OS X V10.7 Lion :: Schedule A Back Up For Time Machine
Mar 22, 2012i need to schedule a back up for time machine?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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OS X :: Unable To Change Schedule Of Time Machine Back Ups?
Aug 29, 2009I 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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Feb 2, 2010If you use a external harddrive, I assume you have to turn it on 24hrs a day? And when the mac sleeps does it still back up on schedule? Can I use a internal drive i.e. bay 2 or 3 etc?
View 6 Replies View RelatedApplications :: Deleting Old Time Machine Backups On Schedule?
Dec 31, 2009I'm looking for a program that will let me delete old Time Machine backups on a schedule. I am aware that TM will delete old backups once the drive is full. However, I don't want to let TM fill up my hard drive (having a ton of backups is not useful to me, and I use my hard drive to store movies as well), and I don't like having to manually delete backups when I want to add more files to my external hard drive. I've read many forum posts that recommend "just letting TM do its thing."
I'm just looking for a way to minimize the number of backups that are kept so I can keep plenty of open space on my hard drive for when I add to my movie collection. I'm already using TimeMachineEditor to back up less frequently, but what I would really like is a program that will automatically delete an old backup every time I add a new one. Ideally, I'd like to back up once a day and keep a week's worth of backups. So, once I have 7 backups on my hard drive, the next time my computer backs up the oldest of those 7 will automatically be deleted.
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Schedule Time Machine Backups?
Jun 21, 2012Can you schedule Time Machine backups?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: Changed Time Machine Backup Schedule - Strange Effect
Jan 5, 2010Tonight I followed the instructions someone had posted to this forum (and lots of other places online) to run the following in Terminal:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 86400
Then I logged out and then logged back in again to reload.
This is supposed to change the Time Machine backup interval from 1 hour to once every 24 hours.
Maybe it does, but I noticed something weird: every time I load up Time Machine Preferences from the menu bar, the time to "Next Backup" changes by subtracting 1 hour or so from its previous value just a few minutes ago when I checked.
If I check again immediately, it is the same (e.g. Today, 9:20pm) but if I wait awhile and load it again, it changes to something like "Today, 8:20pm"
Not sure what's going on here and can anyone offer any comments if I even executed this command correctly in the first place?
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Schedule Emails To Be Sent Out At A Particular Time Via Mail?
Apr 14, 2012I need an easy and reliable way to schedule emails to be sent out at a particular time via mail.
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Jun 21, 2012why won't my time machine back up? plenty of space. just keeps showing it's loading
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Old Time Machine Back-Ups On New IMac?
Mar 22, 2012I restored the new machine from the most recent back up of my old iMac which has worked great and looks just like my previous computer. However..when I enter Time Machine it only goes back as far as today and when I try to do a back up it says there is not enough room. I would have hoped that my new iMac would recognise the back up as it's own and reinstate it as normal..but this doesn't seem to be the case.Â
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Mar 25, 2012I am finding conflicting information on this one. I have a 2TB drive plugged into my Time Capsule. This drive houses my music collection. Will Time Machine backup this drive? Â
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Early 2011 13"
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine And Two Back Up Disks?
Apr 2, 2012At work I back up my laptop to an external disk using time machine. I'd like have a second back up at home. When I back up to the disk at home Time Machine does not recognize the back up on the work disk and writes the whole drive instead of doing an incremental back up. Does this mean that Time Machine can only do incremental back ups to one disk?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Lost Time Machine Back Ups?
Apr 11, 2012I momentarily pointed Time Machine to make back ups at the wrong partition on the external HDD attached to my Time Capsule, now I have pointed back to the correct partition, but it won't recognise the old back-ups. ie it says "Oldest Backup - None, Latest Backup - None". How can I pick up the old back ups?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Didn't Back Up?
May 14, 2012I have two hard drives that are both 2 Terrabytes. One is the main and the other is the Time Machine backup.Â
I just accidentally overwrote a Flash FLA file, so I selected it and ran Time Machine. There is no backup of this file even though it's on the main hard drive and Time Machine has been backing up every hour for months.
In fact, if I select the folder and check out Time Machine, it doesn't have a backup of the entire folder all the way back to the first week of April. Yes, Time Machine is backing up, I didn't turn it off.Â
why Time Machine would arbitrarily decide to not back up this folder? What happens if it runs out of space on the backup hard drive? Â
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To Back Up Using Time Machine
Jun 23, 2012Apple - I am unable to back up using my time machine - I keep getting blocked ' an unexpected error occurred (error code -6584)
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Remove Virus From Time Machine Back-up?
Mar 21, 2012Sophos found a PC virus in the attachment to a spam email. I trashed the email, and thought that I had gotten rid of the virus. Sophos tells me, however, that the attachment/virus still exists in the Time Machine back-up of my mail.
How do I remove a specific file (such as an email and attachment) in Time Machine?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Back Up With Time Machine To A Previously Used Hard Drive?
Feb 24, 2012I've just replaced an old MacBook Pro with a new one and used Time Machine to get the new MBP set up. All is well and it looks like my new computer is a mirror of the old (tested for a week now). If I turn on Time Machine with the new MBP using the same hardrive as the former, will the files remain and be accessible? Presently, I can only access the old files by going into the hard drive through Finder and even then, most are locked.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Restore Aperture Library From A Time Machine Back-up?
Apr 1, 2012I wanted to restore my aperture library from a time machine back-up but cannot locate where the library is located
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), monitor resolution; external mon..
Mac OS X Lion Server :: Use Time Machine To Back Up A File Share?
May 10, 2012Can I use Time Machine to back up a file share? I'm thinking of attaching 2 external drives to a mac mini server, the first HD to host an network file share, the second would be a RAID for Time Machine backups of the file share HD.
Does Lion Server come with the Time Machine client software?
OS X Mountain Lion :: Time Machine Won't Back Up OWC External Drive
Aug 22, 2014Mac Mini running 10.8.5. Time Machine will not back up brand new OWC MiniStack external HD. I've trashed TM prefs, reformatted the TM drive, verified that there are no exclusions, but it won't back up the external HD which contains only data files -- no system, no applications. TM does back up the internal HD.
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Jun 19, 2014Have made many manual Time machine Back ups that calculated the differnce and adjusted the differnce in what was then saved. The very size of the external HD did not roll over. Yet the calculation states a entire new Back Up. Is this a permission changing issue? Or what?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Accidently Trashed My Time Machine Back Up Folder - How Can I Transfer It Back?
Sep 8, 2009I'm an idiot, pleased to meet you.I had 2 external drives connected to my Macbook Pro, both had time machine back ups on...I meant to delete one of these but deleted the wrong one, and dragged it into Trash. On realising my mistake I tried to drag it back out of Trash, as you would normally but after "preparing to copy" for four hours it told me the drive was full...It's a 500gb drive, and the Time Machine back up is the only thing on it, so presumably it's just trying to copy itself when the back up is still present on the drive, albeit in the Trash.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Cannot Schedule Time On Programs To Run
Oct 24, 2010I downloaded Transmission so I can download torrents, however I want to schedule them to run between 2am and 8am on my off peak hours. When I go to preferences>bandwidth and go to schedule the speed limit, I am unable to set the times in the data boxes, it won't let me add numeric data. All I can do is toggle the arrow buttons from AM to PM. I had the same problem with igetter, so I'm assuming this problem is something to do with the settings on my mac and maybe not transmission.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Can Time Machine Back-up A NAS
Jan 30, 2009Is it possible to back-up the contents of a NAS drive to a FireWire or USB2 drive using a Mac and Time Machine?
I know there are methods to get TM to back-up TO a NAS but if, for example, someone had their iTunes library on a NAS for access over a network- could TM be used to copy that drive for safe-keeping?
The path of the back-up would, basically, go like this:
NAS --> ROUTER --> IMAC & TIME MACHINE --> USB2/FW DRIVE
Sorry if this seems a simple one but searching for an answer just yields dozens of results for backing-up TO a NAS drive, not copying/saving the NAS itself.
OS X :: Time Machine - Does It Really Back Up
Feb 15, 2010Recently, I've figured out that when backing up, time machine only backs up some files, but not the entire thing... I see that this is a way to keep the size of the back up on a low level, true, but isn't it a bad way to back up your files?! Shouldn't it be full backups of the entire library?!
Second question; when I will set up my new mac machine I will buy this summer, is the integration really that easy and files do not get lost?! I am a bit skeptical as a few months ago I integrated data from my old computer to my mac (without using time machine, just regular back ups, manually) and some files were not being imported, god knows why.
Stupid question; when integrating the old files from time machine to a new mac, do they integrate system preferences / applications too? Cause I really have done lots of cool tweaking and it would suck to do all that stuff again...
Also, can I select the files I want to import or does it automatically import all the files from time machine to the new mac? A problem is that there is lots of (cookies, temp files etc.) stored on every mac and now, the quetsion is, does time machine import all these old/makingsystemslower/* little files too?!
What about the problem of leopard > snow leopard recovery?!
OS X :: What Does Time Machine Back Up?
Mar 14, 2010If I do a time machine backup - does it back up everything on all accounts or just the one I'm currently logged in as?The reason I'm asking is, I just bought a (used) iMac with a 250GB drive, and I have ordered a 760GB WD green drive. Can I just back up using Time Machine and then restore via Time Machine? I have four accounts on here - I'd rather not have to go through the pains of reinstalling everything.
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Mar 9, 2012I cannot enter the time machine when I press the time machine icon. I press and nothing happens, so I'm not sure even if it is backing up at this point. When i go to my Tme Capsule it has the folder there for back-ups and the most recent, but no access from the icon.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Mac Doesn't See The Time Machine Back Up?
Sep 15, 2010I am new here and i have to say desperate. I need to do a system restore from time machine but the mac doesn't see the time machine back ups. I have tried to repair disk and all was ok.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: What To Use To Back Up Time Machine / Software
Dec 29, 2010I have 2 seagate external hdds. one has manual backups and my photos, mp3s etc from my pc. the other one is brand new empty. this is my 1st mac.. so I was wondering what to use to back up time machine? or the memeo (comes with seagate) or any other backup software? I want to use the harddrives in both pcs and macs. mac reads my ntfs hdd but can't write it (I know there are some apps that can make the mac write on ntfs.) also I wanna back up my windows xp under parallels.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Finding Time Machine Back-ups Bit Per Bit
Feb 11, 2009In the audio world, bit per bit is important. When TM makes back-ups, are they bit per bit of the original?
View 6 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Time Machine Just Keeps Saying - Preparing Back Up
Mar 9, 2009I'm trying to do a back up in Time Machine. It's been going for like an hour and it still says "Preparing Backup."
I haven't changed my files around much and it really should only have a couple of kb worth of new data to back up.
My last successful backup was yesterday. It's done this a few times since then. I tried to stop the back up and restart it to no avail.
I also went into my backups folder and deleted the "in progress" backup then tried to backup again and it's still not working.
