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Why does OS X Time Machine create directory hardlinks?
I've been reading up on how OS X Time Machine works. Appearantly it creates hard links for directories as well. I'd imagine directories could just be created and only files could be hard linked.
Is ...
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If OS X is slow, will a Time Machine backup, clean installation and restore make any difference?
I've heard people suggest that when your Mac is slow, you should:
perform a Time Machine backup
do a clean installation of the OS
then restore the time machine backup after installation.
I'm ...
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OS X: Delete single folder of Time Machine Backup via Terminal
I know there is tmutil delete to delete single timemachine snapshots from a backup of another machine — but now I need to delete only one of the folders inside the backup.
On my old (and now dead) ...
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OS X Mountain Lion unstable after Time Machine restore
I recently sent my Apple MacBook Pro (Retina 15" mid-2012 with OS X 10.8.3) in to Apple to repair the screen, and they wiped the hard drive. I connected my external Time Machine drive and booted into ...
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How to make Time Machine backup a SD card
I am trying to get my Time Machine to back up my 64GB SD card which I always keep inserted in my Mac. I tried a solution provided by @Olfan where he asks to run an apple script:
do shell script ...
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Time Machine permission errors
I back up fairly regularly with Time Machine. Recently, my hard drive crashed and now I wish to put my old contents onto /temp. I am unable to do it in the laptop, as when I open the 'documents' ...
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Permissions troubles with Library folder in Mac OS X
Here is my sad story.
In my macbook pro I have 2 disks and Time Capsule. There are SSD with system and apps and HDD with user folder. The other day my HDD disk was totaly broken. I bought new one and ...
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Continue using TM backup hdd with netatalk
I just successfully installed netatalk on my raspberrypi. I also can use it as a TimeMachine backup destinationn. Until now I had a external hdd which is formatted with hfs+ and encryption enabled. ...
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Mac : Time Machine or something else? [closed]
I would like to know how Time Machine from Apple compares to other solutions out there like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper ?
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External Drive appearing as Logical Volume Group, cannot use as Time Machine on Mac
Once upon a time I encrypted my Time Machine and I cannot remember the password I used to encrypt it (yes, very frustrating).
I wiped my Time Machine using Disk Utility, thinking I could just start ...
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NAS solution ideas for scalable home backup needs [closed]
A little more than a year ago I came back from a trip and my workstation was jacked up. I ended up buying a netgear stora to backup before reinstalling windows 7 + rrrvrything else. The netgear came ...
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Is there a time machine equivalent for windows that can back up network files?
This question is similar to Does an equivalent of Time Machine exist for Windows?, with one difference:
The files I want to back up are on a network drive. The computer on that network drive is ...
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How do I trim Time Machine backup history?
Let's say I am nearing the limit of space on my backup drive. So I want to delete backups or versions before 6 months ago. Is that possible through time machine? How do I do that?
UPDATE!
This is the ...
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Time Machine + WD my book studio 1 tb
Situation:
iMac 27" metà 2011
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4
WD my book studio 1 tb
It's been 3 weeks of problems with my Time Machine. Every time I want to overcome the problem I have had to delete the ...
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Time machine back up with iMac 27
I am using iMac 27 with Lion Mac Os 10.7.3.
I was using a hard disk for time machine back up which was working fine till the internal hard disk crashed. After replacing the hard disk I was able to ...
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Ways to recover data from external hard drive
I use an external hard disk for backup of my mac with time machine (OS 10.5.8).
I have made something wrong and I have found important folders in the recycler bin. These folders come from external ...
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Time-Machine backup over SSH tunnel to NFS mount
I've recently started using a new NAS which runs CentOS 6.2. One of the purposes of the NAS would be to serve as a backup target. Whilst I have been using Apple's Time-Machine for a while and I am ...
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TimeMachine: how to identify which files are bloating the backups?
I just started a TimeMachine backup after having only negligible changes to files on my HD (as far as I can tell). Yet the backup is shown to be of ~6GB (!!)
Is there some easy way for me to see ...
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Backing up Mac OSX to Windows/Samba share
This should not be this hard ... is there an easy way to back up a mac to a windows share?
so far, I've tried the suggestions here, but am getting error:
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Do I need to partition my external harddrive to use for both PC and Mac backups?
I have a Buffalo HD-CEU2 1TB external hard drive. I want to use it to back up my Mac and a Windows machine. If possible I would like to use the Time Machine software on my Mac to do this and just use ...
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Can Time Capsule make multiple disk images?
A simple question. Does the Time Capsule allow you to make multiple disk images for the same computer? I am thinking about getting a Time Capsule. It is not that I care much about backup it is just ...
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Encrypted Time Machine backups in Lion
I have an external drive that already has some stuff in it. It also has a lot of space left (twice as much as the data currently in use on my local drive), which is why I'm thinking about turning on ...
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How to transfer a Time Machine to an NTFS partition (or how to copy HFS+ hard links)
Do you know a way to copy HFS+ hard links to a folder on a HFS+ or NTFS drive?
Before you say it can't be done, I don't want actual backing up functionality of Time Machine, just the ability to ...
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Time machine suddenly does not include new directories in its backup
My Time Machine is going for a year quite strong, but now it suddenly stopped including new directories in its backup. The situation is the following:
(1) Around Dec 21 19:00:00 I have created a ...
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Cannot continue incremental backups after restoring from Time Machine
I recently restored a machine (running Snow Leopard) of mine from Time Machine and the restore went well. After restoring, I attempted to back up to Time Machine again (on the same external hard drive ...
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Mistakenly setup a Time Machine disk, how to recover the data?
I have a NTFS external disk used by a Windows PC and there were lots of important data on it.
My friend took the disk and plugged in to my Mac just now and mistakenly setup it as a Time Machine ...
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How do I use Time Machine to restore my Mac to its previous state?
OSX Lion
I accidentally installed a bad driver, and it's causing problems. I want to use Time Machine to have my entire system go back to its previous state.
So I went into "Recovery HD" option (ALT ...
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How do I get Time Machine working again after changing my hard drive?
On my Mac, I recently
changed to a new hard drive (e.g. after a hard drive failure) or
migrated the boot partition to another one
What do I have to do to get Time Machine correctly backing up my ...
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Time Machine “Event store UUIDs don't match for volume” after swapping disk
My new hard drive died the last week and had to put my old drive backup into my Mac Mini, which is running Snow Leopard. I was then able to restore my latest Time Machine backup.
When I upgraded a ...
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Time Machine preferences being ignored
I have partitioned a 1TB external drive into three independent drives i.e. iTunes, Docs, Video. In Time Machine I have set the Preferences to only back up the internal drive (which contains my apps, ...
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Migrate selected applications from a Time Machine backup
I upgraded to OSX Lion. I have a previous Time Machine backup and I would like to get back just the information from
Mail
iTunes
iPhoto
I wonder if there is any workaround in the migration ...
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Time Capsule & Encrypted Backups under OS X Lion
How can I have an encrypted Time Machine backup on my Time Capsule?
The option is in Time Machine preferences, but greyed out. Anyone know of hacks/workarounds to make this work?
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Time Machine Network Backup via FTP
I have two Macs, a G5 tower and a Macbook Pro. I want to backup the Macbook Pro to an external hard drive on the G5 tower via Time Machine.
I know there is a way to do this; my friend has his setup ...
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how to move existing time machine backup to smb
I have a 2 TB external usb hard drive. I have partitioned it as 1TB with NTFS and 1Tb with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I have Time machine backups in my mac partition.
I am planning to make the ...
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Backup Time Machine
I have a Mac Mini server and a external HD for the Time Machine Backup which is used for the server and two macbooks.
I want to make a second backup from the external HD on a second HD; I have tried ...
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Waking my MacBook Pro for a backup at night
I have FileVault turned on, which means that Time Machine won't back up my data while I'm logged in. Is there any way to get my MacBook to wake once at night, say 6 AM, to start a Time Machine backup ...
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OSX: Convert Time Machine backup to regular folder
I have a Time Machine backup folder on an external drive. I'm done using Time Machine forever, and I just want to access those files in Finder without all the restrictions placed on "backup" files.
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Copying Time Machine backup to another location
I made a Time Machine backup to an external drive. When I select the ".backupdb" folder on that drive in Finder and copy it to another location, the destination is much smaller than the source. Get ...
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How to make TimeMachine back up contents of any path or mounted volume
I keep different types of data in different encrypted sparsebundle images (say, one for each client) which automatically mount upon login but can't be opened by anybody other than myself. So, after ...
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Two Macs, One Time Machine Each, One Main External Hard Drive, No Data on Macs
I'm wanting to have one Mac at work and one Mac at home, each with their own time machine connected to it. No data is to be stored on the Macs themselves, rather, all data is stored on a regular ...
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Time Machine - backup is too large for the backup disk?
I just installed a new 1TB system drive, of which 872 GB are currently available, and installed Snow Leopard on it. I also installed a new 1TB backup drive, which I formatted in Mac OS Extended ...
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Mac OS X and Time Machine backup strategies
I've got a lot of photos that are taking up a lot of room on my laptop. I got an external HD for the new photos and for the Lightroom database, but alas the scratch disk is full. I'd like to set up a ...
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Find files that will be backed up by Time Machine
It'd be useful to see what Time Machine will backup before the backup actually occurs. I believe it should be possible to approximate this with mdfind. Is there a standard search query that ...
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Time Machine Synchronize just my Home Folder to external hard drive in MacOS Leopard
Just bought an external 500GB hard drive. I want to store, backup and synchronize just my home folder in Mac OS Leopard.
I dont want all the system preferences to be backed up. I don't want other ...
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How do I restore a non-system hard drive using Time Machine under OSX?
I dropped one of the external drives on my Mac Pro and it started making noises... so I bought a replacement drive. No biggie, that's why I have Time Machine, right?
So now that I have the new drive ...
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Accessing Time Machine backup from Windows/Linux laptops
I'm wondering if I can access my time machine backup from Windows or Linux computers... I'm just wondering what'll happen if my computer fails and I don't have enough money to buy a new mac...
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TimeTraveler for the Mac?
Is there such a thing as TimeTraveler for the Mac?
I know about time machine, but TimeTraveler is integrated with Windows Explorer. Something which woud interactively change the view in the Finder ...
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Safe to manually delete backed-up files from Time Machine? TM takes for ever to delete backups
Is it safe to manually delete files and folders from a time capsule? ( Apple's Time Machine backup system calls backup partitions that way )
Because using TM's option Delete all backups of ... is ...
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How can I know what files and folders is Apple's Time Machine backing up?
How can I know what files and folders is Apple's Time Machine backing up when it's making a backup?
I tried to exclude all the folders that are likely to contain big files, change often and are not ...
