OS X V10.7 Lion :: Back Up With Time Machine To A Previously Used Hard Drive?

Feb 24, 2012

I'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. 

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X :: Ask Time Machine To Back Up External Hard Drive?

Dec 25, 2009

Time Machine is backing up my internal 1Mac hard drive fine to an external drive ("backup ext drive"). I have another external hard drive attached to the Mac that I would also like to back up to the back-up ext drive. I've looked around on Time Machine as best I can but can't find any place that lists drives to be backed up, so I can tell Time Machine to back it up, also. I have found a list in Time Machine of drives I can back up to. That list shows both external drives. But of course, I want to back this one up, not use it as a back up drive. Should be something simple I'm missing. I've seen a lot in the forum about issues backing up external ard drives via Airport Express (or Extreme), but though I have Airport Express, both external drives (back up ext drive and the one to be backed up) are directly connected to the iMac, so I'm not trying to use Airport for this.

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Oct 27, 2009

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Feb 27, 2009

If I have two hard drives in my Mac Pro, can I back them up to one external drive with Time Machine?

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Aug 19, 2009

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Nov 4, 2009

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Jun 22, 2014

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Aug 22, 2014

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Jul 2, 2012

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Apr 19, 2012

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine - Auto-backups To Hard Drive?

Mar 28, 2012

Time Machine is not working correctly since installing Lion. I found (from using Adobe Bridge) that there seem to be automatic back ups being made 20 times a day and onto my hard drive!  Usually I back up to an external drive specifically for back up using Time Machine. Now time machine takes several hours to back up when I have that disk wired in (with USB) and the Time Machine icon in the Apple menu is always showing that the back up is delayed.   

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Backup To External Hard Drive?

Apr 27, 2012

I used my external hard drive to store important documents off of my previous Mac.  None of these documents are on my new Mac.  Will I lose these docs if Time Machine backs up to this external hard drive?  Will Time Machine save over those docs?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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May 15, 2012

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May 27, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Backup On An External Hard Drive?

May 29, 2012

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How do I go about getting them on another machine (not the one that did the Time Machine backups)? 

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Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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Feb 10, 2012

I noticed that Time Machine backs up the system ever so often.  What happens if I disconnect the external hard drive I'm using as the back up and Time Machine tries to initiate a back up?  Will it corrupt anything?

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

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Mar 19, 2012

I have a hard drive which is attached to my iMac 24*7. I plan to move all my movies & pictures over to it. Would the Time Machine backup (through a different hard drive) backup my Hard drive?

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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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May 25, 2012

I backed up my iMac desktop at work onto an external hard drive.  I can see the files, but they are all locked.  When I go to open, I receive the following message "The folder (whatever the name is) can't be opened because you don't have permission to see its contents."  I understand that the system I want to transfer to is different, but is there -- shouldn't there be an override asking for the password. 

Since I am the administrator to both systems, I would hope I could see the documents that I created. 

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Time Machine, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

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Jun 23, 2014

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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

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Sep 7, 2010

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May 3, 2012

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Jun 17, 2012

can i use time machine to back up other hard discs?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Mar 10, 2009

Everyone seems to want to back up to a flash drive, but what about someone who is carrying around valuable files to work so he can work on them in various locations (home, lab, school computers etc) and wants to safeguard against possibly losing such a small object or some other file problem. I am missing something extremely obvious here? Time machine settings show my flash drive but does not allow me to include it in my back ups...seems strange.

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Jun 15, 2009

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Mar 17, 2012

I plug in my hard drive and it is working..click "back up now" and it starts, but stops within a few seconds?

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macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

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Mar 9, 2012

Is there a way to make a backup of your Time Machine backup on a 2nd hard drive? I want to be doubly sure that my data is backed up!Right now I get an error saying that the second hard drive isn't authorized to copy my Time Machine data from the original hard drive I have set up as my Time Machine.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Jun 21, 2012

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