Back up disk based idisk?

I have a time capsule and using time machine - I have moved most of my files to IDisk and have turned on the idisk on my mac for offline use. Anyone know how to get it to back up to time capsule via time machine. this is kind of a hole...
Thanks

Actually, if you already have Time Machine backing up everything, then you're good to go. When you turn on iDisk to sync to your desktop, the system creates a disk image inside your User Folder that mirrors your iDisk. That's why when you turned iDisk syncing on it took up harddrive space equal to the size of the iDisk you created on Apples' servers. Thus, that disk image is also backed-up every time your User folder is backed-up as well.

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Why can't I use iDisk for a back-up disk for Time Capsule?

G'Day All,
I am new to apple and mostly am loving it! Being new to this product has me asking some basic questions, like ... why can't I use iDisk for a back-up disk for Time Capsule?
Here I have something like 20 gb disk space available, but it seems I need to buy an external hard drive (or an airport) in order to use, what I believe is one of apples greatest inventions, the Time Machine...
Can anyone correct my flawed understanding or, better yet, teach me how to do it properly?
Cheers
Gabriel

Gabr1el wrote:
Thank you Pondini.
Speed makes sense, but I thought I had plenty of size available ... never mind! Looking over some of the other posts, it looks as though I'd be better off with an external Hard drive than the Apple Time Capsule (if I want more than 12-18months service).
That was true of some of the ones made a couple of years ago (many of which Apple replaced way beyond the warranty period, and even some beyond the 3-year AppleCare period). Presumably Apple has fixed the power supply problem in the newer units, so they'll last longer.
If you don't have AppleCare for your Mac, I'd strongly suggest buying it. If you do, and buy a TimeCapsule, Airport, or other accessory within 2 years, it's covered, too.
But unless you need a wireless router, yes, paying for one in a Time Capsule doesn't make sense. A good external HD is a much better buy.
thank you for the links - I am still getting used to the way Apples work ...
If you haven't found these yet, you may find some handy tips here: http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
here: http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
and some of the other videos listed on the Time Machine Tutorial page.

Any fix for non-booting back-up disks?

I have 5 Lacie back-up disks, all firewire, and all based on clones of my iBook (on 10.4.6).
Unfortunately, they've all followed the same pattern of decline - working perfectly for a year or so, then suddenly becoming unbootable. They appear as a bootable option in system preferences, but simply fail to boot - same too when the option key is held down at startup.
My last 2 disks went unbootable at the weekend, when I installed iLife 06 on the iBook (can't see any link between the events.)
Disk Utility assesses them all as needing no repair, but it sound like they're not spinning fast enough to start up. The blue 'Power-on' light doesn't flicker either, as it normally does when a disk is active.
They're 2 - 4 years old, still store data fine and mostly mount first time. The line-up includes three d2s (300GB + 320GB) + 2 Porsche mobiles (100GB). Slim chance I know, but since Google throws up several instances of Lacies becoming unbootable, for no apparent reason, has anyone found a fix for this?

conran:
The firewire bridge is the interface that enables the HDD to communicate with the computer. That's about all that I know about it. In my case, both drives to which I referred in my earlier post, were still functional. In the case of my LaCie I could feel the vibration of the HDD spinning, but nothing came up. You can read about it here. In the case of my son-in-law's HDD, nothing worked. I was not even sure if the drive would work if I pulled it. But I put it in my enclosure and it worked fine. Everything was still on it the way it was when he last used it.
Those LaCie Porsches do look pretty neat. I still have my case, although I don't know what I would do with it. Buying a firewire bridge by itself would have cost more than the enclosure cost. So I don't have a neat shiny box anymore, -- just a blue box. But it works! If I want to look at a neat shiny box I can set that up next to my computer and look at it; but it only makes me sad.
Incidentally, the computer's firmware has nothing to with it. LaCie had a firmware update that I downloaded, but my firmware was up-to-date.
Cheers
cornelius

Songs can no longer be put on back up disk though that was what my original "contract" was when I furchased tunes.

Songs can no longer be burned on back up disk so if one changes comp. GODBY SONGS...

They can, when backed up outside of iTunes as you would back up any other file.
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After upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?

after upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?
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Ok. I got it to work, sort of....
As I mentioned before I tried the "disk password" and the "Time capsule Password" options to see if I can start the back up again or start a new backup. Neither worked. So I tried the firmware down grade, but like you said that did not work. I then decided to try the "Account password" option and I have never used this option before becasue it states that if there is data on the drive it would not be acessable after creating an account. Since I wiped out the disk that was nno problem. When I created the new account and choose the drive it asked for the user name and password. I entered the info for the new account I just created(FYI this has nothing to do with your login username and password), bingo! It worked!
Now I have two partitions on the TC disk. The old one and now the new account. I am guessing this is to be used if I have multiple computers, which I don't.
I any case, I am going to wipe out everything again and try again to do a backup the way I had it before.

I loaded in Lion - but my time capsule will not back up. I get an message: couldn't complete backup due to a network prolem. Also it says "make sure your computer and back up disk are on the same network, and that the backup disk is turned on.

I installed Lion on my Mac Pro laptop. Regarding Time Capsul - I get a messaage as follows: couldn't complete backup due to a network problem. Make sure your computer and back up disk are on the same network and that the backup disk is turned on. Then try again to back up. I have time capsul turned on. bill

I have exactly same problem with my MBP and MBA, after upgrading to Lion. I've tried to fix this issue while cheking key chain issues and network setup, even formating hdd and time capsule firmware upgrade (ver. 7.6.1.). Nothing can help. It is very annoying.

Simple question: I want to use iCloud as a back up disk for my documents folder. How can I do this? If I cannot do this, why am I paying for access to "the cloud?"

Simple question: I want to use iCloud as a back up disk for my documents folder. How can I do this? If I cannot do this, why am I paying for access to "the cloud?"

iCloud does not provide general file storage or backup, so you cannot back up your Documents folder using it. You will need to find a third-party alternative - this page examines some options (some are free):
http://rfwilmut.net/missing3
iCloud at basic level, with 5GB is storage, is free: you only pay anything if you want to increase the storage space.

HT201272 Having a bad day my iTunes library got corrupted and my back up disk has failed how can I restore my purchases from the iTunes store

Having a bad day my iTunes library got corrupted and my back up disk has failed how can I restore my purchases from the iTunes store? When I try it tells me the pruchases have already been downloaded to this computer.

Does your purchased rmusic appears under the Purchased link under Quicklinks on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page (music can't be re-downloaded in all countries) ? If they do and you don't have the cloud symbol against them so as to re-download them, then do you still have the entries for them in your library i.e. where you would normally click on them to play them ? If you do then try deleting them from there (iTunes will be seeing them and assuming that you still have them somewhere) and they should then get the cloud symbol for re-downloading in the Purchased link.
If you aren't in a country where music can be re-downloaded then you could try contacting iTunes support and see if they will grant you a re-download : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page,

How do I access my encrypted User Account files from my Back Up hard drive? Time Machine was used to create the back up disk; File Vault was used to encrypt the files.

How do I access my encrypted User Account files from my Back Up hard drive? Time Machine was used to create the back up disk; File Vault was used to encrypt the files.

Thanks. I will try going through TM. Since my Simpletech is on the way out, I'll be plugging in a new external hard drive (other than the back-up drive) and trying to restore the library to the new drive. Any advice or warning if this is NOT the right thing to do?
Meanwhile, that is a great tip to do an alternate back-up using a different means. It's been tough to figure out how to "preserve access" to digital images and files for posterity, knowing the hardware will always fail/obsolesce sooner or later, and that "clouds" are only as good as their consistent and reliable accessibility. Upping the odds with redundancy will help dull the edge of my "access anxiety", though logically, it can never relieve it. Will look into
Carbon Copy Cloner.

Issues while migrating data from a disk based table to a memory optimized table

Hi All,
I have a Disk based table with 400000000 rows in it, We are trying to convert it into a memory optimized table.
We have already created a memory optimized table with similar structure and trying to import data into this mem optimized table using 'insert into' from the disk table.
I am trying to Migrate around 10000000 rows at a time, but I am getting an error 'There is insufficient system memory in resource pool 'default' to run this query.' Altough we have 128 GB RAM on the server and SS is utilizing more than 120 GB RAM.
Altough the query has been cancelled.
Wanted to Know how could we migrate the table with the available RAM or do we have increase our RAM?
aa

Josh,
Microsoft's documentation on this subject isn't at its best right now (I believe there will be incremental improvements for better understanding), but here is what I read so far.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn133190.aspx
"A hash index consists of a collection of buckets organized in an array. A hash function maps
index keys to corresponding buckets in the hash index."
Judging by this statement, a hash index is a hash table just like the ones used as work tables for hash operators in queries (hash matching or grouping). Doesn't contain (or include) other columns, i. e. it doesnt store any data.
"Multiple index keys may be mapped to the same hash bucket."
This means there is some kind of mapping, but this is not explained in the article above. However...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282389.aspx
"For each hash index in the table, each row has an 8-byte address pointer to the next row in the index. Since there are 4 indexes, each row will allocate 32 bytes for index pointers (an 8 byte pointer for each index)."
Each row (in the table) has a pointer (for every index, 1:1 ratio) that points to a row (also known as bucket) in the hash index. So that is how the aforementioned mapping works huh!
> What happens if you include a column in two or three different indexes, or is that not allowed?
My conclusion is that the hash indexes works the same way as a hash worktable, with the addition of the column in the base table that is added to store pointers to the hash index.
When you create a new index, even if you use the same column twice, a hash table is created, hash calculations are distinctly made for each key and stored on it, and while this is done, the column that is exclusively used for this new index is populated
with pointers to this index. You can add a given column to the set of keys of different hash indexes as many times as you want. Correct if i'm wrong, I'm also new on this subject :D

When backing up on time machine is get " The back up disk image'/volume/data/eric balnchard's Macbook.sparbundle"could not be accessed (error-1). what does it mean? it's a new time machine

when backing up on time machine is get " The back up disk image'/volume/data/eric balnchard's Macbook.sparbundle"could not be accessed (error-1). what does it mean? it's a new time machine

Expect to see this error again due to a bug in Lion (and Mountain Lion).
See # C17 in Pondini's excellent support document below, or look over to the right of this web page under the heading of More Like This
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Does Time Machine back up disk information in addition to all files?

Hi
I want to know if Time Machine back up disk information of my current Apple computer.
These information may include GUID/Apple Partition Map (such as partition names and layout). I check my backups in the Time Capsule, and it seems that only files in the hard drive have been backed up. I kind of know Partition Map doesn't reside in files, but hidden in the hard drive, so I wander if Time Machine does back up them? If so, where are they?
Thank you in advance!

DavidCQ wrote:
Thank you for your information! It seems that Time Machine can only do with Apple OS, and for other OS such as Windows , we need use other tools.
If it's Windows as a guest in a virtual machine, the backing file will get archived. That's certainly a backup, but a woefully inefficient one as it'll drag the whole backing file out each time. Most folks will thus disable that file in Time Machine.
If it's Windows via Boot Camp or Linux in a GPT partition, that'll require using Windows- or Linux-focused tools.
One of the few available OS-agnostic approaches for backing up data is a disk image. Time Machine is not an OS-agnostic backup tool.
As for Windows or Linux or OS X or most any other operating system, each has its own tools and requirements for performing an operating system backup and for recovering and restoring, and it's very rare for any other operating system around really has any clue what those requirements are for a given OS.

"Your Time Machine back up disk cannot be found." What does this mean?

I have an external hard drive that has never been disconnected from my iMac.
About 3 weeks ago, I started noticing that some of my iTunes library songs had "!" in front of them, and I wasn't able to find them to play. Over time, more and more iTunes songs had this problem. Someone recommended that I look in the hard drive library, for individual titles, and sure enough, there they were! I've been dragging them back to iTunes but this is going to take forever, because I'm a music teacher and I have a lot of songs in my library.
In this process, I decided to see if the songs were still on the external hard drive, the Time Machine. However, I get the message "your time machine back up disk cannot be found." I have no idea what this must mean, because the Time Machine has been plugged in for a couple of years now. But somehow, the computer doesn't recognize it any more.
Are the two problems related? And what should I do?

There is no relation.
Time Machine backups : my opinion is that this is a real waste of disk space, usefull for a few number of files but that's all ! In case of a reinstallation, everyone is performing a fresh installation ... In addition, after a certain time, TM erases the oldest files.
I personnaly backup only on mediums (CDs, DVDs, DVDs) etc ... then i'm always sure to find again what i'm searching for.
iTunes : a "!" means that you have moved from one place to another an audio file (or erasing it by error) and iTunes has just stored a link to the file and not the file inside its own folders. Probably you have never consolidated you library. The question is : where are you storing your files ? inside your mac plus inside external drives ? Please make sure, if you are managing often files in iTunes, to consolidate them in order for iTunes to copy them inside its own folders, else it becomes quickly a nightmare.
iTunes manages files on 3 different ways now :
- real files inside it
- links to files out of its folders
- files from iTunesMatch

I purchased Photoshop cs5 a while back in disk form for my old imac. Now my new laptop doesnt have a disc drive... can I get the program onto my new computer? I don't have the box, but have the old computer it's on...

I purchased Photoshop cs5 a while back in disk form for my old imac. Now my new laptop doesnt have a disc drive... can I get the program onto my new computer? I don't have the box, but have the old computer it's on...
also had a friend place inD and Ai on my old laptop and am curious to know how to get it to my new one

As long as you have your serial number, you may download and install
OLDER previous versions http://www.adobe.com/downloads/other-downloads.html

I have 2T imac running lion Can I re-partition and use one half as a back up disk?

Bought a new mac in November and it is refused to start up yesterday. Spoke with Apple and they said I should make sure I do regular back ups in case I l ose my hard drive?!?! I did a clean install of the Operating software but was advised to erase and install.
I have taken all my important stuff off and can reinstall my programs once I get to the next stage so what I am wondering is
I have 2T imac running lion Can I re-partition and use one half as a back up disk for use with time machine so that I do not have to buy an external HD?
Cheers J

You could partition the drive, I read that Time Machine will work on if you HD partition.
BUT, it will do you no good if you HD fails.
Usually, if a HD fails it's the entire drive that is dead not just a partition.
So your time machine back would be on a dead disk, useless!

Back up disk based idisk?

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