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Rescuing data from HFS+ backup?
I recently learned about the "pitfalls" of using HFS+ when backing up data. I backed up a Time Machine drive a couple of months ago. I just used rsync to do so. So now I have a copy of it on ...
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Robocopy over SMB from Windows 11 to MacOS Catalina Locks folders and makes backup fail
I am trying to backup an external hard drive on my Windows machine to an external hard drive on my iMac running macOS Catalina. I am using Robocopy batch file to mirror the 2 drives. The code I am ...
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Using a raspberry pi to VPN into my home and perform apple Timemachine backups from anywhere
I am considering a trip around the world and want to keep my data safe, no matter if i get robbed, lose my bags or other unknowns.
I use a macbook, and have a 8tb airport time capsule at home, which ...
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How to extract files from a Time Capsule backup hard drive?
Since my old Apple Time Capsule from 2012 stopped working, I was intending to throw it out, so I removed the hard drive, and was intending to recover the data from my backups, by just copying it from ...
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Backing up from Dropbox (online) straight to external drive
I have all my work saved on my Dropbox account, and generally only have around 20% of that stored locally at any one time.
I'd like to buy a large external drive and back everything up onto that for ...
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How would you recommend backing up my movie library on a Mid 2010 Mac Pro
I was gifted a Mid 2010 Mac Pro and am in the process of migrating my Plex library over to it. It has 4 HD bays - 1 which runs the OS, 3 that are available.
I want to purchase 2 new HD's - one of ...
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How to restore external drive from Time Machine backup under Monterey
Previously, it was straightforward to restore an external drive from a Time Machine backup:
sudo tmutil restore /Volumes/backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBookPro/Latest/USB-old/* /Volumes/USB-new
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Automatic encrypted iPhone backup to Mac (Big Sur)
Context: Apple does not offer a way to have MacOS automatically create encrypted iPhone backups when your iPhone is connected (via cable / WiFi). I suspect that Apple is trying to push adoption of ...
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Mac OneDrive migration extremely slow - 100 mb/hour
I've finally gotten around to Cloud storage (OneDrive), and am adding all the files on my 2019 MacBook Pro to the OneDrive folder. It is about 70 GB worth of data and contains 140,000 files.
The ...
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I have cloned my SSD to an HDD because the SSD needs reformatting. Do I just clone it back once the SSD is reformatted?
I was told I needed to reformat my SSD from exFAT to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to increase its performance speed. I use it to produce music and some of my plugins were running real slow. I have ...
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File Management in Mac Recovery Mode
I tried to update my mac to OS Big Sur, however, it's failed. I checked the storage and there was only a few MB storage. So it might happen because of the lack of storage.
After I found that I tried ...
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Maintaining old laptop HDD as backup while replacing with newer SSD
tl;dr: Is it possible to replace an old hard drive while maintaining the existing bootable drive as an external backup?
Here is the story: I have a 10+ year old Apple Macbook Pro that still works and ...
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<Mac> TimeMachine backup keep prompting fail message
I have setup time machine on my mac to backup periodically to may NAS. Having given a quota to the disk space allocated to the backup, I have observed that there are messages prompting periodically ...
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Rsync is not deleting files and complains of "No space left on device (28)"
I am using rsync (2.6.9, protocol version 29) on macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave) to backup a disk with videos. The source has 999GB capacity with 75GB free and the backup has 1TB capacity. The command is:
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Need access to Apple Time Machine Backup on hard drive that was booted on Ubuntu
I have a hard drive that I used for backing up an old Macbook via Time Machine (OSX Lion). I accidentally booted the external drive on my Ubuntu box which seems to have have changed the MBR.
Now ...
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