time Machine backup on Mojave.
The history.db file, according to Apple's website, is supposed to be at ~Library/Safari.
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How to download a generic Time Machine backup to restore bricked MBP [closed]
I dont have a Time Machine backup, Internet Recovery doesn't work because I get "The recovery server could not be contacted" even if I sync the time. I dont have a second Mac to make a ...
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Why is a Time Machine backup so slow over a fast network?
Despite having a gigabit hardwired ethernet connection to my Macbook Air, when I have Time Machine backing up to an iMac also hardwired on the same switch in the same network, the transfer speed is ...
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Time Machine Consolidation Schedule
So Time Machine keeps hourly backups for a day and dailies for a week and weeks until disk full. The problem is that I am paranoid and concerned about discovering that I made changes to a file over ...
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Disable TimeMachine with AppleScript and Automator on Monterey?
I was using an App created with Automator to quikly disable and enable Time Machine backups on my Mac with just one click. I was using a command that for some reason seems to doesn't work since I ...
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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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How to transfer backups.backupdb from one external HDD to another?
I have two macOS Mojave macs that back up to a drive. Now, when I’m trying to just grab “backups.backupdb” from one HDD to another,I have this error : copying is almost over and the size of the folder ...
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Recovery of disk space lost because of backup snapshot created by Techtool Pro eDrive on MacOS [closed]
Recently I was cleaning up an older Mac 10.13 and on the drive and found I bought TechTool Pro a couple of years ago, installed it and I forgot about it. I didn't know I have it nor I did remember ...
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Can somebody explain encryption on a Time Machine drive?
Something is suddenly not clear about Time Machine external drives. And I'm also unclear on how one can tell whether an external drive is encrypted.
My current active Time Machine drive (for my 2017 ...
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How do I partition an external drive on macOS 13.2.1? [duplicate]
I have an external drive and I am running macOS 13.2.1. I'd like to partition the external drive into two partitions and use one of those for a Time Machine backup. In Disk Utility, it has the +|- ...
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How to make time machine back up immediately
I just plugged an external hard drive into a MacBook.
On that MacBook I opened Time Machine.app, turned off "Back Up Automatically", chose the external hard drive as a disk to back up to, ...
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Can’t restore Time Machine back up - an error occurred while adding recovery system to destination disk
Just upgraded my 2012(mid) non-retina 13” MacBook Pro with a crucial
sad 1tb and having troubles restoring back up from Time machine. I’m
sure it’s important to mention I installed a new data cable ...
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Problem with permission to access folder in time machine backup
Somehow I lost permission to access folders in my time machine back up.
Last time I copied some files from this archive was four days ago and I didn't have any problems.
Today I started to make I a ...
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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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How to partition External HD for both Time Machine and other purposes?
I have retina MacBook Pro with 256GB and a 1TB external HD.
That external 1TB hard drive I want to use for several things, one of them is to backup my system.
Is it possible to partition using Disk ...
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Synology Time Machine Out of Space -- Why won't it delete old backups
I am using a DS620slim for Time Machine backups. My Mac runs 10.15.6 and it completed backups a day ago without issue.
I've created a shared folder with a specific user and a disk space quota to ...
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how to restore disappeared saved web passwords after changing local user login password
The web passwords saved for a local user "UL" have disappeared after changing that local user's password and I need to recover them.
Here is my specific setup:
I'm working on a MacBook Air ...
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macOS: backupd creates hidden empty folder on desktop
I noticed a hidden empty folder on my desktop, .J5NASODWVY73, created and last opened 2012-03-16. I have full permissions and I can trash it, but after every restart / reboot, the folder reappears, ...
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Adding an APFS volume to an existing container
Another question was adequately answered, but it turns out that the new drive referred to can no longer be obtained. So instead of putting two APFS volumes on a new drive, I am going to reformat the ...
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Disk Utility First Aid Fails on Time Machine Disk
I've been backing up my Mac with Time Machine on an external hard drive for several years. I recently plugged the external drive into my Mac, it spent a long time running fsck_hfs and finally showed ...
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tmutil setdestination permission denied
I'm trying to force TimeMachine to point to an smb location. The smb share is on a Ubuntu server and I followed this guide (mostly - it's a little outdated) to setup the smb.
However, I do not see my ...
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External HD connected to Time Capsule does not show up
My Time Capsule is old and gives lots of errors in backups, so I bought a (LaCie) external HDD to connect it to and do my Time Machine backups from that instead; Apple tells me I can do this. As per ...
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Mounting a sparsebundle not working
I'm trying to mount a 3.5TB sparsebundle created by Time Machine. I've copied it into an external hard drive and double-clicked it.
After double-clicking it I see these messages on the Console app:
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How to backup and restore /opt with Time Machine on macOS High Sierra?
I have an old MacBook Pro running High Sierra. Time Machine backs up /Users but not /opt.
The Time Machine preferences let me exclude directories, but does not let me add directories that I want to ...
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Is it safe to erase my HDD (with partition disk0s2) when trying to downgrade from Mojave to High Sierra?
I need to downgrade from Mojave to High Sierra but am not sure if I can safely erase the HDD in order to install the new OS.
I'm aware that I can create an installer on a USB drive for High Sierra or ...
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Time Machine detected that your backups can not be reliably restored
I have a Synology with a 4TB hard drive and I'm getting this message. While I understand that I probably won't be able to continue using this for backup unless I erase it, I do wonder if I can access ...
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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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Time Machine believes that iMovie Library is deleted, when iMovie is open
I have a Mac Mini (Mid-2011 model), running Mac OS X 10.11.6, with iMovie 10.1.6.
I have a iMovie Library.imovielibrary file in the ~/Movies folder, which contains all my iMovie projects.
When I don't ...
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External hard disk(HHD) showing irregular capacities and partitions
I tried to partition my external hard disk on Mac using disk utility.
First I have Erased newly added 2TB HHD with "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" with "GUID Partition ".
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Time Machine external HDD backup drive won't mount, freezes system UI
I have a Western Digital Passport 2TB external HDD that I use for Time Machine backups. I formatted it using APFS and it is encrypted. I've used it for around 2 years now, backing up every week.
When ...
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Will i lose any data if i transfer backups data folders and not the whole backups.backupdb?
I can transfer dates folders(backups from different dates),but i can't transfer backups.backupdb.
Will i lose something if i just transfer those files?
Is there a way to transfer somewhere backups....
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Is there a way to do anything else while Time Machine GUI interface is working?
I love Time Machine's functionality. However, I just hate that while the GUI is displayed, I cannot do anything else. It's slow. Slowness is more or less* understandable, given I am using it over Wi-...
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Clone APFS Time Machine volume to 2nd hard drive (Big Sur)
I run Time Machine on an APFS formatted SSD and wondered, if it is possible to make something like a backup of my backup.
In practice I would like to copy / clone / get an image of my Time Machine SSD ...
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External APFS SSD partition stops mounting after a while mount even after erasing/reformatting
I have been trying to use an APFS partitioned Samsung T7 shield 2 TB for a couple of weeks now but keep running into the same issue. After a few days of use, one of my partitions will no longer mount.
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Limit Time Machine size in Big Sur
In setting up a new Time Machine, how can I limit how much disk space Time Machine has access to? I am only interested in answers relevant to Big Sur's change to AFPS for Time Machine.
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Time Machine backups of Multiple Macs to external drive with APFS: Should I use separate containers, or one container with different volumes?
On an external drive, I have 3 APFS containers each with 1 volume in them respectively. The 3 containers and their respective volumes are used for Time Machine backups from 3 different Macs. The APFS ...
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Browsing another disk in Time Machine just lets me browse my actual hard drive
I'm clicking "Browse other backup disks..." in the Time Machine menu, then selecting a Time Machine disk. This puts me into the Time Machine interface, but I just see my home folder. Not my home ...
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Huge Backups.backupdb folder on the same local drive
I recently noticed that my newly installed local disk is running out of space on High Sierra. After some investigation, I found a Backups.backupdb folder that was taking up a significant amount of ...
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How to safely delete old Time Machine backups from external disk [duplicate]
I can browse through Backups.backupdb on the disk, and find ancient folders I would like to delete to save space on that disk.
I am wary of simply deleting those in case the oldest ones have lots of ...
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"browse time machine backups" shows no backups when using a NAS, unless I manually start a backup first
I back up using Time Machine to a Synology NAS, using its built-in support for this. In general, it works great.
However — almost obviously — when I'm not connected to the NAS, I don't see any backups ...
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How to decrypt the system keychain from another mac at the command line
I just ran into a situation where a user with a Mac that had been hard broken by an interrupted update needed into their Time Machine backup outside of the normal recovery process. Unfortunately, they'...
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How do I thin an abandoned Time Machine backup?
I have a NAS with multiple computers' Time Machine backups. Most of these are abandoned, old computers that I don't have anymore. I want to keep the backups—or at least, the latest copies of files—and ...
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How do I access the Library and Downloads folder from another Time Machine backup in Ventura?
On a new Mac, I connected the Time Machine disk from my old Mac and now want to copy specific files out of the ~/Library and ~/Downloads folders from a past Time Machine backup. I can navigate to my ...
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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 com....
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Mac file sharing (smbd) wedged, how to debug?
I have a 2020 M1 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.2.1 as a file server, and an old 2015 Macbook Pro running Monterey 12.6.3 trying to connect to the shared drive. The connection gets wedged in some kind of ...
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Time Machine without any external disks
So, for various security reasons my company doesn't allow attaching backup drives or doing any external backups -- mostly we have cloud things and use git for backup. But Time Machine lets me use the ...
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How do I keep a full Time Machine restoration from changing the filesystem type?
I'm stuck on upgrading from Mojave to Catalina. (Yes, I'm late to the party.)
My most recent Time Machine backups continue to be from my Mojave system on an HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled) filesystem....
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Time Machine thinks I made 850 thousand changes in an hour?
My laptop has been nearly idle all day. Edited a couple of Notes, two images, and downloaded maybe a dozen e-mails. When Time Machine started a backup, it claimed to have found more than 850 ...
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All Time Machine backups appended with ".interrupted"
After getting my new MacBook Pro, I formatted a 1 TB drive as APFS to use as my backup disk. After formatting, I noticed some strange behavior after doing backups. I tried to investigate the backup ...
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