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 - 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.
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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 ...
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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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Time machine cannot backup after initial backup on samsung T7
I'm running macOS 10.14.6. I successfully backed up using time machine to my Samsung SSD T7 five months ago but I cannot backup to it when I tried using time machine now.
I get the "preparing ...
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How to activate Time Machine on forced OS upgrade
I hd my late 2019 iMac running on Catalina due to some Software wich needed it. Early 2022 everything was ready to upgrade to Big Sur and then Monterey. On this Update OSX told me it won't install on ...
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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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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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Putting two APFS volumes on new drive, one for Time Machine
Due to a problem, I want to copy the contents of an external disk with a corruption in one partition. The corrupted partition is HFS+ and the other is APFS. The APFS partition is a Time Machine ...
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How to backup multiple Macs with a single USB drive without attaching to network?
I have multiple Macs backing up to a NAS. The NAS is backing up to an off site server. Problem is, the network Time Machine backups are unreliable (in my experience), often getting corrupted, and not ...
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How to remove Time Machine designation on my external hard drive
My external hard drive has the Time Machine icon on it but I am not using it for backup. I am using it as a regular hard drive. I tried to include it in Spotlight for indexing but it won't allow me to ...
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Find and decode bytes containing passphrase hint (CryptoUsers structure) in FileVault Drive Encryption of HFS+ encrypted drive
I had a Mac computer running macOS 10.14.6 (I believe) and set up a Time Machine backup with encryption on a hard drive. It is encrypted with HFS+ with a password and a hint. The password was stored ...
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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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error message on mounting sparsebundle
i have a new mac and I want to retrieve some files from the backup of my previous one.
I have a disk mounted on a third Mac which is being used for Timemachine on both the new and old machine. In ...
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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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USB or Time Machine recovery
I have a MBP mid-2015 running 10.14.6 and want to upgrade to a Scandisk Extreme Pro 1TB. When I install the drive and try to boot up using Cmd+R, a window with only "Internet Recovery" pops ...
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is it possible to build a RAID1 with one disk in Disk Utility and add the second disk later?
I am currently using a single disk (disk 1) for my Time Machine backups. I want to migrate this to a two-disk RAID1 volume. I already have a second disk (disk 2) that is identical to my Time Machine ...
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NAS backup no longer working due to time machine stuck preparing backup. Error 19
For about a year my Mac has been backing up to a local NAS drive. A few weeks ago it stopped backing up and when i try and manually start a backup this occurs.
How do i prevent this happening so i ...
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Using Time Machine for Backup on Old OS Version
Tomorrow, I am getting the battery replaced on my early 2015 macbook air. As there is a chance of data loss, I plan on using "time machine" to make a back up on an external drive beforehand. ...
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Is there a way to Time Machine backup iPhone into Mac and vice versa?
I have a Mac with 1TB of storage.
I have an iPhone with 1TB of storage.
Is there a way of using the contained storage as Time Machine?
Pretty sure it is not possible.
What would be the closest ...
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Is formatting external drive with "APFS Encrypted" redundant for Time Machine with "Encrypt backups" turned ON
I got a new external SSD drive to use as a Time Machine on my new MacBook Air M1.
I formatted that new SSD with a single partition on the format of APFS Encrypted, and assigned a password.
I went to ...
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Encrypted Time Machine Backup to an Encrypted .sparsebundle Disk Image?
so I have this idea of mounting an Azure File Share in macOS
then create a .sparsebundle Disk Image with the Azure File Share to use it as my Time Machine backup disk.
I have multiple questions to ...
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TimeMachine backups not found, image can't be inherited because an image with the same title already exists in the same folder
My TimeMachine thinks that the disk space on my external NAS is full and it can't do backups. I realized now that it only finds one old backup from May, and all older backups are seemingly gone.
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Recover and deduplicate Time Machine backup files
I have an old Time Machine backup and would like to recover the latest version of the files without restoring the backup to a whole computer.
For example, say that the Time Machine backup drive has ...
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TimeCapsule occasionally stuck for hours
Typically, the TimeMachine backups on TimeCapsule are fast and reliable.
But occasionally, the backup is just stuck for hours not backing up the data at all or just 10 MB can take minutes.
The ...
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Does macOS's newer "Erase All Content and Settings" feature yield different results than reformatting the startup drive?
According to Apple,
"macOS Monterey includes Erase All Content and Settings, a way to
quickly and securely erase all of your settings, data, and apps, while
maintaining the operating system ...
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How do I repair a Time Machine Sparsebundle that will not mount or attach? [duplicate]
My wife's Laptop died. Her backup was on a Synology NAS and we need to get at some files from the backup by accessing the Sparsebundle from another Mac.
I made a copy of the Sparsebundle to work on ...
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Big Sur: Can't read Time Machine disk
I am running Big Sur and backup my data using Time Machine to 4TB Toshiba. Today I tried to recover the backup and the disk won't read by Big Sur. When I try to mount the disk using Disk Utility, it ...
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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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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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How to restore an individual file from Time Machine using CLI (MacOS)
How can I restore a single file from an old Time Machine backup using only the Command Line Interface?
I took a snapshot of my MacOS system using Time Machine some time ago, and I'd like to restore ...
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How can I change the date format of the backup display in Time Machine?
Currently, the Time Machine display from System Preferences shows this:
Oldest backup: 2021-25-10
Latest backup: Today, 17:13
Next backup: Today, 19:09
The 'Oldest backup' format is particularly ...
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How can I browse my previous Mac Time Machine Backup?
I did move from an iMac to a Mac Mini and I did use the same TM disk but I did not restore from TM backup since I was moving from intel to M1
When I connect the backup TM ask me if I want to inherit ...
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Is there a simple way to put a Catalina user folder on a external volume and be able to clone/BU using TNM/CCC?
i was hoping to ask if there a simple way to put a Catalina user folder on a external volume and be able to clone/BU using Time machine or CarbonCopy Cloner etc
I read some comments about using the ...
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Merge Unallocated Space with a macOS Extended (Journaled) Partition via Terminal
I have a 2 TB external hard drive and it contains an exFAT partition named "2 TB HDD" of 1.5 TB and a macOS Extended (Journaled) partition named "Time Machine" of 500 GB. I noticed ...
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Time Machine Backup Failure | .../UBF8T346G9.Office/.../Outlook 15 Profiles/.../HxStore.hxd could not be backed up
Time Machine continues to fail with the following message:
I'm running:
macOS Monterey v12.4
Outlook for Mac v16.61
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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.
time ...
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Restore older macOS from Time Machine backup - why is it vital to not connect backup drive after OS updade?
As Tetsujin mentions in the comments of the answer to 'Can I revert a new MacOS X installation using a Time Machine backup?', I should not connect the backup drive after my OS update if I plan to ...
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How can I determine why macOS reports that system data increased by over 50 Gb overnight?
I recently had some trouble with System data growing large, up to 150 Gb, for unclear reasons on macOS Monterey, macOS 12.0 Beta.
Yesterday I found out that it was due to time machine snapshots. I ...
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Unnecessary locations for Spotlight indexing?
I've noticed Spotlight using a lot of processor time and when I review where it's digging about via sudo fs_usage mdworker mds, I see that most of the time is being spent in /System/Library/ and /...
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Stop Spotlight from indexing Time Machine during certain hours?
It seems from reading other posts that it's impossible to stop spotlight indexing Time Machine, even when you put Time Machine in the privacy tab, because it's necessary for Time Machine's ...
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MyTime Machine backup keeps filling up and it doesn't make sense
I have an internal 1TB drive on my iMac M1 and an external 4TB backup. I keep getting the message that my Time Machine backup is full. About two weeks ago I got this message and it didn't make sense ...
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Cannot re-allocate free space to main disk
I have a Boot Camp partition that I wanted to make smaller, so I would have more space on my main macOS container. I followed this tutorial, but I'm struggling with the last step.
I successfully used ...
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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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Time machine won't recognize Lenovo laptop plugged in via USB to USB-C cable
I have a Lenovo laptop, running Ubunutu 14.04 LTS, and I want to connect its hard drive to my MacBook Air running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6. I have them connected via newly bought USB to USB-C cable, but ...
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Delete timemachine backups - not by date, but by disk
I'm on Big sur
I have several disks on my mac. Some of this disks have been changed by others or went wrong, etc. Now they are not there any more. But if I go in my time machine drive I see the ...
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High Sierra Time Machine back up disk unusable
I recently switched out my old Seagate Barracuda HDD for a OWC SSD 3G in my late 2009 iMac 27", fantastic results.
But when restoring from a Time Machine back up made just minutes prior opening ...
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How to export Time Machine exclusions or list them in Terminal
I have a Mac running Time Machine and it has dozens of exclusions that were added through the Time Machine UI.
How can I export this list?
Using tmutil in Terminal, I am able to access Time Machine ...
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USB Drive Password Not Stored in Keychain
I have an encrypted external USB drive which I am using as a TimeMachine backup drive. I have to enter the password every time I log into my machine, despite checking the box "Remember this ...
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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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Why are my Timemachine snapshots being deleted almost immediately?
I am on Big Sur and realise that Timemachine is not keeping local snapshots anymore. I have already tried turning automatic backups off/on in Timemachine.
I created a few manually and within a few ...
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