MacBook Pro :: Which Drive For TimeMachine Backup?
Oct 29, 2010
I just bought a MacBook Pro 2009 model and would like to have a dedicated external hard drive for performing TimeMachine backups. I know there are probably great options out there for me to purchase, but I'd like to take one of the two that I currently have, format it to GUID and for Mac via disk utilities, and then use it for TM.
The two external drives drives I have are:
1.) WD5000AAV 500gb (about 2 years old, requires AC outlet)
2.) Toshiba Canvio 640gb (about 3 months old, no AC outlet required).
I just can't find specs for the actual drives inside of these external drives (drive speed, cache, etc.). Maybe it doesn't matter which? I just want whichever is fastest and most reliable.
I want to verify if Migration Assistant will restore a backup from NAS drive to a new computer. I just got a WD My Book Live Duo NAS drive which supports Time Machine backups for Lion (and Snow Leopard). Unlike backups in Snow Leopard and the WD My Book World Edition (white light), the new NAS drive creates a sparsebundle the first time a backup is initiated. When I open Time Machine, a single volume for my backup appears. I have 3 Macbooks backing up to this drive but when I open Time Machine on any computer, only the backup created for that computer is shown. This raised a question for me that if my computer dies, how do I restore the backup from the NAS drive to the new computer? Is this what Migration Assistant will do? What are the limitations? Does the new computer have to have the same IP address as the old computer? Can I select what gets restored?
My internal 1TB hard drive on my iMac is dead and I don't have the money to replace it at the moment. I have everything backed up on an external 1TB drive using Time Machine. As a workaround for the time being,Is there any way I can install the system on the external drive and use that as the boot drive without erasing the Time Machine Backups? It seems to me I would have to have two partitions for the external drive, one for the system, and one for Time Machine. But is there any way to add a partition without erasing the existing one with Time Machine only on it?
I have an imac with two time capsules (1TB and 3TB). I am using the 1TB as a shared drive on the network (mac + pc's), and the second one (3TB) as the time machine backup drive. I have not been able to include the shared drive (1TB) in the time machine backup, it only included the imac hard drive. When I purchased the seconf time capsule, I was told this is possible. Can you help with any configuration recomendations to make this work?
My finder/computer crashes at least once or twice a day when the Time Machine backups start (there are other times where the backup will go fine). I am using a MacBook Pro, 2011 2.2 GHz i7 with 8GB of Ram. I have a 64 GB Samsung SSD drive I use for startup and applications, and a 700 GB SSD/7500 hybrid drive mounted in the Superdrive bay for docs/music/etc.
I have a 1TB WD HDD connected via USB I use for Time Machine. Looks like there might be something amis when I am using Chrome and Time Machine in the superdrive bay SSD/HDD setup? Also some software update errors were being thrown just before the crash too.
Here is the console Log just before the crash through the reboot:
5/27/12 12:45:10.207 PM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.app-store-software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/in stalld' [8335] for authorization created by '/usr/sbin/softwareupdate' [8334]
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Info: macbook, powerbook G4, G5 Xserve, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
I am currently pondering how to make a backup of my Imac. On the old threads I skimmed through I could not find the right answers - so I made one of my own In my imac I have a 500 GB hard drive (~300GB in use). I also have a 1.5 TB external hard drive which will be my backup drive. I am planning to combine CarbonCopyCleaner (or SuperDuper Im not 100% sure yet - any suggestions?) with Time machine to get.
a) a bootable copy of my system b) regular backups with time machine.
On top of this I want to move certain things (like movies and stuff I dont really need to back up) on the external hard drive. Now I am wondering two things however: Can I achieve CCC, Time machine backups AND seperate data on one partition? I guess not because then it would not be bootable? If I use 2 seperate partitions (one for CCC and one for Time Machine and the data/movies etc) - can they be resized WHILE data is on them? I am asking this because I am using my mac to produce music and the data keeps growing. I would love to avoid fixed-size-partitions if possible.
I have just noticed that Time Machine does not seem to want to backup certain big files I have (such as VMware virtual machines 5gb files). I have checked the options setup in TimeMachine and there is no setting here that could imply that these files would not be backed-up. I have made a test and noticed that TimeMachine will not backup the stated files. Does anyone know what could cause this?
- Is there any way to include a description to a Timemachine backup? It would be helpful to include information such as "backup before installing a specific program or system update".
Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I was wondering if anyone knows a way to automatically sync certain folders from a Windows BootCamp partition to the Mac.
Basically what I'm trying to do is automate a way to backup my Mac with Time Machine but also keep important files that I use on the Windows partition backed up at the same time.
I have an brand new HD that I want to restore from TimeMachine. Erased and partitioned this brand new drive. Created 2 partitions and formatted as “OS Extended Journaled/ GUID.”
Did a “Command R recovery boot” and went through the steps to backup from TM to my new HD. 15 seconds into the restoration process Msg. reads: “Error occurred while restoring from the backup.Restart your computer and then try restoring again.”
Trouble shooting:
Luckily my original files and initial boot drive that TM was backing up from remains fine and I performed some more TM back ups as well as a TM backup onto another drive as well.
I even tried restoring to another empty drive with older backups and backups off of another HD and got the same error message. All my BU’s and BU attempts have been within 10.7.3 on the same MP.
Info: Mac Pro 2X3 Ghz duel core intel xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 16 GB Mem
I have been trying to move my old TimeMachine data to a new, larger hard drive. A very helpful member of another forum suggested I use the Disk Utility "Restore" utility, restoring my TimeMachine data from the old disk to a new disk. For some reason this will not work for me.
With TimeMachine, I backup two external drives (let's call them drive A and B). Recently, drive B broke and I restored the data on a replacement drive and gave the volume the same name as the broken one had. I made TimeMachine aware of the fact that this new drive corresponds to the old one by using the "tmutil -a associatedisk" command as described here: [URL]When TimeMachine started the next backup, it did not perform all full backup of the new drive, though still way more than it should. So far so god.
The problem is: if TimeMachine performs a backup while the new drive (the replacement of drive B) is not connected, it does not create the hard links for it. Drive A is not connected either, though hard links for it show up in the Backups.backupdb folder for this backup. If the replacement drive is connected the next time, TimeMachine will perform a full backup of it ... most likely because the previous backup does not contain any hard links.
Basically I have a 750GB hard drive in my Macbook Pro and over 300GB is taken up with 'BackUp' data. This is more than the total of everything I have on the drive other than that. Time Machine has always been setup on an external drive and when searching all files on the Macbook there is nothing for backup files so don't know where it is coming from.
Is there a way to make a backup of your Time Machine backup on a 2nd hard drive? I want to be doubly sure that my data is backed up!Right now I get an error saying that the second hard drive isn't authorized to copy my Time Machine data from the original hard drive I have set up as my Time Machine.
I have an external 1TB WD My Passport drive which I use for TM backup's. When I plug in via USB, DriveUnlock appears. I unlock the drive, then instigate a TM backup. All goes fine, then from what I can gather, when the TM backup has finished, the drive ejects itself. There is no error messages, unmount drive issues, it just dissappears from finder. I can only assume the backup has been successful, as no error messages appear, meaning the drive wasn't ejected while backup was in progress. I have changed the USB cable, as well as tried different ports, but the same always happens. In System Preferencies/Energy Saver, I have made sure the Put HD to sleep is un ticked. Still it happens. Has anyone else had this problem, and is it fixable? I would love to keep the drive attached and backing up for the period I am working, usually 12 hours a day, rather than the once a day at the moment.
Info: Time Machine, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacBook Pro
I have purchased a new ssd for my macbook pro, can I connect the new ssd via usb to my macbook pro and use time machine to load only the files i want to keep and the swap the old hd for the new ssd.
Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I'm having a lil dilema. I need to do a clean install on my system due to a few devices that i accidently erased while configuiring my audio settings.
anywho, I just need to know:
I have been backing up my files with Time Machine on to a Western Digital Network HD on my Home Network. If i do a final back up and then Install a clean copy of OSX Lion [Format My system HD], will I be able to restore my personal files using time machine back up I have on my Network HD?
Info:MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Time machine has suddenly started popping up an error message saying that it cannot connect to server while off-network on my MBP. I use a timecapsule to wirelessly backup when I am home. At home, it connects fine, no messages, no errors.It just started doing this when I am away - previously it either silently ignored not being able to connect or made a local snapshot. Either would be fine over popping up the message (multiple times).I've tried the following so far:1. Re-install Lion, restore user, applications, settings from backup - did after an erase of MBP lcoal harddrive to get a full install. 2. sudo tmutil disablelocal; sudo tmutil enablelocal; sudo tmutil snapshot - all worked fine
3.repaired permissions on local hard drive.
4.verified time capsule.
5.Added timecapsule disk to privacy settings on spotlight
6.I do use dropbox - tried quiting out of it
7.Changed name of time capsule disk
Info: MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
If I use disk utility to create a "read/write" image, would I be able to boot off of that if the image is on an external USB drive?
Also how large would the writable image be in relation to the amount of space that is occupied on the MBPs drive?
Alternatively I could use super duper to backup the MBP, but that just clones the drive right? it would be nice to have an image (for data portability) (i'd like to transfer it to a time capsule as well)
Recently My MAcBook Pro 13" was stolen. I have importan archives inside Time Machine (from the MacBook pro 13) and now I want to recover just some iles from the stolen MacBook to my IMac using Time machine.
It has served me well over the past couple of years, however recently it suffered a fatal accident and I am wishing to backup my data before purchasing a new Macbook Pro. In addition to using Mac OS X, I also dual-booted my Macbook Pro with Windows 7, thus I have two partitions: BOOTCAMP (usually marked as drive letter F:) and Macintosh (usually marked as drive letter E:). I am no longer under warranty for my Macbook Pro, so I took matters into my own hands and removed the hard drive from the laptop. I hooked the harddrive up to a SATA-to-USB converter in order to retrieve my files from the harddrive using a separate laptop and save them to a secondary storage drive.
Upon powering up my SATA-to-USB converter (using a separate laptop running Windows 7), I have found that the harddrive from my Macbook Pro only shows the BOOTCAMP partition and not the original Macintosh partition (a partition containing several important files I wish I retrieve). I was able to successfully backup all my data from the BOOTCAMP partition, but I cannot access the Macintosh partition (I only need to copy several files from the partition onto my secondary storage device).
I have 53GB available but need 69GB for backup. Is there something I can delete to free up space? It looks like almost all of the G-Drive space is used by backups. Is it safe to dump something and if so how?
I am using a MacBook Pro.
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Storage: 156GB free out of 500GB OS X 10.9.3
I have a 4T G-Drive connected to my firewire port. I am using Time Machine to perform backups. I see that some backups have been performed as expected. Time Machine is failing unexpectedly now. I get the error message "Backup Failed. Time Machine couldn't back up to G-Drive" The disk is there and connected correctly. I have successful back ups. But now it caannot use the G-Drivve which exists and has plenty of room on it.
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Safari 5.1.4
I am planning to change my current HDD drive with new intel SSD, so I need to back up all the files on my current disk. The capacity of my current HDD is 320GB, so I made an equal partition, 160GB-160GB. Since there's just 120GB occupied in my HDD, I assume I can back up it with the alternative partial 160GB, sounds feasible? Another problem, after replacing it with SSD, should I just make the internal HDD external, and plug it to the macbook pro using USB to install all the OS and files?
OK so i called tech support and talked to them about my cracked macbookthey helped me out but in the process they asked me for my Password on my macbook. then he told me to make a backup.
the reason is because just like many people out there i am on of those people who got iLife09 by not paying awww!!! what to do?will they go through my hard drive? how can i make a backup on my external drive, so i can delete everything on my macbook then bring everything back?
I have multiple computers that all need to be backed up! The macbook that I bought for my girlfriend last year suffered a major hit, the hard drive crashed and she lost all of her information. Now I am worried!! I have the computers listed in my signature and a Lenovo s10e netbook that I would like to back up on the same external hard drive. I don't plan on doing anything but backing them up once every week or two.
First question is what external hard drive should I get to be able to back-up four macs and a windows machine? (I would like to have a desktop external, not portable)
Second question is when I get the drive should I separate the drive into multiple section or what?
