First time uses of time machine. Help appreciated.

Hey Guys.
I have an iMac desktop and will be purchasing a Macbook Pro soon. I have never used time machine before and want to make a back up of my iMac to then install on the Macbook. Excuse my ignorance, but what is the best way to do this? Any advice would be great!
Thanks very much, Josh.

josh19_83 wrote:
Hey Guys.
I have an iMac desktop and will be purchasing a Macbook Pro soon. I have never used time machine before and want to make a back up of my iMac to then install on the Macbook. Excuse my ignorance, but what is the best way to do this? Any advice would be great!
You should be making regular backups, with Time Machine or another app, so when (not if) something awful happens to your Mac, you won't lose everything. You might want to review the [Time Machine Tutorial|http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#timemachinebasics] and perhaps browse [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
When your shiny new Mac arrives, you easily can set it up just like the old one, via +Setup Assistant,+ either directly from the old Mac, or it's backups. See #19 in the FAQ.

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smithrj wrote:
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Have searched and Searched but cannot find answer so Help please - all sugestions appriciated
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Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
open /V*/*/B*.b*/*/L*/*/A*
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
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 icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
A folder should open, which is the latest snapshot of the Applications folder. Drag the items you want from there. You may be prompted for your login password.
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I managed to find this reference specifically for restoring on Snow Leopard:
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Now that was copied from this more comprehensive reference:
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
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http://pondini.org/TM/14.html
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EDIT: For whatever reason I tried three times to edit out one of the redundent adjectives... either different or another which preceeds the word forum, but the advanced editor would (apparently NOT allow me to do so). I hope that it doesn't render without any adjective before the word forum.

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kenfromlo wrote:
I get the Time Machine back up error. I recently purchased a Seagate GoFlex Desk external drive. Time Machine seemed to recognize it right away. The following morning I found the dreaded "Time Machine could not complete the backup. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
See #C10 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (but see the next item first).
I have formatted the external drive per Pondini's step by step; MAC OS Extended (Journaled).
Did you select the GUID Partition Map Scheme? If not, reformat it that way.
Then I downloaded Time Machine Buddy Widget. I don't know how to copy the error messages in the pop-up.
Click in the message area, select Cmd+A (to select All), then Cmd+C to copy.
(Or, if you mean the TM failure message, a screen print is fine.)
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See the pink box in #C3 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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Hello,
I sincerely apologize, in advance, if I am repeating old history here and for all the questions.
Time Machine has got me confused… I’ve read the FAQ’s/Threads but still not sure about how to proceed. I’m a ex Microsoft Windows guy and Mac newbie. And I am completely in love with this MacBook. I’m never going back to Microsoft land.
The Setup is - External 1TB LaCie HD with two partitions to backup a MacBook Pro and a Macbook (250 GB HD’s each). Both MacBook’s are on home wireless network using the Airport Extreme (not Time Capsule).
Time Machine is optimized to do hourly backup's (which I personally think is crazy...). The documentation I read strongly suggests not to change the backup time since the Time Machine SW is optimized to work that way. However, there is reference to a "Time Machine Editor" software (assume third party SW?) to modify the time settings of these backups. But, it seems the literature does not recommend using it or better yet, use it at your own risk type of thing. I don't do enough "stuff" to merit hourly backups. I think daily would be optimum.
My initial thinking was, if I have to do hourly backups then it seems that the external HD would have to be directly connected to my MacBook Pro. Which means the other MacBook is not being backed up. However, that was my most likely flawed initial thinking.
So, some questions (tried to limit it to five):
1. I first need to do an initial full backup on both MacBook’s. So, assume I would direct connect the ext. HB to each machine to accomplish that?
2. Then, I am assuming, the only way to properly set this up is to connect the ext. HD to the Airport Extreme? That way the hourly backups can be done for both machines over the wireless network. Personally, I would prefer to directly connect the drive to each machine, at the end of the day, and do a daily backup. But, I guess that would not be the best way to proceed and probably a bit painful to do.
3. The Airport Extreme has one USB port which is being using for sharing a printer. So, again I am assuming I would need a USB hub to connect the printer and the ext. HD?
4. If backup's have to be done hourly, how does that work when the computer is in Sleep mode? How does it work if I am working on something when it tries to backup? For instance, I read that iPhoto needs to be closed when doing backups. And I use iPhoto a lot. Do, I have to stop everything, every hour, for it to do its incremental hourly backup?
5. Is the “Time Machine Editor” SW a safe way to change the time of backups?
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Hello, TeenTitan, Csound1 and Pondini:
Thanks all for taking the time to provide excellent and thorough replies!
Ok, so I think I'm getting it straight now but just a couple more questions to completely cement this in my head.
TeenTitan wrote:
When you setup timemachine, one of the things your telling time machine is how to get to the hard drive. If it's directly connected, then it's going to continue to look for the drive being directly connected.
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Having the drive on the network would make it easier and more convenient to do backups. It would take less work out of making backups. You wouldn't have to remember to 'plug-in.' If some thing stops working there is more to trouble shoot.
Direct connecting the drive is more stable, there is less to troubleshoot if some thing breaks. this also give you a very easy way to control when backups will happen. if you only want to backup ones a day, then only plug-in the drive ones a day.
*Excellent! And also straight inline with what Pondini wrote below. Plus, I was missing the fact that, if I chose the Airport Extreme method I would need to first configure the wireless network with the ext. HD and then do the initial backup via the ethernet port on the Extreme.*
*Also, please see my summary below/final questions to check if I am going on the right path now.*
Csound1 wrote:
Please ignore any advice about connecting TM drive to the USB port on an Apple Extreme, that method is neither reliable or supported by Apple!
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DMerz wrote:
Personally, I would prefer to directly connect the drive to each machine, at the end of the day, and do a daily backup.
Pondini wrote:
Yes, you can do that. It's faster and more reliable than any wireless backup, and much better than via an Airport Extreme. Time Machine won't object to it, either. Just be sure to eject the drive before disconnecting it. Then Time Machine will just wait patiently until you connect it again to do a backup (using no CPU).
*Ok, so Time Machine will sense that the ext. backup drive (used for initial backup) is not connected and wait until it "sees" it is connected again. This is a major point I was hoping was the case. This, in essence, let's you avoid the hourly backup time constraint.*
*So, when I properly eject the ext. drive, do I need to adjust any settings in Time Machine? I noticed there was this big "On/Off" button. Or do I just leave it alone and let it look for the ext. HD? If it can't find the ext. HD (when it goes for the hourly backup), will it hang up the system? I think you answered that by saying it will "wait patiently" until I hookup the ext drive again. When I hookup the ext. drive, will I need to start Time Machine or will it do it on its own?*
I'm not crazy about the wireless Extreme method (though it sounds like it would work), so I think I will go the direct connect route.
*Here is my summary of what I propose to do based on the excellent responses you all provided (please correct me if I'm going in the wrong direction):*
a. Do direct ext. HD connects for initial backups to both MacBooks.
b. Leave the ext. HD connected to my MacBook pro, at all times, when I am on it. Which it will do the hourly backups. And this is even more appropriate since I use my MacBook Pro more hours in the day.
c. The second MacBook, which my 87 yr. old Mom uses (LOL), is most definitely not needed to be backed up hourly. She just uses the internet (Facebook, online bridge) and iPhoto once in awhile. So, I can backup her's once a day after I am done using mine and it is shut down.
Does, that sound like a good plan?
Please let me know if a., b., and c. are ok to do and any comments to the other questions I had.
*You all have been FANTASTIC and I immensely appreciate the help!*
DMerz

I just partitioned my NTFS drive with Time Machine: Help!

I'm back to using a Mac after 15 years so I really messed up. I have a MacBook Pro (15" mid 2009) 2.66 Intel Core 2 Duo with OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and a Seagate 4TB External that was formatted using Windows 7 OS, I think NTFS. I traded for the MacBook Pro and they were using Time Machine to backup.
I started Time Machine thinking I could just copy the data on the drive I was already using and zipped through the wizard like an idiot when it asked me if I wanted to erase the IOMEGA_HD not the Seagate 4TB External I said sure and it popped up saying it was partitioning the Seagate 4TB External. I freaked out and pulled the USB cable out of the laptop making a bad situation possibly worse.
Now here it sits with a Mac OS partition that's unreadable from either a Mac or a PC. I don't want to do anything to further damage it before I asked some experts how to tackle this. If I left anything out please ask, I'll be watching this thread closely. Thanks in advance for any help guys!

I think you probably wiped the partition table and that your data is still there and can be recovered.
As I said, search on various Linux forums. Any useful way of recovering your data there will very likely be available for Mac OS X. The only exception is that, if you have to rebuild the partition table, which was in NTFS, it may not be supported by any "authenticate" Mac OS X applications (i.e., what you will find in the App Store -- meanwhile, you'll get "scary" warnings from OS X when you try to run any third-party software from the Internet -- I can't tell you how to respond to those or my post may get disregarded) because it (NTFS) is a proprietary format of Microsoft. However, tons of people running Linux had to first conquer Windows (and NTFS!), so I'm sure you'll find a solution in that realm. And if there isn't a port for it for OS X, then at least you have a free solution, if you can manage to get Linux running on something (even a Virtual Machine within OS X, such as VirtualBox).

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Welcome to the discussions!
All you probably really need to know is that +Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a drive attached to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme+ due to likely corruption issues. The odd thing about this issue is that problems won't necessarily occur immediately as most users who have had difficulties with this approach (including me) find that backups work OK...for a time.
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