HT201250 Will Time Machine Back Up Everything On My Mac?

I have to submit my Macbook Pro into the store to get the USB Port fixed and they recommended backing up my computer before submitting it. I found Time Machine on here and started to back up on it... I just wanted to make sure everything will be backed up (i.e. iPhoto pictures, music on iTunes...etc)

It should.
I'd make 2 backups on 2 different drives - oops happen. It can be either 2 Time Machine or Time Machine and a clone.
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  • HT201250 will time machine back from an external drive

    I save all data ,photos documents etc to an external WD My book Live drive and want to back this up.How do I do that in Time machine

    With your WD EHD connected to your Mac...
    Go to Time Machine > Preferences > Options... then select the + to add your WD EHD...
    Some interesting reading here...
    http://pondini.org/TM/27.html
    See the Green Box.
    More Info here  >  http://pondini.org/TM/10.html
    From Pondini’s excellent Information Here...
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  • Will Time Machine back up all?

    I'm waiting for my new iMac to arrive in a few days and plan to install Win XP on a separate partition. I'm curious about one thing...when I use Time Machine to back up the computer, will it also back up everything on the Mac hard drive, including the Win XP part or will I need to run a separate back up routine from within Windows?

    TM will not backup a Windows partition. You will need either Windows software for doing backups or you can use a freeware utility called WinClone - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

  • I have an iMac and I am running out of disc space. I am considering an external drive to house my iTunes library. If I buy a second drive to operate as a back up will time machine back up the disc on the IMac and the external drive with the iTunes library

    I have an iMac and I am running out of disc space. I am considering an external drive to house my iTunes library. If I buy a second drive to operate as a back up will time machine back up the disc on the IMac and the external drive with the iTunes library?

    If you have a considerable photograph and/or movie collection you may want to consider off loading those to the EHD too. Here are Apple's article showing how handle iTunes & iPhoto libraries.
    iTunes: library on EHD
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  • Will Time Machine back up iTunes media  on a different internal drive

    I have my iTunes media on a different internal drive.
    Will Time machine back up that data as well?
    I have two other internal drives, each 750gb.
    Does Time Machine back those drives up as well? Or does it contain itself to the OS disk?

    Stephen,
    Amazingly, Time Machine will do this by default!! In fact, Time Machine will back up every volume that is present at the time of the initial backup, unless told to do otherwise. I keep my iTunes and iPhoto libraries on a secondary partition of my MBP's hard drive, and Time Machine backed that up automatically.
    Your backup will be contained in a "Backups.backupdb" folder on whatever external volume you choose to use for Time Machine. Within this folder, you will find other folders named for the various volumes that are being backed up. As far as I know, there is no limit to how many can be kept.
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  • Will time machine back up a second "internal" drive?

    I have a Macbook Pro "late 2008" unibody.
    I'd like to eventually buy an SSD drive to use as my "boot up / programs" drive and then use my much larger conventional drive as a "data" drive which will reside where my superdrive was.  Will time machine back up this second drive or is it limited to the drive it's installed on?
    If it's not possible, I'd appreciate any recommendations / tips on how I would back up the second drive or an alternate back up solution to back up both drives more efficiently.

    It'll backup all except items you add in the exclude options as below:

  • Will Time Machine back Documents up?

    My copy of Leopard is coming on Tuesday, but I would like to clarify something before I take the leap and upgrade.
    Here's my situation: Instead of using the Documents folder on my internal HD, I bought a portable 40G USB HD to use as my "Documents" folder, thus saving precious HD space on my MBP.
    My question is: will Time Machine back up the contents of my portable HD?
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    Yes. You just need to take the drive that has your documents on it off Time Machine's exclusion list in System Preferences. Also, it would probably be a good idea to make sure that you only include alphanumeric characters (a-z,0-9) with no spaces or punctuation in naming any Time Machine source or target drives. Some people have have reported that Time Machine can be finicky about that. Also make sure that your Time Machine volume is properly formatted, Apple Extended (Journaled) with Apple Partition Map partitioning for PPC Macs and GUID for Intel Macs. It can be a bit tricky to get new drives formatted correctly. There is an explanation and a fix here.
    Message was edited by: Peggy Lynn for wrong link

  • Will Time Machine back up data stored on an external drive ?

    I'm planning to add an external hard drive to my iMac to hold more data. I also plan to to use a larger external drive for Time Machine. Will Time Machine back up both the internal hard drive and the external data hard drive?

    Sorry I was out for awhile, click on "Frequently Asked Questions" at the top of that page that I linked in earlier.

  • Can I use a mountain lion time machine back up on new mavericks macs?

    My macbook retina was stolen at my school. I was wondering because I used time machine having mountain lion, does it affect anything when if i purchase a mavericks macbook pro? the just announced one. I have all my pictures (iphoto) in that last back up. Can i use a mountain lion time machine back up on new mavericks macs?  My macbook retina was stolen on August 16? So I don't know if there was an update on my mac that might affect it in any way...

    It's ok you can use your ML TM to transfer your account.   iPhoto library and other things will be upgraded when you open the apps. 
    At the end of the Apple article it says:
    Migrating a Time Machine backup to a new Mac
    When you get a new Mac, you can transfer all of your applications, files, settings, and other information from a Time Machine backup you've already made. When you start up your new Mac for the first time, the Setup Assistant asks you if you would like to restore from backup. If you've already set up your new Mac, you can use theMigration Assistant (located in Applications/Utilities) to do the same thing.
    After Migration Assistant completes the transfer and you select your existing Time Machine backup drive, you will be prompted with "Inherit Backup History". Once selected you will be able to continue to use your existing Time Machine backup on your new Mac.

  • Will Time Machine Back up an External Hard Drive Attached to my Mac Pro?

    Apple TV is GREAT, but it quickly filled up my hard drive. My thought is to take my folder that contains all of my personal files and put it on an 1TB external hard drive. I'd then "point" iTunes to where this new folder is. First, is that the right approach? Will that mess anything else up? Second, can I have Time Machine then back this external hard drive up? So, I'd like to have Time Machine back up my Mac HD and the external HD. If Time Machine won't do this, is there a good back up program for Macs that is very turnkey?
    Thanks in advance!!!

    GregT wrote:
    Apple TV is GREAT, but it quickly filled up my hard drive. My thought is to take my folder that contains all of my personal files and put it on an 1TB external hard drive. I'd then "point" iTunes to where this new folder is. First, is that the right approach? Will that mess anything else up? Second, can I have Time Machine then back this external hard drive up?
    If the drive is formatted +Mac OS Extended,+ yes. While it's connected, go to TM Preferences > Options. If it's listed in the exclusion box, just select it and click the minus sign at the bottom.
    If it's listed in gray, however, it's either formatted wrong or corrupted, and you can't remove the exclusion.

  • Time Machine backs up everything every time

    Hi
    I've just had my hard drive replaced (as part of the Apple recall) and I have just had my external 2TB LaCie hard drive replaced as well due to a fault. I plugged the external hard drive in for the first time yesterday - partitioned it into 3 (one specifically for backups) and did a full backup and now Time Machine backs everything up each hour and takes forever - it's only backing up 4.39GB (it's taken 15 minutes to backup up 754kb). Very frustrating. Any advice would be great.
    cheers

    You can import directly to an external drive. Just select the external drive from the import from camera screen. The external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). You can buy them this way, or you can buy a drive formatted for Windows and reformat it yourself. Let me know if you need instructions.
    For existing Events and Projects, you can move them to the external drive following these instructions.
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
    For videos of my children and the family, my practice is to keep everything. I just buy extra external drives to keep it on. It is very important to keep backups of everything that is irreplacable. What I do is create an archive copy of my camcorder files. I back that up rather than backing up the whole event. I import to the iMovie Event from the Archive copy. Once I know the archive copy is good, I reformat the card in my camera and shoot some more.

  • HT201250 Since time machine backed up my computer does that mean I can delete files so I can increase storage space on my hard drive?

    Since time machine backed up my computer does that mean I can delete files so I can increase storage space on my hard drive?

    NO!
    Time Machine is not an Archival Backup. It will keep files for a while, but if it needs the space, it will delete files that no longer exist on the hard drive.
    Get a couple external drives and move the files to both of them.

  • HT201250 My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can't be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

    My time machine back has been working perfectly well until yesterday when it failed. The error message I get is Files can’t be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be read-only. How do I fix it?

    Hello,
    http://pondini.org/TM/C6.html

  • HT201250 Will Time Machine backup the files on my desktop?

    Will Time Machine backup the files on my desktop? Backup files anywhere on my computer even if they're not neatly in the document folders?

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3107
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  • HT201250 My time machine back up does not appear to back up documents and e mails (the most important things for me). How do I get this done?

    My time machine back up does not appear to back up documents and e mails (the most important things for me). How do I get this done?

    How do you know it's not backing up those things? To check documents, go in the Finder to your documents folder, then go to the Time Machine icon in your menubar and click Enter Time Machine. Scroll back through time and see if previous versions of the documents exist in the backups.
    For Mail, same thing. Open the Mail app, go into Time Machine in the same way, and scroll back. Your inbox should change to reflect how it looked when it was backed up.
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