HT201250 How long should an initial time machine backup of tack for 675 GB?s with a USB external hard drive?

How long should an initial time machine backup of tack for 675 GB?s with a USB external hard drive?

Not much faster than 40 GBs-60GBs per hour. So, minimally, around 12 hours.

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    How do I set up Time Machine to a shared drive on another Mac?

  • HT201250 how do I get Time Machine to back up files (e.g. iPhoto) stored on an external hard drive?

    Installed a new 3TB external hard drive for Time Machine.  I have 2 other external hard drives attached to my iMac that contain iTunes and iPhoto.  How can I point Time Machine to those external drives to include in the backup?

    What is listed in System Preferences > Time Machine > Options... > Exclude these items from backups:?
    Any attached external disk not listed there should be backed up.

  • HT201250 How do you browse other time machine backups of other drives?

    It seems to me that Time Machine used to display an option to "Browse other Time Machine backups."
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    So how can I browse thru the backup of the MacBook Pro from my iMac, since the backup is actually located on the iMac's attached drive.
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    chaseholden wrote:
    It seems to me that Time Machine used to display an option to "Browse other Time Machine backups."
    [snip]
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    If you have TM in the menu bar or the Dock, hold down the option key as you choose the TM menu or the TM icon in the Dock.

  • HT201250 How can I migrate a Time Machine backup from an external hard drive to a new TimeCapsuls?

    I just got a 2TB Time Capsule.  I want to migrate my time machine backups on an external hard drive to the new Time Capsule.  I have about 430Gb of files to back up; I don't want to wait 7-8 days for the backup, unless I have to.  I am using OS 10.7.5 (forget which cat that is).  I have mounted the TC drive as 10.0.1.1; I tried to drag and drop from old to "data" on TC, but I get the error "The volume is the wrong format for a backup."  Any ideas how I can move my old files to the new, and bypass creating a brand new backup file?
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    Rather than do that, which means starting over from scratch, losing all your edits, organisation and so on, why not simply use iPhoto Library Manager to revert the Library to the older version? Easier, less destructive.
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  • After restoring from Time Machine backup (that was on 10.6.8) to a new (replaced) hard drive (on 10.8.3), iPhoto shows nothing in it's Library.  Where are my photos?

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    Certainly you can restore files with Time machineas I noted in my original post  - that is what TM is all about
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    3 - select the iPhoto library (by default in your pictures folder)
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    See - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US - for more details
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    To restore, select the file/folder and click the "Restore" button. The file will automatically be copied to the desktop or appropriate folder.  If the file you are restoring has another file in the same location with the same name, you will be prompted to choose which file to keep or keep both.
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    And you may need to post in the Time Machine forum as this is really a TM question not an iPhoto question
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  • HT201250 How Do I Pause a Time Machine Backup??????????

    Mavericks Option is to 'Skip Backup'??? NO APPLE HELP AVAILABLE. Help Center has wrong info. No STOP Backup Option on Mavericks. No Apple contact info on site or anywhere I can find in the 15 minutes I've been searching.

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  • HT201250 How can I determine which Time Machine backups can be deleted to free space on my backup device?

    Time Machine keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups.
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    Thanks.
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    I guess TimeMachine doesn't work quite how I want it too. Seems to be true of so many Apple products!

  • How to check that a time machine backup is ready for use?

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    chuckbo wrote:
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  • Can no longer access USB external hard drive

    Hi - I am running OS X 10.8.4 on my iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009), and have been using a La Cie USB  external hard drive for several years for my Time Machine backups without issues.  All of a sudden yesterday, the external hard drive disappeared from Finder and my Desktop,  and as a result, no more Time Machine backups  I rebooted both the external hard drive and iMac several times  and changed the USB cable but with no success.  Disk Utility and Time Machine cannot see the external hard drive but it does appear under System Information => USB (see below).  I connected it to my Windows 8 laptop. The Windows laptop can see the external hard drive under Disk Management as an uninitialized disk.  But I will not allow me to initialize it and therefore cannot acces it.
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  • HT1176 how long should an initial backup take?

    How long should an initial backup take?

    If the Mac is connected to the Time Capsule using an Ethernet connection, the backup will proceed on average at about 30-35 GB per hour.
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    Bets are off with a backup using wireless, but it will likely be at least 3-4 times longer than the wired Ethernet connection.

  • Initial Time machine backup was interrupted

    I interrupted my initial Time Machine backup.  How do I reinstate the initial backup?

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  • How can I copy a time machine backup from one Time Capsule to another ?

    How can I copy a time machine backup from one Time Capsule to another ? I bought a 1 Tb Time Capsule to replace my 512Mb Time Capsule. Now, I like to copy my time machine backup from the old Time Capsule to the new one so I can keep using my backup.

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  • I need to back up my imac running Tiger (no time machine) so that we can upgrade OS. It is set up for multiple accounts.  How do I capture all files in each account using newly purchased USB external hard drive?

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  • How Can I Migrate My Time Machine Backups To A New External Hard Drive?

    I have a external hard drive that has 500 GBs left, but I want to buy a larger drive.

    ivan wrote:
    How Can I Migrate My Time Machine Backups To A New External Hard Drive?
    I have a external hard drive that has 500 GBs left, but I want to buy a larger drive.
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