Time Machine loses backups after a full restore.

Greetings
(Possibly due to parallels, my Imac was running so slow or hanging. As a result,) I ran a full system restore from Time Machine. It worked well. Then I thought I would try a better restore date and used that. After this successful restore, I now notice that all earlier backups have been deleted/lost - or at least they are not available on the Time Machine,
The only event in between was to add to the time machine a windows based account file.
Imac seems to run OK now, but files from around July to now are missing.

After a full restore, Time Machine may start a new backup. You can ctrl-click the TM icon and +Browse Other Time Machine Disks+ to view your old backups. I can't be sure, but you could try to go to TM Preferences and Change Disks to see if you can continue to back up to your old TM folder/sparsebundle. Otherwise, you will have 2 backups now, the old one being dormant, but accessible.

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Access Time Machine partial backup after system restore

My iMac crashed. I ran Disk Utility Repair Disk on the hard drive and received this message: "Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files".
I had had Time Machine backing up regularly wirelessly, and previously hadn't noticed any problem with it. So I thought everything had been backed-up properly.
I reformatted the hard drive and chose to restore the system from Time Machine back-up. It turned out that you can only restore from full system back-ups and my Time Machine hadn't made a full back-up for half a year! Previously it had made full back-ups every 2 or 3 days then it stopped doing full back-ups half a year ago without any warning.
I went ahead with the system restore from the half-year-old full backup thinking that I would be able to access the partial back-ups once the system is restored. But I can't! If I access Time Machine, the most recent back-up I can see is the half-year-old full backup from which I restored the system. There are documents, music and hundreds of photos, originally saved to the hard drive since the last full back-up, that I cannot access, even though Time Machine had been backing up every day until the iMac crashed.
How can I retrieve these files from Time Machine?

tmutil listbackups
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2009-11-10-210145
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2009-11-17-053753
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2009-12-02-005634
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2009-12-09-073939
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2009-12-16-000359
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-01-07-164941
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-01-18-194339
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-01-25-073833
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-02-01-071544
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-02-08-192553
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-02-23-011615
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-03-02-073425
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-03-11-001704
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-03-18-134858
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-03-31-004614
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-04-09-084554
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-04-16-142610
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-04-25-210514
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-05-03-040744
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-05-10-080207
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-05-17-020416
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-05-28-002711
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-06-04-010034
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-06-16-000448
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-06-25-213759
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-07-08-002557
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-08-19-222633
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-08-26-193609
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-09-02-203645
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-09-10-075001
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-09-24-000147
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-10-11-071420
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-10-18-071136
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-10-25-192005
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-11-08-105951
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-11-16-082710
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-11-28-000529
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-12-05-094613
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2010-12-12-010050
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-01-09-224521
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-01-16-002322
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-01-23-005302
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-01-30-123816
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-02-06-084024
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-02-13-152616
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-02-21-172006
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-02-28-073952
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-03-07-064607
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-03-14-072117
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-03-21-002338
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-03-28-191153
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-04-05-034614
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-04-12-073716
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-05-01-231606
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-05-08-145446
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-05-15-102229
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-05-22-144213
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-05-29-201711
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-06-05-005053
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-06-13-160254
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-06-25-224356
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-07-02-112247
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-07-11-003808
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-08-21-195918
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-08-28-104051
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-04-001125
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-10-001317
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-15-194157
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-16-210303
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-17-112311
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-18-120910
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-19-194243
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-20-073831
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-21-073034
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-22-075050
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-23-230449
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-24-092757
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-25-001748
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-26-215704
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-27-182748
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-28-192528
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-29-182816
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-09-30-201924
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-01-004110
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-02-003106
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-03-221651
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-04-211443
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-05-213335
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-06-183753
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-07-212855
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-08-204219
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-09-162419
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-11-165739
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-12-225835
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-13-090625
/Volumes/Backup of T’s iMac/Backups.backupdb/T’s iMac/2011-10-13-191539
Oct 13, 2011 was the last full backup, the one used to restore the system.

Time machine started over after a complete restore, how to get to older?

Yesterday, photoshop and parrallels started crashing and I could not get them working, So I decided to do a complete system restore from install disk time machine from the day before when everything was working fine.
so it restored the system to its previous state. parrallels was still not working correctly so I restored the folder from a week or so ago. That didn't get it back either, so I thought of maybe reloading the application from an earlier time period might help.
But, time machine has started itself over. there is only backup data from this morning in the time machine internal backup drive. How do i get to my older backups? Do they just go away after a system restore?

Sam,
No, you need to Ctrl-Click the Time Machine DOCK icon. Then choose "Browse Other Time Machine Disks...".
Here is a thought. When you did the restore, what Mac OS version did you restore. Your states say 10.5.5 but might your Mac have been restored to 10.5.4 or earlier with your restore?
I have found in my own testing, that since the 10.5.5 update, "Archive & Installs", "Erase & Installs", and "Restore System From Backup..." no longer trigger a new full backup. That is they continue to use the same backup set as before. (Note though, you will likely see a very large incremental backup, but not necessarily a new Full Backup set.) See my comments here:
[http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1771493&tstart=0]
If, however, you restored to a Mac OS version previous to 10.5.5, and then allowed Time Machine to perform a backup, then a new Full Backup would be preformed. Likely, you might be able to avoid this if you do the restore (prevent Time Machine from backing up), update to 10.5.5, then allow Time Machine to backup.
Cheers!

Time Machine thinks backup disk is full but its not

I just purchased a new 1 Terabyte hard drive for backup. In the past I backed up both my internal Mac harddrive (250 Gb with 8gb free) and an external iOmega archive drive (DRIVE H 320Gb with 41Gb free) to a 500Gb Lacie drive. I purchased an iOmega 1 Terabyte drive (DRIVE G) because the Lacie drive was full. I went into Time Machine and changed the backup drive to the G one terabyte drive and did a full backup of my internal hard drive. When I did this I did not have the external H archive drive attached so Time Machine didn't back that up. I did it that way because I wanted to first backup the internal drive then do some work and then go backup the external archive drive over night. I plugged the H archive drive in, so it show up in the finder and then told Time Machine to Backup Now. It started the back up but right after doing the initial computations when it actually started backing up I got the standard error message that "the backup disk ran out of space unexpectedly..." I've double checked that the backup disk is set correctly in Time Machine to the 1Tb G drive and when I do a Get Info on the G drive it shows Capacity: 1TB, Available: 713.54 GB.
Is it possible something is wrong with the new drive? Can I test that?

Its funny how sometimes asking a question can prompt your thinking. As soon as I finished posting this I thought "of course Disk Utility". I ran a check disk and got the following error message:
Unused node is not erased (node = 107)
I did a restore which corrected the error. Turned Time Machine back on and its backing up the rest of my data now.

Time Machine does a full backup after a full restore

Hi,
To test Time Machine (as you should always do with any backup system) I decided to do a full restore of one of my Macs. This went fine (after figuring out how to mount my remote backup disk).
However I noticed that when the restored machine did its first scheduled Time Machine backup after being restored it did what pretty much amounted to a full backup (taking ages).
I believe Time Machine should be clever enough to know that the restored files are the same as the backed up ones, and there is no need to copy new versions.
Cheers, Ed.

Indeed not unexpected, however it would be easy to fix this in the future by linking the restore into the existing baseline (given that it is a direct copy of it) as it writes the files.
It is worth mentioning because if you have a smallish backup disk (I don't) then writing the second baseline may flush out a number of your older weekly backups that you would rather have retained. It will also eventually mean that you will always have those two baselines and therefore restrict the number of valid backups that you can keep.
Cheers, Ed.

Time Machine says backup disk is full

My Time Machine backup disk (FreeAgent GoFlex Drive: 1TB) says it's full. I thought Time Machine was supposed to delete old backups to make room for new backups on an on-going basis. I don't see a setting for it. I'm fairly new to Mac, so forgive me if this is supposed to be obvious. I did see some "expert" in this discussion tell someone to "buy a bigger drive." That's just arrogant and not helpful. Someone else bought a 4TB drive and it solved their problem -- duh! What happens when that's full? Don't need the arrogance, just would like to understand how it works. Thanks.

TM does thining, until you are left with only weekly backups. Then it deletes those backups from oldeset to newest.
However, it WON'T always delete a backup to make room, as this depends on a few particular details, and also it won't delete the only remaining backup.
Your 1TB isn't really that large anymore, so I can somewhat see why even an 'expert' would suggest a bigger drive. Most internal drives around 1 TB these days alone.

Time Machine First Backup After Upgrade Stuck @ Deleting Old Backups

This has been going on for the past 4 hours. Should I quit and start over. I think I may have messed it up when I clicked the "Encypt Disk" during the first update... Thanks...

InAfrica wrote:
I think I may have messed it up when I clicked the "Encypt Disk" during the first update...
Quite possibly.
I don't know how long it takes to encrypt about 480 GBs, but it will clearly take quite a while.
See #31 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for some info on encrypting your backups.
Use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. Locate the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages here.

Time Machine going crazy after restore of a volume - UUIDs keep mismatching

HELP!
Background:
I have a MacPro (2006) with SnowLeopard.
I use TM to backup most of the files from the system volume and 2 more disks called Enterprise1, 2 and 3 (yessss, I love StarTrek ).
I have lots of data (pics, movies) spread out over these 3 disks (1 TB rough estimate).
For TM I use a FireWire connected external "WD my book studio II" with 4TB. It has 2 years of history and is half used half free now.
Problem:
A few days ago one of my data disks crashed and I had to replace it with a new one. I installed the new disk and -maybe naive- named it like the crashed one.
I successfully restored all data from TimeMachine to the new disk (TANK YOU APPLE).
After that TM started to re-backup 360GB. Initially I was confused and cancelled the backup. I went to the Internet and found this to be the normal (but silly!) behavior. So I resumed TM backup. But now it wanted to backup more than 700 GB....?!?!
I cancelled again, went to the Internet again, found lots of issues but no clear explanation, and so I decided to suffer through the pain and let things go their way.
However, after the 700GB backup was done, it started another 360GB backup and after that one was done it continued with yet another 360GB backup....
I installed the TM widget and found messages
"Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Enterprise1"
"Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Enterprise2"
on all the events later than the restore. The strange thing is that I replaced only the volume Enterprise3. I did not touch Enterprise1 and Enterprise2.
I did a TM reset as described in the trouble shooting guides, but without any success.
How can I find out more about these UUIDs?
Why could the ones that I didn't touch start to mismatch?
Why does the mismatch not go away after successful(?) backup?
Any help is highly appreciated (I really want to keep my backup history. It has been a extremely helpful quite a few times in the past)....

Hm... Many people read my post, but nobody came up with any suggestions so far
So I decided to fully erase my time machine drive by re-formatting it. I also did the full time machine reset (as described in the trouble shooting topic) and I re-started time machine.
The first run went as expected: Full backup of everything I didn't exclude:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Tachyon3/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Backup content size: 1164.8 GB excluded items size: 611.4 GB for volume Enterprise1
Backup content size: 355.7 GB excluded items size: 14.3 GB for volume Enterprise2
Backup content size: 306.6 GB excluded items size: 46.3 MB for volume Enterprise3
No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.41 TB requested (including padding), 3.64 TB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Copied 103.3 GB of 1201.4 GB, 311996 of 3022866 items
Copied 234.0 GB of 1201.4 GB, 481177 of 3022866 items
Copied 399.4 GB of 1201.4 GB, 482485 of 3022866 items
Copied 484190 files (543.2 GB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 552.1 GB of 1201.4 GB, 499974 of 3022866 items
Copied 707.9 GB of 1201.4 GB, 619307 of 3022866 items
Copied 856.6 GB of 1201.4 GB, 713178 of 3022866 items
Copied 814524 files (883.7 GB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 1014.9 GB of 1201.4 GB, 846954 of 3022866 items
Copied 1188.7 GB of 1201.4 GB, 864139 of 3022866 items
Copied 864441 files (1189.3 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.43 GB requested (including padding), 2.47 TB available
Copied 969 files (4.9 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 992 files (4.9 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 172.2 GB of 305.7 GB, 41672 of 49964 items
Copied 50909 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
BUT THEN CAME THE BAD SURPRISE: On the following backups time machine continued to execute full backups of 320 GB for the third volume again ...
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Tachyon3/Backups.backupdb
Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/Enterprise3 reason:must scan subdirs|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.56 GB requested (including padding), 2.47 TB available
Copied 922 files (3.5 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 945 files (3.5 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 172.7 GB of 305.7 GB, 41644 of 49977 items
Copied 50862 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.59 GB requested (including padding), 2.17 TB available
Copied 2198 files (3.9 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 2221 files (3.9 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 171.1 GB of 305.7 GB, 42843 of 50013 items
Copied 52138 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
...and again...
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Tachyon3/Backups.backupdb
Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/Enterprise3 reason:must scan subdirs|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.63 GB requested (including padding), 2.17 TB available
Copied 6064 files (23.4 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 6087 files (23.4 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 172.3 GB of 305.7 GB, 46769 of 49981 items
Copied 56004 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.75 GB requested (including padding), 1.87 TB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Copied 131 files (427 bytes) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 154 files (427 bytes) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 17241 files (58.5 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
Backup canceled.
Of course I canceled the last one because there in no use to continue: Fully erasing the time machine volume and doing a full reset obviously didn't fix the problem.
Any idea what could be the cause of this situation or what should be the next thing to try???

Using Time Machine to backup a iMac G5 and restore to an intel iMac

Is it possible to use Time Machine to backup my iMac G5 and restore my backup to a new intel iMac?
The reason being is that I my mother-in-law's company bought her a new intel Mac and she wants to trade with me since she only uses her Mac for e-mail, photos and accounting software.
I was thinking of making sure her data is preserved by using the migration assistant to transfer her data to my iMac G5 and then using my time machine backup to restore to her intel iMac. I have concerns about this method after reading about the intel/powerpc issues with time machine. I also have concerns that perhaps the version of MacOS 10.5 installed to my iMac G5 will not be optimized for intel.

Well, not entirely. You cannot install or restore a PPC version of OS X to an Intel Mac because the PPC system will not work on an Intel Mac. You can copy your personal files, most preference files, and third-party applications (although it would be preferable to update all PPC-only apps to universal binaries which perform better on Intel machines.
Another possible concern is if your mother's company is transferring the ownership to her or simply purchasing the unit for her to use. In the latter case the computer belongs to the company, not your mother. She cannot then give it to you because it isn't hers. This problem should be resolved beforehand because the company may one day want the computer back.
Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.

Time Machine will not do a full backup when set up

I am trying to set up time machine for the first time on a external HDD, but it just won't do a full backup in the first time I set it up, I knew I had a problem when I entered the time machine and it would only show today and now, I had the time machine set up for about a week. I already checked the time machine options and it says full backup should be 178 GB, but when I set it up it does not do the full backup just a partial, the time machine disk is always empty, I see no errors in the time machine preferences and also formatted the external HDD the HDD Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive), Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive Journaled) and even tried a different HDD and I always get the time thing, no full backup when I set it up, also fixed permissions on all my disks and no luck... can anyone help???

this is the message I got;
Starting standard backup
Couldn't find en0.
Unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 Resource temporarily unavailable
* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '* -[NSCFArray initWithObjects:count:]: attempt to insert nil object at objects[0]'\n* Call stack at first throw:\n(\n 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff833c05a4 __exceptionPreprocess + 180\n 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff887d2313 objcexceptionthrow + 45\n 2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8336b317 -[__NSPlaceholderArray initWithObjects:count:] + 407\n 3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8337fc68 +[NSArray arrayWithObjects:count:] + 56\n 4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8338adb1 -[NSArray arrayByAddingObject:] + 193\n 5 backupd 0x000000010000989b 0x0 + 4295006363\n 6 backupd 0x000000010000a510 0x0 + 4295009552\n 7 backupd 0x0000000100006d00 0x0 + 4294995200\n 8 Foundation 0x00007fff80f04f65 _NSThread__main_ + 1429\n 9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff80876f66 pthreadstart + 331\n 10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff80876e19 thread_start + 13\n)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
2009-11-08 22:50:42.463 ReportCrash[235:2503] Saved crash report for backupd[146] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd2009-11-08-225042localhost.crash

I bought a new external hard drive for backups, but time machine won't do a full back up. I think it is remembering backing up onto previous external hard drives, which I don't own anymore. How do I do a new full backup?

I bought a new external hard drive for backups, but time machine won't do a full back up.
I think it is remembering backing up onto previous external hard drives, which I don't own anymore. How do I do a new full backup?
When I bought the new (used) iMac, I also bought an external hard drive for backups. It worked fine, but my husband stole it.
Then I bought a new external hard drive (Seagate) and it worked fine for three weeks, then died.
So I just got a new external hard drive, which was put together from an internal hard drive and a hard drive enclosure.
Time machine did the first backup today, and it should have taken 9 hours like it did on the previous first time full back up. Instead, it took 30 minutes. That can't be right. I want to start over and do a full backup to make sure everything gets onto my new external hard drive, but I can't figure out how to do that. Please help.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
tmutil compare -E
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command will take at least a few minutes to run. Eventually some lines of output will appear below what you entered.
Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
Added:
Removed:
Changed:
These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.

I have had a series of Macs. They have been backed up with Time Machine. I am trying to restore TM backup files from the older Macs using my new MacBook Pro. No go. What do I do ?

I have had a series of Macs. They have been backed up with Time Machine. I am trying to restore TM backup files from the older Macs using my new MacBook Pro. No go. What do I do ?

I am trying to restore TM backup files from the older Macs using my new MacBook Pro. No go.
Migration Assistant (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Migration Assistant) is the tool that you would use to restore backups from older Macs to another Mac.
Details are here: http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html The same info applies for Mavericks and Yosemite. If you are saying that this is a "no go".....where are you getting stuck? What error messages do you see?

I recently did a full reinstall from my time machine and now my MacBook pro won't back up to the time machine. It starts a full backup ignoring the original back up, can anyone help?

I recently did a full reinstall from my time machine and now my MacBook pro won't back up to the time machine. It starts a full backup ignoring the original back up, can anyone help?

Did you follow the instructions on the page linked below?
OS X Yosemite: Recover your entire system

I had to reformat my OSX 10.5.8 and i can't restore my emails from my time machine backup from an external hard drive - only the latest (post backup) time machine back ups are available to restore. Please can any help

I had to reformat my OSX 10.5.8 and I can't restore my emails from my time machine backup from an external hard drive - only the latest (post backup) time machine back ups are available to restore. Please can any help? I can find the mail folder in my libraries, but the Restore Button is grayed out

OSX treats the reformatted drive as a different one; it's the same as replacing it, and the old one is no longer connected.
See #E3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting to see and restore from the "old" drive.
And, you may not want to restore via the Finder; see the blue box in #15 of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

Time Machine says Backup Delayed After Upgrading to Lion

Time Machine says Backup Delayed After Upgrading to Lion on both my Macs. It backs up fine when ever I connect to the USB drive but now seems to want to back up hourly when before weekly was OK. When it does not compleye an hourly backup it reports a delayed backup - failure on both machines. How do it revert back to it reminding me to do weekly backups?

I'm having the same issue with Time Machine on OS X Lion!
According to this webpage: http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/LionChanges.html
Backups (i.e., Time Machine, SD, CCC, etc.) will only save the current "Version" of files.
The above statement sounds like the issue @iJRB and myself are having after upgrading to Lion where Time Machine shows the following error message below within "System Preferences > Time Machine"
@iJRB: Is this the error message you are seeing?

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