OS X :: TimeMachine - "Back Up Disc Not Available"
Sep 19, 2009
I have been using a MyBook WD 1TB drive connected to my AirPort Extreme for my TimeMachine back up disc. I have noticed that it has not been backing up recently so I made sure to open open the drive and have it mounted to my desktop then clicked "Back Up Now" on the TM pull down menu, it said "Preparing Backup" in the TM Pref screen then came back with the notification "The backup disc is not available" even though I know it should be since the icon is on my desktop. The only change I have made recently is updating my system to Snow Leopard but I'm not sure exactly if that was when my back ups stopped.
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Nov 23, 2007
Have not used BootCamp. Just wondering if TimeMachine in Leopard backs up BootCamp entries also.
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Aug 2, 2009
Can I replace my Mac G5 hard drive with new larger one and transfer all the contents via time machine from my external hard drive? I am most concerned about losing my iPhoto files.
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Apr 22, 2009
My MacBook hard drive has about 70GB of data on it but the corresponding TimeMachine-generated Backups.backupdb folder on my firewire-connected hard drive only shows up as 1.15GB. Has my computer backed up properly or am I having serious problems?
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Sep 7, 2009
If I have a TimeMachine backup can I use that to revert back to Leopard if SL is not what I expected it to be or if I run into any problem?
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Mar 13, 2010
I have had an external hard drive on my computer for back ups. I went to get something off it and I could not find it. I rebooted and I still can't find it. I've tried to unplug and plug back in, but still no disc. I am not sure what to do. It is on, I can see the light on.
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Sep 8, 2009
I was working on a hard disk, not my system disk, when I changed my permission from Read and Write to No Access. Now it doesn't show up in my Finder anymore and cant access my Final Cut Pro project I was working on. How can I change the disc permission back to Read and Write so I can get to my Hard Disc again?
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Oct 27, 2009
I'm trying to make back ups of my originally purchased system discs so that I can use those to do any restores of my system any keep the originals in a safe place. I'm not quite sure what i need to do to successfully do this. Can someone please help me out. I Have 2 different macs that I can use to burn dvd's on but not sure if the drive can do this since I think that I might have to burn dbl layer discs. My iMac says it is a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J and specs DVD-Write:-R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW. Any info would be great.
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Nov 21, 2009
i found out that I have lost the recovery discs that go along with my new i7 iMac...(just a week old...)
Anyway I could get it back from APPLE?
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Jul 11, 2009
Why is there such a memory loss on hard drives? By this I mean, if you have a 160 gig HHD - you are only presented with 149 gig.
Or my 250 gig only shows 232 gig - so where has the 18 gig disappeared to?
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Jun 2, 2014
After reformating de disc do i have to insert the disc with the os that came with the mac originaly or i can start it directly from the back up made?
Info:
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Dec 20, 2010
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard with my "Mac OS X install DVD" to my friends's Mac, I have a MBP and he has a MB, will it work?
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Sep 3, 2009
Ok, this is the setup: got an external hard drive hooked up to an airport extreme via USB. I have a macbook that's a few years old with the intel core duo processor and running OS 10.4.11.
I want to be able to see/backup to this hard drive wirelessly from my macbook while on my home network. Basically, everything I've found online makes it look like I have to have my extreme on an 802.11n connection or whatever, which my macbook isn't capable of (intel core duo processor), right? The reason I say this is that all the instructions on how to turn this on circle around options that I don't see in my airport admin utility program.
So is this possible, or am I gonna have to get a new macbook before I can do this. If I get leopard or snow leopard would I be able to do this with time machine, or do I need to be able to do 802.11n for that, too?
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Mar 21, 2009
looking for a solid DVD cloner or copy program so that I can back up (replicate) DVDs I own onto disc. I also want a program that would allow me to copy certain segments and chapter to create new disks.semi-dummy level would be great as I'm not a real techy or media person.I've tried trials of both DVD copy (mp4converter software studio) ---unfortunately the trial doesn't give you full functionality (gotta question the logic here) and Fast DVD copy 4.1
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Jul 5, 2012
My macbook pro will leave the cd or dvd in for like 30 seconds than pop it back out.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
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Dec 17, 2008
I installed the update the day it came out. I'm using a USB HDD connected to my Airport Extreme n as TimeMachine Volume. First: TimeMachine still works, BUT anytime i switch off the external HDD or power up my MB in a non-home-environment I get the '!' in the menu-bar-logo, that he couldn't do his backup job becuse there was trouble. I never had this problem before. He never tried to backup while his backup wasn't connected.
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Nov 19, 2010
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.
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Jan 27, 2009
How can i set Timemachine to appear on the menu bar? The appropriate check box does not appear in Timemachine preferences, why is that?
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Mar 3, 2009
I have been using Time Machine for backups. Now I'd like to use Time Machine to have the same desktop as my last backup on another Macbook.
How do I do it?
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Nov 20, 2009
My TimeMachine external HD is almost full, so I would like to erase a couple of iMovie projects that I don't need anymore and are pretty big. I did this once my opening a 'find' window and moving the files to the trash from there but this no longer seems to work.
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Dec 23, 2010
I was following some instructions on trying to get my time machine to backup to a Network Server SHARE on my home network, and I did one change that made time machine show it, and it tried and came back with a error 41 I believe it was. So I did some research on that, and ran some more commands to try and get it to allow the backup. Well after this, I am no longer able to connect to that SMB share anymore or ANY network share. I can't figure out how to fix this as I am not really familiar with MACs as good as some of you. Can anyone tell me how to fix this so I can access that share again?
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Feb 5, 2008
My timemachine disk is getting full soon and i'd like to use a bigger disk from then on. Is it possible to move the timemachine backups from the old to the new disk and continue flawlessly where it left off? Is there any special recommendation how to copy the stuff over or should i use an app like carboncopycloner to clone the disk over to the new?
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May 25, 2008
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?
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Jan 27, 2009
How can i set Timemachine to appear on the menu bar? The appropriate check box does not appear in Timemachine preferences, why is that?
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Feb 5, 2009
How can i delete selected days of TimeMachine backups?
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Jun 3, 2012
Will the "sharing" feature allow me to use Time Machine on my iMac OS 10.4.11 if I use my MacAir OS 10.7.3 as a base? (I know that Time Machine is not compatible with my iMac 10.4.11 by itself).
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x), and Mac OS 10.7.3
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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.
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Dec 4, 2010
what I am trying to do is to take my wife's profile from my iMac and restore it to a MacBook Pro. But the MacBook Pro already has my profile on it and I don't want to screw it up. I'd like to just add her profile to the MBP.
Is there a way in TimeMachine to restore just an individual profile from one machine to another?
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Dec 15, 2008
I wasn't sure where else to put this and I know people here have TimeMachine/backup experience. I don't know if this is true after every system software update, but after applying 10.5.6, Time Machine wants to backup 70GB worth of stuff. That's an additional 70GB worth of space taken up on my backup drive. I'm guess that that is all of the file differences because of the update? it so happens that I have a little over 71GB worth of stuff on my drive total. (What can I say, I leave a small footprint and archive a lot off disk). So it basically wants to back up my entire drive all over again. Is this normal? I could nuke the existing backup and just start fresh and not be concerned with losing anything.
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Jan 3, 2009
I've been having problems with my backup. The last few times I've tried to backup my computer it's saying that the backup is too large for the backup volume. The reason for this is not because the disk is too small but because it's not recognising that there is already backup-ed info on that disk and not integrating with that. Up to about two weeks ago my computer was backing up grand and in the space of two days it stopped allowing me to back up due to this error. I don't want to delete the old stuff as it kind of defeats the purpose of the backup to do so.
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