Does Time Machine do Back up of Volumes mounted over the Internet?

I mount several volumes on my desktop using the Finder >> go >> Connect to Server command.
Do these get backed up by Time Machine if I do not specifically exclude them?
They are on an XServe with its own Time Machine elsewhere

Well, I'm not sure. As I understand it you would have to have your network managed by a computer running OS X Server. Then a drive shared from that server (properly partitioned and formatted, of course) could be selected as a TM backup drive. Of course you have to mount the share on each computer you want to use that drive for TM backups. Now, this is not something I've ever done, so I may be wrong about it. I've never owned OS X Server.
If those volumes shared from the Server machine are mounted on another computer on the network and you don't want TM to backup the drive on the Server, then you would have to add it to the Exclude list of the client's TM preferences.

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Does Time Machine make back-ups when nobody is logged on and does it continue to back-up when I log off?
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Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem with Time Machine and solved it by enabling "Enable Power Nap" in Energy Saver:
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Can somebody tell me please: does Time Machine automatically back up iPhoto?

Unless you have excluded it, it will backup the iPhoto Library.
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How can I force Time Machine to make a complete backup of my Hard Drive. I just installed a new external drive for Backup since my previous one failed. Now when I back up, Time Machine only backs up my data folder and the Users folder.

How can I force Time Machine to make a complete backup of my Hard Drive. I just installed a new external drive for Backup since my previous one failed. Now when I back up, Time Machine only backs up my data folder and the Users folder.
When I start a backup. Time Machine says "Oldest Backup: None; Latest Backup: None", so it seems like it should do a complete backup, but it only does a partial.

Hi I'd like to jump in here. Your app showed me this:
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: YES
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                    Total size: 999.86 GB
                    Total number of backups: 64
                    Oldest backup: 2013-07-24 23:25:11 +0000
                    Last backup: 2013-11-17 01:40:47 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Too small
                              Backup size 999.86 GB < (Disk used 453.81 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
          /sbin excluded from backup!
          /usr excluded from backup!
          /System excluded from backup!
          /bin excluded from backup!
          /private excluded from backup!
          /Library excluded from backup!
          /Applications excluded from backup!
Aside from the size of my backup drive, which I will increase at some point, I'd really like to have time machine backing up all system folders, especially Applications. How to I reset this hidden exclusions?
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Easiest way to find time machine files is to open up the folder or application(works for email and iphoto) they were in - then click on time machine ICON or enter time machine from the time machine menu to go back through the files.

Does Time Machine *really* back-up everything?

I've run into some problems with my computer and will have it repaired tomorrow. They will be replacing the hard disk, so I need to make sure I have everything before I give it to them tomorrow morning. I used Time Machine to back up things, so all should be fine. Theoretically, I guess... ;-)
I've now restored from Time Machine back-up to a different computer - this is the one I'll be using while my own is being fixed. But: About 40GB (of about 300GB in total) seems to be missing! The file number reported by Disk Utility is about the same (I've been using the "new" Mac for a day, so I expect it to be different), and I've used "du" in terminal to find out whether there are any major discrepancies but haven't found any. Maybe a few massive swap files that are ignored? Or what could it be?
Any idea what's going on???
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No one is an idiot.
It is worth going to Apple's website and reading all the info on their pages about these products. They tell a lot and there are usually links to tutorials.
Time Machine backs up everything the first time. Then it only backs up changes. When you enter time machine you will seethe series of what ever folder you are in running back into space. You can go to a specific date and the version of say a letter will be in the state it was in at the time of that back up.
The same is true for the contest of a folder. If a back up runs at 2:00 pm and the you delete the file at 3:00 the file will remain in the 2:00 pm back up.
There is an option to exclude files from the back up. My opinion is that backing up the system files all the time isn't worth it. I find if there is a system problem I want to reinstall the whole thing fresh.
This works if you don't mind sitting through software installs.
Time Machine if left alone will back up the entire system and keep it current. Once the back up drive is full however it will start deleting old back ups. It will let you know it is going to do this. You can choose to let that happen or add a new drive. It isn't the best system for a permanent archive.
I have excluded everything but my home folder. I expect to get at least a years worth on my drive and at that point a new drive wouldn't be that big a deal.
Hope this helps.
Greg

Does Time Machine also back-up iPhoto/iTunes libraries?

I'd like to do a complete reset of my Macbook Pro, in order to get him faster.
I have a LaCie Hard Disc. Will my iPhoto and iTunes librairies also be backed up when I do a back-up with Time Machine?
When I re-installate my mac, and then I put the back-up from the LaCie back, will everything be recovered?
I want to make sure that I don't lose anything.

https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
As you will see, the above states:
Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, email messages, music, photos, movies, and documents.
If you happen to be running any anti-virus or cleanup programs, get rid of them as they will be the main culprit in slowing down your Mac! Indeed, if you ARE running any of these, delete them first and see how your Mac runs before resorting to a reinstall of OSX.

Does Time Machine also back up wired external hard drives?

I apologize if this is already answered; I can't find the answer. But I am running out of space on my hard drive, and I am thinking about moving my music and movies (ie multi-media content in iTunes) to an external hard drive. I am torn between two options. 1) use my existing external hard drive (LaCie d2 Quadra 1T) and partition it for Time Machine and a Multi-media folder, or 2) just buy another external hard drive, likely another LaCie and dedicate it for my multi-media. I lean towards keeping my back-up hard drive as is -- for one purpose so as to minimize loss of data should (when) the unthinkable happen. Anyhow, I'd like to know whether Time Machine can be told to include my 2nd external hard drive in its regular back-ups. Likewise, if I partition my current LaCie, can I tell Time Machine to back up my multi-media folder? Any info or links you can provide is appreciated. Regards.

I appreciate the comment. Is there a way to find out whether Time Machine backs up external hard drives without having to buy one and plug it in to see if it is listed in the Time Machine pane of System Preferences? If I could read between your lines, I assume you are saying is Time Machine is "smart" enough to include external hard drives provided that I don't exclude it. Right? PS - I will be using the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.

Why does time machine go back less than a month?

clearly, i'm doing something wrong...
i'm in the process of cleaning up stuff from my external drives. sometime in the fall, i switched my time machine backup to a larger drive. i did my best to follow the instructions for transferring over a time machine backup, and it didn't work. i still have the old TM database, but time machine wouldn't recognize it. so i lived with it and got on with my life, starting a new TM backup.
today, i just realized that it goes back less than a month. what is THAT about? before you ask, it's NOT a disk space issue. on a 2 TB drive, i currently have 1.23 TB of available space. there's plenty of ROOM for further backups, but it's just not keeping them. please help... i love time machine, and it's saved my bacon on a number of different occasions. but on many of those occasions, i had to go back quite a bit further than 3 weeks to restore what i needed. if that's all i'm going to get from time machine, it's usefulness to me is slashed by about 80%.

Time Machine automatically deletes older snapshots to make room for new ones. If your backup history is shorter than you expect, it may be because you're backing up one or more large files frequently.
Virtualization software such as VMware, Parallels, or VirtualBox creates a large virtual-disk container that is constantly changing, so it has to be backed up every time Time Machine runs. That will quickly fill up any backup destination.
You should exclude the virtual-disk file(s) from your Time Machine backups. To do that, click the Options button in the Time Machine preference pane. You may also be able to do it in the virtualization app's settings. Back up the files on the virtual disk from within the guest system, using a native backup application.
A compromise solution is to create a "snapshot" of the virtual machine in the virtualization software (not a Time Machine snapshot.) That will give you a single large file that never changes and only has to be backed up once. All the subsequent changes will be stored in a new file that's initially much smaller, but will grow over time. You should still exclude that file from TM backup. If you ever need to restore the VM from Time Machine, you'll have a working setup, which will make it easy for you to restore the rest of the data from within the guest system.
Another common cause of large TM snapshots is native OS X disk images. If you store a lot of data on one or more writable disk images, they should be in "sparsebundle" format, which will be backed up much more efficiently than any other format. A sparsebundle will not be backed up at all while the image is mounted. Make sure you unmount the image often so it can be backed up. Consider eliminating large read/write disk images from your workflow, if possible.

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We have a Mac OS X Server on an eMac running for an elementary school. We set up Time Machine to backup to an Intel iMac setting beside it, booted in Target Disk Mode. We had a problem with the Server the other day, and it wouldn't start up. When we booted the iMac in the regular OS (rather than Target Disk Mode), we tried to access the Server's backups in the Backups folder on the Hard Drive. When we accessed the latest backup folder, a little black arrow was on the icon and when we tried to access anything in the folder, it said that it couldn't access the files unless the backed-up computer was on and running or something of the like. Is this normal? Did we do something wrong? Is there any way to get it to backup the actual files in full so that if the Server goes haywire, we could access the files on the iMac, to which we backed up the Server? Thanks for any help provided.
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The Time Machine backup is a repository, but requires a restoration location, usually the HD you're backing up. You can't access the TM backup directly. If you want that kind of capability, you need to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!.

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This is about Time Machine becoming very slow and taking hours to backup and trying to backup large amouts of data each time.
I spent a month on the phone with 2nd level Tech support and engineering - every other day.
I have 4 computers (one was a clients), all with different backup systems: Time Capsule over CAT 6 Gigabit Ethernet through a Thunderbolt monitor, internal eSata to external 6 TB RAID 5, Wireless to Time Capsule, Firewire 800 to External 2 TB RAID 1 dive.
With the install of 10.8.5 (the itermediate update to 10.9) I immedialety had Time Machine problems on all four computers. As I said, I spent a month talking with Apple. Also during this time I purchased 2 new MacBook Pro 13 Retinas. Installed Norton Internet Security 5 on them and they had the same problem. The new Retina's had 10.9 on them, so this is about 10.8.5 and 10.9.
After doing Data Capture on 3 of the computers for engineering (a new MBPro13R and my MacPro, and a MBPro 13 Mid-2012), engineering finally figured out what was happening.
Norton Internet Sucrity 5 for Mac is not longer compatible. As my 2nd level tech said: " Engineering told him, engineering needs to call Norton and figure out what they did to their program to cause this."
The fix is to completely remove Norton and all it's components (using the uninstall app inside the Symantec folder). Once you do that, Erase your backup drive, Restart everything, Re-connect your computer to your drive - then it immediately works perfectly.
Do Not Re-Install Norton.
I have now done this exact operation on 7 different machines. Time Machine works instantly. Time Machine is not the same program from 10.8 - it has been completely rebuilt, so I doesn't backup in the same way. But it works perfectly on all my computers now.
Don't forget the first backup will take hours since it is starting over clean and must do a complete backup the first time. After that it works fine.
I'm not going to put Norton back in my computers until I find that Norton has acknowledged this problem, or they come out with Norton Internet Security 6.
I reposted this here because on another post it was on the 20 page.
Hope this helps

Guitarfx wrote:
Time Machine has worked properly for me for several months. However, in the last week or two I have noticed some very strange behavior. Basically, Time Machine wants to backup virtually my entire system every few days or so.
How often do you let TM do backups? If it hasn't backed up for several days, it may indeed be doing a new, full, backup. Apple doesn't document this, but many folks believe it's about 10 days.
Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window.
It first shows the most recent backup. Navigate to one of the large backups, and examine the messages. If you see something there that seems suspicious, copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).
I presume that for whatever reason, Time Machine believes my files are changing and therefore proceeds backing them all up. I can't really think of anything special I have done with my system in the last month which would cause this, but have tried formating my Time Capsule and starting over with a fresh backup--to no avail.
There are some applications that cause large backups, often because they use a single file, often a database, to store their data. Entourage is a common one: every time you send or receive a single message, the whole database is changed, and will be backed-up the next time. Apple mail, of course, stores messages individually to prevent this.
FileVault is similar, in an even bigger way: it converts your entire Home Folder into a single, encrypted disk image. So any change to anything in your Home Folder is treated as a change to the encrypted image. TM minimizes the impact, though, by only backing it up when you log out.
So consider this while examining the results from TimeTracker, as VA2020 recommended.

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My time machine is saying 'the back up disk is not available' - I do not have a disk... how can I sort this problem so I am backed up..??

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Does Time Machine Back Up Windows XP ?

I have a new MBP arriving shortly. Will use Time Machine with Time Capsule. I Will have a 32 GB Bootcamp partition formatted with FAT32 and with XP SP2 installed.
Does Time Machine automatically back up the Bootcamp partition and would I be able to restore files from within XP as I would from within OS X?
I will also be making bootable back ups with Super Duper. Will Super Duper be able to include the Bootcamp partition and all its contents?
If I cannot get back ups of the Bootcamp partition and restore files into XP does anyone have a suggestion of the best approach to back ups for my XP world within Bootcamp.
I am assuming that XP files produced by Fusion within OS X would simply always be backed up along with the rest of OS X. Please tell me if I am incorrect in thinking that.

Does Time Machine automatically back up the Bootcamp partition and would I be able to restore files from within XP as I would from within OS X?
No.
I will also be making bootable back ups with Super Duper. Will Super Duper be able to include the Bootcamp partition and all its contents?
Yes, but it won't work well. SuperDuper is meant for backing up OS X, not windows.
If I cannot get back ups of the Bootcamp partition and restore files into XP does anyone have a suggestion of the best approach to back ups for my XP world within Bootcamp.
Winclone. NOTE: This is meant for NTFS volumes-FAT32 may work, but I'd be careful.
I am assuming that XP files produced by Fusion within OS X would simply always be backed up along with the rest of OS X. Please tell me if I am incorrect in thinking that.
Yes, but Fusion basically makes one big file (a disk image). Every time you change even one tiny thing in it, TM will back up your WHOLE XP disk image. I would exclude that from TM if I were you.
Good luck!
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