Questions tagged [time-machine]
Time Machine is a backup utility by Apple Inc. It is included as part of Mac OS X starting with OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Time Machine supports backing up data to hard disks connected to a Mac and AFP network shares.
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Is it possible to reformat macOS APFS external hard drive to remove case sensitive option WITHOUT losing existing data?
Disk Utility is telling me that I formatted an external USB drive as APFS encrypted case sensitive (I actually don't remember electing the case sensitive option but I'm not going to argue :)
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Time Machine partition will not mount on my Mac
I have struggled with this problem for a long time and on 3 different MacBooks. I'm currently running Monterey 12.6.
I partition a 5TB drive with APFS and 2 partitions. One for Time Machine (TM) and ...
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how do I encrypt an already existing external drive that I have been using for time machine backups?
I have an external drive that I formatted with APFS a long time ago and I use it for time machine backups. I am currently using Monterey 12.6 on my Mac book pro
I would like to 'switch to' encryption ...
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Samba can not parse path when connect Time machine
I used freshtomato on Netgear R7000, and I wanted to make it as a time machine, so i installed Samba and Avahi, so I can find my hard drive in system preferences of macOS. But, mac keept asking me the ...
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On Macbook, how to restore an older Time Machine backup using Migration Assistant?
I have a 2019 Macbook Pro with the latest Ventura version. I have daily Time Machine backups at 10:00pm ET.
Using Migration Assistant, how can I choose which Time Machine backup to restore, like I was ...
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Time-machine backup not found
My MacBook Pro died and its logic board cannot be repaired, so I will lose all of my data unless I can recover time machine backup.
Here is what is happening with the backup file. When I first saw ...
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File Deletion Caused VirtualBox NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
I deleted a large file (1 - 8GB for 4 machines) related to VirtualBox because I ran short on memory, MacOs listed this file as one of my biggest on the file system and I thought this might not get ...
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Time Machine fails to create backup without error
When I open the Time Machine dialogue through the shortcut in the menu bar, I click on "Backup Now" to create a new backup. As expected, the status updates go through the following stages:
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Time Machine backup, get last backup time using command line, without having to plug any backup disc and with no Full Disk Access?
I just want to get backup last time using command-line.
With this two conditions (that the GUI, the graphical interface upper-right widget we all use normally, normally between the wifi icon and the ...
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How can I partition a new external HD as a Time Machine backup AND also for manual copy/paste drag/drop on macOS Monterey 12.4?
I have an older 3TB drive from the same manufacturer and that drive has 1 partition (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) which is both a Time Machine backup AND it also allows me to copy/...
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TimeMachine restore: Can select backup, but get "No macOS system backups were found"
The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup.
I tried to restore ...
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How to choose a Time Machine backup disk?
I am using macOS 12.6.2 (Monterey) and I have two backup disks configured in Time Machine. One is an old Airport Time Capsule that's on the local network, so it gets automatic backups every hour if ...
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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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Safely culling or consolidating Time Machine backups on a full backup volume
I have a Mac with a connected 1tb SSD for Time Machine backups. Today I received the dreaded message that the Time Machine volume was full, so it can't create any more backups.
I am only using 500gb ...
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After switching to an external SSD drive for macOS, can I still use my internal Fusion HDD drive and will Time Machine see both drives?
I’ve upgraded my Mac’s storage from a Fusion drive to an SSD and my plan is to run macOS and all Apps from the SSD and store data and pictures on the internal Fusion Drive.
So my questions are:
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How long does a Time Machine changes update should take ?! (it takes forever)
I've recently upgraded my OS,
and after doing that - my Time Machine takes forever to update... I mean it's more than 24H now, finding changes... more than 370,000 changes found and still counting.
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How to use the internal drive on my iMac for Time Machine backups
I have an iMac that came with an internal hard drive. The performance sucked so I added an external SSD drive that it boots from.
I would like to use the internal drive for Time Machine backups but it ...
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Is there some way to change the minute of the hour TimeMachine backs up?
I have 2 Macs, both running macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 backing up at exactly the same time (33th minute of every hour).
Is there some way to change the minute of the hour TimeMachine backs up?
With both ...
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Resume TimeMachine backup with Samba on RPi
I backup my Mac using TimeMachine over Samba which is installed on my Raspberry Pi (with Raspbian Lite).
Everything was OK since a long time (I started this backup from macOS Big Sur and now I'm on ...
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Time machine says "Disk Full" even though 250GB is still available
I have a 5TB external drive, freshly made into a Time Machine backup disk (formatted as APFS). The data I need to backup is about 4.8TB, which should fit fine, and in the past has worked fine on ...
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What would be the best way to create a new volume to run Catalina from my current Mojave volume?
I hope I am in the right place...
I am currently running OSX Mojave on my rather old Mac desktop. If I upgrade to Catalina, many of my apps (all MS products, etc.) quit working. However, the new ...
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How to restore external drive from Time Machine backup under Monterey
Previously, it was straightforward to restore an external drive from a Time Machine backup:
sudo tmutil restore /Volumes/backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBookPro/Latest/USB-old/* /Volumes/USB-new
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MacOS: copy HFS+ Time Machine data to APFS Time Machine Volume?
I created a new Time Machine volume under APFS. I want to preserve my older backups of the same system that are on an HFS+ drive; that is, I'd like to copy over that data to the APFS Time Machine ...
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macOS Big Sur: Handling Time Machine backups with tmutil
Time Machine on Big Sug an APFS changed many things.
See https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/25/time-machine-to-apfs-maintenance-and-repair/ for some information.
For the death of me, I cannot handle, ...
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How can I use volume names with a space in them with tmutil in Mac OS?
I am trying to write a simple electron script to switch between my different time machine backups, but I have gotten somewhat stuck because tmutil keeps throwing errors when a volume name has a space ...
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Copy / restore files from Time Machine Backup Volume without Permission Denied Error
On new MacBooks (Big Sur, 11.2.3, M1) disk space is costly, because there is no alternative to apple parts. So i have NOT used Migration Assistant, to copy over all the old files from Time Machine ...
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How can I delete Time machine files' extended attributes using commandline?
So I've been trying to delete extended attributes(com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldest/NewestSnapshot) from time machine files. I've searched everywhere to delete its attribute but there seems to be ...
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Can Time Machine backup other partitions on the same drive?
I have a Mac Mini, but would like to use an external drive to store data. I would also like to have everything backed up.
If I had a single external drive, and partitioned it into Storage and Backup ...
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Recover Time Machine sparsebundle backup
I have a Time Machine backup from an old computer that I can't open. When I double click on the sparsebundle file, I get "no mountable filesystems".
I've next tried this:
hdiutil attach -...
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I deleted my user folder using terminal on macos
Can anyone tell me how to restore my user folder using time machine backup.
I deleted my user folder in macos and do not know how restore it using time machine.
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Is there a way to check the difference (what did change) between two MacOS (Catalina) TimeMachine snapshots?
As per subject, suppose I have two consecutive TimeMachine local snapshots on my Mac: is there a way to e.g. mount both them and compare ? I.e. to know what files have been changed from the between ...
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Temporarily disable Time Machine backups to a specific disk
I have Time Machine configured to back up to a disk image. (Actually I have multiple backup disks configured.) I want to verify the backups using tmutil verifychecksums, and I don't want Time Machine ...
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How to execute a script when a volume is mounted in macOS
I have used this technique to back up my Time Machine backups to my Google Drive. I have a couple of issues remaining, and one of them is around automatically mounting my encrypted virtual Time ...
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Renaming netatalk volume with Timemachine
I have set up avahi and netatalk on my NAS to provide a Timemachine share for my MacBooks. At the time of setting this up, I had no idea of the intricacies of how this works (neither from the Ubuntu ...
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How to restore a time machine backup of a volume whose name contains a slash
I am trying to restore a volume from a time machine backup on a different machine using tmutil on a Mac. Unfortunately, the volume I am trying to restore was named "/#defaults". File names ...
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How to copy Mac Time Machine from on drive to another
I am trying to copy a Mac Time Machine folder from one external hard drive to another. The folder I want to copy is about 507Gb and, as it is a Time Machine folder, has a lot of symlinks, as many of ...
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How to mount my TimeCapsule partition on my external hard drive?
I'm trying to backup my computer and I cannot figure out how to mount my harddrive. I have an external that I've split into a TimeCapsule and random stuff like movies and files (Tachyon is the name). ...
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<Mac> TimeMachine backup keep prompting fail message
I have setup time machine on my mac to backup periodically to may NAS. Having given a quota to the disk space allocated to the backup, I have observed that there are messages prompting periodically ...
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Time Machine: tmutil compare gives always 0B as result
i had several time machine backups. The most recent drive failed. I wanted to compare an older backup to my current Mac OS internal drive.
Usually, you would use
sudo tmutil compare
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Back up old time machine backup without mac
A long while ago, I owned a macbook for several years, and backed it up on to an external hd with time machine. I no longer have a functioning mac, but I do have the original drive, and the hd. I've ...
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Restoring rebuilt system from its Time Machine backup after an SSD failure?
Following an SSD failure I need to restore my user directories and some other miscellaneous config files. When I first restarted with a fresh OS (Catalina) I tried to use migration assistant to ...
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How to restore a time machine backup from a newer OS version?
I'm currently trying to downgrade my macOS from Mojave to High Sierra. I got High Sierra working without any problems. But the migration tool won't accept my time machine backup as it's from a newer ...
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why cant i change the size of the time machine partition on my external drive?
i have 2 partitions on my external drive (macos high sierra 10.13.6).
1. time machine 1 TB
2. General storage 3 TB
i simply want to increase the size fo time machine partition to 1.5TB
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Time Machine: .backupdb became .backupbundle
I have a usb drive that I plugged in physically in my Macbook and used quite a while to backup my Mac OS X system. The backup folder was called Backups.backupdb.
Recently, I attached this to a ...
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Deleting "Recovery" folder from Time Machine backup
I am using Time Machine on Mac (with 512GB SSD) to backup my files to a 2TB external drive, but it only worked for 2 days and now it's reporting lack of space to do more backups.
It only did 2 ...
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Reverting a hard drive encryption process on Mac stuck on X percent
I have an external HDD used for both storage and Time Machine backups (by "storage" I mean non time-machine files are found on that HDD as well, outside of the "backups.backupdb" folder)
After not ...
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Recovery the partition and data
I would like to know how I could recover information from a disk or failing to make the disk appear for windows to detect.
It happens that by mistake someone used it for the backup option in Mac OS, ...
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Mac mini with 2 MacOS installs backup both MacOS installs
I have a Mac mini with a external SSD. On internal SSD of my Mac mini I have a MacOS install for private use. On the external SSD I also have MacOS installed but this one I use for my work. So if I ...
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Time machine Detection over VPN via DNS-SD?
I'm running a local DNS server in my home network (dnsmasq) and a Netatalk instance for Time Machine over WiFi. Due to limitations of Multicast over my VPN setup, my Time Machine does not get ...
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External hard drive is unusable after using it as a Time Machine backup for a new Mac. How do I reformat an external hard drive?
I recently got a new mac and used my external 1TB hard drive as a Time Machine backup. It had me erase everything on the hard drive, and when it was complete I was able to restore my new mac using the ...
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