I have Sierra on an external drive (No1) that I use to boot with. On a different ext drive (No2) I have a TimeMachine backup from an ElCapitan system. I wish to delete Sierra from the ext drive (No1) and install Capitan as it is on the TMachine backup on the other external drive I have (No2)...
I had a consistency error on my system drive which neither Drive Genius nor Disk Utility could fix. I cloned the High Sierra system SSD with Bombich CCC to an internal HD which had been wiped and APFS formatted and found it to be bootable, as expected. The next step will be to reformat the old...
I quit using Time Machine a few major OS updates ago, starting with Mountain Lion and through to High Sierra. When my disk filled up, I let it go for a while until it occurred to me that I might want to keep the old backup for archival purposes. My plan now is to clone the old time machine file...
Classic Mac Pro with 10.13.6. I'm starting a new Time Machine drive as the old one filled up. Checking startup drive with disk utility and Drive Genius indicates a consistency error which could not be repaired but tells me to fix asap. Suggested fix is to clone startup disk, reformat and clone...
Used migration assistant from time machine to xfer to new MacBook P. On new MBP, Time Machine sees all of the old back ups from old MacBook. When TM tries to do a backup from new MBP, it tries to create a new back up instead of using the correct old back up on my TM drive. It fails because there...
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i've been noticing when TM starts doing the hourly backup to external HDD, the usb keyboard typing hangs for a 1/2 seconds and then resumes what i've written.
(both usb keyboard and E-HDD are connected on different usb ports.)
May be the process to backup cause this temporary hangs ?
Not...
After spending a couple of nights reading and trying out different suggestions, I'm hoping someone with more experience could help me shine a light on this please (This forum has been great helping me on the way but I have to admit I'm stuck now!)
I bought a new MBP 11,5 (Retina, 15 inch, Mid...
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I've been using MacBook pros and Time Machine for years, but luckily never had a drive fail. I'm in the process of getting bigger back up drives and a new setup so I ha da few questions. I backup to two separate 2tb HDD's which backup up my 1tb internal SSD regularly.
I wondered what would...
I'm looking for a router/external hard drive setup to replace a failing Apple 3TB Time Capsule (ME182LL/A). I typically use my Time Capsule with Time Machine, but I'm finding that recently the hardware and software is becoming less and less reliable, which means that I'm open to new ideas.
One...
According to the last bullet on this page, external drives containing time machine backup should be bootable and appear as EFI Boot on the Startup Manager screen. My MBP late 2011 is running lion 10.7.5. I formatted a new external hard drive to HFS+ encrypted by erasing the drive using disk...
Basically, I have a 26 Time Machine backups of my system's internal drive that I want to delete from an external drive. I'm pretty sure all the files in the backups are still on my internal drive, but I need to make sure before deleting.
1. How do I confirm that all the files in the Time...
When option-click the Time Machine icon, and I select "browse other backup disks" option, it opens a windows that shows the backups for my current system and the other system which is the one that I want to browse.
However regardless of which one I select to open, it always opens the backup...
I'm looking into a onsite and offsite backup solution for a two-laptop household (with each a 256GB) plus 100-150GB of files on an external drive. Here are my current plans. Any suggestions to improve these will be greatly appreciated.
1. Each person has a iCloud account, syncing ~/Documents...
Suppose there are 2 options to set up TimeMachine.
1st: an external drive connected with Tbolt
2nd: a partition on a server connected via Ethernet cable
Which of the two ways would be the best to have TMachine operating at?
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So yesterday after work my iMac (2012 27”) somehow reset itself to the options to boot a new Mac. I attempted to go through the steps to restore from TM backup and also as a new clean install. Both options were not able to find the internal HDD. I am assuming that is a bad thing.
I...
Grrr!! Time Machine is doing full backups (the whole 2.2TB) each time it backs up, not the usual smaller increments.
cMP as per my sig. Running 10.12.6.
I had Backup Loupe installed, and thought that might have been the issue, but have completely removed it, and the problem persists.
I've...
Im trying to do a backup on my Mac, but it stuck saying 'preparing backup'.
When I cancel the backup, its stuck saying Encrypting.
I don't remember exactly, but I think last time I started encrypting the backup disk I cancelled it because it was taking too long.
Is there a solution to this...
My Time machine backs up as normal - hourly, daily, weekly - and I have excluded as many folders as I think I don't need etc. But I just noticed it doing a backup of 458MB and I can't for the life of me work out what would need backing up in the last hour/day.
Is there any way of seeing what...