After receiving advice from you guys, I think I will opt to go with:
Disk 1 - OS and my Files
Disk 2 - Time Machine to back up Disk 1
Disk 3 - smaller, slower disk for non important files such as trailer downloads etc
I have a question about time machine though.... how does it work?
Since I just lost my hard drive on my iMac 24 Intel, I am using external hard drive to backup via Time Machine. My question is what procedures are needed when you disconnect ext. hard drive? Do you change Time Machine from ON to OFF?
I know that I have to eject the ext. hard drive using proper commands, but what happens whenever I reinstall the ext. hard drive? Does Time Machine start over from the beginning or just update for changes since my last backup via Time Machine?
When I go on trips, I store ext hard drive in a safe and this is why I am asking.
Ok, so i picked up a 2TB Time Capsule a couple days ago and have tried everything i can think of to get this to work, but im at a loss... I had been previously using Time Machine to backup to an Ext HD attached via USB, and that always went smooth as butter.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have updated to 10.7.4, and now Time Machine does not work on my Time Capsule. I have erased all backups using the Airport Utility. When I try to run Time Machine, the disk is mounted, files are calculated, backup starts, then stops, and no backup is done. Also, no error messages.Â
View 2 Replies View RelatedI like to keep my computer secure when I leave it unattended, just wondering if TM will run its auto-backups when I log out?
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know if Time Machine will work with any NAS? I found this from a 2008 article:
Doesn�t Use AirPort Disks If you have a hard drive attached to your AirPort Extreme Base Station�or for that matter, any network-attached storage (NAS) device except the Time Capsule�Time Machine won�t recognize it.
Is this still true with Snow Leapord? Specifically I'm considering this drive:
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I've just got my iMac so for me it was important to get TM up and running before I start doing some real work (and hard play!).
I want to share the lessons learned from my experience and from others in this forum in the hope that it will help others.
I am using a NS4300N NAS from Promise on a LAN with an iMac running Leopard 10.5.2. I connect to it using SMB. It should work with any NAS since the instructions here are not NAS specific. I haven't tried with AFP.
Just downloaded the new software update (10.5.7) & now my time machine backup doesn't appear to work. I get the following image. I have been to the preferences but can't see the external hard drive there?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I would like to set up Time Machine with an external HD. Is it worth it? Isn't it supposed to be a seamless backup over a network storage? But if I have to keep plugging my external HD in everytime I would like to backup, will that be good enough? Say, I plug in my external HD every 2 weeks, that would give me a good sufficient Time Machine backup? How long does it take?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI searched and couldn't find an answer on this.
Can time machine work on multiple drives?
Currently, I have time machine backing up my iMac on to an external drive.
I also have a third drive filled with movies and music. I would like to set iTunes to play directly off of that drive but I don't want to risk losing that stuff.
Can I set time machine to back up my iMac on HD2 AND ALSO back up HD3 to HD4?
I notice that Spotlight only says "indexing" after I restart the computer, which isn't that often.
But that's not the only time it indexes, right? Does it index a file whenever it's created or moved?
And what about Time Machine? Again, after restarting the computer, my external backup drive that I use with Time Machine is indexed. But I never notice it being indexed when I don't restart.
Does Spotlight have to index it, or does TM handle that somehow? I mean, can I put my backup disk on Spotlight's ignore list, and still have Spotlight in Time Machine work fine?
I was wondering how time machine would work with an external hard drive.
I need an external drive so that I can make sure that my work is backed up; I believe that Time Machine takes a new backup each time a file is edited?
Anyway; does the external drive have to be partitioned or formatted in any particular way for time machine to function?
I ask because I would like to use my external drive to store games and music (as a backup, not a primary source), but also be able to use it with time machine.
Also, does time machine make a copy of the entire mac drive, or does it just backup specific folders (such as your user areas). If so, can I select these myself?
I've installed SL on my Mac Pro from scratch (Clean Install). Then I created my first backup with Time Machine. (550GB) After two weeks, I found out that I could boot my machine into the 64 bits kernel. So I did. I booted with the 6 + 4 keys during startup and I've checked and I was using the 64bits kernel. Then I week later without adding no new data, I caught a time machine backup with over 350GB backup. (Which match the data on my third hard drive.)
I was wondering if by changing the kernel did Time Machine "thinks" that it is a new backup a take some files from my drives protected by the backup.
I would love to use Time Machine to back up my files at home as I do at work, but I do not want to upgrade to 10.5 due to conflicts a number of my programs. Will Time Machine work on a Mac running 10.4.11?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to delete files from my USB Iomega HD in order for Time Machine (TM) backup to work. TM keeps giving me an error msg that disc is full. I then try to delete files from usb to the trash and the error msg I keep getting will not allow me to do this. The error message is some files are locked/unlocked and when I press either it cancels deleting files from the USB hard drive. I thought that every time you use back up using TM it gets rid of the earliest files, hence I should not have multiple copies of the same files on the USB hard drive.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Why can't I get my Seagate 1.5TB External HD to act as Time Machine for backups?
Do I need to use come other application? I have barely gotten one backup a day!
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time machine, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
i have time machine but not airborne (wireless). Will time machine work through a direct cable line to my backup drive?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs the only way TM works if logged off is if I use Fast-user Switching? Â
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Mac OS X (10.6.7)
every tim i try to backup it starst to backing up and it stops and it says (the backup was not performed because an erroe occurred while copying files to the backup disk.)( the problem may be temporary. try again later to back up . if the problem persist, use disk Utility to repair your backup disk.)i did everything it told me to do but it steal not working . what shod i do ?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)
After I installed maverick on my imac, my time machine backups don't work anymore!!!! I have a normal portable HDD attached to my Imac with time capsule backup from before mavericks was installed.I also has a Buffalo NAS as a second Time Machine Backup. Â
Time capsule does not recognise my Buffalo NAS and tells me that it is not available. It has previous backups from Mountain Lion for sure!My portable HDD keeps saying "Preparing for backup" for eternity. I can connect to my portable HDD and Buffalo NAS as a drive.  What I have been doing is to copy and paste the important stuff into the drives. But it really defeats the purpose of time machine.
"On 19 March, 2008, Apple released an update for the Time Machine software in the "Leopard" operating system. This update makes it possible to use Time Machine with ANY "AirDisk" (a drive plugged into an Apple Airport Express or Extreme router.) This effectively creates a Time Capsule without the complexity of the actual product, just by connecting a drive. The best part is that the initial backup can be made via USB or FireWire are speeds which blow away even Ethernet-wired speed of the TIme Capsule. Subsequent backups can be made via wireless at about 8X the speed at which TC works. "
View 8 Replies View RelatedI used Drive Genius 2 (from DVD) to defrag my HDD � and I think it did �but in addition to that it apparently messed everything up so I couldn't boot from it = I had to do a restore from my Time Machine backup � and so I did � but then everything got messed up in terms of permissions, and after a restart - well, it didn't start � so, once again, same restore from Time Machine, and this time everything seems fine, except for the fact that my backup drive tells me that I have no access to it - I have no permission to even open it! And thus I can't use it as a backup or anything else, it's a 1TB useless disk!
Question: Is there any way to "regain" access to my HDD? Any way to have it continue as a backup drive without deleting the "old" backups stored on it now? I also have a small 60GB BootCamp partition with Vista () on the 1TB backup drive.
I don't get how time machine works.. Do I have to use a special Apple external harddrive thingo or can I use anything?
View 23 Replies View Relatedstarting with my iMac permanently sending crash reports, unbidden and unstoppable. I started with 10.4, and I'm now on 10.6 in after repeated attempt to get a useable mac. All was well, until I included another external disk to the time machine backups. It took nearly two days, then seemingly with around 5Gb to go, it suddenly stopped and said it had finished. I logged out and went to work, coming back to find it was still locked in a plain blue screen. I left it overnight, still like it this morning, so I did a forced shutdown. It wouldn't restart. I rebooted from the 10.6 disk, but it said the hard disc was irrecoverable and I needed to erase. I erased and reinstalled, but when it came to restoring from Time Machine, it didn't recognise the backups. Checking on the backup disk it has a folder indicated it is still in a backup. If I try to enter a different backup through the Time Machine icon in the backup, it too says I can't because it's in the middle of a backup.
Is there any way I can delete this folder and get it to let me back in? I don't want to just delete it without some guidance as it's taken me weeks of reinstall just to get this far, having persuaded the likes of TurboCad to let me re-install from a download. I feel I'm on the threshold of having to start all over again. I attached a sticky (I have no apps to speak of at the moment) which had an image of the error message, showing two icons within minutes of each other, one showing a completed backup, the other a message icon stating backup in progress. I don't think the image on the sticky can be accessed...
I just bought my time capsule. It works doing backups manually but the button is in 'on' and the next backup field always says 'automatic backups off'.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Time machine doesn't work after I did the 10.7.4 update. Error message says disk is in read only mode. Tried to repair disk preferences, and this did not work.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
This is a continued problem over several weeks. I have called Apple about it without solving the issue. I have some very large backup files in user/library/application support. For several programs the backup folder within the folder for that app will be gigabytes in size. So I have excluded them in TM, have confirmed that they are indeed listed there. Problem is that they are still backed up every hour that TM runs.
I have deleted, manually, ALL the listed exclusions and started over adding them one by one - same result.
When I called Apple I forget what they had me do (was a few weeks ago). I think it was to delete the sparsebundle and start freshly. But, whatever, the same thing still happens. I am backing up to Time Capsule.
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MacBook Pro 15 inch, 2.53 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 8 GB memory
I had until april, an Acer with Windows and back up to a TDC Home Disk. Now I am trying to use that Home Disk for my new iMac, either as disk for Time Machine or for manual back up.But it does not work. I get the message that I am not allowed to read neither from Time Machine, from mac-backup, or from my own new personal files.
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iMac
since I upgraded to Lion, Time Machine doesn't work
Info:iMac, MacPro & Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
