Been having issues after the upgrade where Time Machine starts backing up but then at some point throughout the backup backupd basically stops doing anything. The backup is flying along then just suddenly comes to a halt. This happens on a local firewire drive as well as a network attached...
So I've read a couple conflicting articles on how Time Machine backups are affected by Sierra's new "Store in iCloud" feature - in summary:
Pre-Sierra, a user could have potentially 3 copies of a file: locally, in iCloud, and via Time Machine backup.
With Sierra's "Store in iCloud" enabled...
Hi there folks, need a little help here. So i was organizing my pictures in Photos and i found one of my albums is completely empty, either I wasn't paying attention or a random delete happen for these set of pictures. I can't find them under the "All Photos" and I'm trying to figure out how can...
Will my Drobo S work with Time Machine in MacOS Sierra ?
Has anyone upgraded and encountered problems with their Drobo S backup solution...?
I'm thinking of upgrading, but my backup system is critical... so I don't wanna upgrade and find out I can't backup my content anymore...
Any comments...
Running Sierra on a late 2009 iMac. Time Machine is working well and updating routinely. However the Time Machine Buddy Widget is not showing any information. Investigating using Console shows that the logs appear to be absent or moved. Nothing showing using the "backupd" as a filter on System...
There's the traditional manual page for mtmfs, and there's mention of local Time Machine snapshots in the manual page for tmutil, but here – running release candidate build 16A319 of Mac OS X 10.12 (macOS Sierra) with a MacBookPro11,2 notebook:
no local snapshots
unless I'm missing something...
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I just purchased a new external hard drive (G-drive 4TB Desktop drive) to back up my 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, running OS X Yosemite. I started the initial back up roughly 6 hours ago and it has transferred a total of 8GB (from 490GB). Transfer is through USB 3.0. It's a completely new disk...
I have a Mac Mini running FileMaker Server and I need a daily backup of the databases that include around 100.000 pdf files that take up to 12GB of space. I would like to keep the 10 latest backups of the whole database.
FileMaker Server takes care of the full database backup and in order to...
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I have been googling all night and can't find a way to delete or move some files. The varying types of files are in a time machine backup on an external drive that isn't used for time machine anymore so there's a bunch of other stuff on there too. When I attempt to move or delete a file I...
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I have an MPB13 with a 256GB SSD that I'm backing up to an external drive and to a Linux server using Time Machine. The server used to have just a bit more space than the SSD, around 270GB.
I just increased that space to 480GB. I wiped the old backup (still have that historical data on the...
I currently have an external HD with two computers' Time Machine backups (so there are two folders inside the Backups.backupdb folder with TM backups). I would like to separate these so that they each have their own HD.
I tried copying one of the folders contains one machine worth of TM backups...
Hello everyone,
I have a problem with restoring my iMac from a Time Machine backup, and I was wondering if anyone else had the same issue already.
I had to reinstall OS X El Capitan from scratch, based on instruction I received from Apple Support. That worked without any issues and my iMac...
I have a neighbour who was having lots of problems with El Capitan, including Safari and other OS X applications that wouldn't open. We backed up his computer using Time Machine on a Time Capsule, and did a clean install of El Capitan.
The computer works fine now, but we now don't have access...
Hi everyone,
I recently got myself a new mbp. I backup up my old one but the only thing I want to restore is my photos library. When I plug the drive into my new mb It doesn't show the old backups in time machine itself. When i go via Finder, I can see all the old backups in dated directories...
I have moved to another country and left my 1TB WD HDD back at home which I was using with Time Machine to backup my device. I've used this device for years so it has backups from my previous MacBook.
I am going to be working at home occasionally and since the Air has no CD drive I have no way...
Is there a place to edit a plist or enforce that anytime you create a Time Machine on a drive it forces the "Encrypt Backup Disk" is checked off?
Trying to setup work machines, and want user to be able to use Time Machine but make sure all backup disks are encrypted.
My wifi has been giving us fits as of late, and I'm fairly certain it's not the signal from the neighborhood node nor my modem, so that left my 2009 2TB Apple Time Capsule as the culprit.
My Aiport Extreme showed up today, and I've had no issues with XBox, iPad, iMac, iPhones, etc. since...
How long should the first post-install backup take? It's always a bit lengthy after a new OS, but this time around, it seems to just be stuck at the "Preparing Backup" stage, with no change in a day. Checking the logs with the aid of Time Machine Editor doesn't indicate anything wrong, though...
I did a time machine backup to a usb drive.
I am going to install a new hard drive today.
Can I boot using that time machine backup?
Or do I need to be able to use the recovery partition to select time machine backup?
Hopefully someone can help here - I bought a new iMac and used the Migration feature to import my user folder from my previous Mac (running Mavericks) to the new one. This process went fine, no problems or issues with it, but Time Machine is not backing up the user folder on the new Mac.
I'm...