Backup OS X Mountain Lion ?

Is there is any way or actually any need to try to keep a copy of OS X 10.8 software? This is the first time I've done an OS upgrade without a disc...so it's a bit different. Is it possible and/or a good idea? BTW it will be from OS X 10.7.5 Lion.

Before attempting any Major Upgrade... get yourself an External Hard Drive... and create a Bootable Clone Backup of your current Hard Drive...
By far the easiest way to make such a Backup, is to use something like
SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
or CCC http://www.bombich.com/
That way, should anything untoward happen during the Upgrade,
you will NOT LOSE ANYTHING.
(Get an EHD that is at least equal to your current Drive...)

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Hi Guys
I have trawled through the Internet and found many sources of help for some of my headaches but still can't help the problem. So here I am.....
I have an early MacBook Pro 13" that came with snow leopard. I immediately updated to lion which was a disaster being so slow etc. Then I upgraded to mountain lion which was pretty good. I always upgraded and never clean installed.
I have been running time machine on a Qnap nas (model 212) which I must add has been a headache to get going in itself.
Anyways I recently upgraded to mavericks which made my MacBook grind to a halt. I mean even the beachball was struggling. To the point after 2 weeks I couldn't get anything done on it!
So I decided to do a clean install. Did that and then tried to do restore files using migration assistant at first log in. Turns out my back is corrupted!
Now I know I have a good complete backup of my mountain lion system just 2 weeks old on my nas. Only problem is that mavericks won't let me get to that when I try to upgrade from that drive as it just says no OSX backup available.
Now I am trying to install snow leopard cleanly and the try and upgrade to mountain lion hoping that it would recognise the mountain lion backup on my nas.
Can you please let me know if I am going in the right direction?
Any help appreciated guys.
Thanks

Everything since the fresh install, has to be done manually from my Backup drive. Wasn't, or isn't TM supposed to do that automatically (for example restoring iTunes, is it supposed to restore just the application or all the folders with it as well?). Why, when I select a folder with many subfolders in it (and eventually the files I want within) does it say that the original whatever doesn't exist anymore at that location, then I have the option to choose a new location or to recreate the enclosing folders? I Click on recreate but when I do, just the top level shows (the first folder, for example, garageband). No more folders are shown inside, despite there being plenty of files in my backup version. Am I misunderstanding TM's powers/capabilities here? Is it supposed to be this frustrating and difficult?
Everything that I want has to be done manually it seems. I don't understand it. The other thing is that it denies me access (I don't have the privileges or whatever it says) to move the files directly via the mounted disk on the desktop rather than entering TM. So, I can't go into TM and click restore, I can't manually open the mounted drive and drag files (denies me permission). The only way I've been able to do anything successfully is to archive the **** folder/s or files.
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The folder /Library/Application Support/MobileSync/ is not available in the OSX Mountain Lion. Where can I find my iphone backups in the Mountain Lion?

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After I upgraded to Mountain Lion I got an error every time I tried to backup over wireless. I figured I would just backup from scratch, therefore I connected the hard drive to my USB, deleted the sparsbundle and then connected the hard drive back up to the Airport Extreme.
Now every time I try to backup wirelessly I get these errors (using Time Machine Buddy):
Starting manual backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://**********;AUTH=SRP@****%20******._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Machine
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Time Machine using URL: afp://**********;AUTH=SRP@****%20******._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Machine
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Please help discussion board, you're my only hope!

First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so.
Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To really see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now if you haven't already done so. No matter what happens, you should be able to restore your system to the state it was in at the time of that backup.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
After installing ODS in the Applications folder, drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. When you're done with it, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Where is the ipad backup file in Mountain Lion?

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Please advise.
Thank you!

And you are sure you are backing up to the computer and not to iCloud?
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Backup iPhone in Mountain Lion

When attempting to sync my iPhone in Mountain Lion I am getting the "iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone" message. It tells me to delete the backup for this iPhone, then try again.
This is a new iMac but the data was transfered from my Macbook Pro. I have not backed up on this machine yet....
I read the advise from some to go to preferences in the iTunes menu and devices and delete it from there, but there is nothing listed when I go to devices. Others say to go to library/mobile devices....etc, but I cannot for the life of me find that in the new Mountain Lion.
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Janet

Located here:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
You will have to turn on show all hidden files & folders to see it. Delete everything in the folder, but not the folder itself.

Export (Backup) Notes in Mountain Lion?

Dear Apple Community,
is there any possiblity to export the notes in mountain lion?
On Lion I could export the notes!

William Lloyd wrote:
Your notes are stored in a Core Data database.
The location is ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Library/Notes/
There are 2 or 3 files in there, called NotesV1.storedata (stuff).
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There is no way that I'm aware of to do mass import or export of notes from within the Notes application. However, Notes is AppleScriptable so you could write an AppleScript that would do it. This obviously requires knowing enough AppleScript to do it.
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http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=39166
That's to import. You could reverse the script to export stuff.
You have got to be kidding!!!!
I looked at the page you reference.
One of the biggest selling points for me to get an apple was that I could use time machine to recuperate "lost" items.
This is WAY too complicated!!
Any easier solutions?
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Encrypted Time Machine Backup Lost in Mountain Lion Install?

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Operating 10.7.4, I make use of 'time machine' encrypted backups to an external HD. If I wipe the HD and do a fresh install of 10.8, will I lose the encrypted backup? Of course I know my passwrd and I don't rely on the keyring, but if there is some certificate exchange between OS and TM, there is a possibility that installing a fresh OS, I will lose access to the disk? Is there any official documentation that addresses this concern?
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vance.corkery wrote:
Hi,
Operating 10.7.4, I make use of 'time machine' encrypted backups to an external HD. If I wipe the HD and do a fresh install of 10.8, will I lose the encrypted backup?
No. It's password only. You can even access it on a different Mac (Lion or ML) with the password.

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I usually take a second backup of the ios device backups. Now missing, and can't find them in Finder. Please don't say in iTunes...unless, I am a total idiot and it somewhere shows the path.
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I just bought a new 15" MacBook Pro Retina Display and a Time Capsule router. The Time Capsule has supposedly backed up my macbook for a few days but when I try a complete restore from the Time Capsule backup wirelessly, it fails. New to Apple but do remember"can't access time capsule" even though network works fine.
Any help appreciated !!!

See p.4 here - http://www.pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html - and see if the Great Pondoni can help.
He's sure helped others in the past...
Clinton

Mountain Lion using a Snow Leopard backup?

Hi,
Some applications won't run on my current OS which forces me to upgrade to Mountain Lion. When I do this I'll also erase my entire disk (it is way to full). But, before I do this I want to make sure that Mountain Lion will be able to use a Snow Leopard Time Machine backup and that I can retrieve my files (pictures, movies etc).
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Steve -

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
There are no problems doing it. Furthermore, the problem would be that you want to restore the backup made in Mountain Lion onto a computer with Snow Leopard, but in this case, you can do it without any problem.
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Mountain lion backup disk

I just downloaded and installed mountain Lion. Went well. Can I burn a backup disk of Mountain Lion?

Yes!
http://mac-how-to.wonderhowto.com/how-to/create-bootable-install-dvd-usb-drive-o s-x-10-8-mountain-lion-0138303/
Matt

Mail from Lion Time Machine Backup to Mountain Lion

Hello,
My Lion iMac is crashed and now I want to put my Mail database from Lion Time Machine Backup to my Mountain Lion Mac Mini.
In Migration-assistent under Users there is no topic for Address Book, Calendar and Mail. Also the helpdesk told me not to use the migration-assistent but doing it manually.
How can I add extra accounts from the Lion Time Machine Backup ?
I have already <emailaccount1> working on my Mac Mini. It is just merging <emailaccount2> upto <emailaccount7>.
Is it just copying Library/Mail/V2/POP-<emailaccount2> to ~/Library/Mail/V2/POP-<emailaccount2> or do I have to change something under Preferences ?
Thanks,
Hubert

Hello Sig,
This helped but the original mail data is deleted completely. I tried it on a dummy account and discovered that the original data of <emailaccount1> is deleted by copying the Mail folder onto the original one.
So I made a copy of the Mail folder before overwriting it. Then I copied the deleted mbox files back to the Mailboxes folder and started Mail.app.
Thanks,
Hubert

"On My Mac" saved mail gone since upgrading to Mountain Lion

I upgraded my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion this past week. Mail worked fine for a few days and then my Mail Rules and my "On My Mac" saved mail (DECADES worth of mail!!!) disappeared.
I have both a Time Machine backup of my Snow Leopard from right before the upgrade, as well as a SuperDuper clone.
I have already tried the following:
Rebuilding the mailbox (it rebuilt my Inbox, but nothing showed up "On My Mac" and no, nothing is hidden.
Copying the Mail folder from my Snow Leopard backup to my Mountain Lion desktop and copying the .mbox files and associated .plist files for the "On My Mac" saved mail into the "Mailbox" folder in V2 on Mountain Lion. When I then launched Mail it showed "On My Mac" and the names of all of my saved mail folder, but those folders were empty. I attempted to rebuild those folders, but nothing showed up.
Importing the .mbox files from the "On My Mac" saved mail, but it only showed two Sent Items folders as being able to be imported. None of my actual "On My Mac" many saved mail folders.
I could really use some help here. I have already posted on Macintouch and nothing suggested has helped thus far.
I really cannot lose my saved mail. The contents of each of those .mbox saved mail folders absolutely contains my saved email. There are tons of "emlx" files.
Thanks!

Misery loves company. ;-)
Glad you found yours. What did you do to make it show up in Mail again?
I just got off the phone with Apple support and still have no resolution. I got kicked up one level and now that person has to kick it up again because they don't know how to fix my problem. I have been told it could be up to 48 hours until I hear from someone again. Ugh
Your mention of the "archive" folder sent me to look at my mailbox structure.
For some reason, I appear to have 2 mailboxes for my .Mac email (sorry - I still call it .Mac!). I don't know why, and each has 1GB of stuff in it. The first one has an archive.mbox with only a .plist in it. No folders. The other one has neither a .plist nor a folder. The other .mbox stuff has both a .plist and a folder with individual files (emails).
I really shouldn't have to revert to Snow Leopard to get my stuff back. There has got to be a way to have Mountain Lion Mail read my Saved Mail (On My Mac) folder. It's got 3GB of stuff in there.

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