Questions tagged [time-machine]
Time Machine is a backup utility by Apple Inc. It is included as part of Mac OS X starting with OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Time Machine supports backing up data to hard disks connected to a Mac and AFP network shares.
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How to know when filevault decryption has finished
I have turned off FileVault I want to know when it has been completed, for the moment it has not ended because time machine backup is not possible.
I want to add that I have turned off and on my ...
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Mac: How to restore a failed external hard drive from Time Machine? [2024]
I have an external drive which still works but I want to test the backup, which contains all my photos.
I have a second larger external drive, which i use for back up via Time Machine.
When the ...
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Operation failed with status 2: No such file or directory. How to recover?
I have an external backup disk for my Macbook. The disk has two partitions and both are encrypted. One partition has a copy of the systemdisk of my Macbook, the second keeps a Time Machine backup.
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Is it possible to reformat macOS APFS external hard drive to remove case sensitive option WITHOUT losing existing data?
Disk Utility is telling me that I formatted an external USB drive as APFS encrypted case sensitive (I actually don't remember electing the case sensitive option but I'm not going to argue :)
I use ...
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Time Machine partition will not mount on my Mac
I have struggled with this problem for a long time and on 3 different MacBooks. I'm currently running Monterey 12.6.
I partition a 5TB drive with APFS and 2 partitions. One for Time Machine (TM) and ...
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how do I encrypt an already existing external drive that I have been using for time machine backups?
I have an external drive that I formatted with APFS a long time ago and I use it for time machine backups. I am currently using Monterey 12.6 on my Mac book pro
I would like to 'switch to' encryption ...
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Samba can not parse path when connect Time machine
I used freshtomato on Netgear R7000, and I wanted to make it as a time machine, so i installed Samba and Avahi, so I can find my hard drive in system preferences of macOS. But, mac keept asking me the ...
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On Macbook, how to restore an older Time Machine backup using Migration Assistant?
I have a 2019 Macbook Pro with the latest Ventura version. I have daily Time Machine backups at 10:00pm ET.
Using Migration Assistant, how can I choose which Time Machine backup to restore, like I was ...
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File Deletion Caused VirtualBox NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
I deleted a large file (1 - 8GB for 4 machines) related to VirtualBox because I ran short on memory, MacOs listed this file as one of my biggest on the file system and I thought this might not get ...
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Time Machine fails to create backup without error
When I open the Time Machine dialogue through the shortcut in the menu bar, I click on "Backup Now" to create a new backup. As expected, the status updates go through the following stages:
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Time Machine backup, get last backup time using command line, without having to plug any backup disc and with no Full Disk Access?
I just want to get backup last time using command-line.
With this two conditions (that the GUI, the graphical interface upper-right widget we all use normally, normally between the wifi icon and the ...
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How can I partition a new external HD as a Time Machine backup AND also for manual copy/paste drag/drop on macOS Monterey 12.4?
I have an older 3TB drive from the same manufacturer and that drive has 1 partition (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) which is both a Time Machine backup AND it also allows me to copy/...
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TimeMachine restore: Can select backup, but get "No macOS system backups were found"
The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup.
I tried to restore ...
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How to choose a Time Machine backup disk?
I am using macOS 12.6.2 (Monterey) and I have two backup disks configured in Time Machine. One is an old Airport Time Capsule that's on the local network, so it gets automatic backups every hour if ...
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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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