OS X :: Snow Leopard And Restoring From TM Backup
Jul 15, 2009
When Snow Leopard comes out in september, I would like to completely reformat and install on the drive in my unibody macbook. I have a time capsule and would like to know whether or not someone can restore their mac from os x 10.5 to 10.6. Or my other option is to upgrade the os on my macbook and then back up the changed system files. Then I would restore from that backup, but I would rather just restore all of my non system files from my 10.5 backup.
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Jun 2, 2012
I lost the main HDD on my Mac G5 running Panther 10.4. I have a TM back up onto an external drive and bought a new internal drive.How do I restore all my files from the external back up to the new internal HDD so I can run my computer as it was.
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Power PC G5, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Aug 11, 2010
My Macbook has not been running very stable and I decided to restore from a backup via Time Machine. My problem is my install disks are Leopard (10.5) and my backups are from Snow Leopard (10.6). I installed Snow Leopard from an Upgrade disk which I don't still have.
I have no luck restoring the Snow Leopard backups. My question is, how would I recover these backups without the Snow Leopard install disk? Is it possible or do I need to do a fresh install, upgrade then enter time machine via the OS itself?
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Dec 14, 2009
I have a usb 2.0 Western Digintal My passport external harddrive and I formatted one of the partitions to mac os extended and another one to MS-DOS (FAT). When I install snow leopard and try to retrieve back my files will my mac still be able to read them and place them back on the mac hdd?
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Jan 25, 2010
I'm not completely sure how time machine works, can I use it to backup everything on my computer, including applications, bookmarks, system configurations. The reason I ask is I need to re install snow leopard because of something that went wrong during a bootcamp setup, and I'm thinking that re-installing the OS might work.
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Mar 12, 2012
I had Yahoo Widgets on my desktop. It was a little separate dock from the main dock and when I clicked on the visible part a tray would slide out with all the little widgets. Unfortunately I clicked "close" and the little dock disappeared. The application was still there in Applications but when I clicked on it, the little dock did not appear.
So I downloaded Yahoo Widgets again - it was called "Gallery" but even though an application called "Yahoo Widgets" appears in the Applications list, when I click on it, nothing happens. Unfortunately, Yahoo is ending support for this Widget Engine and I think the download has been deleted from their site. So I am thinking of restoring the widget from a backup that I made of the Mac HD but even though I have the hard disk attached to my computer.
I don't know how to find and restore the files for this application to make the little separate Yahoo Widget dashboard or dock appear on my desktop again. I have checked start "Yahoo Widgets" in System preferences under user and starting items. I really don't know what to do after this step but would really like to have this Yahoo widget dock again on my desktop because it was very useful.
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MBA v 3.2, 256GB SSD, 2.13GHz, 4GB, Other OS, 10.6.8
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Nov 18, 2010
I want to restore my family license of Snow Leopard to USB stick for traveling but don't want it launching every time I connect to my Mac to get other files off the stick. Can I disable the image until I may need it?
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Apr 4, 2012
In my Mac Pro I've OSX 10.6 on my boot drive in Bay 1. Bay 2-4 do also contain hd's with loads of data. When putting a new drive in bay 1 and restoring from Time Machine - is it possible to only restore data from hd at bay 1? If yes, how?Â
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Jun 30, 2012
I frequently have to repartition my drive and reinstall OS X (mainly because I work with multiple OSes that keep changing). In order to simplify the process, I'd like to create a disk image of my system partition that I can simply restore after repartitioning. However, is that even going to work if the new partition (the destination partition) has a different size and is at a different place? What about the boot sector? Will I be able to boot from the restored image?Â
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MBP
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Mar 20, 2012
I just purchased a Seagate 3 TB USB 2.0/3.0 external drive to use as my time machine backup drive. I have a MacBook Pro that was purchased about 3-4 years ago. The MacBook Pro has a 120 GB hard drive and is currently running MAC OSx 10.6.8. I also have another WD 1 TB FireWire external drive that I use to store all of my media files. Â
After I followed the instructions for installing the new Seagate drive for use with the MAC OSx, I initiated a time machine backup. It very quickly determined that it needed to back up almost 900,000 files totaling just about 400 GB. It started the backup process at a rate of about 1 GB per minute. In a little less than an hour it reach 53 GB and remained there for an additional two hours before I decided to stop the backup. Â
Once I got the backup stopped, I deleted the backup and decided to look at my energy saving settings. I noticed that the "Put drives to sleep whenever possible" check box was checked, so I unchecked that option and restarted the MAC. I then initiated the time machine backup again. Like the first time it quickly determined that it needed to backup the same amount of data as before and started the backup process at a rate of about 1 GB per minute. Before going to bed at around 11 PM last night it was at about 60 GB so I thought I was out of the woods (having gotten further than the 53 GB earlier). When I woke up this morning at 5:30 AM it was sitting at 69 GB.Â
I am really frustrated at this point and don't know why the time machine back up would be failing on a brand new hard drive. PS - I was previously using a Seagate 1.5 TB USB drive as my time machine backup and never had any issues with it. I decided to use the 1.5 TB drive for a different purpose, which is why I have the new 3 TB drive to use as a backup. And I still have the full backup on the 1.5 TB drive just in case anything were to go awry.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 29, 2012
When trying to restore a 19.8 MB backup file to iCal, I get an "unexpected network error 60". What does the error mean?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 9, 2012
I had to restore my system due to the Trojan virus and seem to be up and running. The only problem I still have is not being able to restore my itunes to the last playlist. I keep getting the list I loaded in May of 2011 when I put this computer in service. Where I can find the list I had before dumping and reloading?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5,owc 500 GB ex
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May 9, 2012
I changed my HD in my MacBook Pro to a bigger one and then wanted to Restore the System via Time Machine onto that new HD. Sadly I dont have the Snow Leopard DVD that was coming with the MacBook. Though I have another Snow Leopard DVD, that I purchased earlier for my older Mac. Now the Problem:When I try to Boot the Macbook Pro from the older Snow Leopard DVD it always freezes and says: "You have to restart your Macbook. Press the power button until it switches off and then press the button again". But iwill not boot from the DVD.Is there another possibility to Restore my System from my Time Machine Backup to the new HD?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 5, 2012
For my back up strategy I use chronosync to backup my movies and music to my time capsule so I can access them from any device. I still use Time Machine, but I then exclude those same folders as I don't need them twice.Â
Will I still be able to restore my system from my TM backup? If I had to restore my system but didn't use the backup ie a clean install, could I access folders within the backup from the new install?Â
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Dec 23, 2010
So my friend got me Snow Leopard for Christmas and I want to upgrade my mac from Leopard to this but is there a way to upgrade without doing a clean install? Mainly because right now I have no external HDD. Only just two 2GB USB Drives which I already used to backup my pictures and documents. But if something goes wrong during the installation is there a way to go back to Leopard?
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May 17, 2012
Is there a way to keep a particular backup permanently? I'd like to keep a backup, but only one permanently.Â
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Aug 31, 2010
The hard drive on my old Power Mac G4 recently failed and I lost all my data. I have I backup of my Tiger installation, but no way to restore it - I have no other Mac computers, just Windows ones. I also don't have any OS X installation discs. Is there any way I could format and restore the files to my hard drive from Windows?
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Dec 4, 2010
I had a MacBook Pro which I had backed up with Time Machine. The MBP had the older version of iLife. I just bought an iMac and restored it with my TM backup. Then I installed the applications DVD that came with the iMac. It said the installation was successful, but it erased my iPhoto library. How do I get my library and data to transfer to the new iLife suite.
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Mar 3, 2009
so the restoring backup has left a big folder with all my backup on my desktop. How do I get my pictures into iphoto and tunes into itunes?
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Jun 4, 2009
I take total bootable backups of my macbook pro with superduper application, to an external hard disk. In a few months I plan to buy a new mbp, and I would like to know if it is possible to 'copy' my whole osx system environment(applications, data, everything) to the new machine, using this superduper backup, with the appropriate restoration process.
Can I boot the mac from the external hard disk, then run superduper, and use 'copy' option of superduper to copy the osx environment from external hard disk to internal hard disk? I think that everything should work fine but I do not know if it will appear any new hardware/configuration problem.
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Jun 11, 2010
In Windows, it is impossible to backup a PC and then restore it to another PC with a different configuration, as the Windows OS must be "tied" to a specific PC: In other words, the user must install Windows to the new PC from scratch (so that the new drivers, etc. will be installed) and then go through the cumbersome procedure of installing all his apps all over again.
What is the case with Mac OS X when restoring backups to different types of machines? For example, if someone has an iMac, backs it up in Time Machine, and then restores the backup to a MacBook Pro or a Mac Mini, what will happen? Will the operating system be able to "adapt" to its new surroundings, or problems are going to arise?
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Apr 19, 2009
possible to back up all your data with Time Machine on Leopard and then install Snow Leopard and use Time Machine to restore all of your pictures/movies/music and the like?
I'm going to assume it's a no go since Time Machine is capable of a full system backup -- it may just turn your system back into Leopard?
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Aug 31, 2009
I'm upgrading my mac to snow leopard but I don't really have a external hard drive to back up my data or the software to do the backup. Is it safe to do an upgrade without backing up?
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Oct 12, 2009
Posting for a friend who has just purchased Snow Leopard Box Set and wants to upgrade from Tiger. She was half way through the installation when she thought that Snow Leopard had not asked her to back up and she cancelled the installation half way through (not sure how, think she just turned off her Mac). She turned it back on but the only option it is giving her is too continue with the installation of Snow Leopard.
What she wants to know is will the erase all her data on her hard drive, or will she still have her files located in Documents/ Downloads etc when the installation is complete. I know when I upgraded from Leopard all these files were still present, I'm not so sure if it is the same with Tiger. Shes really worried about this as she has some valuable files in there.
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Nov 15, 2009
I have created a dmg of the disk (compressed/no encryption) using Disk Utility and have tried to burn to a DL DVD without success. I've searched this forum but was unable to find the correct procedure.
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Feb 18, 2010
I have a Apple Time Capsule which is used as a Time Machine Backup Facility and also a Wireless Hub for File Sharing and Internet Connection. I've been using Leopard for a couple of years without any significant problems. The other day, I installed Snow Leopard and suddenly, I'm facing a number of different problems and errors regarding backups to the Time Machine with the Time Capsule.
First, I was facing problems with a Case Sensitive error and now that I have ejected the Time Capsule, the Disk Utility has come up with a different name altogether and now I have the added problem of disk space on the time capsule. I know I could re-format and start over but that would defeat the whole point of my backups. The Time Machine/Capsule should re-write over the old backups when making space for new ones but its just giving me an error about not enough disk space.
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Mar 7, 2012
What Is Memeo Backup and why is it on my MacBook Pro w/ Snow Leopard? Does it slow down my Mac? Seems like someting has slowed down my Downloads, Updates, Backups, etc. & I don't know how to locate the source. Any Wizards avail to share some Wisdom? I am using Ethernet Cable/Port for Internet Connection, I Use a Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex Ultra-Portable Drive w/ Seagate's Firewire Adapter Cable.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 25, 2012
I have an usb flash drive backup for os snow leopard but I want to restore it for normal use, it can be done?
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a1384 usb recovery, Mac OS X (10.6)
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Apr 14, 2012
How do I get the backup arrow on my computer???
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 20, 2012
I just got a new computer (MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard) and I would like to set up an automatic backup. I haven't trasferred any files in yet (they're all on my external HD), I wanted to see the best way to go about setting up my backup before moving the files in.
1. Backups of the documents, music, pictures is pretty straight forward, just a smart copy kind of thing that automatically looks for what files are new/modified on my computer and updates everything on the external. I'm not sure if I can do this with Automator, or if one of the commercial apps I saw on the app store (DropSync, DirectorySync, etc)Â
2. Movies, however, is a bit more complicated. I have around 600GB of movies/TV shows, and don't have room for them all on my computer hard drive (computer is 750GB, external is 1.5TB). In fact, I would like to keep very few of the tv shows on my computer, only really the last one or two seasons. For example, on my external HD has the folder 'Breaking Bad', and within that is 'Season 1', 'Season 2', 'Season 3' and 'Season 4'. However, on my computer I still have the 'Breaking Bad' folder, but only have the folder 'Season 4' since I don't need seasons 1-3 on my computer. When I add a file to 'Season 4' on my computer, I would like the 'Season 4' folder on the external to be updated when I perform a backup/sync. However, this does not mean that the 'Breaking Bad' folder on my computer will be synced to the one on the external, just this subfolder. Can this be done? I'm assuming I'd have to go through and specify paths for all my folders, but there aren't that many shows so that would be ok to do for each season. Also I don't think I would like to use Time Machine since I would like to be able to let friends/other computers take files off my external. I'm told with Time Machine it's not as simple as browsing the finder.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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