I've just added a WD My Book 2GB drive as a Time Machine backup drive. It's mounted on my desktop as "My Book" but I'd like to rename it as "Time Machine"
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iMac,OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
How do you change the name of the Time Machine backup drive? I'm backing up to an external hard drive with name "untitled." I'd like to change name of the drive, but if I physically change the name on the desktop, Time Machine tells me that it cannot find the backup drive.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy existing Time Machine drive was running out of space so I decided to get a much (much) larger drive and move everything over from the one to the other. In doing so, I followed the directions on this page
Time Machine: How to transfer backups from the current backup drive to a new backup drive up to around step 9. That's where I deviated a bit. Initially, I did just drag the folder "Backups.backupdb" from one to the other but after 5 hours of spinning it's wheels, it informed me that it had about a day to copy all the data from the old drive to the new. I didn't have a day (again, stay with me). So instead of copying, I figured I'd just start moving all the files. That way, even if I had to shut down my laptop (which I did, to come in to work), I could just stop the process and pick up where I left off -- the system wouldn't have to re-look at files that it had already processed. So I just opened terminal and ran
cd /Volumes
sudo mv -fv <OLD DRIVE> <NEW DRIVE>
and everything seemed to be chugging along just fine. I let this process continue running over night and this morning, it was still working on the very first (ie oldest) backup directory. I aborted the process (^C), ejected the drives (and they ejected just fine -- no errors, no warnings), shut everything down and came in to work. Got in to work, plugged both drives back in (again, everything is fine) but when I went to kick the process this time (same commands as above), I keep getting the message "Operation not permitted" for every file and folder. Huh? It was fine with this last night.
So then I open up a couple of finder windows (one for each drive) and this time, I drag over just one folder from
<OLD DRIVE>/Backups.backupdb/MACHINE_NAME/
to
<NEW DRIVE>/Backups.backupdb/MACHINE_NAME/
and, after I authenticate, I'm given the error : "The operation can't be completed because backup items can't be modified" ...
In finder, when you start a copy process, OS X creates kind of a "ghost" folder/file in the new location and in finder, it appears to be kind of greyed out. When I started the copy process (before it told me it was going to take about a day), it created the ghost "Backups.backupdb" folder as usual. But after it told me that it was going to take a day and I cancelled the process, the ghost folder remained and still appeared greyed out in Finder. In terminal, I was able to change to that directory as normal so I didn't think anything of it -- the directory just existed. I cd'd, moved files and all was good, as I said above.
After I ejected the drive, I expected that when I mounted the drive again, the folder would appear as normal in Finder. But it's still showing greyed out. And I can't double click on it to open it as I can the same folder on my <OLD DRIVE> time machine. I have to right click and select "Open in new tab", which it will. When I do, though, the directory appears empty despite the fact that if I change to that directory in terminal, it's populated with files and folders that were moved last night.
Back in March my system crashed. I have a vmware external SSD drive that lost its formatting. Any how, I had been using time machine before it crashed. Now it says my drive is full. Its like its not deleting old backup files. I have a 1 Tb external usb drive that I back up too. I am using OS X Mavericks. Not sure what I am supposed to do to fix it. Cant afford another data crash like that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a 2 TB western digital hard drive connected via USB to my airport extreme (Y2012) that i've been using the past 2 years to connect to wirelessly. The hard drive has 2 partitions, ~1 TB each. 1 partition for backing up, the other for storing media. Recently I deleted my macbook pro backup. My macbook pro has a 500GB hard drive, of which about 120 GB is free.
Since I deleted the old time machine backup disk image and told time machine to start a new backup, I am now receiving an error. It's telling me there isn't enough room on the drive, when the 1TB partition i'm trying to use (as i've sucessfully done in the past) has nothing on it. 1 full TB free, and my macbook pro can't backup a 500 GB hard drive, which isn't even full itself.
I have a macbook pro early 2011, and I never know when the board is going to go koput again and I don't currently have a backup of my stuff while this problem persists.
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Macbook Pro 2011 Thunderbolt, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have a time machine backup I need to restore. It's a backup from an external drive that has failed.
When I go "enter time machine," I can't see the contents from the external drive anymore to restore it.. because the external drive isn't mounted. It's not mounted because it has failed. I can see when I browse the TM backup directly via finder there are files from the amounted drive in the backup... as I'd expect.
So... How do I restore drives from an unmounted external drive?
Do I need to buy a new drive and name it the same as the old drive? Then will it show up?
move my existent time machine back ups from a external USB hard drive to a WD MBLD network attached storage.
What I have tried to far: Created the a new time machine back up using the MBLDSelected the option to replace the existing time machine back up and selected the encrypt optionStarted a back upStopped it right after it started Turned the time machine offMounted the sparsebundleRemoved the backups.
backupdb folder from itAttached the old time machine disk to my macbook airCopied the backups.backupdb from there and tried to paste it on the NAS drive using Shift Option Command V.Got an error saying "the volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup"
Why does my external hard drive back up on time machine ok, but when I enter time machine (and the external device isn't plugged in) i can't see it?
It appears in time machine fine when the external drive is plugged in, but just not if it's been ejected or
I want to have the ext drive backed up in case I lose it or it corrupts....and if that happens I won't be able to plug it in to see the drive in TM - does that make sense?
I am running OSX 10.9.3 on a Mid 2010 Mac Book Pro. The external drive is a samsung and is formatted to Mac OS Extended (journaled). Time Machine is a standard Apple one and has been working fine for a couple of years
My time machine backups to an external drive stopped with a message that the backup could not be done because the drive could not be repaired and needed to be reformatted. Prior to reformatting I copied the TM backup file of 250GB to my desktop. My internal drive is 500GB and this only leaves me with 33GB of available space. I then reformatted the drive with the proper OS extended journaled and GUID partition. The external drive is 500GB. When I try to copy the backup file from the desktop to the reformatted drive the process begins normally with the message "preparing to copy files" but as the preparation process reaches 13,000,000 files it stops with the message "there is not enough sufficient space to copy files" even though it never even got to the actual file transfer. I have tried copying the backups in small batches to the new drive but I get an error message that backup files cannot be modified.
MacBook Pro Retina 500GB SSD, Mavericks 10.9.5
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
I have just installed a Lacie Thunderbolt external drive as I want the speed to access large volumes of photographs. If I configure it as RAID 0 I will need to back up the data on that drive. I have a NAS drive which I already use for Time Machine and which works well. Can Time Machine be configured to include the external drive in the backups to the NAS?
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I have another external hard drive I'd like to use but, my Time Machine has this error code of -43. What is this and how can I use my Time Machine on another external hard drive?
After months of continual Time Machine backups to my Time Capsule, an error message comes up saying that Time Capsule is busy. I've tried to delete the file and start over from scratch, but it won't let me.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 24-inch, Early 2008
My back up disc all of a sudden won't work with time machine. It is saying read only. I don't know how this happened and now I can't change it back.
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Has anyone figured out how to change the time machine backup interval in SNOW LEOPARD?
i don't want a third party app or anything, i just want to go in terminal or textedit and set a new interval.
for any of you who are going to tell me to modify the com.apple.backupd-auto.plist file. i cant find one, and i believe this is unique to 10.6. there is a regular backupd.plist file, a -wake.plist, and -attach.plist, but none of them list the "start interval" key that i saw.
I just got a new external hard drive (500 gigs), and already backed up my mac once. Now it does it every hour. But I want it to back up like once a day, not 24 times a day. How do I change the back up schedule?
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So how I can "Rename" the TM Bucks-up so I can restore only the file that I want not all ?
OSX 10.9.4
MacBookPro 17" i7 2.2Ghz. - SSD 512 - 16GB
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OS X Mavericks (10.9)
how you change these icons as the usual method of just copying and pasting the image in does not work. Would also like to not have to download an app to be able to do this if possible.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Is there a way to change the default setting on Time Machine so I can backup files when I want to rather than when it wants to?
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 13 inch 2.4Ghz Core i5 4 GB RM
I have an external 500gb drive plugged into my brand new Time Capsule. The 500gb drive basically stores my entire library of music and my iTunes points to this external drive.
Is it possible to have time machine backup all information on the 500gb drive to the time capsule, so encase the external drive takes a dump, I don't loose my entire music library? Maybe time machine is already doing this, I am not sure.
As my 160N series Linksys router neither has gigabit ports, usb connector or dual band networking, I am looking for a replacement.
When it comes to Apple routers I am looking at 2 options - either the base station with an external USB drive or get a 1TB capsule with the buildt in drive and worries regarding reliability.
What I like about the Time Capsule is that it is neat to have all in one, takes up less space and only has 1 plug to attach, while Iike the idea that I can just connect a bigger drive later on the base station solution.
1. Will the connected USB drive function just like the internal drive in the Time Capsule for Time Machine use?
2. Will everything be transparent to Snow Leopard?
3. In case of both units with an attached USB drive - can I control who actually can see the drive and access it?
4. Do they support this DNLA thing so that e.g . PS3 can access an attached drive??
i want to back up the computer with time machine .I do not know how to do it.When i click on icon of time machine it says that " time machine not configured'.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I'm running OS 10.8.5 Maverick. (On a used Mac)Processor 13 GHz Intel core 2 duomemory is 2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM this is a 2009 machine I purchased a week agoPrevious to this machine, my experience has been, Powerbook G4-OS 10.5.8
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I just upgraded my OS from 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to 10.9.4 Mavericks. My iMac has a 500 GB HD & I was using LaCie 500 GB XHD as TM backup successfully for many years using FW800. I removed the LaCie XHD & will save it in case I ever need those Snow Leopard backups. I bought a new, 2 TB G-Drive to use for my Mavericks TM backup. I am planning to partition the G-drive into a 1.5 TB TM backup volume & a 500 GB volume to use with Carbon Copy Cloner.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 4 GB RAM, Win XP Pro-Boot Camp
we recently bought a new iMac with Mavericks and a Lacie 5big thunderbolt series disk. At the Lacie disk we configured as they were 2 hard dsik of 4 Tb each one and added to time machine. Today the user called saying that time machine only made 2 copies one general at 4pm and the other one at the second disk at 7pm and no more copies until 10pm.
I know that time machine makes copies every hour, every day , every month, etc; so we were thinking why it only made 3 copies in that mount of time and why it took the second disk. In the old iMac with Lion this never happened.
Can I create 2 partitions into portable hard disk where the first formatted as HFS+ to use only for Time Machine source, the latter formatted as exFAT/FAT32 to use to swap file from OSX/Windows ?
Time machine will use only the first partition as source, it's possible?
I need to link hard disk both to windows and to OS X systems, can I do it with these 2 partitions? FAT32 or exFAT?
I have two computers in different locations and want to use time machine to keep them both current. Spend about 6 months in each location and got tired of transporting the iMacs. One of the iMacs is a mid 2010, the other is brand new. When I try to restore from the new machine to the old one, it doesn't work. Keeps waiting for a permission.
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