Backup, but not to CD or DVD?

is there a way to utilize itunes now built-in backup function to backup to a USB or network drive?

I'm firmly with sonictonic on this. The 'use a dedicated backup program' option is flawed, especially for us Windows users (sorry sods that we are) who have chosen to format their external USB or ethernet drives as FAT32. Using a backup program (like let's say Windows backup) doesn't work because there's a 4GB file size limit on the backup file in FAT32.
So unless your backup program is smart enough to break things up into 4G chunks, well... you're left with the drag and drop method and having to do manual incremental backups, hardly a reasonable task for any music library.
Presumably I could purchase a backup program to get around this 4G problem, rather than try to use Windows Backup, but it would seem Apple is a tiny tiny baby step away from incorporating this functionality and just ought to make it happen
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Backup will not recognize/detect the DVD onto which I stored my files.

The system: TouchSmart tx2-1275dx system running Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit). Unit is two years old.
The problem: I am doing a complete restore after complete HDD failure. I have used the HP recovery disks, purchased online for $16.50 , to reinstall the operating system; it is now back to its as-purchased state and functioning okay. When I open up the Backup/Restore application and attempt to restore from the backup files on my DVD drive, the system does not recognize those files. I have tried making a small backup of the restored system thinking that would enable the backup process. The system will recognize the small backup but not pre-failure backup.  Thinking that the problem was the disks, I tried them on my desktop machine. Though it runs XP Home, it quickly recognized the backup-disks and successfully restored the files in a temporary profile without issue.
The question: What can I do to restore the backup files (*.vhd) I made prior to this failure.  I did monthly backups specifically to avoid this kind of data loss. There has to be some way of getting the system to recognize them.
General remarks: The hardware portion of this restoration was easy. The software reinstallation/restoration has, to date, taken a suprisingly large amount of time and money; yuck.

If you are using the built in Vista backup, here is what I think has happened.
Vista backup uses an image based backup, it stores an image of the hard drive and the files you selected for backup, it also stores a disk signature in the image, it contains partition data and other parameters, since you replaced the disk and most likely is not the same size, Vista backup will not recognize that backup as legitimate, signature mismatch of sorts.
What you can do:
1. If you have acess to a W7 PC you can use disk management in W7 to mount the vhd image and the copy all your data out of the image to flat files.
2. You can do this in Vista but takes some software to be installed
http://www.pronetworks.org/forums/how-to-mount-completepc-backup-vhd-file-t84349.html
Conclusion, you most likely can get your data but you will have to decide where it goes.
I don't guarantee this is the issue, but is most likely.
One other thing you can try is to copy the contents of the DVD to your hard drive, then point to the directory.
Vista and W7 backup is not a full featured backup solution and has its limitations, I sugget this software for backups and disk images, it also has a rescue boot disc you can make.
Easeus Todo Backup Free v2.5
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

Restore previous backup (folder exist in C:/...backup) but not on the iTune list.

There were problems with my iPhone for the past few days with freezing etc. So i backup the phone and brought it into Apple for an exchange for a new one. When i got home, when i plugged into iTune, there are no other options apart from ONLY set up as a new phone.
After that was done, i tried to restore from the previous back but the one i backed up from the previous phone is not listed except the one new one is created with plugging in the new phone for the first time.
I have checked '\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\' there is my folder there named 'a97551c3537f0068b2f80e92b51254453e20675e' which is the backup i did with the previous phone but cannot be seem when i tried to restore in iTune.
MAJOR HELP PLEASE!!

I backed up my computer - but not my iphone on time machine. Will the backup file on time machine be from the last iphone backup? or from my last iphone sync? (I won't have access to my time machine drive for a few days, and am stressing out trying to find another way to retrieve the lost info)

Time Machine does manual backups but not automatic.

Time Machine skips automatic hourly backups but will do a backup if I click "Backup Now". Any idea why automatic backups are not working and how to enable them? Thanks.

Jan 14 04:10:17 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Copied 16.0 GB of 17.4 GB, 462725 of 509959 items
Jan 14 04:16:21 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Copied 504166 files (16.4 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jan 14 04:16:26 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: 839.3 MB required (including padding), 253.24 GB available
Jan 14 04:16:46 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Copied 1570 files (310 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jan 14 04:16:50 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan 14 04:16:50 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan 14 04:16:50 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan 14 04:16:54 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Jan 14 04:16:54 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[18614]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Jan 14 05:11:18 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/Client%20Backups
Jan 14 05:11:20 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Client Backups-1 using URL: afp://[email protected]/Client%20Backups
Jan 14 05:11:39 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Jan 14 05:11:42 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: Disk image /Volumes/Client Backups-1/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Jan 14 05:12:58 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Client Backups-1
Jan 14 05:13:14 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Client Backups-1/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Jan 14 05:13:16 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19152]: Disk image /Volumes/Client Backups-1/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Jan 14 05:48:50 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Starting standard backup
Jan 14 05:48:50 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Client Backups-1
Jan 14 05:49:07 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Client Backups-1/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Jan 14 05:49:09 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Disk image /Volumes/Client Backups-1/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Jan 14 05:49:09 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Jan 14 05:49:13 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: 536.7 MB required (including padding), 251.29 GB available
Jan 14 05:49:38 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Copied 1913 files (30.5 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jan 14 05:49:39 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: 500.4 MB required (including padding), 251.29 GB available
Jan 14 05:49:43 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Copied 185 files (128 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jan 14 05:49:44 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan 14 05:49:44 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan 14 05:49:44 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan 14 05:49:47 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Jan 14 05:49:47 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Jan 14 05:49:55 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/Client%20Backups
Jan 14 05:49:57 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Client Backups-1 using URL: afp://[email protected]/Client%20Backups
Jan 14 05:50:17 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Jan 14 05:50:19 myclienthost com.apple.backupd[19287]: Disk image /Volumes/Client Backups-1/My MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
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New dvd plays on the mac - but not on pc or dvd players

i have made many dvd's before that have worked fine, but the one i am on right now the dvd will not work on pc's or on regular dvd player.... any ideas.
thanks
mrC

Same problem here. Produced a six-minute video (pretty straightforward) in FCP and Compressed in DVD: Best Quality Pro 2.0. Format and create DVD that plays on desktop and MacBook but not in either of two DVD players. Where is the "build" list?
Here is the data from the Compressor Inspector box:
Name: MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass
Description: Fits up to 90 minutes of video with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps or 60 minutes with AIFF audio on a DVD-5
File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 288.9 MB
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width and Height: Automatic
Selected: 720 x 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: (L: 0, T: 4, R: 0, B: 2)
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Selected Bottom first
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My MBP read DVD/CD but NOT Mac osX installation DVD (tiger or Leopard)

Hi,
I read a lot of discussion but I didn't find the same problem.
So I have a MBP 15", 2.16Ghz intel core duo, and 2 Go RAM.
I have the 10.5.8 version installed, and I want to erase the disk and do a re-install of 10.5 because I've got some bugs :
- my MBP starts really slowly (about 15min),
- it bugs when I suspend the activity (black screen, nothing works... I have to push the "ON" button a longtime to stop the mac, )
- and other ponctual bugs.
The problem is that my MBP don't read the installation DVD (leopard or even Tiger).
It reads the DVD, I heard that the DVD turns, but after 3/4 try, the MBP ejects the DVD.
But It reads Blank CD, DVD (many zone)... Only the installation DVD is not reading.
I've already try :
-to begin in safemode (with SHIFT button => it is not ok)
- to push "C" key" at the restart (it's not ok, the MBP eject before blue screen.. it seems that the MBP is waiting to eject the install DVD to start)
- to create an other account (not ok)
- to restart the V/P RAM 5 times (not ok)
So, Is there a solution ? If the Mac can read sometimes CD or movie DVD, that mean that the otpical drive isn't broken...
I'm waiting your help
(sorry if there's some english mistakes !)

So, I've tried to start in target disc mod with a firewire.... Not lucky, I can read in the "information System" that my firewire is not recognized. It's weird because I can charge my ipod with firewire, but the target mode doesn't work !!!
message in french :
Bus FireWire :
Attention : Impossible de répertorier les périphériques FireWire.
(average Translate = impossible to index firewire's peripherals)
Do you have some solutions... I still not re-install MAC OSX... and I haven't an external HD (not in shop too !!)

Can I backup but not sync my 2009 3G iPhone?

Can I back up but not sync my 3G iPhone??

Yes. Right click in the device pane and select "Backup". Be sure to disable auto sync under preferences in itunes first(under the edit menu, if using Windows).

HT204032 Powernap works for timemachine backups but NOT for Find My Mac. Mid 2011 mba. osx 10.8.2. Anyone else have this problem?

Hi,
I'm looking for a solution to this issue. Console shows that mba wakes up for timemachine backups but when firing Find My Mac on iPhone or iMac, it does not succeed in locating my mba and it is listed as offline.
How to solve this?
Cheers
Kris

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5394
This states that you need to do an smc reset for full powernap functionality. It could be effecting it if it was an older macbook air that you updated to mountain lion?
Ryan

Time Machine can see my old backups, but not open them

I have been using Time Machine with a Time Capsule (1TB) since last June (on this machine) - quite a few backups in there.
Last night when I went to backup, first time in a few days, it said the machine had never been backed up and started the preparing the disk thing - I couldn't find a problem, everything looked fine on my time capsule - couldn't do anything else, so I let it run. This AM it had finished the backup (in fact several) and when I open Time Machine it shows me as having backups all the way to June '08 -- however, it cannot seem to open anything earlier than last nights -- if I try to scroll to them it greys out. If I try to directly click on one, I get an empty finder window that never seems to update (at least not for 5-10 min) and then I cannot get any response from anything, have to restart to get out.
There are two things that I can think of that could have caused this -- I updated to 10.5.6 since my last backup, and I backed up a second Mac to the same time capsule in the interim (that backup went fine and seems to be working, but very slow)
My console is not reporting any errors (for backup or for anything else). It would be nice to get back to my old files, it certainly seems to know they are there. Any thoughts?
thanks
Jim Hendler
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I'm having this same issue and would like to know what I might be able to do.
I started using TimeMachine so that I could wipe my internal HD and be able to restore the settings. Now that I've wiped the HD TimeMachine doesn't seem to be doing what I expected it to do or I don't know how to restore the files.
Any help would be wonderful!

How to setting up new (June 2011) TC to do wireless time machine backup but not connected to network?

Hello. Just got new (refurbished June 2011, 2TB) Time Capsule. My building has a shared wifi network, and I'm assuming it's hard to join the network with Time Capsule and still be satisfied with security/privacy/performance. (Of course, if I'm assuming wrong, please let me know!)
My understanding is that I can use Time Capsule wirelessly to do Time Machine backups by switching out of my wireless network to - I assume - a new Time Capsule generated network(?). It's an extra step, but that beats connecting cables to the computer everytime I need to do backup. Basically it's like an external wireless hard drive that I have to join everytime the backup is updated, right? (Again, if there is a better way to go about doing this, please let me know.)
So how do I go about doing this? The setup manual isn't helpful (not at all).
Here's more detail if necessary. I have 10.8 Macbook Air (which I plan to upgrade to 10.9 soon) and my spouse is running 10.9 Macbook Pro. I am also assuming I don't have to partition Time Capsule, and when the Time Machine backs up, it'll figure who's who.
Thanks in advance.

Hello. Just got new (refurbished June 2011, 2TB) Time Capsule. My building has a shared wifi network, and I'm assuming it's hard to join the network with Time Capsule and still be satisfied with security/privacy/performance. (Of course, if I'm assuming wrong, please let me know!)
Security is ok.. but performance is abominable.
The TC unfortunately has some design limitations that Apple imposed that makes it rather poor for anything but ethernet.
There is a couple of ways around the problem of sequential internet or backups.
1. Get a wireless bridge that is suited to your in-building system.. and plug that into the TC so it can take normal router settings .. This will give you double NAT but I doubt your in building system will be handing out public IP anyway. An airport extreme can do this. Although it is pricey for the same results as a $35 standard wireless bridge. All devices in your place will then get both internet and backup direct to the TC.
One flaw here could be the download limits.. if you have two connections do you get double the downloads.. ??
ie how many IP are allocated to you?? And is it divided between all of them or the more IP clients the more download bandwidth?
2. Use a USB wireless stick in the Mac.. these can be tiny little things now.. just buy Mac compatible ones.. use that for internet and use the internal (faster) wireless for local connections. there are some manual setup tricks needed here but nothing hard.

After Clean install, TM will see old backups, but not backup new data

I am having a problem with time machine. I was having problems with Mac and I ended up doing a re-install of leopard because I was having some issues with my OS and wanted a clean install. Now when I hook up my external HD that TM was using, it sees my old backups, and I can do restores from them, but it will not do any new backups. Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks

Aren't you better off to wipe out those old backups, and start a fresh new TM run?

Optical Drive is Reading CDs and DVDs & Writing CDs but not Writing and Erasing DVDs!

Product Name & Number: Compaq Presario CQ60-101AU
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
Error Msg: Shows Reading Error at the end of burning DVD using Cyberlink Power2Go 5.5, Nero 11, Ashampoo Burning Studio 11
Description:
When reading and writing CD+R, everything works perfect. And Reading DVD also working perfect. The problem is while Writing DVD+R, DVD+RW and Erasing DVD+RW. When using burning software or the windows in-built burning, at the end it shows reading error. And While erasing also same problem. In the DVD, there are only some dark circles/lines with gap and doesn't look like normal written DVDs.
Steps tried out (but in vain)
1. Used different burners
2. Used Superblank
3. Uninstalled and Reinstalled Chipset drivers
4. Formatted the whole HDD and Reinstalled OS
Please Help! Actually where is the problem? And how to fix it?
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Either go directly to Intel and run their driver finder or use this thread.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-drivers-software-forum/404164-drivers-hp-dv6-2xxx-dv7-3xxx-dv8-hd...
The bloat-ware if you want it :
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-drivers-software-forum/519991-popular-hp-notebook-software.html
Install the Chipset driver first, then the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver, the rest doesn't matter.
Same for the NVIDIA driver, Notebook Review is up to date or you cab go directly to NVIDIA.
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu
http://www.geforce.com/drivers
And the tutorial to do a clean install to W7.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/windows-7-clean-install-part-1.htm
If you have an upgrade disc, then you can do a clean install as long as there is a Windows OS on the drive.
I have also done a clean install form an upgrade disc to on a new drive and it still works.
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What is your "wife's backups"?
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Output from DVD Studio Pro plays on computer but not on TV DVD?

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I don't want to take over this thread, but figured why start another when I am having this exact same issue. I create my project, everything is good, I simulate it and everything is good, I burn it to disc and play it on the computer and everything is good, try it in a conventional player and it says it's unreadable and kicks it out. I've tried it in Two different players that both have been able to play movies created in iDVD just fine.
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I have an external hard drive that I have used as Time Machine backup, but not for a while. Now when I plug it in, computer says this disc is not readable.
I want to keep the backups on it and not erase and start over.
Thank you in advance.
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