Are documents in iCloud Drive included in Time machine backups

Are documents in iCloud Drive included in Time machine backups
Yes, they are, and the current Yosemite version 10.10.2 makes it easy to find them in Time Machine. Just select iCloud Drive in the Finder, before you enter Time Machine to restore documents. Time Machine backs up the local shadow copies of your iCloud Drive documents, that are stored in your hidden user library.

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Is the Sites folder included in Time Machine backups?

I've learned the hard way that not everything is included in a Time Machine backup. For example, if you have iPhoto open, a backup will not be made of the photos. Now that I'm developing websites and storing them in the Sites folder, is it safe to assume that they are being backed up by Time Machine?
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Are documents in iCloud Drive included in Time machine backups
Yes, they are, and the current Yosemite version 10.10.2 makes it easy to find them in Time Machine. Just select iCloud Drive in the Finder, before you enter Time Machine to restore documents. Time Machine backs up the local shadow copies of your iCloud Drive documents, that are stored in your hidden user library.

Can iCloud documents in Mobile Documents folder be restored from a Time Machine backup?

Integration with iCloud seems much improved so far in Mountain Lion. Thanks, Apple! Just to be on the safe side, though: are documents stored in the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder included in Time Machine backups, and fully restorable? This seemed a little uneven prior to Mountain Lion.
I just wanted to make sure that these documents are always backed up in case there is ever a problem with iCloud (or in case I simply make a mistake and an unintended change or deletion propogates across all my devices and I need to restore an earlier version).

Wow! It didn't occur to me that it would work this way, although of course it makes perfect sense—and it works. I just tried it.
It doesn't actually seem to work with older documents (I tried in Pages), and I'm not sure if that problem has to do with Mountain Lion, or previous versions of iWork apps, or both. But I tried it with a fresh document, deleted it restored it, and was able to use it. So finally it seems that iCloud works the way it should.
Thanks again.

Using iCloud Drive as a Time Machine drive?

Hi,
do you know if there is a way to use iCloud drive as a Time Machine drive. I mean, we can have more than one time machine drive, using iCloud Drive would be a nice option for off site backup no?
I Currently use Crashplan for that, but using iCloud drive would be better, as I'd have access to my stuff more easily than with crashplan's UI.
MAybe a third party services offers that?
What do you think guys?

Manusnake wrote:
Well I thought the same, but actually I did a new Time Machine backup a month ago via wifi (starting from scratch). About 700 GB of data. It was slower than Ethernet of course, but it worked without any issue.
You must have top-of-the-line WiFi hardware. How long did it take? I don't even remember how long it took for the initial Ethernet backup before my Time Capsule died. It was at least a day.
However I see your point for online backup. That'd require TM to be more gentle. To do one backup per day for example could be a solution (instead of one every hour).
Time Machine works best in small increments. I always advise against hacking the backup frequency. People who complain about Time Machine tend to have hacked it up. People who don't tend to have left it alone. Just sayin'.

Include a Thunderbolt drive in a time machine backup

I have a iMac with 2 thunderbolt drives (Promise). The first one is used for storage, and the second one for time machine (larger capacity). It seems that it is impossible to include my first thunderbolt drive in the time machine backup. Is it normal?
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Have you gone to System Preferences/Time Machine and clicked the button in the bottom right hand corner to make sure it isn't excluded?

Trying to use a new, larger external hard drive for my Time Machine backup. However, every time I start the backup, it gets started then fails. And, I can't delete the few files that did save on the external. Sort of a catch 22. Any ideas?

Trying to use a new, larger external hard drive for my Time Machine backup. However, every time I start the backup, it gets started then fails. And, I can't delete the few files that did save on the external. Sort of a catch 22. Any ideas?

Is it a USB hard drive? USB hard drives have the problem of not giving full speed if they are hooked up on the same bus as keyboards and mice. Double check your profiler to make sure that is not a problem. If it is Firewire, make sure there aren't other firewire devices in use at the same time. I recommend not only keeping a Time Machine backup, but also a clone, and if you do use Time Machine, to make sure the Time Machine drive or partition is at least twice the size of the original drive.

Accidentally converted my external hard drive to a time machine backup

Hi there, got a problem. I accidentally converted my external hard drive to a time machine backup and it re-formats my hard drive. What should i do to get back my data? It happened during my first time using a Mac book Air...
Please help. Thank you.

As Link pointed out in that thread, there's a lot excluded:
Dec 26 12:29:11 Branch-iMac com.apple.backupd[3876]: Backup content size: 340.7 GB excluded items size: 256.3 GB for volume Media Server
Thus there should be about 80 GB that's included.
And part of it WAS backed-up:
Dec 26 15:43:56 Branch-iMac com.apple.backupd[3876]: Copied 3986 files (13.6 GB) from volume Media Server.
He's also shown some things that aren't being backed-up, and suggested a couple of things to do, but you haven't responded to his last post.

HT4413 What if migration assistant isn't recognizing my external hard drive with my time machine backup on it.

Tech department updated my computer to Lion and wiped it clean. I'm trying to restore my documents/photos/etc from a Snow Leopard time machine backup. When trying to use Migration Manager, when it asks for me to "Select my system," my hard drive with the time machine backup doesn't appear.

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

I have a 250GB western digital external hard drive for my time machine backups. if i just want to backup and recover my photos and movies how do i do that with time machine?

I have a 250GB western digital external hard drive for my time machine backups. I did not download the software that came with the external HD. If I only want to backup my photos and movies from my Macbook how do I do that in Tme Machine with my external HD?

Format the HDD in Disk Utility>Erase to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the open System Preferences>Time Machine and set up the external disk as the Time Machine HDD. Then look at the Options, and exclude what you do not want backed up.
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HT201250 Hi, I hope this question won't seem too basic but if I want to use a new larger external drive for my time machine backups, will it do a new full backup the first time I plug it in and if so, do I really need all the old backups on my smaller ext

Hi, I hope this question won't seem too basic but if I want to use a new larger external drive for my time machine backups, will it do a new full backup the first time I plug it in and if so, do I really need all the old backups on my smaller external drive?

50maz wrote:
Hi, I hope this question won't seem too basic but if I want to use a new larger external drive for my time machine backups, will it do a new full backup the first time I plug it in
Yes, it will do a full backup.
and if so, do I really need all the old backups on my smaller external drive?
Only if you want to be able to go back in time to those previous Time Machine backups. When you plug in the new larger external drive, you will only be able to go back as far as the first day you plugged it in and ran the first Time Machine backup on it.

HT201250 if my drive with my time machine backup becomes corrupt, what is a good tool to recover it?

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Attempting to include an external hard drive to my time machine backup

I have an Apple Time Capsule that I am using as my back-up destination using Time Capsule. I have another ext hard drive (WD) that I use as an 'everyday drive'. I want to include this drive into my time capsule backup - but for some reason, this hard drive is appearing in my 'exclude' list and I cannot remove it.
Any ideas?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
If the drive is shown in gray instead of black, it's most likely because it's not formatted for a Mac, and Time Machine cannot back it up.
Check it via +Disk Utility+ (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
Select the main (top) line for the drive (with the make and size). At the bottom it will display the *Partition Map Scheme.* If that's +Master Boot Record,+ the drive was set up for use with Windoze.
Then select the line for the partition (indented). At the lower left it will show the Format. If the Format doesn't start with +Mac OS Extended,+ Time Machine cannot back it up.
The only way you can fix that is to copy the data somewhere temporarily, then reformat the drive.
Format it as you would a Time Machine drive -- see #5 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

Are all external FW drives used for Time Machine more prone to fail?

Within a period of just several months, I've seen three different external FW drives used for time Machine in three different locations fail terminally. They were different brands (Seagate, OWC and a nondescript generic from Fry's).
Is there something intrinsically different about how Time Machines disks function compared to plain data storage drives? Or was do these three drives amount to just a coincidence?
Thanks in advance.

Bus-powered seem not as robust as self-powered.
Soemtimes cables are flaky.
How did you decide these drives are "terminal?"

Include a network drive in the Time Machine backup?

I have a USB drive connected to the Airport Extreme. I would like its contents be included in the Time Machine backup.
Is this possible?

Yes. Make sure you have the network drive connected and go to System Preferences > Time Machine > Options. Select the network drive and click the – button. This will include the drive in your backups, although, depending on the speed of your network and the size/quantity of files being backed up, it may take a long time for TIme Machine backups to complete. Also be aware that the drive must be mounted (that is, you must be connected to the drive) for Time Machine to back it up, although once you have performed the steps above, all you will need to to do is connect to the drive for it to be backed up in the future.

How do I password protect the external hard drive used for Time Machine backup

Can anyone help me to put password protection on the external hard drive I use to Time Machine backup my iMac internal hard drive? I use Snow Leopard 10.6

I think that was FileVault 1. Starting with Lion (10.7) Mac OS X uses FileVault 2, which is whole disk encryption.
Based on complaints seen in these forums, I would say FileVault 2's only complaint has been when people forget their password/encryption key (it seems an encrypted disk does prevent anyone without the password from accessing the data, including the real owner). Otherwise it does not seem to be causing any serious issues. Your Mileage may vary and objects are closer than they appear in your side view mirror (standard disclaimer). Of course this is all academic while you are using Snow Leopard (10.6).
There are other whole disk encryption packages available, such as PGP Whole Disk Encryption, HOWEVER, I would not advise it for your Mac OS X boot disk, as it has been known to be a problem when you try to install operating system updates or upgrade to a new version. NOTE: I have not seen PGP Whole Disk Encryption discussed much, ever since FileVault 2 came along.

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