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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Why does my Time Machine backup fail?
I am trying to backup my Laptop to my UnRAID server. Now the third time it failed and displayed this message:
My backup is 650 GB big and contains 1.6 million files. May this be the problem? Or is ...
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Ignore Time Machine errors
I'm making Time Machine backups to a NAS, which I want to turn off in the evenings and weekends. Now when the NAS is not available, Time Machine shows a popup and complains whenever it wants to make a ...
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WLAN with Time Capsule
For the past 3 weeks I haven't been able to connect to my Time Capsule over Wi-Fi with my iPhone - I thought this is an iPhone problem - but now I have a PC with a WLAN adapter, but the PC does not ...
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Using Time Machine after a major OS upgrade
One of my colleagues had issues on her MBP recently, and I had to take a look at it. It turned out that the machine was still running Leopard and had a bunch of junk installed on it. For the sake of ...
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can I restore only the system files with time machine (revert from 10.7.4 to 10.7.3)?
I am having crashes with 10.7.4. I have time machine versions of 10.7.3 obviously. Can I just restore the system without restoring the entire harddrive, and if so, how? How can I be sure I include ...
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Time machine to perform back up once per day instead of hourly [closed]
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Change Frequency of Time Machine Backups?
I use OS X Lion and have an external hard disk where time machine backs up data several times per day. I wonder how could I ...
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Can I run an application from a time machine backup (external HD) of one computer on a different computer?
I am going on vacation and don't want to have to install my Photoshop on my macbook air (too large of an app); currently PS only installed on my iMac. Can I use my external HD (iMac's time machine ...
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Can a Time Capsule join a third-party Wi-Fi router as a client, and still bridge traffic to/from its Ethernet port
Can an Apple Time Capsule join a third-party Wi-Fi router as a client, and still bridge traffic to/from its Ethernet port?
Maybe same question but can a Time Capsule 1TB use a LAN printer? So it ...
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How to change time machine settings in Mac?
Say I want to exclude the desktop now from time machine. How would I do so?
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Would it better to partition my secondary drive?
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro (MBP). The main drive is a Solid State Disk (SSD) with OSX. I have removed the SuperDrive and replaced it with a 750GB Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD) (this is the secondary drive).
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Tools to manage/administer partition made from Apple's Time Machine
I'm looking for tools to help me keep better track of my Time Machine backups. For example:
[1] What does the growth rate of the incremental backups look like?
[2] Which files are being changed the ...
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Is it possible to access an Apple Time Capsule over the internet?
I'd like to be able to continue backing things up even when I'm not in the office, so if it's easy to access it over the internet, I'd like to set this up.
I'm using OSX Lion.
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Time Machine seems to ignore external drive
I have an external disk formatted HFS+ case sensitive. When time machine runs it seems to ignore the entire filesystem on that drive. The volume name shows up if I dig in to Backs.backupsdb but it's ...
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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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Decrypt OS X Time Machine in Linux
Is is possible to decrypt an encrypted Time Machine backup with Ubuntu Linux? If so, how?
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Time Machine connection error with Ubuntu Server
I've set up a home server with Ubuntu in software RAID 1 to save my Mac files with Time Machine. The backup partition in the server shows up in the Time Machine menu, but at the time of conecting it ...
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Extracting Data from a WD MyBook External Disk
I have a WD Essentials MyBook, which was working fine as my Time Machine volume on Snow Leopard. I have since upgraded to Lion and now the disk is really slow to access.
I tried to take the disk out ...
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Is it a good idea to exclude large file from Time Machine backup?
I back up my Lion via Time Machine as usual. Is it a good idea to exclude some huge files? For example, the VMWare virtual machine image is 15GB which consumes 1/8 of my SSD drive, I worry TM will use ...
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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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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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Time machine moving files from .Trashes
My HDD on my laptop (MBP 13) running Lion decided to suddenly die.
Just before it did, my intelligent self was deleting files from my external HDD where TimeMachine was doing backups. My reason for ...
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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 ...
