How dose time machine work

how can i manage when time machine backs-up?????

Not sure what you mean with manage?
Here is some excellent information on it:
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

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How does time machine work when being used with a mac pro?

How does time machine work when backing up a mac pro?
Considering the fact that the mac pro can hold 8TB and a external (non NAS) hard drive can hold only 2TB does time machine only backup the OS disk.

macnewcomer22 wrote:
Considering the fact that the mac pro can hold 8TB and a external (non NAS) hard drive can hold only 2TB does time machine only backup the OS disk.
Time Machine will backup everything by default, on every disk in your Mac.
Choose System Preferences > Options to exclude items. You could exclude everything except your OS...but I'd think it is your data that's more important to you, if you have to make choices.
See...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018
While it's true you can store almost 8TB, how much do you think you'll actually store? If you have 1TB of data you want to store then a 2TB drive can do it. Also when your TM drive begins to get full it will begin deleting the oldest backups to make room.
You could also get a Drobo with 8 bays...
http://www.drobo.com/products/index.php
-mj

How does Time Machine work with Boot Camp?

Hello, I'm going to install windows (I don't know if 7 or 8.1 yet) by bootcamp,
and I need to know if TIME CAPSULE work also in Windows mode, and if I have to configure it in a particular way.
I apologize for my poor english. Thank you at all. Andrea.

I have no really knowledge of how Parallels work other than it is a Virual Machine software program that create a Virtual Machine, Mimics REAL Hardware (Virtual Hardware), to run Windows under Mac OS X. So with that all the files are OS X files, Mac Format files, and Time Machine can and will back those up. But that will not backup what is on the Boot Camp partition. To do that you need either a Windows backup program or WinClone to do it when you are booting from OS X.
Google WinClone to find out what it is.

How does time machine work, and what does it really do?

i just got my macbook pro, and just wiondered what time machine does, and how t works

Hi p,
Basically, it's an incremental, hourly backup application (you provide the HD). After the first backup, it only backs up new/revised data (plus some overhead), so it takes up much less space than all separate backups. Some reading for you:
Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/VI29
How to back up and restore your files: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Recovering Your Entire System
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15638.html

How will Time Machine work with a laptop?

I have a MacBook and an external HD. I rarely plug the HD into the MacBook, except for when I need to backup. How well will Time Machine handle this setup? My hope is, as soon as the HD is plugged in, an increment backup session will start, which hopefully won't take too long. Or is there a way to still backup over wireless network like it was originally promised?

It will back up whenever you plug in the HD. The time will depend on how many changes you made from the last backup. If you do it daily, then it is not going to be an issue. TM will probably change our attitudes on how we backup a little bit.

How does time machine work for you ?

TimeMacine writes two files per time block and sometimes one like it should.
When I look over drive with Finder it seems okay to me. The plist telling
it which files are not included seems okay. The killer when I try to see what
could be restored TimeMachine silently fails to open.

Do you mean the "Star Wars" display won't appear? If so, see #E4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
If not, please clarify.

How does time machine work

This is going to be a seriously dumb question perhaps... I just got a new external hard drive b/c the old one was originally used w/ a PC and I could not backup my movie files onto it without reformatting & erasing everything. When I plugged new one in, it asked if I wanted to use it for Time Machine. I knew TM was some sort of backup thing so I said yes & it did all the formatting, etc. and is currently backing up what I assume is everything on my computer?
So here is my question- if I just plug this thing into my computer every week or two, it will automatically backup everything I have on the computer, including all photos & video files???? Is it really that easy???? I don't want to assume this is what is going to happen & then go through & delete things off my hard drive to open up space and end up losing them altogether.
Thank you!

Thank you!
When I plug it in the next time will a prompt come up asking if I want to backup or will I have to look for the icon in the top menu (or click on the drive when it pops up on my desktop)?
I hate not having all my files on my computer but currently I have 3 versions of every movie clip I've edited- some random one with no file extension, one with .mov and one with .mp4 and I need to clear them off b/c my startup disk is full. I have been transferring files from Flip video over to imovie, which has resulted in the extra copies but I want to be sure it is all backed up before I start clearing things out so I can continue to transfer the files over to use iMovie 100% of the time.

How does Time Machine works?

Hey, I'm a new mac user and started to use time machine. There are some questions I don't understand. For the size of the external drive, what size do I need if my internal drive on my macbook pro is 500GB? I only used 100GB. And does the external drive have to be connected to the laptop all the time? Can I just plugged it in every night as I'm in college and it's quite annoying to have a hard drive hangging with your laptop. Any answers are appreciated.

For all things about Time Machine, see the Great Pondoni's webpage - http://www.pondini.org/OSX/Home.html.
The general 'rule of thimb" is that you need an external drive 2-3x the size of your internal drive - this will allow to to keep incremental backups going for months (I've a 512GB SSD and my Time Machine disks, two 2TB drives, will let me restore as far back as June 24, 2012).
You don't have to leave the drive plugged in all of the time - local backups will be made to your internal drive until you plug your external drive back in again. You can also disable backups when you're running on battery power.
I recommend having at least two backups - one a Time Machine backup and one clone. You can read more about this at Pondoni's site as well.
Good luck,
Clinton

How does Time MACHINE work with the Verizon Fios Router and External Harddrive??

Hello,
I just got a laptop MBP for my daughter who has got Verizon FIOS as her carrier. The Router has wireless capability and ethernet capable connections.
I want to set her up with an external hard drive for Time Machine Backups and to make it easier, I was wondering if I can somehow connect the external hard drive to the router so she can use her laptop anywhere in the house and have it backed up.
I clearly recognize that I can hook it up direct to the laptop but I thought if someone had an idea, this approach might be easier for her.
I haven't gotten the external hard drive yet so I thought I would ask before I do.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide me,
Skip

You can restore from the larger disk since Time Machine makes a complete copy of the Mac on the first backup on any new disk.
So, the first time your Mac backed up to the larger disk, the entire contents of your Mac's hard drive (minus any files that you excluded) were copied over. Then, Time Machine began to back up the incremental changes on all subsequent backups.

How do Time Machine work? And how can I make it work?

I really want to know how it works because I just got the Leopard but I dont know how this application works...

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Start here: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=leopardtimemachine
and here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html

How does the time machine work

how does the time machine work....I need to find an older version of a document...

Hi mogburn,
Time Machine is part of the System software, not a feature of the word processing and page layout application, Pages, the topic in this community.
That said, Time Machine is pretty easy to get into.
In the Finder, open the folder containing the current version of the file.
Select the file, then click on the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and choose Enter Time machine.
The folder window will move to the center of the screen, and two arrows will appear near the lower right corner of the window.
Click the one pointing back to go back in time, and the one pointing toward the front (of the computer) to return to the present. The display will stop at each saved version of the file along the way.
Need more details? Try asking in the Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard community.
Regards,
Barry

HT3275 does anyone have step by step instructions for how to replace .sparsebundle to make time capsule with time machine work again. i accidently deleted it thank you

does anyone have step by step instructions for how to replace .sparsebundle to make time capsule with time machine work again. i accidently deleted it thank you

Error message Pop-up reads:
Time Machine could not complete the backup
The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data-1/myname.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error - 1)

How can Time Machine restore older Mac Pro's - But not Disk Utility?

Hey,
So I had posted a discussion earlier last week asking about older MacPro's (2006 - 2008) versions that do not seem to run snow leopard if you just try to install with the MAC OS X 10.6.2 disc - I was trying to use my new Snow Leopard image that i have created for the new school year, and I tried to image a 2006 MacPro model and a 2008 MacPro model, etc... This would not work, it would let me start the imaging process and then it would give me an error that looked like this "ev/disk02o does not have enough space" And i just figured that was the computer code way of telling me that the image i had created was not readable by the computer or the disk utility, but this must be something that was written into the programing of Disk Utility or Snow Leopard because i found a loop hole - I was able to "restore" the backup of the new image that i made using Time Machine on the 2008 MacPro and even the 2006 MacPro - which both have earlier versions of the Intel chip. The restored image works fine, all programs work the same as a 2009 MacPro that i imaged the same image onto using disk utility and i have found no problems yet using any part of the system. MY QUESTION: I'm wondering how i was able to do this and if anyone has had a similar experience trying to get images accross a bunch of different models of MacPro's - Is Time Machine a "better" way to restore the disk image? Did Apple do this on purpose, so that you cant image newer images onto older machines? Very confused as to why it makes you use Time Machine...
Thanks again,
Kyle R.

You are reading things into that error message that are simply not there.
Take the error message at face value.
When it calculates all the "stuff" it has to get onto your disk to do the installation, it does not fit. (including the .dmg, the Virtual Disk created to mount the dmg, and all the temporay files that are added before the new version takes over and discards the old stuff) all that stuff in total does not fit.)
Sure the final image fits, and sure you can restore that final image using other methods: Time machine works, and I'll bet Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper work as well.
Using the method you were using, the sum of all the temp files and all the program files do not fit. It is NOT a conspiracy.

How Does Time Machine Help If... iCal Data Lost?

Hi,
How does Time Machine help if, say, your iCal database gets messed up? Or, how does it help if you accidentally delete all your playlists from iTunes? I'd be interested to know.

That's a very good question (although probably better directed at Apple than us). Because Time Machine is new and Apple's in house programs handle data in different ways, there are a range of different means of recovering data for different applications. Not very user friendly and iCal is one of the least user friendly ones.
As an experiment, because I don't make much use of iCal and have no real idea how it works, I tried to find out how to restore its data. Starting with working with the application: nope, not TM aware at present. OK, where does it restore its data? Next step Spotlight where, as it happens, the obvious search "Calendars" brings up a folder in ~/Library labelled that with a whole lot of mysterious stuff in it. I'm pretty sure that restoring that folder would do the trick. No doubt, if you could figure out which Calendar belongs to what in the above folder you could restore a single calendar that was causing problems. Still, Apple's clearly got some work to do to make this more transparent. Roll on iCal4!
(By the way Mail also restores from within the program).

Time machine working well but I can't find backed up files fast enough?

Time machine working well but I can't find backed up files fast enough. When I look in Time machine backups I'm looking in a folder and I can't remember what it was, but I go back in time and the finder goes from 98 files to 100 files, how do I find which 2 files were the ones deleted? Going back and forth from past to present is a pain! I need to figure out which file it was faster? Have any ideas?
With the new "Find" feature it actually highlights what you are looking for such as in Safari. Does Time Machine have a feature to highlight the files/folders that were deleted really from the present?

It sounds like you aren't looking for any file in particular, but notice a change in number of files and would like to know what changed rather than knowing that a specific file is now missing.
that's a good point, and it appears that TM is not setup to describe the changes over time. If I recall correctly, it has a plug-in ability, so maybe somebody will fill in that void.
Sheldon

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