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 extract a snapshot from a Time Machine backup to a new external HD partion so that this partion can act as a (boot) volume?
I found out how to extract a snapshot from a Time Machine backup to an external hard drive. I use:
sudo tmutil restore /Volumes/TMdrive/Backups.backupdb/machinename/2021-11-30-042315/MyHD /Volumes/...
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knowledgeC.db could not be backed up
My Time Machine backups keep failing.
I get the message
Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "NAS server"
"/private/var/db/CoreDuet/Knowledge/knowledgeC.db" could not be ...
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How to Time Machine Backup with Mac OS Extended Journaled instead of APFS
I had two SSD's - when I tried to use them for time machine backups, they were automatically formatted as APFS without giving me an option to select Mac OS Extended Journaled.
The problem is, there is ...
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Connecting Time Machine to a server: "Your password on the server X needs to be changed."
I am trying to reconnect Time Machine to a backup server. It was used for Time Machine in the past.
After entering my credentials, I get the following error:
Your password on the server “server” ...
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How do you restore a Time Machine backup from M1 to Intel?
I'm on MacOS 12.1. I've restored a Time Machine backup from an Intel machine to an M1 machine, but attempting to go the other direction does not work. I've tried backing up and restoring from a
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Using a HDD for TimeMachine on both NAS and via USB
Is it possible to have a HDD for TimeMachine and using it on a NAS? I'm running OpenMediaVault on an ARM-SBC on Linux. I want to be able to remove the drive from the NAS and plug it into the Mac in ...
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All Time Machine backups appended with ".interrupted"
After getting my new MacBook Pro, I formatted a 1 TB drive as APFS to use as my backup disk. After formatting, I noticed some strange behavior after doing backups. I tried to investigate the backup ...
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Missing .DS_Store file (Macbook Pro 2016 running Monterey)
I had entered Time Machine just to check when my earliest backup had taken place (did not restore anything). When I came out of Time Machine, I found all my desktop files completely rearranged, which ...
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Backup a Veracrypt encrypted external harddrive with time machine
I already searched a substantial amount of time but did not succeed yet.
I used VeraCrypt to fully encrypt my external hard drive named Media which contains a lot of media files such as photos, videos ...
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Are Time Machine backups completely fail proof? [closed]
During OS update, some people report that the update fails and turns the machine into a brick, forcing them to take it to Apple.
Fail proof: No matter what, you can revert back.
Can I trust Time ...
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External HD connected to Time Capsule does not show up
My Time Capsule is old and gives lots of errors in backups, so I bought a (LaCie) external HDD to connect it to and do my Time Machine backups from that instead; Apple tells me I can do this. As per ...
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Big Sur Time Machine only using ~3.5 gb to backup a fresh install
I previously had Catalina on my mac and a time machine backup was taking up the same size as the size of the usage on the drive. I updated to a fresh install of Big Sur and now when I try to do a ...
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Cannot store files on Time Machine backup drive
I needed to format an external hard drive from Mac OS Extended (journaled, encrypted), the only available option was APFS.
On this hard drive, I had my time machine backup in Backups.backupdb and ...
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Time Machine shows no backup after backing up
After having set up my new Macbook Pro 2021 (macOS Monterey 12.1) with migrating data over from my old Macbook Pro, I started a new Time Machine backup on NAS. The backup took several hours and ...
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Time Machine file only showing up on one MacBook
I backed up my MacBook Air 2020 (Big Sur) to an HDD. I factory reset my MacBook Air so that it would be ready to sell. It updated itself to Catalina. I realized I forgot some important local files on ...
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How extract a Time Machine snapshot as a full machine volume?
From an old Time Machine backup (Backups.backupdb folder) on a physical external disk I would like to extract some snapshots to other external disks as complete machine volumes. These resulting ...
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How to set up Time Machine to use an internal disk
I want to use some of the features of Time Machine but don't need or want it to be backed up to an external drive.
However, Time Machine doesn't show internal disk's when selecting a drive to use. I ...
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Disable TimeMachine over VPN
I am using a VPN connection to connect to my local network at home. However, when I am connected to the VPN I notice that my MacBook starts backing up using TimeMachine because obviously my backup ...
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Time Machine backup
I have a Time Machine backup on a USB ssd I would like to move the backup to a NAS. However, every article I have seen about moving Time Machine backups refer to Backups.backupdb file/folder. When I ...
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Time machine backup of dual-boot (different Mac versions) computer to the same target
On my iMac I have a dual boot setup with currently Big Sur and Mojave (for those 32 bit apps that probably never will be updated and that I can't really live without.) I also have a 3rd partition with ...
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Can't unlock APFS external drive
I've recently come across an issue with my external HDD (2TB, LaCiE) drive which is formatted with APFS. I have three volumes under a 2TB container which are all APFS (Case-sensitive, Encrypted).
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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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Setting up 2 MacOS partitions to use and back up the same shared Document partition
my question is similar to another question, but I need a different aspect of it that is not asked and answered there.
So I would like to access and backup my Documents folder from different MacOS ...
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I have a Time Machine backup server on a Raspberry PI using the latest Samba, One Mac works fine, two others do not
I have a 2017 iMac running :
System Version: macOS 11.6 (20G165) Kernel Version: Darwin 20.6.0 (Big Sur)
and a 2021 Macbook Pro (M1 Pro)
System Version: macOS 12.01 (20G165) Kernel Version: Darwin 21....
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Looking for the best backup option under circumstances
I know the question of "how should I backup my computer" has been asked and answered but I have some specific nuances and, well, if I knew whether they made a difference I wouldn't be asking....
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macOS Monterey: how to copy Login Keychain item to System Keychain
I've just installed a Mac from scratch. On my previous Mac (with macOS X 10.x), I did copy the encryption password for my external Time Machine backup disks to the System Keychain so the machine could ...
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Disk image volume becomes read-only on network drive
I have the following configuration based on this tutorial:
Read/write disk image (macOS Extended [Journaled]) created using Disk Utility called Backup.img which resides on a partition of an external ...
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My time machine is different
After my upgrade to Monterey my time machine has started to work differently, and I'm not sure is doing backups properly:
Oldest and latest backups are always "none" on the app and the ...
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Add write permissions to a Time Machine drive?
Unlike other files and drives, it does not seem possible to change read/write permissions on a Time Machine drive in the Finder's Get Info dialog box (at least not in Monterey). The padlock icon is ...
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How to delete backups of a volume from an APFS Time Machine snapshot?
I recently reinstalled macOS Monterey (12.0.1) on my MacBook Air (Intel, 2020) and restored data from my Time Machine backup; APFS format.
That went well, but after I did this it seems like my ...
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Restore offloaded audio recording app not in the store anymore from daughters iPad
I have the iPad backed up to a MacBook Pro, iTunes sync I think, and probably in time machine.
Also have a snow leopard machine if older is of any use.
Need to get the audio that's still sitting on ...
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Time Machine only shows 'case-sensitive' after formatting backup drive, fails and asks it to be renamed, leading to other problems
I always thought any *nix-based system like OS X would be case-sensitive, although (just tested to make sure!) on Big Sur I cannot create 'FILE1' and 'file1' in the same folder, so it appears case-...
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How to recover unmountable sparsebundles from a Time Machine that "needs internal disk repair"
After trying to recover old family photos and videos from my Time-Machine by repairing and duplicating unmountable sparsebundle-files, it appears that I completely messed up the entire Time-Machine.
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Time machine "Delete all backups of <file>" option missing
Previously, when you right clicked a file in the Time Machine view, you had an option to delete it and all its backed up copies.
I'm using macOS Monterey, and that appears to no longer exist:
Was ...
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Time Machine Backup fails from new apfs Volume
I had 11.6 Big Sur on an apfs volume, installed 12.0.1 Monterey on a different volume, deleted the first volume
Now Time Machine Backup fails:
Time Machine could’t complete the backup to “…”
An error ...
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Time Machine System Restore: Stuck in "Preparing to restore "Macintosh HD"" [duplicate]
I am attempting to do a Time Machine System Restore in order to revert to a previous OS.
I have the full Time Machine backup on a Seagate external hard drive. (Update: I also tried with a SanDisk ...
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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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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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Disk Utility fails on fsck_apfs: "disk is mounted"
I have an external SSD hard drive connected to my iMac via USB. I accidentally disconnected it while it was mounted, which caused a warning.
So I thought it would be prudent to run Disk Utility on the ...
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How to clear garbage from Mac SSD internal drive?
My MacBook Pro has a 256 GB internal SSD. A few months ago it was full. I ran
About This Mac > Storage > Manage > Optimize Storage, that didn't do much. I tried Clean My Mac. Every expert ...
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My Time Machine backups are missing, though space is already used
I have this old 128GB SSD I found lately and decided to use it for my Time Machine backups. I connected it to my mac, it shows up properly, and I formatted it for Time Machine.
I finished my first ...
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How can I proceed when restoring from a Time Machine backup that’s too large for a new Mac?
I have an old Mac Mini from 2012, with a 1 TB disk (not the original disk) configured as a Fusion drive. It is backed up to an external 2 TB Time Machine drive.
I have just bought a new Mac Mini, and ...
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Old Time Machine disk - can't restore or see files
I recovered an old external hard drive that I used for Time Machine backups. Now my files look like this
TimeMachine\Name MacBook Pro.tmp\0
TimeMachine\Name MacBook Pro.tmp\1a
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Time Machine device with hostname changed: how to fix it?
I have setup a Raspberry Pi to be my Time Machine remote device. It seems to work properly since I have been able to do some backups.
In the meantime I have changed the Raspberry Pi hostname and so ...
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Identifying macOS versions in backups
If I go to ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync in my boot system or in a Time Machine backup, I can look in Backup/*/Manifest.plist to find what versions of iOS were backed up.
Is there a human-...
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Time Machine not working. It has enough space but it keeps telling there is not enough space
Time Machine keeps showing me this message in Big Sur. The disk needs 46GB and only 97GB are available so it cannot create a backup. I was expecting the update to Monterey might help but seems I'm ...
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How to recover deleted email attachments from iCloud
This scenario sounds simple.
Receive mail on phone, delete all [because I don't keep any emails on my phone long term], then realise one of the emails was on IMAP. Try to get back that one mail from ...
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Restoring from a Time Machine Backup from a network (SMB) fails after disk replacement
I just exchanged my 2 TB HDD in my A1419 27" 5K late 2015 iMac to a 2 TB SSD (before that, it was part of a Fusion Drive configuration). Now I went into recovery mode on startup and tried ...
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Transfer Time Machine backups to new external drive Big Sur
My existing external drive (SSD) which has my Time Machine backups is getting full, so I got a new larger HD (spinning disk), and I would like to transfer the existing backups to the new one. All the ...
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Usage: tmutil listlocalsnapshots <mount_point>
my Mac's system has 184GB. I believe that's for time machine's local snap shot.
I tried to tmutil list localsnapshots, but Usage: tmutil listlocalsnapshots <mount_point> returned.
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