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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Space manager is invalid on APFS volume inside sparebundle on NAS
I cannot get the sparsebundle to mount on my synology NAS drive, the error returned suggests that it's corrupted. I have re-installed macOS and I'm looking to restore the files from the backup. ...
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Where is Maps data stored? Need to find old Favorite, info not in User Library Maps,
Where is Maps data stored? All I see in Maps in the my User Library is "report a problem". I want to find an old Map Favorite on backup or TimeMachine. Thanks
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Is it possible to save the latest backup from a Time Machine backup drive?
I have an old Time Machine backup drive containing backups of my old laptop. I would like to format and repurpose the drive, but at the same time want to archive the latest backup in case I ever need ...
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time machine not able to complete backup
I have an external 5 hard drive, that I use for time machine backups and for storing other data (images and so on).
It used to work just fine and I could do regular backups.
For over a month now I ...
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WD Hard Disk not Mounting/First Aid not Running
My hard disk has decided to not mount anymore. It has a partition, one I use for Time Machine and the other I use for storing files. This is what diskutil list looks like. Is my work all gone?
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How can I backup just user data to an external drive that anyone can read?
I'm trying to back up a mac for a friend who move and left her 2020 iMac 27 (intel) with me. She is having me send her the data from it and then sell the mac. The 1TB SSD iMac hard drive is in APFS ...
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Example of using APFS local snapshots to backup (snapshot), diff and restore a folder in macOS 12+?
I have a folder I want to experiment with. Unfortunately the folder is several hundred gigabytes and I don't want to spend time backing it up again and restoring it if something goes sideways on me.
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How to get Time Machine backup out of "Backup in use" state without originating computer
I have (well, had) a Late 2013 MacBook Pro running Big Sur backing up via Time Machine to a Time Capsule. That MacBook died a sudden and horrible death with no chance of ever booting again.
In an ...
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Accessing macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra Time Machine backup drive on macOS 12.3.1 Monterey
I have a Time Machine backup from an older 2010 iMac running macOS 10.13.6 that I would like to access from my new Mac that's running macOS 12.3.1. When I connect the drive to my new Mac, the drive ...
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Resetting drive data to test com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup
I'd like to be able to test automated disabling of TimeMachine asking to use a new drive.
It's also made me curious about how macOS/OSX identifies "New Disks" vs ones it's seen before, and ...
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How can I convert a local time machine backup to a network accessible backup?
I have a disk that I was using to locally backup my MBP to. I now have a Mac mini, and would like to share the disk over SMB so I can back up the MBP over the network. I have already tried plugging in ...
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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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My backups are not showing up at all despite taking up space
I recently created a partition (APFS, Case-Sensitive, Encrypted) on a hard drive to use as a Time Machine backup for my MacBook (Air, 2020, M1, running Monterey 12.0.1). I then used Time Machine to ...
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Migration from Intel Mojave to Monterey M1 mac
What is the best way of migrating my data from an old intel Mojave MBP to a new Monterey M1 MBP?
I will soon have to migrate an old (10+ years) MBP running Mojave (the latest and greatest OS it can ...
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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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Time Machine reintegration
Apologies if this has been asked and answered - I've found a myriad of material on Time Machine but not that specifically answered the nuances of what I'm concerned about.
I've asked some questions on ...
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What folders should be excluded from TimeMachine when using fully-online OneDrive?
We recently did a migration in a corporate environment where our Mac users were using a combination of SMB and AFP mounts for network drives, to a Teams OneDrive solution. For a sense of scale, we can ...
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Is the "Clean Up" phase of TimeMachine necessary?
I am using a fresh drive via USB A to SATA 3 to use as a TimeMachine backup. The back up didn't take very long however the the "Clean Up" phase is taking just as long if not longer than the ...
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Why is 'mds' accessing my Time Machine drive all the time?
I have a recording studio, and therefore don't want my Time Machine drive being accessed all the time since it's very noisy. I use TimeMachineEditor to schedule backups during the night, which works ...
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"Not enough space available to transfer" message from Time Machine while attempting to restore a backup
I am attempting to restore a backup with Time Machine for the first time. I use a Macbook air M1 2020 (its SSD is 512 GB), and an external SSD of 1 TB used only for Time Machine with this Macbook. I ...
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Struggling to recover space after backup deletion on older system
My 2TB external drive (seagate SRD00F2) is refusing to recover space after deleting backups. I've tried a number of things, hoping to find help here, TYIA. The older backups were not deleting ...
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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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fsroot tree is invalid. All data still on disk but only 10% normally visible
I woke up today to start working on an audio project but upon loading I got some missing files errors. When I went to check, indeed, most of the folders I had shut the computer down with the night ...
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Recover Time Machine Photo Library Without a Mac
I'm trying to help a friend and looking for the best solution. I have an external hard drive that was his time machine backup on his old mac, which he no longer has. I can mount this drive on Ubuntu ...
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Two choices for Time Machine restore?
I did a full Time Machine backup on an external drive recently. I loaded an embroidery app and royally messed up my folders. I want to restore to that recent backup but I’m being asked from what ...
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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
mds_stores
mdworker_shared
Terminal command mdutil -s -v /Volumes/Backup ...
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Cloning Time Machine backup to run two backups at independent locations
I would like to check if the following scenario will work.
Present set-up
Backing up to Time Capsule via Time Machine
Amassed over 2 TB
I want to build redundancy to cover for ageing Time Capsule
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Copying of Time Machine backup at 127%
I am trying to copy pre-existing backups from an older 2TB drive to a new 5TB drive.
Given that I am on macOS Catalina, I simply copied in Finder using command-C on the Backups.backupdb folder and ...
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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 backup failure
Time Machine has started to fail when I try to backup. I am running Big Sur 11.6.1 and have APFS both on my Mac and external USB drive. The Time Machine log shows:
2022-02-05 10:07:36 Not starting ...
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Identifying location of used time machine file
Running tmutil status provides me with the following details on the current TimeMachine activity:
Backup session status:
{
BackupPhase = Copying;
ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
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Contents of the OSX Documents folder appears empty from an ethernet-connected Linux machine
I have recently migrated a 2012 MacBookPro via Time Machine and Migration Assist to a new MBP running Monterey 12.2. The new Mac is connected via a Gb ethernet cable to a Linux machine (Ubuntu 20.04) ...
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How to continue a Time Machine restore when/after getting an "Error (-5000)" message
I try to restore via tmutil a backup snapshot from my Time Machine disk to a new volume. For this I issue:
sudo tmutil restore /Volumes/MyTMDisk/Backups.backupdb/MyMachine/2021-11-30-042315/MyHD') /...
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Can't read Time Machine backup with APFS case-sensitive format on Catalina
So I took a Time Machine backup of a Mac running Big Sur, and the backup drive format defaulted to APFS (case-sensitive).
Now I am trying to read this backup from another Mac running Catalina (cannot ...
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Problem with MacBook suddenly not reading WD hard drives
I updated mac to Monterey and my two WD hard drives not working. It says Not mounted. Apple support can't help any more . It is not the ports or adapters as they are working with other storage system ....
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Opening a sparsebundle file without TM
A few months ago I had to make a backup on my Time Capsule (from 2008 lol) before resetting my MacBook Air (battery change and all). But since I got it back, I had no way to open/access my save. I can ...
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Monterey Time Machine backups to Synology result in umount 100% cpu
I'm using a Synology NAS as a target for Time Machine backup on macOS Monterey.
Quite frequently, this results in an unkillable umount spinning a core at 100%.
This started after I upgraded my ...
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Time-Machine `tmutil compare` using an APFS backup volume fails
A Time-Machine tmutil compare with HFS backups (e.g. on High Sierra or Catalina) allows evaluating the differences between two backups by doing:
cd "${tmutil machinedirectory)"
tmutil ...
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Is it possible to just migrate changed files?
I sent my MacBook Pro to Apple enterprise support for 3 days. They repaired it and sent it back, and the data was not affected. Before sending it in, I made a fresh time machine backup to an external ...
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Preserving Time Machine Backups
I have decided to use Time Machine to backup incrementally. I have noted and dated these backups, so I can reset back to an earlier date knowing exactly what state the Mac would be in. I find this ...
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How can I use an external HDD for both Time Machine and other data?
Many years ago, I set up an external USB HDD as a Time Machine volume. I don't know whether I did anything special at the time (and this answer indicates I didn't), but I've been using it as both a ...
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How to prevent time machine from purging oldest saved snapshots
Suppose time machine has the following snapshots saved:
Weekly snapshots (12 total):
1/1/2020
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3/1/2020
4/1/2020 will be 13th weekly snapshot which would fill the drive; 1/1/2020 ...
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"To improve reliability TimeMachine must create a new back up" leads to "there isn't enough space on xxxx" where xxxx has twice the capacity required
So I clicked on the 'make new backup' button thinking it would solve the issue it was complaining about and now it tells me that "there is not enough space on XXXX" to do this.
My iMac has a ...
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Time Machine backup not working after migrating to new Mac
I migrated my data from an iMac to a new Mac Mini via Time Machine without problem.
However, when I try to manually run a back up I get the following message:
Disk Time Machine back up contains back ...
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Can a "test restoration" of macOS from time machine be done?
I maintain regular backups of my systems: three (3) Macbook Pros, vintage 2011, 2016 & 2019. I use Time Machine for backups now, and I have so far been fortunate enough to not need to use a backup ...
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Timemachine on MacOS Monterey-12.1 makes temporary volumes?
I have timemachine backing up to two external USB disks. This mostly works OK: backups seem to alternate between disks. However, sometimes df shows a long list of what are apparently temporary ...
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Can a Time Machine backup be used to undo an OS upgrade?
Given an upgrade from Mojave to Catalina:
Can my Time Machine backup be used to undo the upgrade (i.e, return me to Mojave), if something goes wrong?
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Can a time machine backup be restored to a single user on a new computer?
I had a 2013 MBP Retina that I have been doing regular Time Machine backups to an external hard drive. A few months ago I also bought a Mac Mini which I just started from scratch with, and never ...
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Time Machine: chain of snapshots broke, how to restore?
I have noticed that Time Machine somehow started to ignore snapshots on a backup disk. Particularly, it says that the oldest backup is 24 December 2021, although I can see snapshots from the end of ...
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Is there a way to see progress on Time Machine Restore, seeming stuck on "preparing to restore" animation?
Short story:
Macbook pro Retina 13" early 2015 with 128GB SSD /8GB RAM
free space left <5GB
I bought a new 512GB SSD
I did Time Machine backup on a encrypted
external usb HDD (~64GB)
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