Software :: TimeMachine Does Not Backup Everything

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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OS X :: Backup - CCC And TimeMachine

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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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:

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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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Jun 17, 2012

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May 16, 2012

I have an brand new HD that I want to restore from TimeMachine. Erased and partitioned this brand new drive.  Created 2 partitions and formatted as “OS Extended Journaled/ GUID.”  

Did a “Command R recovery boot” and went through the steps to backup from TM to my new HD.  15 seconds into the restoration process Msg. reads:  “Error occurred while restoring from the backup.Restart your computer and then try restoring again.”

Trouble shooting:

Luckily my original files and initial boot drive that TM was backing up from remains fine and I performed some more TM back ups as well as a TM backup onto another drive as well.  

I even tried restoring to another empty drive with older backups and backups off of another HD and got the same error message.  All my BU’s and BU attempts have been within 10.7.3 on the same MP.  

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I have a 1TB WD HDD connected via USB I use for Time Machine. Looks like there might be something amis when I am using Chrome and Time Machine in the superdrive bay SSD/HDD setup?  Also some software update errors were being thrown just before the crash too. 

Here is the console Log just before the crash through the reboot: 

5/27/12 12:45:10.207 PM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.app-store-software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/in stalld' [8335] for authorization created by '/usr/sbin/softwareupdate' [8334]

[code]....

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macbook, powerbook G4, G5 Xserve, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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Mar 8, 2012

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Is it possible to use Timemachine in a similar way? so that each internal drive has it's own corresponding Timemachine backup?

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Nov 20, 2009

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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).

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x), and Mac OS 10.7.3

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Oct 26, 2008

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Time Machine: 465.44 (total); 465.29 (free)

The Time Machine error is: Quote:

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Dec 15, 2008

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Jan 3, 2009

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Apr 21, 2009

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Oct 1, 2009

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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May 15, 2012

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