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Time Machine: Old Backups "Waiting" but never loading
Hey community! Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Had to ask this question because I've read somewhere around 3 dozen posts with similar problems but none are nailing what I'm dealing with. I started a new Time Machine set up with an external hard drive in October. Time Machine has worked...- criticalhit
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- mac 10.13.6 restore from backup time machine backup time machine deleted backups
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What does the -v option for tmutil restore exactly do?
In order to restore from a Time Machine backup via the command line I can use tmutil with the restore verb like One the I could not figure out is what exactly the -v option here does. With the option I would write tmutil's manpage lists -v as an option, but doesn't detail what the option... -
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Backup a Veracrypt encrypted external hard drive with Apple Time Machine
Hello everyone, I already searched a substantial amount of time but did not succeed yet. I used VeraCrypt to fully encrypt my external hard drive named Media which contains many media files such as photos, videos and music. Now, I want to backup the external hard drive to another external hard... -
Big trouble to copy a Time machine folder via Finder
I try to copy via Finder a Time Machine folder (Backups.backupdb) from an external physical volume to another external volume. First I tried to copy it to a sparse bundle, but I got a strange "The destination has not enough space" error (although sparse bundles can grow as needed and the... -
Time Machine to a NAS stuck on "Backed Up: XXX GB" just before it finishes
I try my first backup to my (Synology) NAS. I have created a SMB share as Synology recomends for Time Machine backups. My MacBook running Catalina started the backup perfectly and 15 hours later it has copied all data, but now it is stuck on "Backed Up: XXX GB" (see attached screenshot)... -
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Time Machine prevents me to upgrade to Monterey
I have gotten into huge dilemma first safari stopped working need to upgrade to Monterey. Then my hardrive is almost full. Turned out I manually uploaded content from my iPhone to the Mac and to free up space on the phone. Moved it to a harddrive I deleted it on the Mac so think it stays in Time...- jimbo110
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- time machine time machine backup time machine deleted backups
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- Forum: macOS Monterey (12)
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time machine with Qnap NAS - 8 bay - proper backup
Hello, i have 3 client MAC computers were they are using a Qnap NAS to backup with time machine. however one of the users thinks it is a good idea to backup all 3 of their mac computers to one backup using time machine. the users want real time restore with time machine. my question is what is a... -
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Is there a way to 'freeze' Time Machine Backup
Dear all I would like to 'freeze' a time machine backup. I want that this backup will never be overwritten or deleted. Is there a way to do it? I want to mantain the current state of the system to use it in the future and also use this space on the time machine disk that's a 16tb one. Is is...- CC88
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- Forum: macOS Big Sur (11)
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when the TM migrating data will not fit
I want to use my TMachine backup to migrate/transfer files i had in my iMac using 2ssds (1TB and 500GB) to my Mac Mini that only has a 250GB ssd. What are my options cause obviously the data from the 2 ssds will not fit. -
Restore time machine backup
Hello, I want to restore from my time machine backup. My time machine backups where saved on a QNAP NAS. After a clean install (forgot password) off my macbook I wanted to reinstall from my time machine backups. This was not possible because the file was corrupted. I couldn't fix it with disk... -
Time Machine disc crashed?
After updating to 11.5.1 tonight, I didn't use my 2019 5K iMac any further. I just woke it up from sleep and got an unpleasant surprise. My Time Machine external drive (just a normal 1TB external drive, no Apple time capsule) has suddenly crashed?! Anyone else having this issue? It is coming...- DinkThifferent
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- time capsule time machine time machine backup
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- Forum: macOS Big Sur (11)
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TM not updating files - Local snapshot does
Hi, I have configured my TM to a NAS and I noticed that the files don't get updated. Every new Backup has the same files/folders and filestamps like the initial backup. When I browse through the TM tree I have for every Backup 2 entries with the same time > one is pointing to the backup on NAS...- korn3l
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- local snapshots time machine time machine backup timemachine
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- Forum: macOS Big Sur (11)
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wireless HD backups?
Might be a better topic for one of the hardware forums, but to me arguably the strangest thing about the current Apple ecosystem is the lack of an AirPort Time Capsule-type wireless backup solution to work with Time Machine, at a time when almost everything else has gone wireless. Having to...- jk73
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- backup data time machine backup
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- Forum: macOS Monterey (12)
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Please help! Corrupt External HDD in MSDOS format not mounting osX Catalina after black screen crash, how do I use terminal fsck or diskutil?
Hello I think my partition map is corrupted? can anyone help with my hard drive and using fsck or similar as disk utility cannot repair and I have tried fsck but need help with the process of it And to see if disk is being held by fsck_msdos or fsck_exfat command - tried ps aux | grep to see...- Jenniferg
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- diskutil fsck fsck_msdos hard drive issue invalid sector macbookpro partition fail terminal time machine backup
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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MP All Models Time Machine on infrequently mounted internal volume?
Possibly this belongs in another forum but I thought the MPers might be best placed to answer... My system drive is on a PCIe NVMe and I have a scratch drive on an SSD RAID 0 on a sonnet PCIe card. The internal slots have an a;ternative system drive (used for working from home) and a 2TB... -
Time Machine for 2 Macs
I have a MacBook and a MacPro with 2 external drives attached to the MacPro. One external drive is for "current work" while the other attached drive is strictly backup. I'd like to set the backup drive to be a backup for my MacBook internal drive, MacPro internal drive, and "current work" drive...- kwpcreative72
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Looking for a good SSD external Drive for 2020 27' Retina 5k iMac
I'm new to Macs and I'm looking for advice on an external drive for my iMac. 2020 27" Retina 5K. It currently has a 1TB internal SSD and I use 2TB of cloud storage. I am in the process of copying data from my old PC to this iMac and it includes a lot of photos so I can't really proceed until I...- BababooHi
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- external hard drive imac ssd drive ssd external hard drive time machine backup
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- Forum: Mac Accessories
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How to find files created after a specific date?
Hi all, I want to restore my Mac to my last Time Machine backup of Catalina. I'm currently on Big Sur and don't want to lose any new data since upgrading. Is there a way I can view every file I've created, downloaded, saved etc. after a specific date (that date being after upgrading to Big Sur)...- agraden
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- big sur catalina cleanmymac data downgrade files finder restore time machine backup upgrade
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- Forum: macOS Big Sur (11)
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200GB 'hidden space' in DaisyDisk
Hi there, I'm trying to clean up my MacBook Pro's drive. I've transferred a bunch of the bigger items like games and videos over to my external SSD. I've run a DaisyDisk scan to see why I somehow only have about 290GB free of the 512GB internal SSD, and DaisyDisk says there's 212.8GB of... -
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Help! Multiple HDs With the Same Name?!
I'm trying to run a Time Machine backup, but my iMac won't do it because it says that there are two internal volumes with the same name?! I backed it up before with the same names, so I'm not sure why it's giving me a hard time now. That said...I'm not sure why there are two internal HDs in the...- Mr. Monsieur
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- Forum: iMac
