OS X V10.5 Leopard :: What Folder Is Time-machine Backup Stored
Mar 27, 2012I have TM backing up to my external usb drive. Just curious but where and what's the folder called while TM is backing up? Is it called Backups.backupdb?
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OS X :: Migrate Time Machine Backup - Stored On Another Mac?
Mar 18, 2009I recently sold my mini and my ministack, but before i did i took the last 4 time machine backups. I stored this image on my gf's imac, in hopes that when i got my new macbook i could restore everything i had on the mini onto the macbook. So, on her computer, i have xxxxx.sparseimage, i enabled sharing on her computer through a local network, and shared it. When i get on the network, i can drag the file to the desktop, go in and see all my stuff. Ive tried everything through the network to try and migrate it, with migration tool, but it'll just start migrating her computer. i have another external HDD, am i going to have to format it and move the backup to it, then from it to my macbook? can i get a bridged usb-usb cable and just yank it off her computer? does anyone know what im talking about?
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Mar 16, 2009I'm trying to figure out someway to back up my music, stored on my ubuntu box, to my time machine drive. I can connect either as an afp share or a samba share.
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May 2, 2009I've been away from the Mac world for awhile (Got a Unibody Macbook 2.0 late last year but my girlfriend liked it so much I gave it to her. Been using a Windows Laptop ever since). I just got a Unibody Macbook 2.4 recently and wanted to restore it with my old Time Machine Backup (stored on my Time Capsule) that I made in December 08. Unfortunately, Migration Assistance on my new Unibody 2.4 can only see my GF's MB and Mac Mini backups.
I access the time capsule with Finder and see my time Capsule backup file, however. Is there some way to get it to "recognize" it? Or did it get "corrupted" somehow and I'm SOL? Not too big of a deal I suppose but definitely makes me a bit less trusting of Time Machine (I held it in high regards).
OS X :: How To Delete Time Machine Backup Folder
Jan 17, 2010I want to delete my time machine backup folder. I have other files on the disk and can not reformat. In the past, I have dragged the folder to the trash, and even though that worked, the process have sometimes taken hours, and on an old powerbook, it took more than 24h.
Right now I'm trying the terminal command sudo rm -rf. My aim was to save time by bypassing the trash. But the process has been going on for about 30 min already, and I see "Operation not permitted" after many or most of the lines. Does anyone know what that means?
What is the fastest way to just delete a time machine backup folder. Surely there must be a way of deleting a folder instantly, without the OS having to go through and verify every file?
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Backup Freezes On Initial Backup Attempt?
Mar 20, 2012I 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.
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.
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.
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)
MacBook Pro :: Time Machine Doesn't Backup Administrator Folder
Mar 18, 2012when I use time machine it's can backup all of my mac folder but not my administrator home folder. time ago I used FileVault, but I got this message:
"There was a problem deleting the folder in a safe start earlier in the process of conversion of FileVault.the process of elimination sure that the directory has failed before the beginning could be completely eliminated"
I use google translated because it was in the language of my country. I tried to turn it off, I mean filevault, but it doesn't work.
OS X Mountain Lion :: Time Machine Fails Cannot Make Backup Folder
Jun 20, 2014For the past two weeks I've been having some major issues backing up my computer with Time Machine. It's become quite a process.
iMac 27", Mountain Lion
I am backing up to a brand new - well bought in February, '14 - 1TB external hard drive and there is NOTHING else in there except the TM backups.
For the past two weeks it's been failing the automatic backups. There is PLENTY of room on the drive.
The exact error message reads:"Time Machine ErrorUnable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folderLatest successful backup: [time and day entered here]"
To remedy this at first it was as easy as un-mounting the drive and then plugging it back in and it was fine.
Now I've got the disk utility open and constantly repairing the drive and this is only a temporary solution.
Below is a small sample of the report from the utility each one is dated.
How to fix this without having to purchase a new drive? In February the old external drive I had started to freak TM out and it just erased ALL my backups which I desperately needed due to the same error / failure. That drive had plenty of space as well but I lost all my stuff anyway.
I know the TM isn't for archiving and another question I have is, How can I transfer or even rename the backup folder that TM makes and move it to a 'free drive' to prevent overwriting? Right now I just keep buying new drives which is ridiculous.
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: How To Set A Specific Time For Backup Instead Of Every Hour On Time Machine
May 16, 2012How can you set a specific time for backup instead of every hour on Time Machine?
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Mac OS X (10.5.8)
MacBook Pro :: Time Machine Backup Says Folder Documents Can’t Be Opened Because No Permission To See Its Contents
Sep 10, 2014I am trying to install my time machine backup. But as I open the backup it says
:The folder “Documents” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.
I did get the info on the file to unlock it but still it gives me a no entry sine. How do I install my backup to my new mac when this backup can't be opened?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 7.1.2
IMac (Intel) :: Time Machine Error Message - Unable To Complete Backup Folder
Aug 29, 2014iMAC with OSX10.9.4 ; 8GB ram ; two partitions external disk formatted MAC jurnaled ; connected via Fire Wire or USB2 .
During Backup the sistem get stack and display into the "details window" Time machine was unable to complete the backup because unable to complete the backup folder.
This problem happens with USB and Fire Wire. The file backups.backupdb is excluded from virus scanning.
Also happens time to time that (without doing things) both the partitions of the external disk disappaire from the desk-top and a message "the disk must be ejected properly" is displayed.
This two problems are independent une to the other. I have change the backup disk but both the problems persist.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 8GB ram ; external backup HD
OS X :: How To Backup For Snow Leopard With Time Machine
Apr 19, 2009possible 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?
OS X :: Cannot Backup To Time Machine With Snow Leopard
Feb 18, 2010I 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.
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Cannot Backup To Time Machine
Jun 4, 2012I had to have the old hard drive replaced on my macbook pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 operating system. It was replaced at the apple store. I brought it home and yesterday restored it from the last time machine backup of my old hard drive which was Friday.That appears to be the only backup on the external hard drive I've been using with Time machine.
Today, it gets an error message. "Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk"...etc.
It is almost like it is trying to completely back up the new hard drive even though it was just restored from it. Is it because it thinks it is a different drive or something because it is a new hard drive?I don't want to delete the one good backup that I have but, I want to be able to use time machine to back anything up.
OS X :: Snow Leopard Time Machine Backup Stall
Oct 12, 2009So finally I hooked up an external HD to my iMac 24 to use with Time Machine. My internal drive is partitioned into several sections and the system partition of about 80GB is supposed to be backed up to this eternal drive which is a 500GB, freshly formatted. Setup is easy enough. After Time Machine starts backing up it goes to about 100MB then it stalls. Essentially it keeps running, the turning clock symbol in the menubar is spinning but no data is moved.
At this point I can stop back up and then do click 'Back Up Now' in the menu at which time it will copy a few kb's and then halt displaying '2KB of 60.96GB'. I realize that there must be something on my HD it doesn't like to copy but unlike in my other backup app I don't know how to find that. The Console doesn't tell me much. I have done repeated Repair Permissions but it doesn't help.
OS X :: Reinstall Snow Leopard From Time Machine Backup Possible
Dec 30, 2010I just got a new 1tb sata 2.5in and I want to install it, but I do not have my snow leopard disk. If I use a leapord disk will it reinstall snow leapord from my time machine backup or do I need to find my snowleapord disk?
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Sep 8, 2009I've been having a few problems with my MacBook Pro ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and some of these problems haven't been remedied even after several reinstalls. The main thing that's bothering me is my screen has started to flicker slightly (most noticable when a page has a white background), and it occurs on any brightness. It used to do this in Leopard as well, but not to this extent - it only ever did it if I was running on battery power and if the brightness was turned down quite low. Under Snow Leopard it's doing it under all brightness levels and regardless of if it's charging or on battery. It doesn't happen at all in my Boot Camp partition, so although it could just be a hardware thing that happened to start around the time Snow Leopard installed, I'd like to reinstall Leopard and see if it helps at all.
However, my question is - I have a Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard, would I be able to use this at all after I reinstall Leopard? Even if it's just to get my documents and apps back?
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Backup Or Synchronization?
Feb 5, 2012If I use Time Machine to back up automatically to an external hard drive, but want to keep large files only on the external hard drive, will I lose the files once deleted off the computer (i.e. will Time Machine synchronize, or just save new files?)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To Restore Backup From Time Machine In 10.6.8
Feb 28, 2012I am running 10.6.8 on my MacPro (early 2008). I have 4 internal hard drives. The main boot drive has 10.6.8 and the secondary drive with a system has Lion. I cannot completely upgrade to Lion on my main drive until all my software is compatible.My main boot drive started acting like it's in slow motion 2 days ago. No matter what I do (DiskWarrior, Disk Utility, zap PRAM, fix permissions) nothing seems to work. Every mouse click or movement gives me the dreaded spinning wheel and it hangs for about 5 min and then does what it's supposed to do.
I have logged into a new account w/ no special 3rd party apps or utilities and it still does the same thing. Hard drive diagnostics say my hard drive is ok. I have tried reinstalling the 10.6.8 combo update but that hangs after a few minutes of starting. I thought about restoring a Time Machine backup from 1 day before this happened, but before I attempt a full disk backup, need to ask what to do so as not lose everything. I assume I must boot up from another disk or hard drive, correct? Can I simply select all the system folders and apps folder or do you think I should do a complete restore?
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Mac Pro (Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Backup Using Time Machine On A Server?
Mar 28, 2012Can I do a backup using Time Machine on a server, or it needs an external drive only?
Info:Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Installing It With 10.7 Time Machine Backup?
May 2, 2012I do not like OS X Lion on my Macbook Pro as I'm about to downgrade back to Snow Leopard. I do have a Time Machine backup with OS X 10.7. Will Snow Leopard read the newer Time Machine Backup? I just need my documents and pictures.. or would I need to back all that up as well?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Could Not Complete Backup
May 18, 2012I have moved a network time machine backup disk to a new computer. Now when the time machine starts a backup it produces an error message: "Time machine could not complete the backup. An error occured while creating the backup folder."
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Backup Airdisk With Time Machine?
Jun 27, 2012OK, this questions isn't what you're thinking. I know that Time Machine will not work with and AirDisk as the backup drive. What I'm wanting to do is the opposite. I have an AirDisk connected to my AEBS that has my iPhoto and iTunes libraries on it so that they can be accessed from multiple computers. I've already got an offsite backup setup, but I want to back up the AirDisk to Time Machine also. That way if the drive goes bad it would be much quicker to restore than from an offsite source.
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Jun 28, 2012I had been using Time Machine on an external drive for a few years and then when I stopped using that drive for backups and started putting files on it, I made the mistake of trying to manually delete all of the backups. Now, the entire backup is stuck in my trash folder and finder doesn't seem to be able to delete it regularly.
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Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.4)
Applications :: Time Machine Taking Long Time To Backup - Changing Backup Time?
Dec 11, 2009I have looked into this a lot already. It is to much that Time Machine backs up every single hour! It would be nice to set it to something like 3 or 5 hours. I have tried a 3rd party app to do this, but... If my computer was off or asleep when it was supposed to back up, it would get an error. It would not just do the backup when i turned it on or when it came out of sleep like stock Time Machine does. I have also seen a way to change the time incraments in the Terminal.(I am very good with it, not a noob) I have tried this and it screws up time machine completely. Maybe it does not work with the newest OS X. By the way... I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, got it 2 months ago.
Does anyone know a solid 3rd party app, that will work seamlessly. Or has anyone changed the time in Terminal and are currently using something different than 1 hour. There is a lot of examples online, but I would like the codeing that you literally used.
OS X :: Time Machine Backup Using AirPort Disk On Snow Leopard?
Aug 29, 2009Update: "Magically," the backup is working over AirPort Disk. I'll chalk it up to a Snow Leopard ghost. I have been backing up to a WD My Book 1TB drive connected to my Airport Extreme router without any problems. Yesterday I upgraded to 10.6 (installed over 10.5.8, not a clean install) and have been having problems with Time Machine since. After the OS finished installing, I attempted to perform a wireless backup. Everything mounted properly, and it began a 10GB backup. When it got to around 5.8GB, Time Machine came up with a network error message (not sure which one exactly) and stopped the backup.
At this point I just connected the drive directly to my computer to perform the backup, and it did so without any hiccups. But now I can't even connect to the AirPort disk, let alone try to backup to it. Time Machine says it's not configured, and when I try to browse for my Time Machine Backup Disk it won't let me select it, even though the drive shows up in AirPort Utility. I've enclosed a screenshot of what I'm seeing. Does anyone have any tips to help me get this mounted and working again? This is not turning out to be as painfree an update as advertised.
MacBook :: Restoring Time Machine Backup From Snow Leopard
Aug 11, 2010My 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?
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Backup Only 5.63GB Of 54.91GB
Feb 25, 2012Recently my Time Machine backup have started stalling part way. I've tried deleting the .inProgress file several time but the same results happens. The backup get stuck part ways. I have search the forums but found not much information.
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Mar 17, 2012Just receovered from a disk crash. TM brings everything back on my new HD. The problem is that when I try to backup again, I get an error message saying to check TM's preferences. One problem may be that it seems that TM wants to back up the full HD rather than doing an incremental one.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.53 GHz, i5, 8GB, 500 GB
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Time Machine Backup Fails Linking Files
Mar 20, 2012I recently had a external disk fail that was still under warrenty, so I dually went to the Apple store and got a replacement. After plugging it in I went into Time Machine and performed a restore (I was backing up the external disk to another external time machine managed disk). All worked perfectly so far. However, come the next backup I got"Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume"
Searching the forums I don't see any obvious solution. In the system log I also see 'Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: MyBigDisk' every time there is a backup.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
