Creating Backups

Hallo.
I'm just backing up some stuff from my HDD. I don't have the luxury of an external drive, so i'm just burning all my stuff to what wrtitable disks I have lying around my desk.
If I wanted to back up my applications, can I just drag them from my Applications folder and onto the writable CD folder? If I do this, can I then drag the applications from the disk back on to my hard drive?

It really depends on the application. Some are self contained and it would work fine (although the .plist file wouldn't come with it). Some however wouldn't work or wouldn't work as expected.
Most people when doing simple back ups don't mess with applications because they either have the discs, or they can download them without much effort.
If you really want to back up save your home folder to a disc. That contains most everything you'll need to restore your Mac to "like now."

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Sure-glad to help you. You will not lose any data by changing synching to MacBook Pro from imac. You have set up Time Machine, right? that's how you'd do your backup, so I was told, and how I do my backup on my mac. You should be able to set a password for it. Save it. Your stuff should be saved there. So if you want to make your MacBook Pro your primary computer, I suppose, back up your stuff with Time machine, turn off Time machine on the iMac, turn it on on the new MacBook Pro, select the hard drive in your Time Capsule, enter your password, and do a backup from there. It might work, and it might take a while, but it should go. As for clogging the hard drive, I can't say. Depends how much stuff you have, and the hard drive's capacity. As for moving syncing from your iMac to your macbook pro, should be the same. Your phone uses iTunes to sync and so that data should be in the cloud. You can move your iTunes Library to your new Macbook pro
you should be able to sync your phone on your new MacBook Pro. Don't know if you can move the older backups yet-maybe try someone else, anyways,
This handy article from Apple explains how
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support''
don't forget to de-authorize your iMac if you don't want to play purchased stuff there
and re-authorize your new macBook Pro
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Check here. Also have you done a TimeMachine back up?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570

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Hi,
I'm running adobe digital editions on a Mac OS X 10.6.3 and I keep getting this error message whenever I open adobe digital editions.
Error creating backup file: /Users/yongrufui/Documents/Digital Editions/backup_manifest.xml
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This message also appears when I go to Library view. And I can't load my new ebook either.
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I wish I had an answer, but I have the same problem. My error is: Error Creating Backup File c:windows\personal\MyDigital Editions\Backup_Manifest.xml
Error Detail: Error #2038
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kornkid wrote:
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Hello,
A while a go I disabled auto-backup using terminal by this command
"com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true"
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I get "-bash: com.apple.iTunes: command not found"
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It's not a lazy solution - it's a workable one. And it doesn't take very long either.
A risk of terminal hacks is precisely this - that they have unintended consequences. If this is an Apple approved process, then report a bug to Apple. If it isn't, then whoever provided it should have put the usual disclaimer in about using at your own risk.
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We are moving from creating backups via stsadm to a vendor backup product. That product runs with its own sa account.
I was asked to add that account to the sharepoint farm admins group and I have done that.
I just am wondering whether that account needs to have site collection admin privleges as well to be able to backup all the site collection data?
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and recover - SP items?
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check the below technet and compare your account permission with it.
Configuring permissions for backup and recovery (SharePoint Server 2010)
also check this technet for more detail about the Backup & recovery.
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My first time trying to use Time Machine.
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Log reports:
Starting standard backup
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine
Creating disk image /Volumes/TimeMachine/JoeiMac.sparsebundle
Error 17 creating backup disk image
Failed to create disk image /Volumes/TimeMachine/JoeiMac.sparsebundle, status: 17
Backup failed with error: 20
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Any idea what went wrong?
Hope you can help.

That's the problem with using a 3d-party NAS with Time Machine; it has it's own software that's supposed to interact with OSX, and when something goes wrong, it can be very hard to sort out just what and where the problem is.
First, make sure that model is fully compatible with Time Machine on Lion (some are, some aren't), and install any software/firmware updates Synology has for it.
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Time Machine error while creating backup folder

Several times today I have gotten a popup message. "Time Machine error while creating backup folder". I click OK, and then the message appears again after a hour or so. I am using a WD My Book external drive as my backup media. I looked at the drive in Finder and the older (yesterday and beyond) backup folders are there.

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I recently changed to a new Time Machine drive (external LaCie Porsche 1TB) connected via USB to my early 2009 iMac running Lion. I set up the drive with a single GUID partition, MacOS Extended (Journaled ) format, and copied my old Time Machine backups over from an older drive via the disk utility restore function. The disk worked fine for a while, then after several backups I get recurring Time machine errors that tell me it cannot create a backup folder. When I run Disk Utility to repair (after turning off Time Machine), it cannot unmount the disk. After a force eject (required because I am told the disk is in use when trying to eject after a Time machine fail), the disk mounts, no problems are found by disk utility, and Time Machine works for awhile. Then more of the same "cannot create backup folder" error. The backups work fine a few times, whether the iMac is put to sleep or not, then the error occurs again. Any suggestions on how to make this work without error and without constantly unmounting/remounting the disk? I had previously used a different, smaller LaCie drive via firewire 800 without any problems ever.
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I have been wrestling with the same problem for a few weeks.
I eventially solved the problem after determining that the problem is not in the Time Machine program.
It does not seem to exist in Snow Leopard but in Lion and Mountain Lion.
I have several drives on my system: firewire and USB 3.
I observed that one or more of my USB 3 drives become read only after some time even when the Time Machine is off. Firewire and USB flash drives are allright.
I am now running all three USB 3 drives off a Targus USB 3 hub. I got mine from Office Depot.
The power supply for this hub is rated at 4 amperes. Maybe the USB 3 drives need more power.
Some other steps I went through may be of interest:
I updated the firmware on my Wester Digital 1TB drive for the Mac form downloads fron WD sites. I also downloaded the WD Smartware.
However, I found an article that recommended partitioning the drive as journaled case sensitive.
Prior to doing this, the Time Machine would sometimes backup as much as 40 GB even when nothing had been added to my computer. Now backups without activity by me add only a few megabytes.
I noticed that under system profile beginning with 10.7 that the drive storage is shown by category with the sizes listed. This goes on in background all the time. It is possible he USB 2 ports and hubs may not be able to handle this activity.
I have had my computer, a late 2007 iMac with 4 GB of ram, checked by Apple.
This worked for me,
Ken Lipman

Csbackup error creating backup directory

Hi All,
We are running Messaging Server: Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 libimta.so 6.3-4.01 on SunOS 5.10
When we using ./csbackup -f database backup, it gives the following error.
Error creating directory backup
Backup failed
We tried manually creating backup directory in calendar_base/csdb/ . Verbose mode does not give any more info. Tried without -f option also. Also tried csbackup after stop-cal and start-cal. Still same error
What should we check to find out the problem . Thanks in advance
Cheers Suru

suru74 wrote:
When we using ./csbackup -f database backup, it gives the following error.
Error creating directory backup
Backup failedGiven that you are running the command in the <calendar_base>/sbin directory, the above command is actually trying to create the directory <calendar_base>/sbin/backup. As the csbackup command runs as the icsuser this doesn't have sufficient permissions to create the directory and fails.
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Hello,
Can someone please help me out here:
I'm using Oracle10g release 1 on windowsXP
I'm trying to create a backup job with dbms_scheduler and it's not working.
This is what I did:
I created a job as follows:
BEGIN
dbms_scheduler.create_job (
job_name => 'RMAN_FULL',
job_type => 'EXCUTABLE',
job_action => 'E:\wkdir\rman_bkp',
enabled => TRUE,
start_date => '24-NOV-2007 2:10:00 PM',
repeat_interval => 'FREQ=WEEKLY',
comments => 'Full Database Backup');
END;
While rman_bkp is an RMAN command but it wasn't working.
Please where do I get it wrong?
Kindly put me through the EXECUTABLE or should I use PL/SQL_BLOCK and how?
Thanks.
Regards,
Cherish

Hi,
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You need to use the full path to a real Windows executable and the arguments to it e.g. for a batch script you would have to do something like
c:\windows\cmd.exe /q /c c:\myscript.bat
There is a forum dedicated to the Scheduler here
Scheduler
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I've been using time machine for months with no problems. It seems like since I went to the 10.5.2 update I started having problems.
Time machine fails and says a problem occurred creating a backup directory. I'm running an external drive formated to the MAC Extended Journeled. I also set my computer share name with no punctuation and no spaces.
Today I got the failure and I ran repair disc in disk utility and it could not repair the disk. So I erased it, rebooted and reconfigured time machine.
Started running the backup and about 30 minutes into it stopped with the same error.
Any thing I can try?

Seems I have same problem, I came here for the answer, only to find there appears to be none!
I started off with a new 250Gb internal drive, 50 "Real" Gb to Boot Camp, rest to Mac. Re-installed from original Apple install disks to TIGER, then upgraded to LEOPARD with the Apple upgrade disk that came with the machine as an uninstalled upgrade. All firmware and software updates up to date.
First tried a Maxtor 4+ ext 750Gb Firewire drive for Time machine, 400Gb to Time Machine, other partition for other stuff. Every backup failed with Time Machine, same as the unfortunate gentleman in the pages above. Super-Duper backup to that same drive/partition worked perfectly.
So I bought a 250Gb 2.5" Western Digital drive, put it in a USB/Firewire case and tried that, but every time same problem. It would stall once 123.85Gb of 143.8Gb completed, and get no further. After a few days a reboot or forcequit was needed to stop the process, and on attempting to restart time machine later would only get to about 32kb and fail stating there was not enough space on the drive. (123Gb already backed up, only 19Gb to go, and 106Gb free on the backup drive)
I have re-formatted (Standard Mac extended/journalled format) the drive several times now, and always same result. I have checked the drive, repaired it, and written it over with Zeroes after formatting even, still same resuly, exactly 123.85Gb into the backup it stops and goes no further. I have tried with both the firewire, and the USB plugged into the drive, same result. Time Machine does not even have the courtesy to report which file it got stuck on, so that I could manually delete it if that was the problem. Anyone found the answer to this yet?

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