How to go back with the time machine..

i think there is a bug and i will like to go back one month in the time machine.. how to.. i go there but when it is time to go back, the buttom is not clear or dark to click on it..

Depends on which OS X version your iMac is running.
Go to > Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac and expand "Restoring data from Time Machine backups" then scroll down to "Restoring your entire system from a backup"

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I want to set up the Time Machine and I would love to use the Time Capsule but since I already have a wireless router I need suggestions on what other external disks Apple could recommend to use with the Time Machine and how to configure that disk

I want to set up the Time Machine and I would love to use the Time
Capsule but since I already have a wireless router I need suggestions on
what other
external disks Apple could recommend to use with the Time Machine and
how to configure that disk.
A complication that I need to resolve is the fact that I am using Vmware
Fusion to be able to use Windows on my Mac. Now it seems that Time
Machine is not backing up my files
on that virtual Windows without additional configuration and my question
is whether you can advise me here or whether this is only a matter for
the Fusion virtual machine.

If you want to use Time Capsule you can.. you simply bridge it and plug it into the existing router.. wireless can be either turned off or used to reinforce the existing wireless.. eg use 5ghz in the TC which is much faster than your 2.4ghz.
You can also use a NAS.. many brands available but the top brands are synology, qnap and netgear readynas series. These will all do Time Machine backups although how well always depends on Apple sticking to a standard. There are cheaper ones.. I bought a single disk zyxel which was rebadged and sold through my local supermarket. It actually works very well for TM at least on Snow Leopard. Major changes were made in Lion and again ML so do not instantly think it will work on later versions. I haven't tried it yet with those versions.
Any external drive can be plugged into the mac. Use the one with the fastest connection or cheapest price according to your budget. USB2 drives are cheap and plentiful. But no where near as fast as USB3 or FW800. So just pick whichever suits the ports on your Mac. Interesting Apple finally moved to USB3 on their latest computers.
TM should exclude the VM partition file.. it is useless backing it up from Mac OS side.. and will slow TM as it needs to backup that partition everyday for no purpose.. TM cannot see the files inside it to backup just the changes.
You need to backup windows from windows. Use MSbackup to external drive.. if you have pro or ultimate versions you can backup to network drive. But MSbackup is a dog.. at least until the latest version it cannot restore the partition without first loading windows. There are about a zillion backup software versions for windows.. look up reviews and buy one which works for you. I use a free one Macrium Reflect which does full disk backups and is easy to restore.. to do incremental backups though you have to pay for it.

My Macbook Pro will not boot up. How can I get to the time machine back up?

When I turn on my Macbook Pro, it gets to the gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinning beach ball and stays there. I use Time Machine with a Seagate external harddrive to back up my files. I at first thought recovery meant using Seagates's Replica software, so I followed the instructions, inserting the recovery CD and booting up to the C drive. The Seagate tecnical support person informed me that I was in error and that because I was using Time Machine, the Replica recovery CD would not be useful to me. Now I have two problems. I can't boot up, and I can't get the Replica CD out of the C drive. So I have several questions. How do I remove the CD? There doesn't appear to be a place to use the old paper clip method. Once I've removed the CD, how do I reinstall the OS? I don't seem to have a hard copy of Mavericks that should have come with this laptop.

historyrocks wrote:
How do I remove the CD?
Restart, hold the mouse button down as it boots, it should be ejected.
historyrocks wrote:
Once I've removed the CD, how do I reinstall the OS? I don't seem to have a hard copy of Mavericks that should have come with this laptop.
Lets take this step by step…
Once the disk is ejected see if 10.9 can boot normally.
If that fails let us know what happened.
Power off & disconnect your Time Machine disk and any other external disks just for now (so we know it is safe & not causing this issue).
Reboot & hold alt - it will take you into the 'boot picker' it will list all available boot disks. Make a note of how many disks appear and what the names are - let us know here.
You could try picking the 'recovery partition' if available. That should eventually show you a screen where you can select Disk Utility in the list of options…
In Disk Utility select the 'boot disk' – this is usually the item above 'Macintosh HD' (or whatever your boot disk is called).
Select the 'First Aid' tab
Repair any disk damage that is reported via 'verify'. Then select the 'Macintosh HD' & repair the permissions too.
Recovery mode explained…
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
If you have no recovery partition you can use 'Internet recovery mode' (Command+Option+R at startup) - this downloads enough to repair & install 10.9. Try to use an ethernet connection for the internet - it can be many times faster & more stable than wifi.
Once that completes reboot, hold alt & select your main boot disk (maybe Macintosh HD) if it is available.
The recovery partition can also be used to download & install 10.9.3. However you should probably see what state the Mac's boot disk is in. It's possible that erasing & reinstalling is the only option. If you go down this route you can restore the Time Machine backup, but it's better to see if it can be fixed first.

HT201250 How can I verify that the time machine has backed up all the files on my macbook pro?

Does someone have experience with the question I have raised on Time machine?

I use the Time Machine Buddy widget. It shows the log files or you could look in the Console and spotlight for Time Machine.

Help with the Time Machine set up

Hi all,
I am a newbie to Mac computers. I just got my very first MBP. As I am learning my way around and trying set things up with it, I came across the TIme Machine (TM). How do I set TM up? I have a 1 TB Seagate external hard drive that I've been using to back up few windows laptop at my household. When I plugged this drive in,TM prompted me to erase everything that I have in the external drive if I were to use that as my TM backup device. But I don't want to lose everything that I have in that drive. Since it contains backed up data from multiple machine. What do I do to set up TM backup using the same external drive without losing what I have in there?
In addition, I will be loading windows 7 on a virtual machine using Oracle Virtualbox on my mbp. Will I be able to backup data from the VM onto the same drive?
Thank you all in advance for your replies.
Prince

Yes, move all the data from the hard drive to another computer. Then use Disk Utility (in Utlities folder) to erase and partition the hard drive. You can use one partition for Time Machine and the other partition for all of your other stuff. Be sure and move your 'stuff' to a differnt partition than the Time Machine.
For everything you'd ever want to know about Time Machine, see http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html.
Good luck...
Clinton

Can I restore I Cal appointments with the time machine?

I have downloaded some software to synchronise my Ical and contacts with my Nokia 6500c. All worked well until a sync failed and I was advised to delete the data from my phone and re-sync. This has deleted my appointments from my ical! Will the time machine back up restore the data and how do you do it?
Hope someone can help otherwise its a fair bit of work on the phone to reconfirm appointments.
Alan

Navigate to the library folder inside your user folder. In the library folder will be a folder called Calendar. Enter time machine. go to a backup before your calendars were deleted. restore this folder and your calendars should be back.

How can I delete all the Time Machine backups to make room for more? And how do I force the trash to empty?

I moved a bunch of my husband's files from his Macbook (which is dieing) to my iMac. I created a user for him on my iMac so he'd be able to keep his stuff separate from mine. All is working great except my Time Machine is now unable to backup. The total of used space on my hard drive (including the recently added user's files) is about 420 GB. The amount of capacity of my external hard drive is 999GB. I think Time Machine failed because there was all of a sudden so much more data and a new full backup would be more than the unused capacity of the HD? Regardless I don't need any old backups. I have all my files and all his files. So I moved all the backups from the external HD to the trash. Apparently that's a no no. I can't fully empty the trash now and that is making my iMac crazy slow.
1) Can anyone tell me how to force the trash to empty?
2) Is there a way to delete the whole external HD and start over with a new full backup via Time Machine? In Disk Utility I try to erase the partition and get an error "Volume Erase failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disk." Then I try to Unmount it and get another "Unmount failed. The disk Backup iOmega could not be unmounted. Make sure that all applications and files are closed on this disk." I turned off Time Machine and tried again but with the same errors.
The external HD is called iOmega. It only connects to the iMac with USB. Any help is much appreciated!!!!

Try this instead:
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup volume from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
4. Click on the Erase button.
You will need to reconfigure Time Machine preferences for the backup.
FYI: Never remove Time Machine backup data except through the Time Machine application. If you aren't sure about using Time Machine then visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things related to Time Machine.

HT201250 How do you set what the Time Machine window shows?

I just bought a Time Capsule and started using Time Machine. The window that appears when selecting "Enter Time Machine" shows the desktop, but not the Hard Drive. I want to see the contents of the HD, not the desktop.

erickfrombloomfield wrote:
I thought Time Machine made a clone of my boot drive.
TimeMachine copies your entire boot drive, but it's not a clone. Clones are near 100% exact copies of your boot partition.
TM every so often updates with a "state" representing a day, it only saves the changes between states so this way it's not making your external drive full in a couple of days.
You go through the "states" to pick the copy of the file you want to restore with or the entire drive.
So that is not true?
TimeMachine is not a clone.
Aclone is a exact image of your boot partition, just like you picked up all your software and placed it on another drive.
Clones can be updated, and now even save the "states" between clones, but then it's not a clone anymore as it's not a 100% copy, but a bootable clone + backup.
How can I make the Time Machine copy on the Time Capsule bootable?
You can't, a TimeMachine can only restore, not bootable although I hear it's possible to boot to restore only.
Or how can I make a clone on Time Capsule?
You don't. The softwre and technology is not compatbile.
If you want a clone be able to boot from it, and see everything on the drive like any other, then you need to use a new blank drive and Carbon Copy Cloner, then it's a option key bootable clone drive.
TM or TimeCapsule can't do this, it's a backup system, not a clone.
If you want to learn more about TM you can visit this site
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
I don't use TM at all, it's for newbies mostly. It takes a long time to restore with as it has to go through all the states to grab files.
Power and seasoned users use clones so they also can boot from them, make more clones or run the computer if the drive dies etc.etc.

How does iPhoto back up using time machine if the library is on and external drive

I'm looking to store my iPhoto library on an external Lacie media drive so I have a central point for images. I intend to do the same with my iTines library although I understand there will be less availabitlity for the music.
My question is.
If the library is stored externally does that mean that Time Machine will not back these files up and will I have to have to have a 3rd party software to back the Lacie media drive up for safety?
Regards Graeme

Yes - unless you exclude it - check the TM preferenced to see what is being excluded
and what format is the Lacie media drive? the iPhoto library MUST always be on a drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
LN

I just upgraded to Mavrick and I don't like it. My mac is slower then ever and this remind's me of Window's Vista. I want to go back to my Snow Leopard 10.6.8. How can I go back off the time machine or just reinstall Leopard. I don't want to lose anything

I just upgraded to Mavrick and it remind's me of Why I went to a Mac in the first place. Window's went to Vista and Added all kind's of app that You all ready have and don't need. I want to go back to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 but scard to lose everything on my hard drive. I have a externale hard dr. for my Time Machine that has all my back up's on it. Can I just reinstall Snow and then plug in my time machine and go back and not lose anything. Please help Mavrick is getting me mader by the mintue. My Mac ran fine until I upgraded, Now Every move I make take's forever.
I just don't want to lose all I have on my hard dr.
Thank's for any Help
Jay

Mavericks - reverting back from:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162

HT201250 How to retrieve back up from time machine to a windows machine

Hello,
My macbook got some problem. Luckily I have time machine back up and I would like to restore the back up to windows machine that I have. Can someone help me with that please.
Thanks.

Your windows machine will not be able to read it.

How do I back up a Time Machine Backup

I recently had to reformat the external drive that I use for Time Machine's backup. In the course of doing so, I wiped out several months of TM backup.
What did I need to do to save TM's backup to, say. a CD, so that I might have restored it to its pre-reformat condition? Would it be sufficient to turn off TM, save out the external drive's Backups.backupdb folder, restore that folder to the reformatted drive, and then turn TM on again? Are there other files that need to be saved for this to work or anything else that needs to be done?

Peter Sims wrote:
I recently had to reformat the external drive that I use for Time Machine's backup. In the course of doing so, I wiped out several months of TM backup.
What did I need to do to save TM's backup to, say. a CD, so that I might have restored it to its pre-reformat condition? Would it be sufficient to turn off TM, save out the external drive's Backups.backupdb folder, restore that folder to the reformatted drive, and then turn TM on again? Are there other files that need to be saved for this to work or anything else that needs to be done?
SuperDuper allows a TM backup to be backed up.
v2.5 now available!
The latest version of SuperDuper! can store a bootable backup alongside Time Machine backups, copy Time Machine backups to other drives, run scheduled copies on demand, and polishes and improves many other aspects as well...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

How to get back missing files - time machine problems

3 weeks ago, I bought a new iMac (let me call it A) and put everything from my old iMac onto it using Migrate Assistant via WLAN. It worked fine, but when I found out 2 days later that my 'new' iMac (A) had just been replaced by the 2013 iMac, I was really annoyed and contacted the store. They agreed to change it and so today, after the hourly time machine backup, I disconnected the external hard disk and deleted what I could off the machine that was going back to Apple. Plugged in the brand new iMac (B) today and when prompted, got it to transfer data from my time machine backup. However, although the programmes are there etc. the 'last backup' it used was the one from 20 September, the day before I first connected it to the (A) iMac. And so a lot of documents are missing. When I go onto time machine, it just has a lot of blanks inbetween 20 September and today, although it had been backing up on that 'new' iMac (A) every hour it had been on, but it seems that none of these have been saved. Now it has done a couple of backups today, so there are some new backups under today, but before that, just blanks until 20 September. Firstly, can I get the missing files back? And secondly, what has gone wrong and what should I do to time machine to make sure it doesn't do this again? Thanks!!!

Hi Guys,
I would really like to know, if anyone has an answer to this because I would like to be able to re-download some of my podcasts that I deleted to clear up some disk space.
Thanks very much,
John

Can I use time capsule as an external HDD to free up memory on my comuter along with the time machine backups?

I currently am considering a WD My Book Live Home Network Drive for 189.00 but would consider a time capule if it will allow me to rid my iMac of all the pictures and videos to free up my memory and store it on the time capsule for easy access on my 2 mac computers and apple TV. The WD also will allow me to access my itunes library via wireless connection without going through my computer. Please help.

The Time Capsule is for your backups.
You always want to keep "original" copies of your media on one drive, and backups on another drive. In case one drive fails....or rather I should say when...not if...a drive fails.....you still have copies on the other hard drive.
While you could move your images and media files to the Time Capsule from your Mac...and then delete the files on your Mac to free up space....you may not have considered that you have no backups if you do this.
If the Time Capsule has a problem....rather I should say....when the Time Capsule has a problem.....you lose all of your images and media. The same would apply if you use the WD drive just for images and media.
Given the investment in images, time and money for your data, only the most foolhardy of users would consider something like this.
Bottom line...you need two drives...the WD drive and a Time Capsule. They you can add the WD drive directly to your Mac and move the images and media there. Then, the Time Capsule will backup the files on your both your Mac and the WD drive.
So, you have "original" files and data on one drive and backups for that data on another drive. That's a bare minimum backup plan. Many of use use a dual backup and plan and keep an extra copy of backups offsite, in case of theft, fire or flood.

Lost iPhoto. How do I get it back. The Time machine not far enough back

Installed iLife 11 so I could use the IDVD program. This may be coincidence, but I have lost the IPhoto program. The library seems intact, its the program itself. How do I get it back?

Go to the Mac App Store.
Look on the Purchases page
See if there is a version of iPhoto for you there, waiting to be downloaded.

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