Full backup everytime

Guys, every time that I connect my MacBook Pro on my Time Capsule WiFi network, the total size of backup is over 70Gb. This MacBook is used just for work, and I have no photos, music, videos, etc. Why the backup is not a incremental like occurs on my Mac Mini?

Are you dual booting in windows or using virtual mode..
Any change made in the disk partition (actually a large file used as a partition) will result in a change the TM cannot read inside this file, so it simply backs up the whole thing every time.
Open the TM preferences and remove the vm file from the backup.. you should back windows from inside windows.
That is one explanation.. obviously only true if you are dual booting or using vm product.
Load the widget and see what TM is doing if you need to investigate further.
A1 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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Full format and backup everytime?

is it possible to have time machine simply erase everything and backup a fresh full backup every time instead of backing up dates and etc?
or should i just use superduper?

ERROR
This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 95.40 GB but only 84.67 GB are available.
Latest successful backup: 3/14/10 at 3:35 AM
here's what i got in the system.log
May 20 13:12:49 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Starting standard backup
May 20 13:12:50 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Backing up to: /Volumes/My Passport/Backups.backupdb
May 20 13:12:52 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
May 20 13:12:52 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 35800EAF-6F2C-3877-9CFA-E3D39B55252C eventDBUUID: 40309C01-31B4-47DC-A329-57B974E37E3C), {1, 1, 1, 0}
May 20 13:12:53 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
May 20 13:22:54 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Starting pre-backup thinning: 88.85 GB requested (including padding), 78.86 GB available
May 20 13:22:54 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
May 20 13:22:54 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
May 20 13:22:54 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Backup Failed: unable to free 88.85 GB needed space
May 20 13:22:59 users-macbook-pro com.apple.backupd[40687]: Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.

Full backup of settings, actions, presets, etc.

Time to time I have to reinstall my Photoshop. In my own computer, or work computer. Or maybe after a Windows reinstalling. And always I get the one and the same issue - settings, actions and presets in Photoshop. I forgot to backup them manually everytime I change them or make something new. And when I installed a fresh Photoshop, I have to create a new actions that I already did before, presets, and other.
How do you think is it possible to make a full backup feature in Photoshop with automatic backup? Then when I need to restore my settings I choose one file, and all my setting being restored.

I did a full reinstall a while back, and copied the entire Appdata folder to a USB3 pocket drive, but looking though the Photoshop CC subfolders, only Brushes had anything in it. If using Windows, you need to enable view hidden files & folders from Explorer properties to access App Data (C:\User\your user name\App data\...
The \Program Files\Plugins\ has shortcuts to my Topaz filters, but I chose to download the latest version and do a full install. I also dropped an old version of Flaming Pear Flood in the same folder. (32bit)
There's a list of CS5 file locations for Mac and Windows here (I don't know how relevant it is to later versions):
Preference file functions, names, locations | Photoshop CS5
Good luck and enjoy your clean lean new installation. Just a warning that you will no doubt already be aware of... I wanted latest versions of all the little apps I run like WinDirStat, MSI Afterburner, IrfanView, Specy, Handbreak etc. etc. and had to be beyond paranoid to avoid malware. Previously trusted sources like Cnet, Tucows etc. are now rife with downloads that want to add toolbars and mess up your system. The worst one for me was one of those nasty advert pop up things that covers every webpage with pop ups. I struggled to get rid of that!

HT1175 Time Machine wants to start with a new, full backup instead of using the existing one

Hi, my Time Machine wants to start a new, full backup, instead of continuing with the existing one on the time Capsule.
Looking a the Troubleshooting guide, I've found the following piece of info, which is, as 99% of the times with the troubleshooting guides, totally useless to resolve my problem...
Message: Time Machine starts a new, full backup instead of a smaller incremental backup
There are three reasons why this may occur:
You performed a full restore.
Your Computer Name (in Sharing preferences) was changed--when this happens, Time Machine will perform a full backup on its next scheduled backup time.
If you have had a hardware repair recently, contact the Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Retail Store that performed your repair. In the meantime, you can still browse and recover previous backups by right-clicking or Control-clicking the Time Machine Dock icon, and choosing "Browse Other Time Machine disks" from the contextual menu.
It should be noted (hence the uselessness of the guide) that:
-I haven't performed ANY full restore
- I havent changed my computer name
- My computer has not had ANY repair, much less a hardware repair. Neither recently, nor in the 9 months I've owned it.
Which puts me back to square one, with the marginal improvement that now I have a way of browsing my old backups.
In the event I decide to start all over again, will there be a way for me to "sew" the two backup files?
Or will I always have to go the silly way around?
Anybody has any idea?
Thank you for your time (machine/capsule, your choice;-)

Hi John,
no, that doesn't have anything to do with my problem.
Just look at the image below.
Time Machine thinks that the disk I've always used to do my backups has none of them.
If I open the disk with Finder, obviously they are where they should be.
It is even possible to navigate them as per the instruction reported above, but even following Pondini's advice #s B5 and B6 (which are more applicable to my problem) didn't solve the problem.
Actually, not being a coder, I'm always scared of doing more damage than good when I have a Terminal window open.
My question is: how is it possible that Apple hasn't thought of some kind of user command to tell the idiotic Time Machine software that a hard disk backup is a hard disk backup, no matter what?
Estremely frustrating and annoying: I'm wasting HOURS in trying to find a solution to a problem that should not have arisen in the first place...
Have a nice weekend
Antonio

Full Backup Operation not working

Hi,
     Iu2019m using MAXDB 7.8 and using Dataprotector tool to take full backup. Data Protector toool uses the below commands to take full backup.. but it is giving ERROR saying that
Error: ERR
-24920,ERR_BACKUPOP: backup operation was unsuccessful
The backup tool failed with 2 as sum of exit codes. The database request was canceled and ended with error -903.
qapaux26# dbmcli -d tvs -u dbm,dbm
dbmcli on tvs>user_logon dbm,dbm
OK
dbmcli on tvs>dbm_configset -raw BSI_ENV /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.bsi_env
OK
dbmcli on tvs>medium_put BACKDP-Data[1]/1 /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK
OK
dbmcli on tvs>util_connect
OK
dbmcli on tvs>backup_start BACKDP-Data[1] DATA
ERR
-24920,ERR_BACKUPOP: backup operation was unsuccessful
The backup tool failed with 2 as sum of exit codes. The database request was canceled and ended with error -903.
Help is much appreciatedu2026could you please help me out if anybody has idea on this..
The same command commands works for MAXDB 7.7 but not for MAXDB 7.8
Regards,
Ranganath

Hi Markus Doehr,
Thanks for your information. is it may be Data Protector Configuration issue?
dbmcli on tvs>dbm_configget all
OK
BSI_ENV             = /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.bsi_env
set_variable_10     = OB2BACKUPAPPNAME=TVS
set_variable_11     = OB2BACKUPHOSTNAME=qapaux26.ind.hp.com
set_variable_12     = OB2OPTS=(null)
I'm new to this work and I'm learning the concepts of maxdb as well as DataProtector and trying to fix this issue. Asper your replay i came to know that DP doesn't create the medium appropriately.. can you just let me know more on this?
if possible just tell me with example how to create medium appropriately?
I'm resending KnlMsg
                        0xc000016740669928, Node:'qapaux26', PID: 6152)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Savepoint      1: Savepoint (SaveData) started by T269
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20003: SVP(1) Start Write Data
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20004: SVP(1) Stop Data IO, Pages: 6 IO: 6
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20005: SVP(2) Wait for last synchronizing task: 284
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20006: SVP(2) Stop Wait for last synchronizing task, Pages: 0 IO: 0
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     DataCache      4: Mark data pages for savepoint (prepare phase)
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20007: SVP(3) Start Write Data
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20008: SVP(3) Stop Data IO, Pages: 2 IO: 2
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20009: SVP(3) Start Write Converter
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20011: SVP(3) Stop Converter IO, Pages: 8 IO: 8
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     DataCache      3: Savepoint with ID 10 completed
Thread       0x1F Task    268 2010-12-07 12:32:03     CONNECT    12633: Connect req. (TVS, T268, connection obj. 0xc00001674089dd38, Node:'qapaux26', PID: 6152)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Log        20083: New DBIdentifier set (qapaux26:TVS_20101207_123203)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     RTEIO        112: Open of medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/data_000 as number 3 for READ successfull
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     RTEIO        112: Open of medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/arch_000 as number 4 for READ successfull
Thread       0x1F Task    268 2010-12-07 12:32:04     CONNECT    12651: Connection released (TVS, T268, connection obj. c00001674089dd38)
Thread       0x1B Task    300 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR RTEIO        113: medium /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1 cannot be opened for WRITE access,_FILE=RTEIO_St
reamMedium.cpp,_LINE=1261
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR RTEIO         65: open of medium /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1 was canceled,_FILE=RTEIO_StreamMedium.cp
p,_LINE=4804
Thread       0x1B Task    299 2010-12-07 12:33:08 WNG SAVE       52108: canceled by user
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08     RTEIO        114: medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/data_000 with number 3 was closed
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08     RTEIO        114: medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/arch_000 with number 4 was closed
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR SAVE       52012: error occured, basis_err 3700
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR Backup         3: Data backup failed,_FILE=Kernel_Administration.cpp,_LINE=1560
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      17: Servertask Info: because Error in backup task occured
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      10: Job 1 (Backup / Restore Medium Task) [executing] WaitingT269 Result=3700
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Error in backup task occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     Backup         1: Backupmedium #1 (/var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1) Could not open stream
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Backup error occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR Backup         3: Data backup failed,_FILE=Kernel_Administration.cpp,_LINE=1560
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      17: Servertask Info: because Error in backup task occured
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      10: Job 1 (Backup / Restore Medium Task) [executing] WaitingT269 Result=3700
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Error in backup task occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     Backup         1: Backupmedium #1 (/var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1) Could not open stream
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Backup error occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:10     CONNECT    12651: Connection released (TVS, T269, connection obj. c000016740669928)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:47:18     CONNECT    12633: Connect req. (TVS, T269, connection obj. 0xc00001674089dd38, Node:'qapaux26', PID: 5802)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Savepoint      1: Savepoint (SaveData) started by T269
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20003: SVP(1) Start Write Data
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20004: SVP(1) Stop Data IO, Pages: 0 IO: 0
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20005: SVP(2) Wait for last synchronizing task: 284
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20006: SVP(2) Stop Wait for last synchronizing task, Pages: 0 IO: 0
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     DataCache      4: Mark data pages for savepoint (prepare phase)
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20007: SVP(3) Start Write Data
I'm waiting for your replay.....
Ranganath

ACS 5.3.0.40 On-demand Full Backup failed.

Hi,
I have ACS 5.3.0.40 Primary Secondary Authenticators , of which the Scheduled backup has stopped.
When checked the :
Monitoring Configuration >
System Operations >
Data Management >
Removal and Backup
> Incremental Backup , it had changed to OFF mode. without any reason.
The same was observed earlier too.
I have made the
Incremental Backup to ON and intiated the
View Full Database Backup Now. But it wasn't successful and reported an Error:
FullBackupOnDemand-Job Incremental Backup Utility System Fri Dec 28 11:56:57 IST 2012 Incremental Backup Failed: CARS_APP_BACKUP_FAILED : -404 : Application backup error Failed
Later i did the acs stop/start "view-jobmanager" and initiated the On-demand Full Backup , but no luck, same error reported this time too.
Has any one faced similar type of error /problem reported , please let me know the solution.
Thanks & Regards.

One other thing; if this does end up being an issue with disk space it is worth considering patch 5.3.0.40.6 or later since improves database management processes
This cumulative patch includes fixes/enhancements related to disk management to avoid following issue
CSCtz24314: ACS 5.x *still* runs out of disk space
and also fix for
CSCua51804: View backup fails   even when there is space in disk
Following is taken from the readme for this patch
   The Monitoring and Reporting database can increase when as records are collected. There are two mechanisms to reduce this size and prevent it from exceeding the maximum limit.
1. Purge: In this mechanism the data will be purged based on the configured data retention period or upon reaching the upper limit of the database.
2. Compress: This mechanism frees up unused space in the database without deleting any records.
Previously the compress option could only be run manually. In ACS 5.3 Patch 6 there are enhancements so it will run daily at a predefined time, automatically when specific criteria are met. Similarly by default purge job runs every day at 4 AM. In Patch 6 new option provided to do on demand purge as well.
The new solution is to perform the Monitoring and Reporting database compress automatically.
2.       New GUI option is provided to enable the Monitoring and Reporting database compress to run on every day at 5 AM. This can be configured under GUI Monitoring And Configuration -> System Operations -> Data Management -> Removal and Backup
3.       Changed the upper and lower limit of purging of Monitoring and Reporting data. This is to make sure at lower limit itself ACS has enough space to take the backup. The maximum size allocated for monitoring and reporting database is 42% of /opt( 139 GB). The lower Limit at which ACS purges the data by taking the backup is 60% of maximum size Monitoring and Reporting database (83.42 GB). The upper limit at which ACS purges the data without taking backup is 80% of maximum size Monitoring and Reporting database (111.22 GB).
4. The acsview-database compress operation stops all services till 5.3 patch 5 , now only Monitoring and Reporting related services are stopped during this operation.
5. Provided “On demand purge” option in Monitoring and Reporting GUI. This option will not try to take any backup, it will purge the data based on window size configured.
6. Even if the “Enable ACS View Database compress” option is not enabled in GUI then also automatic view database compress will be triggered if the physical size of Monitoring and Reporting database reached to the upper limit of its size.
7. This automatic database compress takes place only when the “LogRecovery” feature is enabled, this is to make sure that the logging which happens during this operation will be recovered once this operation is completed. ACS generates alert when there is a need to do automatic database compress and also to enable this feature.
8. Before enabling “LogRecovery” feature configure the Logging Categories in such way that only mandatory data to log into Local Log Target and Remote Log Target as Log collector under System Administration > ... > Configuration > Log Configuration
This “LogRecovery” feature can recover the logs only if the logs are present under local log target.
9       This automatic database compress operation also performed only when the difference between actual and physical size of Monitoring and Reporting database size is > 50GB.
10 The new CLI “acsview” with option “show-dbsize” is provided to show the actual and physical size of the Monitoring and Reporting database. This is available in “acs-config” mode.
           acsview     show-dbsize     Show the actual and physical size of View DB and transaction log file

I bought a new external hard drive for backups, but time machine won't do a full back up. I think it is remembering backing up onto previous external hard drives, which I don't own anymore. How do I do a new full backup?

I bought a new external hard drive for backups, but time machine won't do a full back up.
I think it is remembering backing up onto previous external hard drives, which I don't own anymore. How do I do a new full backup?
When I bought the new (used) iMac, I also bought an external hard drive for backups. It worked fine, but my husband stole it.
Then I bought a new external hard drive (Seagate) and it worked fine for three weeks, then died.
So I just got a new external hard drive, which was put together from an internal hard drive and a hard drive enclosure.
Time machine did the first backup today, and it should have taken 9 hours like it did on the previous first time full back up. Instead, it took 30 minutes. That can't be right. I want to start over and do a full backup to make sure everything gets onto my new external hard drive, but I can't figure out how to do that. Please help.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
tmutil compare -E
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).
The command will take at least a few minutes to run. Eventually some lines of output will appear below what you entered.
Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
Added:
Removed:
Changed:
These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.

DPM Express Full Backups Causing SQL timeouts

Hi,
We run a SQL 2008 R2 failover cluster on Server 2008 R2 SP1 connected to an Equallogic SAN. The SQL failover cluster is fully servicepacked and installed the latest cumulative updates.
We have all our databases in full recovery mode and protected by DPM 2012 SP1 with latest cumulative updates.
The protection groups for SQL are configured to synchronise every 60mins and 1 express full backup every night. Every time the SQL express backups run the SQL server experiences timouts and end users report applications timing out. In the SQL server Application
logs I see Event ID 833 numerous times, these only occur as the express full backups take place. Every time the express full backups run we see the same timeouts and event logged that I/O has taken longer than 15 seconds to complete:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSSQLSERVER
Date: 01/04/2014 04:10:10
Event ID: 833
Task Category: Server
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: WDCSQL02.local
Description:
SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [D:\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\MSDBLog.ldf] in database [msdb] (4). The OS file handle is 0x00000000000008F8. The offset
of the latest long I/O is: 0x000000042eae00
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSSQLSERVER" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">833</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-04-01T03:10:10.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>14165629</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>WDCSQL02.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>1</Data>
<Data>15</Data>
<Data>D:\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\MSDBLog.ldf</Data>
<Data>msdb</Data>
<Data>4</Data>
<Data>00000000000008F8</Data>
<Data>0x000000042eae00</Data>
<Binary>410300000A0000000600000055004B00530051004C00000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
I was under the impression that DPM SQL backups would remain online during the backup.
Is this normal?
Any way to fix this issue?
Thanks,
Microsoft Partner

Hi
A copy backup will not truncate the logs but a full backup will and it will also stamp the database once it does a full backup.

Touch screen stopped working. Is there anyway to force a full backup of the iPhone without typing in my passcode lock or is there anyway to force it to connect to a WiFi network so the phone can backup to iCloud??

Hello all, I could use some help with my iPhone 4, I hope this is the best place to ask!
The Problem:
I want to do a full backup of my iphone to either itunes or to icloud. Unfortunately the iphone got wet and isn’t working properly. The phone turns on and still works, but the touch screen no longer works. I have a passcode lock on the phone so iTunes will not allow me to backup it up until I type in the passcode (which I cannot physically do). WiFi had been turned off before it got wet so it won’t connect to any known WiFi networks either to backup automatically to iCloud.
What happened:
I had been travelling for 6 months and went tubing on a river with my iphone in a dry bag. Unfortunately the dry bag failed and filled with water ruining my iphone.
What I’d like to do:
It’s an old phone and I was planning on buying a new iPhone anyway. I would love to do a full backup to either iCloud or to my computer so when I get a new iPhone I don’t lose anything. I’ve already connected it to my PC and downloaded all the photos and videos off the phone so at least I haven’t lost that, but I would like to be able to recover all the text messages, WhatsApp messages and notes I had created during my 6 months of travel.
The last time it was backed up to my pc or to icloud was in April, so there are 6 months worth of very meaningful data I would love to keep to remind me of my travels!
Is there anyway to force a full backup of the iPhone without typing in my passcode lock or is there anyway to force it to connect to a WiFi network so the phone can backup to iCloud??
iTunes recognizes the phone just now and I tried upgrading the phone to iOS7 in the hopes that it would first backup and then upgrade. Unfortunately all that happened is the phone upgraded to iOS7, but it didn’t backup to iTunes. Now the phone is stuck at the iOS7 welcome screen and I can’t do anything else with it.
Any ideas or tips would be welcome!
NOTE: This is NOT a jailbroken iPhone.

If there is no other way around this, is there anyway to completely wipe the phone then??
The Apple store agreed to give me a new iPhone 4 as a warranty replacement for $150 (I travel a lot and I have a factory unlocked phone, so this is still worth it for me). But before I trade it in, I would like to make sure all my data is backed up on the device first.
When I try and restore the phone now on iTunes, it says I have to turn off Find My iPhone on the phone first before I can restore it. Now since I can't use the screen I can't really do that.
So how do I completely wipe the iPhone???
Thanks!

How to create a new full backup alongside existing one?

I have recently reinstalled my MBP from scratch and installed some apps from scratch as well. I still have my old TM backup in a sparsebundle on my NAS (a ReadyNAS NV+).
I now would like to create a complete new full backup alongside my existing one. Or put differently, a new folder/backup inside the Backups.backupdb inside the mounted sparsebundle. Currently I see a folder called "XYZs MacBook Pro". I'd like that to be renamed to something like "XYZs Old MacBook Pro" and create a new full backup under "XYZs MacBook Pro".
I understand you end up having multiple folders inside Backups.backupdb if you have many Macs (with different MAC addresses). I only have one Mac, but want TM to treat my old previous backup (of the same MPB, hence with the same MAC address) as if it was from another Mac (with a different name).
With such a setup, I can still access backups from my previous installation of the same hardware by selecting another volume from TM (by holding Alt when clikcing at the TM icon) or with tools such as Back-In-Time.
Is there any way to achieve this? My sparsebundle is large enough to hold another full backup alongside the old one.
Thanks
- Tom

Pondini wrote:
tofe1965 wrote:
But wait, you said if I erased the disk I get a new UUID. I did not erase it but I moved all files into a /Previous folder (after booting from the install DVD), then installed the system new, and then moved user data (and some Library and some application stuff) back from /Previous. So, I guess, I have no new UUID for my internal disk.
Ah, yes, that is different ("reinstalled from scratch" usually means erased). If the disk was never erased, it will still have the same UUID. But since you've moved or replaced virtually everything, it will all get backed up anyway.
I'm not sure why you did all that; the old +Erase and Install+ and +Archive and Install+ options no longer exist for Snow Leopard: there's just Install, which replaces OSX without touching anything else.
I wanted to have a *really clean* install as my old systems seemed to be messed up with some bad settings.
So, back to my original question: how can I make the new "XYZs MacBook Pro" appear alongside the old "XYZs MacBook Pro" and switch volumes when I start TM using the Option key?
Why would you want to do that? You can view and restore from any backup.
I figured that way I can keep all old backups from the old installation and not have TM retire old stuff. And start a new one from scratch for the new installation where things will get retired. Basically keep the two backups apart from each other and not see any of the old stuff unless explicitly mounted using the option key.
If I follow your approach, what happens to old files of the old disk/UUID? Will they get retired eventually? Would my original idea work as envisioned or would it retire old things nevertheless? If the latter is the case, it is of no use and your suggested approach is the better one.
Is there maybe a ay to force TM to start a new full backup?
Back up to a different place: a different HD or partition, or erase the current one.
Guess that's my only option then. I created a full bootable backup to en external USB disk using Carbon Copy Cloner. Erasing the internal disk and copying back using CCC will create a new UUID then I guess ...
I will try that in the next couple of days and report back here. Thanks a lot for all your help and explanations so far, much appreciated!

Time Machine repeatedly does full backups, including FileVault while logged in

So let me preface this - for months I'd hoped for a way that Time Machine could backup my FileVault encrypted account without logging out. Last night Snow Leopard spontaneously started doing this. I know many may think that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, but read further and hopefully someone can help me make sense of this.
Last night I attached my external 1TB USB hard drove to my 15" MBP (spring 2010 model) running OS X 10.6.7. It started doing a Time Machine backup automatically, as usual. Since I was logged into my account that uses FileVault (a massive home folder - 220GB) I expected a fast backup of things only outside my home folder. As i looked at the details, however, i quickly realized that it was backing up all 270GB of data on my hard drive - including my FileVault account while still logged in!
At first i thought i just got lucky - i'd been craving this feature for years and it just happened to me without even doing anything. Curious guy that i am, i logged out of my acct with my USB drive still attached to see what would happen. After FileVault cleared out space in my home folder, it did _another_ backup, that took about 10 minutes to complete. This seemed strange so i logged back in and started another backup manually. To my utter shock, it started doing the whole 270GB over again!
I even cleared out my TM drive, erased, reformatted, checked permissions, etc etc and did the same on my system drive, hoping that it was just a matter of broken permissions. No change.
So there's two things going on here and i'm pretty concerned about both:
1) Why is TM backing up my entire encrypted home folder while i'm still logged in??? Apple has clearly designed TM and FV to NOT work this way for data integrity reasons and the fact that it's happening has me freaked out a bit over the reliability of my backups.
2) Why is TM doing full backups after each time i login to my account? If i stay logged in, it appears to only do incremental (normal) backups but if i logout, then re-login and allow the hour to pass and let a backup start on its own, it starts the whole 270GB again.
I'm getting to the point of wiping the system and starting from scratch but since i presently live in a country with no Apple store and extremely poor internet access, that prospect horrifies me
any ideas?
many thanks,
-Tim

Thanks for the input Pondini -
I tried deleting the file as mentioned in #A4 and it still had the problem. Last weekend i finally got a brand new hard drive and reinstalled OSX 10.6.3 from scratch, then promptly applied the 10.6.7 combo update. I purposely chose to NOT import my old user from backup and instead set up everything again manually (royal pain, but the only way i could be sure that i wouldn't bring the problem with me). Today i whipped out my TimeMachine drive and set it up for backups. I crossed my fingers and it AGAIN started backing up all 250+GB of my system from within my FileVault protected account.
My wife's MBP is still running 10.6.4 and i'm beginning to wonder if his is an issue with 10.6.7 since i'm relatively certain i didn't experience this before that upgrade.
I've checked my wife's exclusions under Options and her home folder is NOT in that list, yet her TM is not attempting to backup everything until she logs out of her FV acct.
In response to Linc Davis, _yes_ it was backing up my info into a sparsebundle file, not just the raw unencrypted data, which is extremely strange.
If i DO add my home folder to the exclude list, will it still be backed up when i log out?
At this point, i'm thinking my next steps are:
1) try a different TM backup drive, even though i've wiped and checked my current drive numerous times
2) downgrade to an older version of Snow Leopard to see if 10.6.7 is the culprit
Any other ideas?

Can I create a full backup on google drive by moving my user folders to Google Drive Folder?

Can I create a full backup on google drive? Google suggested I simply move my folders (Pictures, Music, Downloads, Documents, etc) into the google drive folder. But these seem to be automated files involved with Mac's organization... will this create problems for my computer? Ie. if I import new photos, or download music, will my computer know where to put it if its in google drive?
If this is a problem, how else could I possibly create a full backup of personal data on google drive (or any similar syncing service, for that matter). iCloud is prohibitively expensive, and programs like crash plan and carbonate run so slowly and bog down my computer so much that they are not worth it. Google drive seems simplest and most competitive in price, but I am worried about moving my folders.
Help?

Google Drive also installs a client--a google drive folder on my hard drive that is programmed to sync changes automatically to the cloud--that allows me to drag and drop. I suppose my original concern was about dragging files from my hard drive (such as "pictures" that would contain my iPhoto library, etc) into it. Would that mess up Mac's internal organizational system? If I drag and drop my pictures folder, music folder, etc. into the google drive client folder in Finder, will those applications still function correctly? Will my mac still be able to figure out where to put photos I import from my camera, etc?
I am only as tech savvy as I have to be to survive professionally as a traveling teacher, so I am looking for something pretty straightforward that will free up some of my brain waves for other activities, rather than remembering which folders I have made changes in and need to sync.

Need to backup and remove photo library form my iphone. This library was previously backup on a hard drive that crashed. So these photos are only in the photo library and not in the camera roll. If I do a full backup, it only takes the camera roll.

Need to backup and remove photo library from my iphone. This library was previously backup on a hard drive that crashed. So these photos are only in the photo library and not in the camera roll. If I do a full backup, it only takes the camera roll.
So this is a 2 part question:
1) how to I backup the Photo Library to my new hard drive (as the last one was unrecoverable but previously backed up)
2) how do I remove the Photo Library form my phone (preferably after backup in item 1)
Thanks, Janis

Since it has always been very basic to backup your computer and all it's data, Apple provides no way for you to transfer music from your iPhone back to your computer. As you know, you can re-download all iTunes purchases, but music that you ripped yourself you'll have to just re-rip again.
You can try and find 3rd party applications that might help you. I'm sure you'll pay, however.
Let this be a very important lesson learned.
Best.

How can I do a FULL Backup to Oracle 8i Database?

Hi,
We are using a product that uses Oracle 8i and we are trying to perform a FULL Backup to the database. I am not an oracle person and not sure how to do this.
Please also inform me on how to perform a FULL Restor for the backed up database. I would really appreaciate it.
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Before I can amply reply to your post, I need to know what tools you have.
What is your O.S.?
What do you want to backup to? (Tape Drive/Hard Disk)
What time frame requirements do you have?
Are you running in Archive Log Mode? <-- (in case you do not know, log in with svrmgrl, connect internal, run ARCHIVE LOG LIST; and tell me what is reported on the top line of output.)
Do you have requirements that the database must be Online at all times?
Are you using 3rd party Backup Software, if so, which one(s)?
I know these are a lot of questions, but it helps me help you. :)
Rgds,
Mark Brown
SAP Japan

How can I do a Full backup of my phone to rooting it?

I'm on my way to root my phone (xperia pro mk16a with the 587 update), but I want to know how can I get a full backup of the phone in case I need it.
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Unfortunately no option
What you can backup is contacts, sms, call logs, Games data ( etc )
If you follow the process of rooting correcty, you won't loose anything
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