Has anyone tried using some of the NAS storage solutions out there as your Time Machine back up? If so, how well does it work? Reason I ask is because I'm thinking of getting one but I don't want to run into the same problem I had with mounting when I tried using an external HDD connected to my home server. I know it's not the same but I'm just asking to be safe.
View 13 RepliesI currently have a Time Capsule, but I want to get away from that internal storage. I have a Mac Pro that I am thinking of installing a WD Black 2TB into as a backup drive. Backing up my three internal drives and a MacBook Pro. I would like to purchase the AirPort Extreme Base Station (Not Time Capsule) and backup my MacBook Pro to my Mac Pro's WD 2TB Internal HD using Time Machine. Would I be able to do this? My Mac Pro is ALWAYS on. If I can do this, how easy/difficult would the setup be?
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to have my MacBook Pro use Time Machine to backup to shared storage on the Mac Pro? Right now my Mac Pro has close to 6TB of storage and it would be nice to be able to use part of the storage as a fake Time Capsule.
View 2 Replies View RelatedBear with me guys, I'm not sure where to put this question. I figured that because my Macbook Air (and it's limited storage space) was the reason for my needing an external HD I thought this would be the best place. My MBA has run out of storage and I bought a Seagate External HD to move my stuff onto. I guess my question is: What's the best way to combine the external HD with the MBA? Here are a few of the things on my mind:Â
-Most of the space is taken up by my user folder right now such as itunes, photos, etc. If I copy that folder to the external drive it would alleviate a large part of my issue, at least for the time being. Eventually I will hit the storage capacity as I add applications over time I guess, so this is a temporary solution (although I free up 27gb of space this way). Can I designate a folder on the external drive as the default for programs like imovie and iphoto like I can with itunes?Â
-I KNOW there is a way to set the external drive as some kind of default drive but is this feasible? It would be a hinderance if I needed to have it connected at all times to access even applications (which I assume to be the case?Â
-I also wondered about partitioning the external HD and using one partition for additional storage and the other for time machine? It's a 1TB hard drive, and I figure I could make a 100GB partition to use with time machine (my MBA only has a 64gb capacity) and use the other 900GB for files. Is this even possible or does time machine need it's very own separate drive? Anyway, this doesn't necessarily ask many specific questions and I apologize if it appears a little disjointed. I'm looking for help and opinions on the best way to use this new piece of equipment to compliment my MBA.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
While I would LOVE to get a 1TB Time Capsule and use it with Time Machine on my MBA, that is a whole lot of money when I already have a wireless router that works just fine and I can find 1TB of storage for much cheaper than that... My question is, what are my other options? I have a Mac mini so my first thought was to plug a big ol' USB HD into that and have the MBA backup to that... Well I could access files on the HD from the MBA just fine but Time Machine refused to use it for backups...
I have seen little wireless adapter boxes with USB ports for adding printers and HD's to your home network, would something like this work or would I run into the same issue with Time Machine not wanting to use it as a backup device?
I have a 500 gb ext HD, that i will be partitioning to 2 sections, one will be mac os extended for time machine, the other will be fat32 for storage and so that i can use the hd with windows and mac.
so my questions are:
1. how many GB should i leave for back up so that time machine works effectively?
2. any suggestions on how i should divide the 500 gb between mac os extended and fat32? such as 250/250 or 400/100?
Late last night I accidentally ejected Time Machine from the Devices section of the Finder window. I've now spent half a day trying to get the computer to recognise my external hard drive again as attempting to use Time Machine results in the message "Storage Machine for Time Machine backup can't be found." I can find my WD desktop 1TB drive with Disk Utility but not in Finder. If I click on the WD Ext HDD 1021 Media in Disk Utility there is the option to Verify in the top menu, but nothing happens when I click on it. All the options verify, and repair are greyed out. I've checked the computer hard drive and done the verify and repair disk and permissions process.
I've turned off the computer, disconnected the external hard drive, turned off time machine, then turned everything back on but still can't get the external hard drive to be recognized. This is extremely frustrating and I have run out of ideas. I know it all started when I clicked on the eject button for the external hard drive in the devices section of the finder. Such a simple mistake, but I have searched everywhere online and can't find a resolution that I can actually try. I can't verify and repair the WD hard drive if these options aren't available in Disk Utility.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
what is the best online storage service for time machine?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to organize my external storage for a new iMac with an 500G SSD drive. I have a new thunderbolt G-Raid drive and an aging Airport Time Capsule. I was thinking of storing music and pictures, as well as a Time Machine backup of the SSD, and storing a Time Machine backup of my music and pictures on the Time Capsule. Will I need to partition the G-Raid?Â
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), SSD drive
Here is what my time machine preferences look like now:
And it has, as I said in the title, been staying like this for a long time.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
I've been using my external hard drive for Time Machine for a while now (a Western Digital My Book) and have only used up about 100 of its 500 GB capacity. However, I'd like to temporarily use the remaining space on the drive as extra storage, since my other hard drive just died. Is there any way to do this without erasing everything that I've backed up with Time Machine already?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just purchased a 500gb External Hard Drive. I was wondering what is the best way to format and partition it so that I can use 300gb dedicated to Time Machine and then use the ~180gb for external storage. The key part of my situation is that I want to be able to access the ~180 gb from both my Mac and my windows based machines. I know I could go into disk utility and partition it, but what format should I use if I want to do both.
The other part is the hard drive is already setup to use time machine since yesterday, however I am willing to format it completely to partition it to use on windows machines (XP and Vista.)
I have a 500GB external HD but a 250HD on my macbook. is it possible to partition the HD 300GB for time machine and 200 for storage of data and files? If so, how would I go about doing that? I just don't want to waste a 500 GB external if my HD is only 250GB.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have an iMac running the latest version of Lion (10.7.4) and which I have upgraded to a one terabyte hard drive and full memory capability. I back up to a My Book 2 terabyte external hard drive using Time Machine. My iMac is often very sticky, though I've done most of the diagnostics I know of and preferences etc. are seemingly all OK and fcuk -fs gives a positive result! The Mac is often hard to wake from sleep and in particular seems to spend a lot of time backing up very-very slowly, with the result that it frustratingly seems to be backing up most of the time with the consequent effects on using other programs. Also the whole thing seems to grind to a halt after a hard days work with quite a few applications open. I'm wondering what can be causing this and what I can do to overcome this very frustrating and debilitating problem?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Do you use time machine if you run Mac os 10.5?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a Mini (OSX 10.6.4) and a 1TB external drive that I use for TM. When I connect the drive two backups are made. They are the same size and contain the same number of files. Why two backups are made?
View 3 Replies View RelatedInstead of Time Capsule or a NAS, I've decided to just use an external Firewire 1TB external drive to backup my MBP with 500Gb drive. Does Time Machine run 100% in the background? I'm concerned that I may want to disconnect my external drive at a time when Time Machine running a backup. How do I know when Time Machine is backing up and when it's finished? Are you expected to wait for Time Machine to complete before disconnecting, or are there some smarts built in to Time Machine to account for this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed SL a few days ago and had to rebuild my Time Machine backup. It powered through all 700GB today and then it kept going. The progress bar got to the max: 700/700, then went to 700.02/700.02 ,, 700.03/700.03 ,, 700.04/ 700.04 ,, etc. Currently it's adding onto the "inprogress" file and filling up the drive with more data than I had to backup! It's done 844GB out of 700. Keep in mind, this is a totally-from scratch backup here! Do I stop it? Do I wait until it fills up the drive and "figures it out" ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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 RelatediMac 27 late 2009 freeze while is working. Nothing works on computer even when a video is playing. I have a 12 GB of RAM and 502 GB free disk space. I checked disk utility and CPU is working fine. I don't know why the iMac is freezing with so much space.
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but my iMac seems to be permanently running Time Machine to back up to my Time Capsule.Â
It's literally just completed a 131Mb backup and has started now another one!Â
These backups seem to be extremely slow, yet the TC is connected using an ethernet connection.Â
Is it possible that my antivirus software is slowing the backup process down so much, that the next hourly backup starts almost immediately?Â
My TC is just over half full.Â
Also, when I Enter Time Machine, it takes ages - well, 5 to 10 minutes, really - before I can start scrolling through my old files.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3; Time Capsule
Have installed all possible updates and run such Drobo utilities as Time Tamer.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
2010 MBP 15" i5 running 10.6.3. Time machine doesn't seem to care about the fact that the notebook is running on battery power. I keeps on performing backups. I've tried restarting, enabling and disabling Time Machine....nothing seems to work... Isn't time machine supposed to delay backups when the laptop is on battery power..?
View 2 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...
If I run Time Machine for the first time, do I have to stop using my iMac until the program is finished? Or can I continue to use it?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a 21.5 iMac with an i3 processor and 500GB hard drive. Unfortunately I am running out of internal storage space and I was wondering what options I have for upgrading the storage. I am also going through my photos (in iPhoto) and videos (in iMovies), deleting the ones I don't need. I also have a 500GB external hard drive with the purpose of backing up my iMac (via Time Machine). I can think of the following options and I was wondering what people think about them and if you could share any feedback / ideas? Internal Upgrade: Can I upgrade my storage internally on my iMac to another 500GB (i.e. 1TB in total)?External Upgrade Scenario 1: Purchase a 500GB external drive and save my iMovie and iPhoto library on it. Purchase another 500GB external hard drive as back up (via Time Machine) Question -> Can I run 2 back ups at the same time via Time Machine? One for my existing internal storage and another for iMovie and iPhoto library on the external 500GB hard drive.External Upgrade Scenario 2: Use my existing 500GB external hard drive (which I currently use to back up my iMac) and reformat it to save my iPhoto and iMovie library. Purchase a 1TB external hard drive to back up both my internal storage (500GB) and external storage (500GB). Is this even possible with Time Machine?
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
I have a 21.5 iMac with an i3 processor and 500GB hard drive. Unfortunately I am running out of internal storage space and I was wondering what options I have for upgrading the storage. I am also going through my photos (in iPhoto) and videos (in iMovies), deleting the ones I don't need. I also have a 500GB external hard drive with the purpose of backing up my iMac (via Time Machine). I can think of the following options and I was wondering what people think about them and if you could share any feedback / ideas? Internal Upgrade: Can I upgrade my storage internally on my iMac to another 500GB (i.e. 1TB in total)?
1: Purchase a 500GB external drive and save my iMovie and iPhoto library on it. Purchase another 500GB external hard drive as back up (via Time Machine) Question -> Can I run 2 back ups at the same time via Time Machine? One for my existing internal storage and another for iMovie and iPhoto library on the external 500GB hard drive.External Upgrade Scenario
2: Use my existing 500GB external hard drive (which I currently use to back up my iMac) and reformat it to save my iPhoto and iMovie library. Purchase a 1TB external hard drive to back up both my internal storage (500GB) and external storage (500GB). Is this even possible with Time Machine?
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
I have a macbook air 128g and am running out of storage space. I am wondering if I can use icloud as a primary storage for my media files (Photos, music, video, etc). Then I could potentially remove from hard drive to free up space. I am concerned if this is possible and what the cons would be. I am thinking that Itunes library and photos would not be as quickly accesible as it would be using the hard drive.Â
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MacBook Air
I had to delete a Yosemite partition I created on my mid 2012 macbook pro because the 16gig available filled up fast.
I check my HD and it was almost full to capacity, it shows I had 2.2 TB of photos and 1.5 TB of audio.
I don't know if this photos and music kept adding each time I sync my iphone or each time i log on to Facebook.
Anyway I would like to FREE UP THE SPACE but how, and would I need to have 3plus TB of external DH to do this, or what??????
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I am receiving notifications that I am running out of storage space. I backed up my mac book using an external and time machine. Can I delete some files to make room?Â
If so, Â
When I want to restore from my time machine, can I pick and choose, say certain songs, photos or documents?
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Mac Pro, iOS 4.1
