Apple 'backup' software not on restored system?

I have had a new HDD installed and done a clean install of Leopard up to 10.5.8. with no problems.
I have always kept a regular backup on DVD of my user files and settings using software called 'Backup' which Ive assumed was Apple software? I assumed this was a simpler tool provided if not using Time Machine.
This software is no longer on my restored Leopard system so I can no longer use the 'restore' function - although I can read data from the disk.
I am puzzled as to where & what this 'backup' software was? Can anyone help please?

Backup is not part of basic OS X install. it comes with a mobileme subscription. I don't use mobileme so don't know the details but I believe you need to activate your mobileme membership and then you'll be able to get Backup from mobileme.

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Apple TV could not be restored. Apple TV konnte nicht wiederhergestellt werden. Ein unbekannter Fehler ist aufgetreten (14).

Hi,
I have an Apple TV, 2nd or 3rd generation (how to find out?).
It is still on 5.0 as I cannot upgrade it.
Whatever I do I get the error message that the upgrade did not work.
What I tried:
1. standard upgrade
2. complete restore
3. restore via iTunes, Apple TV connected via Micro-USB cable.
In all 3 cases the upgrade looks good initially, the software is downloaded, the upgrade starts. After some time I get the error message "An error occured".
On the iTunes restore the German error message was "Apple TV konnte nicht wiederhergestellt werden. Ein unbekannter Fehler ist aufgetreten (14)".
My translation of the error message "Apple TV could not be restored. An unknown error occured (14)".
I should mention that the Apple TV works but only with 5.0 functionality.
Any idea?
Thanks,
Tom
Message was edited by: Tom.1

This error code is rare, and typically misunderstood.
I can't disclose details of one way in which error -22 is reproducible with the HFS Plus file system, but your observation – that the problem persists after use of fsck_hfs (with Disk Utility) – is consistent with my assessment that fsck_hfs simply can not detect file system inconsistencies of this type.
Please note that error code -22 may occur with perfectly good hardware, so anyone in this situation should not rush to assume drive failure.
You should assume that there has been dataloss from the affected file; that it will be irreparable. If you can, restore from a backup of a point in time before the dataloss.

Your Apple TV could not be restored to factory conditions. Try again or...

My Apple TV is actin' the fool:
Your Apple TV could not be restored to factory conditions. Try again or go to www.apple.com/support for help.
I found one archived topic about this that was unsolved.
Anyone?

I kind of figured it might be that the hard drive partition with the restore image is inaccessible. It is pretty silly that running the built-in diagnostics show the thing is working fine and has no problem.
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Re-installing itunes Error message Apple application software not found error 2

I am re-installing Itunes on my home computer at itunes request.
I am getting an error mesage that apple applicatin software not found Error 2

With the Error 2, let's try a standalone Apple Application Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of the issue.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR suitable for your PC (there's a 32-bit Windows version and a 64-bit Windows version):
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleApplicationSupport.msi to do a standalone AAS install.
Does it install properly for you? If so, see if iTunes will launch without the error now.
If instead you get an error message during the install, let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.)

HT1595 APPLE TV COULD NOT BE RESTORED

When I switched on my 3rd Gen Apple TV on 2 days ago it said there was an update. But when I tried to update it, the update failed. It then told me to restore the device by connecting to itunes. When I connect it to itunes it is unable to restore the device - "Apple TV could not be restored. An unknown error occured(9)". I've tried different micro USB cables and even different machines (imac and work PC) but same error message every time. Any ideas on how to fix this, or is an inconvenient trip to the apple store required. The device is only 3 months old so will be covered under warranty, just annoyed it has broken so quickly!

You might try the following:
Launch iTunes
Connect the Apple TV to your computer
Using the Apple TV aluminum remote, hold down both the Menu and Down buttons for about 6 seconds until the device reboots
After reboot, release both of the buttons, and then immediately press and hold the Menu and Play button together
Continue holding until you see a message in iTunes saying an Apple TV in recovery mode has been detected

Apple backup software

Does apple have software that will backup my hard drive?
If not, can you suggest a good backup software?
PS: If I wanted to clone my boot drive to another drive, could I use Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper? After the boot drive is clones unto my second drive, could I then turn on my apple, replace the boot drive with the clone drive and I would be booting from my new cloned drive?

Here are some backup applications recommendations as well as some thoughts on general Mac maintenance:
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior. DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. Currently only TechTool Pro 4.5.1 is compatible with Intel Macs.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility called Macaroni that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
My personal recommendations for backups are (order is significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Deja Vu (Shareware)
4. SuperDuper (Commercial)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - not universal binary.)
6. LaCie SilverKeeper (Freeware - not universal binary)
7. MimMac (Shareware)
8. RsynchX 2.1 and PsyncX 2.2.1 (Freeware)
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

My backup can not be restor for my iphone after i update the ios to 7 for iphone 5

hello
i need your help thats very important for me
please guide me to solve this problem
i back up my iphone before i restore the phone for update the ios
then after change the ios to seven and it turns on the phone and request for restore the backup and i select the only last backup in my itunes and it stared to restore after a moments give me an error not to restore the backup
and when i search the pc i thouth it exsist
i had a lot of important information on that
please help me

You cannot. However, your iCloud backup will be available to you in the current release of iOS (7.0.2).

Apple Backup Software and Automatic iCal Backup

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Kevin

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Apple scanner software not working with HP

HP claims that the Apple Scanner Software on PowerBook is not working properly with the HP scanner

Is this a question about the scanning software in the MacBook Pro computer shown
in your post's lower boundary area, or do you have a PowerPC G4 PowerBook, too?
There may be a newer or alternative driver for a recent version of OS X, that the
older obsoleted PowerBook can't run; but a later supported MacBook Pro, can.
Issues with Apple products, software or hardware that may elicit comment,
can be addressed to Apple Feedback... in case you want to tell them direct.
Mac OS X - Feedback
If you have posted in the vintage/obsolete PowerBook notebook ASC discussion,
by accident, Hosts could relocate this thread to one more appropriate, on request.
You may have to look into alternative drivers or software for scanners, if whatever
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can't run an OS X version past Leopard 10.5.8. With a later MacBook Pro running
Mavericks OS X 10.9.4, you may have difficulty if HP does not support it...
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for users of older printer/scanner/copier all-in-ones, bits may be left behind. If
the HP product is older, a different version HP scanner driver may work. There
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I TRIED TO ACTUALIZE MY SOFTWARE, BUT THE RESTORE SYSTEM HAS MORE THAN 36 HOURS AND IT IS NOT READY YET.... IT SEEMS STOPPED. BUT IA CANNOT RETRY, 'CAUSE IT WILL BEGIN AGAIN FRO THE START..... WHAT CAN I DO TO RESTORE CORRECTLY?

my ipad 2, is not restoring from the last setup.... it is taking more than 36 hours and is not ready, is not finished yet....it seems like stopped... But it is not getting any progress. What I must do to restore and start up again?
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If the restore has stopped on the iPad then try putting it into recovery mode : http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097

Loaded 7.3-does not work-restored system-does not work-missing files?

I downloaded 7.3 and got a message that it could not upgrade the version of IPOD software found on cpu. Please uninstall and try again. Did that. Also removed all Itunes and Ipod software versions. Still got message. Decided to restore computer to before the 7.3 download. Now get error message that ITunes cannot run because files are missing. Doesn't say which ones. Any idea on how to restore old version?

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Bottom line, iTunes for Windows is terrible, very buggy, and unsupported by Apple. They can only help you trouble shoot restarting problems but there is no escalalation path for things that don't work. iTunes basically has a lot of trouble with samll number of large files and even a large number of small files.
I have been using Lighroom to convert the Tiffs to JPGs but ran into a problem that Adobe engineers didn't know about. Lightroom will only support a maximum of 512 mega pixels and won't load any files over this size. It appears it may load them as PSDs but not as Tiffs. Problem is Lightroom won't give any error message for files it won't load so there is no way to trouble shoot it.
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In protest of Apples apathy I took every IOS device I ever purchased back to the Apple store and challenged them to either make them work or refund them. They gave a full refund for every device I erver purchased including $299 for the original touch which came out to about $3500. I even sent a letter to Tim Cook ([email protected]) but he didn't care either.

Restore macbook pro with apple "Backup 3.1.2" software.

Last month my 12 and 17 inch powerbook G4 were stolen. I did have backups on 2 external hard drives. One was a manual back up (drag/drop) and the other I used the apple "backup 3.1.2" software. I was trying to restore my new macbook pro from the apple backup software. I kept receiving errors. Is backup 3.1.2 compatible with 10.5.6 and/or how can I restore all my data to my new macbook pro? Thanks and appreciate the help.

I know it's not very helpful, but to answer your question regarding compatibility, I use Backup 3.1.2 to backup specific sensitive data to a secure web-space every night. I have had an occasion to need something from that backup and have had no problems with restores. 3.1.1 is the 10.5 cutoff, as I recall.
Couple of thoughts as I was putting this reply together. Where are you storing the resulting backup data, maybe there was a problem with the write between your computer and that location? I bring this up because you might have other data on that drive which may need to be looked at. This really does you no good now, but the backup program also creates logs in your console which you can review. If there were problems, you can look there to see what the issue(s) are.
Final thoughts, is your entire backup corrupted, or just portions of it? In other words, can you get SOME data out of the backup, or can you not even open the file? If you have a drag/drop backup I would at least start with that and see how much of your data you can get restored.
Hopefully some of that helps. Been in your shoes and it's not fun. Good luck!

Apple application software required to run iTunes?

I'm having some issues here. I tried to open itunes and it says "Apple application software not found. Apple application support is required to run itunes. Please uninstall itunes, then install itunes again."
So I did that. iTunes would open but when I connected my iphone it wouldn't work. Then I got a message that said "itunes.itl cannot be read because it was created on a newer version of iTunes." So i tried to rename the file and that didn't work.
But then I was having some more issues with my computer (the fn buttons weren't working) so i did a system restore to before I uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes. I have looked at the forum and tried a couple different things and none of them have worked. I tried opening itunes.exe with winrar and that didn't work. I have an Asus with a Windows 7 64-bit operating system.
So if you can help me it would be greatly appreciated. You should also know that I am not very good with computers so please make your instructions relatively explicit.

I fixed it! You have to uninstall every apple program on your computer though. All of them. Then you have to reinstall iTunes. If you get the iTunes library.itl message use the link below.
This link helped me
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_I_fix_this_issue._ITunes_Library.itl_cannot_be_ read_because_it_was_created_by_a_newer_version_of_iTunes
My iTunes folder was named just iTunes library so I renamed that to iTunes.old then updated it and it worked!

Backup and not recoverable files

Hei dudes!
It's me dumb, or what?
Why Apple Backup software doesn't work? I had troubles with my internal HD, so decided to change it. Backed up all the valuable data with Backup 3 (from OS 10.4), but now there is no way to get it back: iCal, Address Book and everything wouldn't load from the saved files... The software appears to move regularly - and it sais "Successfully restored"... but there is nothing restored. I'm really ****** of. I could remount the older drive, which is still working... but that *****!
By the way, the new HD got a clean new install of everything...
Ah, one more thing: why the same data, backed up on iDisc are invisible from the new machine?!! Just like nothing has ever been synced form the previous one to Mobileme...! What a usless service is this...?

Hi Michele,
I'm afraid you're asking in the wrong place... iSync has nothing to do with Backup.
The Backup forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=956

Best software for doing full backups to ext. hard disk to to be used to restore system

As a new PC owner I wanted to find out what the best software for doing full backups to external hard disk, to to be used to restore the system if primary primary disk crashes. Im aware that Windows, Acronis and Paragon all have software that doing varying degress of back and resore functions.

lasvideo,
My favorites are ShadowProtect to do an "image backup" of boot drive and Beyond Compare for backing up files for all other "data" arrays. ShadowProtect does not seem to have much market share compared with Ghost and Acronis, but I really love it.
What I like about ShadowProtect:
- Extremely fast (complete image backup for 61GB of files on my boot SSD RAID 0 array to a RAID data array takes less than 3 minutes)
- Can do image backups across a LAN; restores from boot CDROM and USB device
- Allows for backups from one controller and restore of OS on a different controller and/or RAID configuration (has HAL tools; Hardware ? Layer I think)
- Can "mount" an image backup as a drive letter and see (and copy) all directories, files, etc. that are contained in the archive
What I like about Beyond Compare:
- Can choose what to backup and what to ignore very easily (for example you can set it to ignore certain files or directory names to ignore and then save how you set things up as a "session")
- Only needs to copy over files that are new or have changed since your last backup
- Makes it very easy to selectively delete files from your backup
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Jim

Apple 'backup' software not on restored system?

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