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 solve "Time Machine did not finish backing up because some files were unavailable. Backups will resume when your Mac is unlocked."
My Time Machine hasn't been able to backup properly for a couple of weeks now and I got this error:
"Time Machine did not finish backing up because some files were unavailable. Backups will ...
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Not able to delete a specific file in an APFS Time Machine backup
I am using a Mac Book Pro with Ventura 13.0.1. I've followed the answer to How can I manually delete files and folders from a Time Machine backup volume? to delete files from a Time Machine backup, ...
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Timemachine multiple passwords
I have several standard user accounts on a Mac OS computer.
I have setup a timemachine backup. This backup is protected by a password. So files are encrypted on the external backup drive.
Each user ...
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Is there a way, using terminal or something, to make time machine backup more frequently or to give preference to one disk in particular?
I have 3 USB disks all doing Time Machine backups.
MacOS does them in series. Disk1, then Disk2, then Disk3, then back to 1 and so.
Sometimes it takes 4 hours to return to Disk1. Is there a way to ...
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Time machine - inherit backup or associate backup
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro, running Mohave 10.14.16.
Last year I replaced the internal hard-drive with an SSD.
I named the SSD "SSD", whereas the hard-drive was called "Macintosh HD"...
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Mac Catalina - Disk Recovery Partitioning - 2 or 1
I have a Mac, which was running Catalina. For some reason the disk corrupted itself and I needed to rebuild it.
I've done some googling and have also spoken with Apple Support, but got conflicting ...
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How do I fix watchman hogging my CPU cores?
Having installed watchman last night and finally getting it working this morning, now it is completely hogging my CPU, which is running at 100% 😱
I did a watchman watch <myfolder> and created a ...
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How do you use Disk Utility to "restore" a Time Machine drive to another one? (Could not validate sizes, OSStatus error -50)
This is a followup to copying an old Time Machine backup to a newer, larger disk literally takes months, any way to speed up / make it incremental? .
tl;dr on that: I'm trying to copy a 6 TB nearly-...
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I accidentally formatted my external hard drive (HFS+) for TimeMachine (APFS). How can I restore my data?
I have a Western Digital external hard drive formatted in HFS+ where I keep some of my data. I back it up manually. I have another WD disk, which looks very similar, which I use for TimeMachine. So ...
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Can Time Machine continue backups from an external HFS+ drive to an APFS drive?
I've got an external hard drive ("HDD A") formatted HFS+, which is backed up to a Time Machine drive also formatted HFS+. I'm going to replace HDD A with another external hard drive, ...
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TimeMachine inProgress file corrupted cannot remove manually
Running M1 with Ventura
The TimeMachine update refuses to pick up from where it left off - I think the HDD was removed too early - I am trying to manually delete the in progress file so it re-syncs ...
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I don't have a recovery key and my password doesn't work since using Migration Assistant
I have a new Macbook pro (same model/spec) and I have today used Migration Assistant from a Time Machine Backup.
It took 20 hours to complete the transfer but once it had completed I was logged into ...
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Restoring Time Machine backups of HFS+ partitions to APFS volumes
I have an external drive with two HFS+ partitions, each containing data. Both partitions are fully backed up with Time Machine.
I would like to convert the disk to APFS with two volumes, corresponding ...
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"The operation can't be completed because backup items can't be modified."
How can I delete a folder backed up via Time Machine to a .backupbundle disk image? When I try to delete the folder, I get the error message, "The operation can't be completed because backup ...
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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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tmutil listbackups not working but Time Machine is
Time Machine disk is mounted and a backup is running:
$ tmutil status
Backup session status:
{
BackupPhase = Copying;
ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
DateOfStateChange = "...
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Time Machine won't reconnect to existing working TM backup (external HDD via USB and visible in Finder)
The external HDD was permanently powered up and connected via USB to my iMac.
I have never had an issue with it and the HDD has twice the capacity of the HD on the Mac.
The USB cable got disconnected ...
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Manual restore from Backblaze after Time Machine restore fails
My 2020 M1 MacBook Air recently died, and Apple promptly repaired by replacing the logic board, among other components. I use both Time Machine off a Synology NAS (RAID 1) and Backblaze. Both ...
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Broken permissions after Time Machine files copy/paste [duplicate]
I recently change my macbook pro motherboard.
I have a backup as a Time Machine .sparsebundle.
I opened this image, opened my time machine backup, found content i want to restore and copy/paste it.
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How to restore split fusion drive backup to fusion drive
My second hand iMac 2017 retina 5k running OSX Catalina has always had a split fusion drive as seen in image attached and I have been using it like that for ages and backing up via time machine to ...
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How to merge container disk into the existing volume
How can I merge the 300 GB Container disk5 with Container disk6 without losing data on disk6? This is a 4TB external drive with two equal-sized volumes, namely EXTERNAL for my personal files and TIME ...
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Why does Time Machine need a Spotlight index of the backup?
This subject has been touched on here, but in my opinion not answered at all.
I'm trying to understand why Time Machine needs Spotlight. It's widely stated that it does but never explained why. I can'...
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How to restore (with Time Machine) from a newer MacOS (Monterey) to an older MacOS (Catalina)?
Due to office use I need to move my information from a Monterey Mac to a Catalina Mac (I can't update any further this iMac).
I've tried restoring from a previous TimeMachine but the older Mac doesn't ...
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Recovering from a failed update in a way that I don't lose everything and have to setup everything again from scratch
I accepted to restart for 'Security Updates' yesterday, but pretty sure macOS then attempted to install Catalina! (I was on High Sierra before).
My Mac restarted but the install kept hanging at '...
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Offline iCloud backups
I’m a heavy user of iCloud Drive to synchronise my files across my iOS and Mac devices. It works well, but I’d also like to have an automatic way to maintain offline backups of my iCloud data. This is ...
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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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copying an old Time Machine backup to a newer, larger disk literally takes months, any way to speed up / make it incremental?
I have a several-year-old 6 TB Time Machine backup. I bought a new 12 TB drive, same manufacturer, which I hope to use to replace the old drive, but still keeping my old backups from the old drive (...
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Disk utility volume button is greyed out
I want to store Time Machine backups and backup other files on an external SSD. Upon backing up Time Machine, it doesn't allow me to store any other files on the SSD. I found out that a new partition ...
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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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Boot Camp missing from start selection after removing 3rd Mac partition. Requesting assistance to restore functionality of Boot Camp
I recently had a working Boot Camp partition with Windows 7 operational. I made the mistake of creating a 3rd partition to install a version of macOS do to program requirements, attempting to keep ...
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How can I compact a Time Machine backup history in .backupbundle format?
I just got a more recent MacBook Pro than my current Late 2013 and in the transitory time in which I'll still have both but using only the newer one, I would like to keep the most recent part of the ...
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Cannot copy old TimeCapsule data as disk formatted HFS+ Case-sensitive
I have an elderly TimeCapsule from which I want to copy 500Gb of TimeMachine backups.
When I mount the sparsebundle and try to copy the contents to a new HFS+ partition the process fails as the ...
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Enable APFS snapshots without enabling Time Machine backups
In addition to the usual incremental backups to external media, Time Machine also automatically creates, manages, and prunes local APFS snapshots. These snapshots can be viewed in Time Machine's ...
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Clone external bootdrive without Time Machine
I currently use a external SSD as boot drive. Since then I only have issues and kernel panics.
Did a bunch of things to resolve it, nothing helped.
I'm still not sure if it's a software or hardware ...
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How to Restore Keychain from a Time Machine Backup?
{Time-machine newbie} I would like to replace my Keychain Access with Keychain Access from a Time Machine backup.
I tried restoring the folder at ~Library/Keychain Access but what I ended up with was ...
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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.
However, ...
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Can't set up time machine with 500G drive and 1TB samsung T7
I erased the external drive (1TB samsung T7) and formatted with APFS (journaled). It backs up the first 220G of 480G or so. Then, it stops abruptly, complaining it has only 99M available. I'm not sure ...
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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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Time Machine Can't See Old Backups
Time Machine can no longer see my old backups.
I have a Macbook Pro 2017 running macOS Catalina 10.15.7
I have a Time Machine backup on an external hard drive formatted as a HFS+ / Mac OS Extended ...
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How to transfer backups from old external HDD to new external HDD? [duplicate]
1.Finder doesn’t work.
It shows wrong size,my backup is 27GB,but when I’m trying to copy,it magically become 200GB.When I’m trying to copy this 200Gb file,I get infinity copying because the size of ...
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How to downgrade macOS from a beta whilst retaining all data without prior backup
I stupidly have lost my hard drive which contained a backup of my Mac when it was on macOS Monterey. I'm currently on the latest version of macOS Ventura and would like to downgrade.
I can make a ...
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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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How to insert backup Keychains on Mac Mojave?
I accidentally deleted my Keychains while trying to figure out why the VPN wasn't accepting my Keychain's password. I went into the Keychain Access app and clicked Reset my Default Keychains, and I ...
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2 hard drives on MacBook 12 inch
I have a MacBook 12 inch with 1 USB-C port.
My MacBook got too small for my Photo's library, so I put that on an external SSD.
Now I want to include that SSD into the TimeMachine backup. The only way ...
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Is running FirstAid on a partially finished TimeMachine disk going to fail? Should I return this usb hdd?
TimeMachine to a new usb hdd has been running for over 36-hours. In desperation, I stopped the backup, I ran tmdiagnose and then started DiskUtility FirstAid. I read a little more about the situation, ...
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Output of tmutil status
I am using tmutil status to get information on the running TimeMachine backup.
I get something like this:
Backup session status:
{
BackupPhase = Copying;
ClientID = "com.apple.backupd&...
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Can i transfer my Prevew signatures from a Time Machine backup drive to a new Macbook Pro? (old mac died)
I would like to put the signatures I had on an old Macbook that died onto my new Macbook Pro. I have a copy of Time Machine from my old Mac. Can I use that to transfer Preview signatures to new ...
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How can I see how large each Time Machine backup is in APFS?
Previously (on HFS+ backups), I used TimeTracker to see how big each backup was, and which files were taking up the most space. With APFS TM, TimeTracker no longer works (and is no longer in ...
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Time Machine - delete entire specific volume's history
From How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? it is possible to delete an entire Mac's backups, or specific folders by date from Terminal.
Entire Mac…
sudo tmutil delete /...
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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 ...
