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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Time machine stuck on Stopping... on mac os mojave
On my macbook pro laptop running Mac OS Mojave, Time machine menu item is stuck at Stopping... Can I have TM restart doing backups again. I would rather not restart my laptop as I have so many ...
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Stop Spotlight from indexing Time Machine volume
The following processes are running more or less constantly and are starting again after each Time Machine backup:
mds
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mdworker_shared
Terminal command mdutil -s -v /Volumes/Backup ...
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Can't add shared drive as Time Machine drive
Solved by this. Can't post as answer due to low reputation on this network site.
on the server (in my case the iMac) in the settings --> sharing tab, disable file sharing (no need to reboot or ...
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Time Machine attempts to inherit backup from wrong Mac
Most people seem to want to get their new Mac to inherit their old Mac's backup. I seem to have the opposite problem.
I have a person who used Migration Assistant to move from a Mac mini to a laptop. ...
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Reparing a corrupt Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule won't work
I tried to follow these instructions:
http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machine-sparsebundle-nas-based-backup-errors.html
But after typing in the hdiutil command I only get one ...
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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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Mac producing corrupt "dataless" local snapshots
On my MacBook Pro running 10.13.6 and formatted with APFS, I'm periodically seeing an issue where the machine is frozen when I try to wake it up, and requires a hard reboot to use again.
After some ...
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External Hard drives not available after sleep
Not finding this question answered anywhere: Recently upgraded to OS10.12 on my iMac. I have 2 LaCie external hard drives attached via USB.
As long as the hard drives are awake (spinning, blue light ...
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Restore Time Machine spinning Menu Extra
In Previous version of Mac OS X the Time Machine menu-extra would spin while a backup was in progress.
Since upgrading to Mavericks that has been replaced with a static icon that adds a second arrow ...
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Time Machine and case-sensitive HFS
Time Machine defaults to formatting a new drive to Journaled HFS+ (case-sensitive), if you set up the drive from within Time Machine itself. However, my main drive (the one Time Machine will be ...
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Mac OS X Server: automount encrypted drive before login
I have a 4TB Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) hard drive hanging off a Mac OS X Lion (soon to be Mountain Lion) Server that is dedicated to networked Time Machine backups.
I'd like to be able ...
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How do I browse files in my `.backupbundle` backup?
I am currently trying to access my Time Machine backups manually, because the Time Machine feature was a little to slow for me and I needed the finder search. Before Catalina this was possible with ...
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Can APFS containers be resized while retaining their contents? (Case-sensitive, encrypted)
Can APFS (Case-sensitive, encrypted) containers be resized while retaining their contents (e.g. not having to reformat them) in MacOS?
I have an external hard drive with 3 different Time Machine ...
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Bricked by Monterey 12.5 update - what happened to my Mac?
The following are some details of a system failure and recovery process that I’ve worked through over the last week. Even though things seem relatively stable now, I’m keen to get any thoughts on what ...
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How to repair Time Machine error Failed to mount with dissenter { DAStatus = 49218; }
All of a sudden, my Time Machine backup, which is on a NAS, would not work any more. In the log, I find
2022-05-20 01:41:16.121723+0200 localhost backupd[494]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:...
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Inheriting Time Machine Backup
I am having issues inheriting my old TM back up from my old MBP when I upgraded to my new MBP. Apple TM engineers had no answer and merely said it was a loss. When attempting to inherit I get the ...
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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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Time Machine on Big Sur stuck on "Preparing Backup" ... and no .inProgress file to delete?
Did the file structure for the Time Machine change with Big Sur? After returning from holiday and not backing up for a month, my early 2015 Macbook Pro on Big Sur 11.5.2 was stuck on "Preparing ...
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Can't delete old Mac Time Machine backups
I'm on 10.14 Mojave. I can't delete old backups in Time Machine with any of the suggested methods on the interwebs:
Attempt 1. Enter Time Machine -> click on cog -> delete backup.
Fail: "Some files ...
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iCloud (re)uploading all my documents again
I have recently bought a new Macbook Pro 13" (i7, 16GB) and to do the switch from the old one to this one, I have installed Mojave and restored it from my other Macbook Pro's Time Machine backup. This ...
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Time machine restore is stuck after 3 hours
I swapped out the hard drive on my old MacBook Pro. Installed Mountain Lion, then High Sierra. Now I’ve found my time machine password (available in Keychain Access app on my laptop but not in my ...
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Restore Encrypted Time Capsule Backup
What is the proper way to restore a MacBook from an encrypted Time Capsule backup?
AppleCare fixed my MacBook and had to replace the drive. I am now trying to restore the Time Machine Backup that is ...
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TimeMachine backup gets stuck during "Preparing Backup"; can't mount .sparsebundle file
I've twice now tried to initiate a TimeMachine backup, and both times they got stuck during the "Preparing Backup..." stage. I think even on the same file, as shown in tmutil status which got stuck ...
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Why did Time Machine have to do a deep event scan?
Time Machine needed to do a deep event scan when backing up to my USB hard drive:
11/12/2015 18:03:43.470 com.apple.backupd[1058]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:contains changes|must scan subdirs|...
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How do I change the ownership of files backed up with Time Machine
I have a Mac which was reinstalled from scratch, and the owner accidentally changed her username when installing it. Current user id is "Jane" but old time machine backups were made when her user name ...
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macOS Sierra and QNAP SMB share - Disk does not support Time Machine backups. (error 45)
Quote from macOS Sierra: Disks you can use with Time Machine
If your backup disk is on a network, the network server can use Server
Message Block (SMB) file sharing. Your Mac must be connected to ...
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Time Machine stopped backing up my Photos Library two years ago
I recently had to restore a Mojave Mac Mini from Time Machine. It all seems to go well until I discovered that the Photos Library was gone. After looking through the TM backup, I see the last time ...
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Create persistent local APFS snapshots which later get backed up to external TimeMachine volume
My scenario is the following:
I have a folder whose contents changes frequently.
To be precise, it's my local backup of my Wordpress upload folder wp-content/uploads/ which I rsync in a SSH tunnel ...
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Spotlight keeps re-indexing Time Machine volumes (days on end)
Spotlight keeps re-indexing all external Time Machine volumes (Catalina, iMac 2020), keeping the drives busy, literally for days on end. This is slowing disk access to a crawl, such that a backup ...
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How do I force Time Machine to use a sparsebundle?
I have previously used a sparsebundle for my Time Machine backups by creating an image in an existing APFS volume that is local to my iMac (it's RAID), not a NAS or anything of that sort.
For reasons ...
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Can't restore Time Machine backup in Catalina
My old my MacBook was stolen so I have to buy a new one. I have an Airport Time Capsule, so I have the Time Machine backups. Yesterday I plugged the new MacBook for the first time and tried to recover ...
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How to restore files, keeping original "Date Added"
I had an automation problem with my Downloads folder (no doubt my fault), losing the correct filename for > 2,000 files. No prob: I'm obsessive about backups (internal Time Machine plus 2 external ...
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What is the best (fastest) way to connect my iMac Late 2012 to a Synology NAS?
I have an iMac Late 2012 with Thunderbolt 2 and USB3.0 ports and a Synology NAS DS916+ with USB 3.0 and eSATA ports.
Currently both devices connected to a router by wire (1Gbps). I do backups of my ...
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Add Time Machine files to an existing account with Migration Assistant
I have a Time Machine backup from Mac A (now retired), containing 4 accounts worth of data. I would like to add the data from one of these accounts to an existing account on Mac B (replacement for Mac ...
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Interpreting various First Aid error messages
Can someone provide documentation or their own knowledge to interpret the below messages? I've researched this diligently but no post has the same combination of messages that I have. There are 5 ...
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Can I restore my data to an older version of macOS?
I had to send in my old Mac (10.11) for screen repair, and worked on a replacement MacBook with 10.14. Now, I'd like to transfer my data back from the replacement's Time Machine to the old Mac. I don'...
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Why does backupd cause excessive (tens of GB) swap memory usage when doing a Time Machine backup?
My MBP has only 8GB RAM, and whenever it does an hourly Time Machine backup it starts to crawl. This causes the backup to take a very long time for not much data.
At this point, Swap Memory usage is ...
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Free Space Differs Between DiskUtility, Finder, TimeMachine, and Storage Tab
The actual question:
Time machine calculates the size of my backup as 925GB, while diskUtility shows only 858GB is used, while OmniDiskSweeper and GrandPerspective apps show that I am only using ~...
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Import photos from Time Machine backup of other machine, without losing metadata
I replaced my MacBook and I have the Time Machine backups from my old laptop, but I'd like to start the system fresh, importing only the files I really need and re-installing all the programs manually,...
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Time Machine backup fails returning 112 and other errors
I've encountered 112 error when attempting to back via Time Machine to Time Capsule:
I've tried:
Restarts, both Mac and Time Capsule
Running Verify Backups available via Time Machine menu when ...
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Trouble using tmutil associate disk with High Sierra
I am using the latest High Sierra (10.13.4) on an iMac, which I had been backing up just fine to an external USB drive connected by USB cable to the iMac. However, a day ago, I inadvertently got this ...
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iCloud backup vs. your own
I had a mini crisis today after deleting some files by mistake.
I have excellent Time Machine Backup to a local file server and have a history going back for a long time, and fine grained.
However, ...
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Browse old versions of iTunes playlists via Time Machine?
I would like to look at some of my iTunes playlists and see their contents some months or a year ago. I know I can restore the whole iTunes library, then ask iTunes to open a non-default library when ...
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How to move Time Machine backups from an AirPort Time Capsule to a NAS
What steps should be taken to move an existing Time Machine backup from an AirPort Time Capsule to a NAS?
Apple describes how to do this when the source and destination are both AirPort Time Capsules:...
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What actions create cloned files on APFS volumes?
As you know, High Sierra (HS) includes a feature called “file cloning.” [EDITORIAL NOTE: Initially I'd written that, based on my discussion with the developer, I gathered Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) ...
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Time Machine says "Next backup: When disk is connected" even though disk is connected
After upgrading to MacOS High Sierra, Time Machine now says "Next backup: When disk is connected", even though the disk is indeed already connected. Also, automatic backups are still being ...
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Is there a way to recover a cleared notification in macOS Sierra?
If you x out a notification (or group of notifications) or click on a notification it appears to be cleared. From time to time I wish I could see or interact with it again. Either the link doesn't ...
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How do I prevent OS X from immediately trying to mount unlocked drive / prompt for password?
Due to a hard disconnect of my encrypted external hard drive, it seems my HFS+ partition has become corrupted. Every time I unlock my hard drive, OS X tries to mount it silently in the background and ...
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What is Safari's AutoFillCorrections.db file?
Safari has a file called /Users/King/Library/Safari/AutoFillCorrections.db. It is sizably large and keeps changing a few times every hour. I'm thinking of excluding this from my Time Machine backup, ...
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Recreating photos library from external photo library after clean install
I've had no end of corruption problems with my photo library ever since the transfer from iPhoto to photos.
I've completely recreated a new machine and I am trying to re-create a fresh photos library ...
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