Time Machine supports backing up data to hard disks connected to your Mac, AFP network shares and Time Capsule wireless access points. It generally backs up all vital system data, but folders can be excluded from backup using System Preferences. Time Machine does not back up FileVault protected ...
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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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Problems with TimeMachine configuration - can I blow this away and start over?
I am migrating from a MacBook Pro (early 2009 - OSX 10.6.8) to a new MacBook Pro (OSX 10.7.2). I have been backing up to an external drive using TimeMachine.
I want to migrate the back up to my new ...
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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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Restoring external drive from time machine backup
I have 3 external drives connected to an imac:
A 500GB drive which contains my itunes library
A 1TB drive which contains all of my photos and videos
A 2TB time machine drive which
backs up ...
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How can I backup or move my Time Machine data on my non-repairable (but readable) volume to another disk?
Trying to repair my disk results in the following:
Verifying volume “Drobo”
Checking file system
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid ...
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Partition External Harddrive already using Time Machine?
I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac ...
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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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Mac - Convert from Case-Sensitive to Case-Insensitive File System
So I just got my first Mac. After getting everything set up just the way I wanted it I decided to install Steam. When I opened Steam it said something about not supporting case-sensitive file ...
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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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Restore complete Mac OS X from bootable software and external HDD
I searched a lot for backup software for my Mac (Snow Leopard), but they all backup the data of the Mac, but not the operating system.
Does there exist any software that has a recovery CD that I boot ...
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Can I use a USB attached Hard Drive on Win7 for TimeMachine backup?
I have a Western Digital external USB hard drive. I would like to use this as my Time Machine backup HDD for my new MacBook. After a bit of research I've found that I can't simply share the HDD via my ...
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Follow-up: restoring Time Machine backup directories (recursively) with Linux
This example gives directions on how to restore a particular file, but does anyone have experience restoring full directories on Linux from a Time Machine backup store? How should these instructions ...
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Share an external hard drive between Mac OSX and Windows 7
I have an external hard drive that was connected to a Mac and formated and written to by Time Machine.
Is it usable on a Windows System? Could I reformat it as NTFS and leave it connected to a ...
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Can't get Time Machine over AFP/netatalk to work. Don't get drive as option
I have read various howto's (http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/) but not sure any were made for Lion. I got the latest netatalk setup on Ubuntu, and see the ...
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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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Time machine friendly virtual machine (VirtualBox) image files?
I have a Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine. The disk image file is 30GB and is one large .vdi file. If I change anything inside that (even a few KBs), Time Machine wants to backup the entire 30GB ...
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Permissions restoring from Time Machine - Finder copy vs “cp” copy
Note: this question was starting to sprawl so I rewrote it.
I have a folder that I'm trying to restore from a Time Machine backup. Using cp -R works fine, but certain folders cannot be restored with ...
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What will Time Machine do when it says “delete the oldest files first”?
When Time Machine says "I will delete the oldest files first", does it mean this
literally? Here is a theoretical example:
Source Drive: 300 GB, consisting of 1 280 GB file and a 1 GB file.
Backup ...
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Best way to restore individual folders via Time Machine after clean Lion install?
I'm doing a clean erase and install of Lion, and am looking for the best way to restore individual folders into my home directory via Time Machine.
I've done a dummy run, clean Lion install, then ...
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Time Machine Restores Folder, but changes the data inside
I went to restore a folder from earlier today that had a lot of photos in it on my desktop. Time Machine restored the folder to my desktop, but there are no photos in the folder. Instead, inside the ...
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Apple Time Capsule as router, local DNS server, linux too
Mac OS X can get local domain names using Apple's Time Capsule as a router. It's in System Preferences. Is there any way to get this same functionality with Time Capsule and CrunchBang linux? Ubuntu? ...
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OS X Time Machine log
How can I find out what really being or was backed up by my Time Machine/Capsule? Is there a log somewhere or perhaps I can throw --verbose somewhere to make sure it gets logged now? I see a 700mb ...
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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 to check for missing system files in Lion, and recover them?
I've recently been having some troubles with iTunes (in particular, when I tried to update my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, it error'd out and bricked my phone instead), and I suspect these problems may be due ...
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Time Machine backing up twice after Hard Drive Replacement
I have a time machine drive that backs up my OS hard drive and an external hard drive. My external hard drive died and I received a new hard drive today.
I formatted the new drive and gave it the ...
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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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Format Mac Time Machine disk on windows [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove an EFI System partition from a drive in Windows 7?
I have an external HDD that has been used for Mac Time Machine.
Now I want to format it so that I ...
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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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Preventing Time Machine from backing up website passwords
I have been given a work machine (Mac Book Pro, Mac OS Lion 10.7.1). I am using Google Chrome's "remember password" feature.
Some of those passwords are personal (Hotmail, GMail...) and I would ...
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Ideal Time Machine Server Setup on OS X Lion [closed]
I recently bought a Mac mini and would like to turn it into a time machine backup server for other Macs on the same LAN. Is it possible to do this sort of thing reliably/seamlessly through OS X Lion, ...
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Upgraded Snow Leopard to Lion MBA, no option for local snapshots in Time Machine
I am trying to check my local snapshots on an upgraded Lion Macbook Air, but there doesn't seem to be any options for local snapshots in my Time Machine options preferences.
Am I missing something to ...
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Equivalent for Time Machine that writes to NTFS disks
I'm looking for some OS X Lion software that can periodically backup certain folders.
I can't use Time Machine because the storage disk is NTFS and I'm using Paragon to r/w on it.
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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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Make Time Machine select another backup drive automatically
I have two external harddrives that I use with Time Machine, alternating between them.
When I do a backup on one of them, unplug it and then plug in the other one, Time Machine will not use it ...
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Why is my Time Machine backup trying to backup everything from scratch?
I have a MacBook Pro from work, and I backup a single 20GB folder on it called "Projects" that sits within the root directory on the main hard drive. Recently, our IT department had to create us all ...
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Apple Time Machine, Stop Backup Now, and Initial Back up
I'm using Apple Time Machine on Snow Leopard to backup a MBPro and am approx 2 hours into initial backup (70GB of 335GB). I'd like to 'Stop Backing Up' because I need to go someplace with my laptop. ...
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How to use a Time Capsule as a wireless bridge?
I have a broadband router downstairs which I can connect to using WiFi.
I would like to use a Time Capsule as an ethernet bridge.
So basically, the Time Capsule would connect to the existing ...
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Disable Spotlight search in Time Machine backup
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and am trying to disable Spotlight indexing on my Time Machine hard drive, as the mds and mdworker processes are running wildly through all day at 15-60% of CPU...
What ...
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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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How to stop Spotlight indexing a networked Time Machine backup?
My Time Machine backs up to a hard drive connected to my Airport Extreme. After I've upgraded to Lion I have noticed that the mds process (the Spotlight indexer) has been running at 100% cpu every now ...
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Google Chrome extremely slow after Time Machine restore / Parallels installation
I have two iMacs and just installed OS X Lion (clean install) on one of them (let's call it iMac A). I did a Time Machine backup and restored that backup to my other iMac (B) to avoid installing ...
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Error during Time Machine backups on OS X Lion
After I turn on my machine, the first couple of Time Machine backups seem to go OK, but after about an hour I get this error:
Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup ...
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How do I use OSX Lion Time Machine with Windows Home Server?
My wife and I have a mixed Windows and Mac household. A couple years ago I purchased a HP MediaSmart server with Windows Home Server on it. HP provided software to get Time Machine on Leopard to work ...
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Can Linux mount a normal Time Machine sparse bundle disk image directory?
I am looking to see if Linux can mount and read the files natively stored on a Time Capsule over a network share. Like this question, I am looking for something that replicates at least read-only ...
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Formatting a hard drive for just OS X using a PC?
I'm looking to format an external hard drive for use exclusively Mac OS X (for use with the time machine feature), but the Mac that I'm using is too slow to format the entire harddrive.
Considering ...
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Can I use the same disk to backup multiple Macs with Time Machine?
So I've been using an external hard drive to backup one of my Macs using Time Machine. Now I have another Mac that I feel the need to backup, but I don't want to buy a new hard drive, so I was ...
