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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What does these extended attributes mean and where are they documented?
For some reason a directory I had (Vundle.vim) got randomly copied to another directory (got copied from ~/.vim to ~/dotfiles/.vim with strange permissions and what looks like no contents. Anyways, ...
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How can I restore Notes from a time machine backup?
I originally had the Notes app syncing to my Google account. I changed my google password 8 months ago and never bothered to update it on my machine. Today I went to Notes/Accounts and unchecked the ...
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Can I revert a new MacOS X installation using a Time Machine backup?
I regularly use Time Machine to create backups of my current macbook.
I am trying to upgrade to MacOS X Big Sur, but I was wondering what happens if I don't like it?
Is it possible to downgrade back ...
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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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Migration Assistant won’t copy (some) files, though running through smoothly without error
we’re just migrating my wife’s MacBook Pro to a new one, both most recent macOS versions via a TimeMachine backup. In the process all files are selected, Migration Assistenten on the new mac runs ...
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If I temporarily remove an external HD from my Mac, then re-introduce it a few weeks later, will Time Machine back it all up again?
If I remove an external hard drive from my Mac, then re-introduce it a few weeks later, will Time Machine back it all up again as if it were a new drive, or will it just back up the changes that were ...
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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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macOS BigSur keep booting from external backup disk (made with CCC)
My Mac is on BigSur and I am using Carbon Copy Cloner to create a one on one disk which is bootable also. I have this setup running for years now and never noticed any problems – also on BigSur it ...
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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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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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Does Time Machine take "point in time" consistent backups?
When Time Machine starts a backup, does it somehow take a snapshot of the current state of the filesystem such that any changes made to files after the backup starts are not reflected in the backup? ...
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Time Machine encryption variations - how does each work?
I've seen some great answers on Time Machine encryption, especially one by Gordon Davisson. But the variations regarding networked volumes is still hazy. The rules for locally attached volumes seem ...
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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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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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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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tmutil command to install a new larger Time Machine disk, copying old backups to it [duplicate]
My old Time Machine backup drive (external USB) is now almost full. I have purchased a larger drive and want to switch to it for Time Machine, migrating all my old backups to the new drive's archive.
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Permission of ~/.Trash is always gone after Time machine backup
Every day, permission of ~/.Trash is always gone(Pic1). And .Trash become zero bytes file.
That mean, I can't move files to Trash, and Finder will delete files immediately.
Every time ~/.Trash go ...
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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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Recovery volume appears in Time Machine backup ; how to exclude?
The rare times I open my Time Machine backup folder, I see "Recovery" appearing for each backup.
For example:
Since I don't really need Recovery in Time Machine (as far as I know, each ...
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On macOS how do you make an smb volume mounted at boot
I have a Mac running Monterey connected to a network that has a NAS (Synology, DSM 7.0.1-42218) that has smb shares.
I want my Mac to mount that smb share so that /Volumes/<smb share name> is ...
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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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Determining OS X version from Time Machine backup
I have Time Machine backups from my iMac Early 2008 (20"). Can I determine from those backups what OS X version was running on the machine at the time of latest backup?
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External Hard Disk used for Time Machine not detected on any other devices
I have been using a 1TB Seagate hard drive since 2017 as a Time Machine disk. I've noticed this problem since then, but the hard disk literally doesn't get detected on any other computer. I've tried ...
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Time Machine stopped worked with "failed to unmount file"
I use a Synology NAS to backup my family's MacBooks. Two are still working fine, but one of them was unable to make a backup for about a week. Because the other two MacBooks are still fine I am pretty ...
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Unable copy time machine back up files- the drive shows as read only
I've got a new hard drive and want to copy my old time machine backups over, but am unable to. When i open the drive info it shows as read only permission, even though I am the admin of this pc. The ...
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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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Mac mini stuck in boot (progress bar full) after SSD Upgrade
I've done the following:
created a time machine backup from a mac mini with a 1TB HDD (only used about 40GB).
replaced the disk with a previously used, working SSD - Samsung EVO 850, 500GB.
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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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Why is Time Machine not saving Google Chrome History file?
I need to restore Google Chrome (Canary) browsing history from a Time Machine backup. It seems Time Machine has backed up all the profile files in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default ...
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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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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 it possible to copy an entire APFS format Time Machine disk to another drive under Monterey?
I have an old USB connected SSD that I have been using as a Time Machine target on a Mac running macOS 12 (Monterey). This old drive was setup on this Mac under Monterey so it was formatted APFS from ...
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Time Machine on a local drive, then make that drive a network drive (via Server.app) on a different computer
I have two macs running OS X 10.10.3. One has Server.app installed, is connected to the internet via ethernet, and also has a 2 TB disk attached via USB, with two partitions - "Backup" and "Storage". ...
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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 delete another machine's time machine backup?
I've used my Time Machine drive to back up my main machine, and also a friend's mac. Her machine is now being backed up on another Time Machine drive, and she'd like me to delete her backup.
I'm ...
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Restoring iPhone Backup from External Hard Drive
I had recently organised all the storage on my Mac and was finally able to back up my MAC and my iPhone. In order to create more space, I found an article online which told me how to move the back up ...
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Can I back up one external hard drive to a smaller external hard drive via Time Machine?
So I've just had an external hard drive (5TB Seagate Backup Plus Portable) fail on me, the 3rd such time in 5 years. This is not unexpected behaviour in my experience: each of these hard drives has ...
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How to reformat hdd only viewable under (About Mac) -> (System Report) -> (USB 3.0 Bus)?
After changing to a new external USB hdd for Time Machine my previous external USB drive used for Time Machine (almost) disappeared. My old drive is a Western Digital, My Passport 25E3 for Mac (1-tb). ...
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Moving time machine backup sparsebundle from Time Capsule to USB exFAT disk
I have a Time Machine backup on an Airport Time Capsule (name: computername.sparsebundle). Now I want to access that backup on a USB disk formatted as exFAT.
Several online resources describe the ...
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Time Machine fails to eject disk (sparesebundle) on Time Capsule, then cannot mount on different Mac
Have MacA and MacB running TM and backing up to the same Time Capsule. TC has the internal drive and two attached USB drives - same problem occurs on all of them. Both Macs are latest version - 10.15....
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Why can't Time Machine see shared drive?
I am having trouble setting up a Time Machine backup to a shared network drive. I have an external drive plugged into a MacBook Pro (MBP), and I want to use Time Machine to remotely back up a MacBook ...
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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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Can I restore a time machine backup from one partition to another on the same HD?
My partitions are reversed so the one I use is the last out of two so I can’t enlarge it.
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Time Machine: Backing up the local drive onto an external AND a partition of that external to another external
My setup: I have an iMac that gets backed up via Time Machine to an external SSD that is partitioned to have storage for Time Machine and for working off a photo catalog in Lightroom directly from ...
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macbook air begining 2015 stuck after change SSD
I have a macbook air from begining 2015 with 120Go. I bought a Transcend Jet Drive 250 SSD (480Go). I did a backup from time machine and placed it on an external hard drive. I installed the SSD and I ...
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Smb issues with Mac 12.5 Monterey
I have an Linux VM running Openmediavault on a separate machine which has a usb3 external drive plugged in. I use this for file shares and time machine backups. It has worked perfectly for years. ...
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