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    Time Machine is creating duplicate HD volumes. Is this normal?!

    I am backing up Catalina to an Extended Format external drive. As expected, the new OS now creates three volumes: System, Data and Recovery. So far, so good. What I didn't expect was duplicate System and Recovery volumes being created each time I run a back up. So, for example, I now have...
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    Time Machine can't Read Entire Archive

    I have a 2TB Time Machine HD backing up 165GB from my iMac running Mojave. If I "Enter Time Machine" I see the cascading windows indexed back to 12/29/17 which is when I started Time Machine. But I'm only able to bring up a Finder window from today back to 8/18/19 . . Even though the earlier...
    • DonP
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    • time machine
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Mac Apps
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    What's the Difference Between Time Machine Backups and iOS/iTunes Backups?

    I've never used iTunes to backup an iPhone/iPad (didn't need to till now) but I've always used TM to backup my computer. With TM, I know that if my MacBook is stolen, I can just buy any other Mac computer/laptop (that supports the same macOS version) and I find myself in the exact same spot I...
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    Sierra, High Sierra, Catalina, Time Machine and fixing a disaster

    People, Im stumped after 4 days and need help. While running Sierra, my system was upgraded to the Catalina disaster without my knowledge. The Time Machine backup last done that would save everything was done in Sierra. Of course, I cannot find anywhere a Sierra installer, but I do have one for...
  5. haravikk

    [Time Machine] Inherit Backup: Invalid Target

    I've got myself a new Mac Mini, and while it's now all setup from my old (dead) machine and I'm happy with it, I'm having trouble using my existing backup disk. When I've transferred a backup disk in the past all I've had to do was plug it in, macOS would ask if I want to use it for backup...
  6. ChrisDev

    Time Machine resets when External HD is disconnected and reconnected.

    I had set up Time Machine to backup my MacBook Air on an external HD. It was doing this just fine for a week. I had a week of backed up data, but just yesterday I safely ejected the HD and, today, reconnected it. But now there is only backup data for today and does not go back any further. As if...
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    issues with time machine

    I have an issue with time machine, which I hope someone can help with. I have an old MacBook Air running El Capitan, and on that machine time machine is running without issues on my Synology. I recently got a MacBook Pro on which I am running Catalina. I managed to got time machine to work on...
    • Wder
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    • time machine
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
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    how to restore macOS from older time machine backup

    since my fan starts to run like hell despite I have no special app running for 2 weeks now I wonder if it is a program or driver I installed in the last weeks. So I thought it would be an easy solution to restore my system via time machine to one of my older backups. When I start my MBP...
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    Buying New Macbook Pro and using Time Machine with Old OS Version

    I have a 2010 MBP with Mac OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) updated as far as it will as I cannot install 10.14 on this old of a Macbook Pro. I have it backed up to Time Machine. I am going to be buying a refurbished 2018 or 2019 MBP which I'm assuming will come with the latest OS (Mojave or...
    • djxpress
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    • catalina high sierra time machine
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
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    Problems with Time Machine and Chrome update disaster

    I recently had a problem with my iMac not turning on because of the Chrome update. I first tried to reinstall Mojave without restoring it from a Time Machine back up. That didn't work....then I tried to restore the Mac from a Time Machine and it didn't work....it would say 'An error occurred...
    • ToddJ
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    • "macos extendend journaling apfs chrome crash macos time machine update
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  11. jagooch

    Speed up In-Progress Time Machine Backup

    I added a 2 TB drive to my Macbook Pro and started a new ( deleted old TB backup) Time Machine backup while connected to just WiFi. It was going pretty slow so I Plugged in a Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter Did the sysctl debug.lowpri\_throttle_enabled=0 command to unthrottle backups. Will...
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    CCC vs TimeMachine vs Manual Backup?

    CCC vs TimeMachine vs Manual Backup? I'm looking for best practices and backup strategies to backup my photos library, music library, and documents folder. Does CCC do incremental backups? Meaning that it will start with a base and incrementally backup only changes similar to Time Machine...
    • aznboi91
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    • backup carbon copy cloner time machine
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: macOS
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    New MacBook Pro can't see old Time Machine backups

    I got a new MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago and the standard setup process gave it the same name (Norris's MacBook Pro) as my old one, which was still running High Sierra. I had been running Time Machine periodically on the old one, making backups to a 3TB Time Capsule. Because almost all the...
    • NorrisM
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    • old and new mac with same name time capsule time machine
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    restoring el capitan to Macbook Air (2018)

    Hi, I made a TM backup of my old macbook pro before it stopped working. It was running on El Capitan with many important apps. If I buy a 2018 Macbook Air (running, presumably, Mojave) can I just start the new Air up, press Cmd-R and restore from old backup? Will my Macbook Air then be running...
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    Migration Assistant estimated time keeps going up

    I'm transferring data from my iMac Time Machine backup to my new MacBook Pro using USB 3.0. It currently says it'll take 157 hours and 15 minutes, and it keeps going up and up (it was something like 72 hours just a few minutes ago). I just got distracted for a couple minutes and now it's up to...
    • JonD25
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    • migration assistant time machine
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  16. Manzana

    Time Machine over WiFi - Backup Failed

    I have a Mac Pro 5,1 running Mojave 10.14.6 connected over ethernet that I'm using to share a disk for my two laptops to use as Time Capsule. My 11" MBA (2015) running Mojave 10.14.6 - no problem. I pointed time machine to the shared disk and in less than 12 hours it completed a sparsebundle...
    • Manzana
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    • high sierra home server mba mojave network time capsule time machine wifi
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
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    Catalina Deleting Previous Time Machine Backups?

    My previous TM backups have disappeared as follows: I installed Catalina Beta 3 over Mojave on 7/14. After discovering that my copy of Photoshop CS5.1 would not run because it needed a legacy version of java, I spent several hours trying to find a workaround for the fact that Catalina would...
  18. Kiwi0024

    MacBook Pro 2012 SSD upgrade issue, disk empty after restore

    Hi guys, I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro 13” Mid 2012 by replacing the original HDD with a Crucial BX500 SSD. Using recovery mode and a USB to SATA cable I initialized my SSD (APFS). Then I installed Mac OS X Mojave and continued like a new device. With Migration Assistant I moved all the...
    • Kiwi0024
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    • crucial ssd macbook pro macbook pro "13 mid 2012 mbr mojave ssd apfs time machine upgrade
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    TIME MACHINE - old backup access

    Hey! I want to enter an old time machine backup I have, but since I switched to another hard drive (because the hard drive I was using run out of space and I didn't want it to delete old backups on it), it seems I no longer have access to the old one. is there any way to reconnect the old hard...
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    Time Machine: inherited backups and freeing space

    I moved to a new machine, and in or just after the migration process one is presented with a dialog asking if one wants to inherit the old backup. Meaning the backup continues on with the new machine added to the old machines backups, as opposed to starting anew and either keeping or deleting...
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