Time Machine makes full backups on dual boot MacBook Pro

Since installing Lion alongside Snow Leopard, Time Machine insists on backing up everything on the Snow Leopard side (around 190GB) and a large portion of Lion (around 35GB) each time I run it from either partition to a 2TB Time Capsule.
When I first installed Lion I just backed up everything from there but then discovered I couldn't restore files that belonged to Snow Leopard, so I started backing them up separately, and that's when the real trouble began.
Any ideas as to what to do? Should I back up each partition to a completley separate HDD?
Ivo

I have since devised my own workaround - one that I call CrissCross.
Since I have 2 Time Capsules - one for the MacBook Pro and one for a G5 Tower - I set it up so that each partition on the MBP backs up to separate TC's while the G5 shares one.
Not really a fix but it works beautifully

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  • Time Machine makes full backup after permission repair.

    I am struggling with this a couple of months but now I am sure. Each time I do a permission repair of my hard drive, Time Machine makes a full backup of roughly 200G. In this way my Time Machine disk can be full rather quickly. I seem not to be able to prevent this. Anybody having the same issue? Or, even better, having a solution? Thanks, Pierre

    Thanks for your reaction.
    No, only 10-20.
    I do permission repair once every 4-6 weeks more or less as a kind of maintenance. No idea why but it happens to be like this.
    This is in the log (and somewhere here the trouble occurred):
    Jun 28 19:33:16 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[355]: Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule Disk/iMac van Pierre.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    Jun 28 19:33:16 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[355]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    Jun 28 19:33:22 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[386]: Mounted devices (\n "/Volumes/pierre.wolters",\n "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"\n)
    Jun 28 19:33:22 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[386]: Wont clean Time Machine Backups because disk image
    Jun 28 19:33:22 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[386]: Mounted devices (\n "/Volumes/pierre.wolters",\n "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"\n)
    Jun 28 19:33:22 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[386]: Wont clean Time Machine Backups because disk image
    Jun 28 19:58:02 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[355]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
    Jun 28 19:58:04 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[355]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
    Jun 28 20:13:30 imac-ethernet fseventsd[48]: event logs in /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (930 2 930)
    Jun 28 20:13:31 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[504]: Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule Disk/iMac van Pierre.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    Jun 28 20:13:31 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[504]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    Jun 28 20:13:33 imac-ethernet fseventsd[48]: log dir: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 87C9B931-FE3E-48EF-818C-B78899942EB3
    Jun 28 20:13:35 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[536]: Mounted devices (\n "/Volumes/pierre.wolters",\n "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"\n)
    Jun 28 20:13:35 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[536]: Wont clean Time Machine Backups because disk image
    Jun 28 20:13:35 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[536]: Mounted devices (\n "/Volumes/pierre.wolters",\n "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"\n)
    Jun 28 20:13:35 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[536]: Wont clean Time Machine Backups because disk image
    Jun 28 20:22:47 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[504]: Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule Disk/iMac van Pierre.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    Jun 28 20:30:28 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[504]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
    Jun 28 20:30:29 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[504]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
    Jun 28 21:08:34 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[694]: Disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule Disk/iMac van Pierre.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    Jun 28 21:08:34 imac-ethernet com.apple.backupd[694]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    Jun 28 21:08:37 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[727]: Mounted devices (\n "/Volumes/pierre.wolters",\n "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"\n)
    Jun 28 21:08:37 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[727]: Wont clean Time Machine Backups because disk image
    Jun 28 21:08:37 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[727]: Mounted devices (\n "/Volumes/pierre.wolters",\n "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups"\n)
    Jun 28 21:08:37 imac-ethernet CleanMyMacHelperTool[727]: Wont clean Time Machine Backups because disk image
    I will check your suggestions.
    Once again, Thanks.
    Pierre

  • Time Machine error: The backup disk image "/Volumes/----/----MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use and resource unavailable?

    I have a MacBook Pro 13" 2010 model running Mountain Lion. I have always been able to use Time Machine with my Time Capsule. Just today I have been receiving the same error message whenever I would back up my computer:
    I removed my name before "MacBook Pro". It takes a long time "Looking for backup disk..." first. The disk I put with the time capsule is called Huge Backup, and in Huge Backup there is my sparsebundle file called "----- MacBook Pro." When I open Finder, open my time capsule, and then open my sparse folder, it should mount a drive where I can see my computer's backups. That doesn't work. Then I get this message:
    I once again removed my name before "MacBook Pro" but I can open my sister's sparsebundle who is running Mountain Lion on the same network and her backups work fine. I have researched this topic and have tried to repair the disk in Disk Utility, remount all the drives, remove the drive and restart the backups, and even restart my computer and the Time Capsule. Nothing worked. It just was working yesterday, but now I get this in the settings along with a caution symbol in my menubar:
    Is there anything I could do to fix this? Reconnecting it in AirPort Utility (5 or 6) didn't work. Also, for some reason, the error renamed Huge Backup to Huge Backup-1 as you can see above and below in the messages. I downloaded the Time Machine Buddy widget and this is the error report I got. I replaced my names or private info with [-----]. By the way, the network is called NDR Network, and the Time Capsule is alled NDR Time Capsule. Here's the error I keep getting:
    Starting manual backup
    Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[-----];AUTH=SRP@NDR%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Huge%20Backu p
    Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Huge Backup using URL: afp://[-----];AUTH=SRP@NDR%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Huge%20Backu p
    Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Huge Backup/[-----]'s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
    Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff0a483e6c0 {MessageParameters=(
    Ejected Time Machine network volume.
    Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
    Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[-----];AUTH=SRP@NDR%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Huge%20Backu p
    Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Huge Backup using URL: afp://Rohan;AUTH=SRP@NDR%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Huge%20Backup
    Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Huge Backup/Rohan's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
    Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff0a343d430 {MessageParameters=(
    Ejected Time Machine network volume.
    Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
    Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Rohan;AUTH=SRP@NDR%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Huge%20Backup
    Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Huge Backup-1 using URL: afp://Rohan;AUTH=SRP@NDR%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Huge%20Backup
    Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Huge Backup-1/Rohan's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
    Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff0a34410c0 {MessageParameters=(
    Ejected Time Machine network volume.
    Giving up after 3 retries.
    Backup failed with error: 31
    [SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
    Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: 0; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
    Failed to eject Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Huge Backup-1/Rohan's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle
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    I didn't remove all of my names, so just ignore that...

  • Does Time Machine make bootable backups?

    I used a beautiful backup program called Backup Simplicity in Tiger that made a bootable Exact duplicate of my HD into my external drive. That's really I want to do.
    This morning I tried Time Machine for the first time. It only put a backup folder on my external drive. That's not what I want to do.
    So here's my question, if I totally erase my external drive will Time Machine make a bootable duplicate of my HD on my external drive also?
    Also, is there a way to schedule Time Machine for backups manually?

    No, TimeMachine doesn't create a bootable backup, nor can it be controlled manually. The purpose of TimeMachine is to work behind the scenes backing up changed files. Later, when you realize something is amiss, you can 'go back in time' and fix the problem. Admittedly, I'm a little shaky on the details of just how flexible the retrieval system is since I've not yet played with that feature yet. But as I understand it, if you installed a new program and your computer suddenly started going nuts, you'll be able to use TimeMachine to restore your computer to the point before you installed that program. Or, if you realize you improperly edited a file, you'll be able to retrieve the file prior to that editing session.
    Apple's team realized three things: 1) most of us don't take the time to perform backups even though we know we should be doing it. 2) most of us don't really understand how to develop a good backup strategy. 3) computers today are so powerful that most of the time the CPU isn't working hard at all and those extra cycles might as well be put to use doing something useful. Hence, TimeMachine's design.
    As you noticed, TimeMachine makes a folder and does its incremental backups inside. Since I have an external drive that is much larger than my boot/data drive, I'll continue to clone my boot drive to this external once a week, just as I've been doing. If disaster strikes and I need to use the computer right now, I can do so and at worst my data will be one week out of date. (I should then be able to use TimeMachine to retrieve the missing data but the important thing is that I'm up and running again as soon as I've rebooted.) Later (or if I have the time right away) I'll use TimeMachine to restore/replace my boot drive.

  • Time machine makes 30 backups for the last two days, no backups for any earlier times: is there a way to control it?

    I've been running Time Machine in the background for as long as I've owned my current Mac--- a few months.  It is a completely generic set-up: it's a desktop (rarely shut off or asleep) connected to an external hard drive that is much larger (1 TB) than my internal hard drive (0.5 TB), and Time Machine is configured to save backups of my whole internal drive to the external drive.  The external is half-full, and the internal is a little more than half-full.  I often hear my external crunching away, working on something.
    I recently needed to access an old file, so I went into Time Machine mode on the folder where it had been deleted a few weeks ago.  While I'm not upset that it isn't available (it's my own fault for deleting it), I didn't expect the Time Machine to have such a bad distribution of saved backups.  There are 30 backup snapshots of the past two days, and nothing earlier.  I was expecting something more like a few from today, a few from this week, a few from this month, and a few going all the way back in time--- a broader distribution.
    I don't see any way to control this in the Time Machine Preferences (in fact, very little control at all).  Is there a secret way to control it, or some tip to ensure a more useful distribution of saved snapshots?
    Thanks,
    -- Jim

    Thanks, but it doesn't exactly address my question.  TimeMachineEditor allows me to set the intervals or times when backups occur, but it doesn't control the algorithm that decides which snapshots should be deleted.  My problem was that Time Machine chose to delete all of the old snapshots and keep only the most recent ones: I'd like it to keep more of the recent ones than the old ones, but still keep some old ones.
    In fact, the (unmodifyable) text on the Time Machine control panel says that it keeps:
    hourly backups for the past 24 hours
    daily backups for the past month
    weekly backups for all previous months
    That would be perfect if it were true.
    Perhaps the algorithm did the wrong thing because the size of my internal hard drive varied quite a lot a few days ago: a process got out of control and used up all of my internal disk space.  I killed the process and deleted its output (several times), so my internal disk eventually went back down to normal.  Perhaps in the intervening hours, Time Machine made a backup, once an hour, and used up all of the external drive space.  When it had to choose between keeping "weekly backups of previous months" and "hourly backups of the past 24 hours", it chose to keep hourly backups of the past 24 hours.  This was the wrong choice in my case (it was the unwanted output) and is probably the wrong choice in most cases.
    Is there a way to control the algorithm that decides which backups to keep and which to delete?  I would have it delete the hourly, daily, and weekly backups in a way that preserves their relative distribution.
    By the way, while I have made it sound like my problem was a runaway log file (something that would be easy to put in an excluded directory with Time Machine's "Options" button), it was a VirtualBox snapshot merge.  The data in question are precious, but were unnecessarily copied many times while VirtualBox failed to merge them properly.  I can't simply exclude a directory: I'm talking about a more general problem.
    Thanks!
    -- Jim

  • Time Machine dong full backup all of a sudden - why?

    I have had time machine going for months, from both my Macbook and my Mac Mini, and this AM I noticed that it is doing a full backup, instead of the incremental backup it normally does. Yesterday, I updated this Macbook with the latest iDVD update, and I installed iLife '11 on my Mac Mini, but that's it. My Mac Mini uses a referenced iPhoto library on a NAS, but that is a different NAS drive than the time capsule. The only thing the time capsule is used for is or backup.
    Could the upgrading of my iPhoto library on my Mac Mini have messed something up?
    I will see if my Mac Mini does a full backup also.
    Thoughts anyone?

    Hi moviewbuffking - this could have a number of reasons, so have a look at these:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2057525
    Cheers
    Michael

  • Time Machine-A Full Backup

    Hello
    I started using Time Machine this past January. I backup every few weeks.
    I have my Time Machine set to backup my entire internal HD to an external 160GB HD.
    I know for a fact I haven't created 24GB's worth of files in the last two weeks.
    Today when I started my backup I had about 28GB's left on that EXT. 160GB, when it was done backing up, I'm left with 4.79GB. WHY? & what is Time Machine backing up?
    It blew away all the backups from Jan, & gave me a brand new back from today.
    I have only used 110.44GB on my internal HD.
    Has anyone else run into this?
    Thanks

    Sometimes creating or changing a file triggers a change and consequent backup of another, larger file.
    I suggest you use larger backup drives and swap them out periodically. The 110+ GB on your startup disk is a lot more than what most people have.

  • Time machine back up and deleting photos from macbook pro

    I have a macbook pro. I need to free some space on my hard drive. As I am a keen photographer I decided it was best to have at lest to back up in the event than one fails. I keep one off site at a friends. This way if the unthinkble happens.. fire, flood theft etc I do not lose all my images. To do this I require 2 hard drives. Having purchased the second I thought it would make sense to actually do a Time Machine back up as previous back ups were only of photos.
    A few seaches of different forums appeared to say that you cannot delete photos from your Mac as this will be just Mirrored on your next Timemachine back up. This makes sense as it is copying the Mac so anything not on there will not be on the Time Machine back up.
    SOLUTION : On your hard drive of the time machine back up create an addition folder or folders and using finder drag and drop from your macbook. This way it will not effect your Time Machine. You can replicate with the other hard drive. Having backed up away from the Time Machine will mean the photos do not get deleted by Time Machine after you have removed them from your Mac.
    I hope this makes sense! It is the first time I have posted :-)
    I would like to know if others have other solutions or use this method. I should say that the hard drive I use for the Time Machine if Mac formatted. It is a 2 TB WD My Book Studio. I purchased from the Apple store. It is not an apple product but is mac of the sleek aluminum and goes well with it. Having said that I keep it at a mates house!

    There are several concepts that may help you create a defense-in-depth approach to securing your valuable data.
    - Your data is much more valuable than external disk drives.  Do not hesitate to purchase the size and number of external drives you need for great (not just good) backup practices.
    - Always maintain at least two copies of any data.  This means never place live (offloaded) files on a backup volume, even in a separate partition.  If the drive fails the backup and the live files will go poof together. 
    - Do not rely on retrieving live files from a Time Machine backup.  Time Machine is for restoring files that were deleted or altered by mistake or for a full restore.  It is not for offloading live files.
    - Place the offloaded live files on a separate disk drive.  Then you will need to backup that live volume or if that offload volume fails then poof again.
    - You already some of this base covered.  Maintaing two copies (one backup) is good practice.  Maintaining more than two copies (two or more backups) is a better practice.  Maintaining multiple copies in multiple backup formats is a great practice.  Time Machine is great for restoring accidentally deleted or altered data but it is a complex system that is more prone to failure than simpler schemes such as cloning.  I recommend maintaining both Time Machine and cloned backups of the internal drive and cloned backups of offload drive.
    Backing up the offload disk is where partitioning the backup drive can be handy.  Create one partition for your Time Machine backup and another partition for your external drive backup.  Backup your internal drive with Time Machine and backup the offloaded files using cloning software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!
    You could tell Time Machine to backup both your internal and external live files but then it gets tricky to do a full restore so I recommend using cloning software for backing up the external drive.
    When you purchase another external drive, make it a sufficiently large one so you can divide it into multiple large partitions.
    A good backup/offload map (two partitions per backup drive):
    - Internal drive —> Time Machine backup partition A on the backup drives.
    - External offload drive —> Clone backup partition B on the backup drives.
    - Backup drives 1 and  2 (one onsite and one offsite), each with partitions A and B.
    A great backup scheme includes three partitions on the large backup drives so you can backup the the internal drive with both Time Machine and CCC/SD:
    - Internal drive —> Time Machine backup partition A on the backup drives.
    - External offload drive —> Clone backup partition B on the backup drives.
    - Internal drive —> Clone backup to partition C on the backup drives.
    - Backup drives 1 and  2 (one onsite and one offsite), each with partitions A, B and C.
    A great feature of having a clone of your internal drive is if the internal drive crashes you can boot off of the backup disk while you replace the internal drive.  As mentioned above it also avoids Time Machine backup/restore problems.  I have had Time Machine full restores fail so I do not trust them as my only backup method but I find them very handy for restoring individual files.
    Create partitions sufficiently large enough for each backup source.  Time Machine should be about 50% or more larger than the volume it is backing up to leave room for the older incremental backups.  The cloned backup partitions need only be as large as the volumes they are backing up, or larger if you include incremental backups in your cloning scheme.  This means you may need 2 or 3 TB backup drives.  (4 TB drives are not yet reliable so avoid them.)
    For more information on great backup schemes see:
    Time Machine Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
    Most commonly used backup methods: 
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
    Methodology to protect your data.  Backups vs. Archives.  Long-term data protection:
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
    PlotinusVeritas gives some great suggestions for purchasing external hard drives in this thread:
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5602141?tstart=0

  • Will time machine get messed up in dual boot Leopard/Snow Leopard?

    I have one piece of software that I need to use that does not work in Snow Leopard, so I have held off upgrading for awhile. I have a project coming up however that uses another piece of software that is accelerated greatly by running in Snow Leopard, thus I would like to dual boot Leopard and Snow Leopard on separate partitions.
    My question is: is the Time Machine backup going to work when I am booted into either OS version? Do I have to disable time machine in one of them? I could be booted for several days at a time in one OS version or the other, so I would like to be backing up while in either os. I really value Time Machine. It has saved my behind several times.
    Cheers,
    -Matt

    Matthew Woods wrote:
    Thanks for the testing and tips Pondini. Sounds like everything will work, so I just ordered my copy of Snow Leopard.
    You'll love it!
    Your idea of excluding the the opposite boot partition from each other's time machine settings is a good one. I plan to keep most of my work files on a separate internal drive anyway (that will be included in the TM backup under either OS), so the boot partition not currently being used shouldn't change when I'm in the other OS.
    Ah, in that case, don't partition the TM drive (otherwise you'll have two separate backups of the work drive). And it won't much matter whether you exclude the "other" boot volumes or not; if nothing changes, there won't be anything to back up.
    There are a couple other changes in Time Machine for Snow Leopard, that you might notice:
    Disk full option, messages, and handling. In TM Preferences > Options, the +Warn before old backups are deleted+ is worded +Notify after old backups are deleted+ in Snow Leopard. If the disk gets full under Leopard, the backup will fail with a message. On Snow Leopard, the oldest backup(s) will be deleted, then a message will be sent. See #C4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
    The "Preparing" phase at the beginning of a backup is now called "Calculating Changes," and (effective with 10.6.3) you'll see "Scanning nnn items" messages when TM does a "deep traversal," and "Preparing nnn items" messages" on the TM Preferences panel and when you click the TM icon in your menubar, before actual copying gets started.

  • Time Machine doing full backup of external drive again

    I have a Time Capsule, as well as an external data drive connected to my Mac. The external drive (named Yoda) is NOT excluded from backups. Yoda has about 703 GB of data on it.
    I recently replaced the hard drive inside my time capsule. Consequently, a full backup was made, which was to be expected.
    When the new full first backup was done, I disconnected the Yoda drive. A day later, I reconnected it, and now Time Machine is saying it's doing a 703 GB backup. Since the size TM indicates its backing up is ever so slightly larger than the total amount of data on Yoda, I'm assuming it's doing a full backup of the Yoda drive for some reason (the only other drive, the system drive, only has about 200 GB on it).
    The files on Yoda weren't changed, certainly not all 703 GB of them. No hardware changes were made, no updates, tinkering, modifications, or anything. The Mac itself has not even been shut down or logged out. The ONLY thing that's happened was the Yoda drive was unmounted and disconnected, then several hours later it was reconnected.
    Why is Time Machine repeating a full backup of this external drive? Is this going to happen every time I disconnect and reconnect the drive? Is there any way to make this not happen, short of excluding the drive (which I don't want to do)?

    After posting this thread, I did find a similar thread (in the "More Like This" section) and saw your responses in it. You had suggested the same thing, as well as doing #A5 if that didn't work.
    I tried #A4 and although that seemed to work in the other thread, unfortunately it didn't work for me. So I moved on to #A5, but I could not get my Time Capsule drive to show up in the Disk Utility. I didn't see a "data folder", but I did try directly dragging the sparsebundle to the left pane of the Disk Utility, but that seemed to hang Disk Utility.
    At this point I'm probably going to try deleting the plist file as per #A4, erasing (reformatting) the drive, rebooting, and starting a whole new backup from scratch. It's not going to take much longer than backing up the entire external drive by itself would have, and I still have older backups (up to a few days ago) on the original Time Capsule drive in case of massive disaster.
    So we'll see how that goes...

  • How to restore beyond time machine last full backup

    I had a disk problem over the weekend and macbook pro wouldn't boot.
    This has happened once before when it was within warranty period and I took it to the Genius bar and they ran diagnostics on the drive and said it was ok. Disk Warrior however was saying it had bad sectors and was failing but Apple disagreed. Apple then resinstalled the o/s and it was working ok and I restored everything back ok.
    The same thing happened on Saturday and it wouldn't boot. Disk Utility said it couldn't be repaired and Disk Warrior said it was failing.
    I did exactly what the Genius did and booted from internet recovery and went to restore from Time Capsule. During the restore process it listed only the full backups that had been taken so I picked the most recent but that was 6 days ago. It has completed the restore and Disk Utility says disk is fine.
    So I'm asking two questions really.
    1) Is there a way to restore beyond that last full backup and apply the incrementals to get it to the last hourly Time Capsule backup? When I go into Time Machine now it only has today in it and last hour so doesn't seem to be able to access previous incarnations of the backups.
    2) Is there a way to run fsck or something on the disk to get any bad sectors as marked to not be used to prevent the problem from happening again?
    I am toying with getting a solid state drive but not immediately.
    My urgency is to get some files I was working on (Adobe illustrator) within the last week. They would have been on the incremental backup but everything is restored from that 31st March full backup.
    Regards
    Mike

    Hi
    But isn't that based on the fact that those backups are visible in Time Machine? All I see is today, not 2 days ago.
    Mike

  • Time Machine missing full backups - Need help.

    I was going to restore my Imac from Time Machine, and when I went to restore, its last full backup was from December 25, 2009 and nothing from 2010. I had checked it recently and saw backups images from January. Is there anything i can do? If i restore from the 25th, will my images from January February still be there?

    Are you doing a full system restore, booting from your Leopard Install disc?
    If not, please explain just what you're doing.
    If so, there are two possibilities:
    Did you rename or replace your internal HD after 12/25? If so, those are treated as two separate disks; thus there may be two drives in the "pop-up menu" above the list of dates. See item (f) in question #14 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
    Have you excluded any System files from Time Machine backups? If so, you cannot do a full system restore (since you didn't back up the entire system).
    Where are your backups, and why are you restoring? If your Mac is still functional, try looking at your backups with the Browse option, per #17 of the FAQ Tip, to see just what's there.

  • Time Machine making full backups--not incremental

    Hi,
    I just installed Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro a couple of days ago, and have been using Time Machine to make backups (never used it before now). I have TimeMachineEditor installed, and have it set to make a backup daily at 3:30am. It backs up data from my 500GB main hard drive to another internal 500GB hard drive.
    The first backup went without a hitch, and did a full backup as expected (everything). But the second, third, and fourth backups all were full backups as well....not incremental as they should've been. The fourth one was actually a manual backup I did to test it...I chose "Back Up Now" to see if it did full or incremental. It did a full backup.
    So, after four backups, each a little over 100GB, I'm already running out of space Has anyone else run into this behaviour? Is this a consequence of TimeMachineEditor having screwed it up somehow? Even if it has, shouldn't a manual backup still do an incremental backup?
    Very strange....

    canadavenyc wrote:
    V.K. wrote:
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