HT3275 oes time machine back up and restore boot camp and the OS inside boor camp

running OS Lion on mac book pro using time machine . Does time machine restore when doing a global restoration of the OS and disk, windows inside parallels and windows inside boot camp?

Why? Just to make things easier and more stable I guess. The nice thing for me is that I know I can totally wipe my Mac drive, do a clean install of Mac OS X, and not have to worry about anything on my Windows Boot Camp drive being touched or altered and then having to worry about fixing it somehow.
If you want to delete your Boot Camp partition you can do so by running Disk Utility - it is very simple. You could then do a restore from your Time Machine backup and not have Boot Camp there anymore and have your whole hard drive for use just for Mac OS X.

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Last Time Machine back-up is 45 days old and only of User Account files (not entire HD) and I must now reinstall Lion without being able to perform a new back-up. Will any new User Account files, since my last back-up, be lost when Lion reinstalls (via i

My last Time Machine back-up is 45 days old and only of User Account files (not entire HD) and I must now reinstall Lion (via internet) without performing a new back-up. Will any new User Account files, since my last back-up, be lost when Lion reinstalls ?

Reinstalling OS X doesn't affect user data, provided nothing goes wrong. But it would be very unwise to assume that nothing will go wrong, especially if you're having (unspecified) system issues. You should try to back up all data before you reinstall or do anything else. There are ways to do that, even if you're unable to boot.
If your backups include only user files, you won't be able to access them in Setup Assistant.

HT201250 Time Machine cannot find my external back-up drive when I click on the "select disk" button. No drive is found. I have run a Time Machine back-up to this external drive in the past. I'm on the latest version of Snow Leopard. Thank you!

Time Machine cannot find my external back-up drive when I click on the "select disk" button. No drive is listed. I have run a Time Machine back-up to this external drive in the past. Any suggestions

Does the disk appear in Disk Utility?

Does time machine back up I Cal, Mail, Contacts and can they be easily located and restored?

My ICal and Mail and Address Book files are very large and I'm used to backing them up all the time from when I used a PC with Outlook. Now, can I rely on Time Machine to do it for me? And if needed, can I easily locate them and fully restore them

Definitely - doesn't matter how large the files are; they will be backed up via Time Machine and you can restore at your leisure.
Clinton

HT3275 Can Time Machine back up more than one computer without overwriting one of the backups?

I was using Time Machine to back up files from my G5 onto an external drive. I now want to use the same drive to back up my laptop with Time Machine. If I set it up for that, will it overwrite the backup files from the G5?

If I set it up for that, will it overwrite the backup files from the G5?
No, Time Machine will create a new backup file for the laptop and automatically keep backups separate for the G5 and the laptop.
This assumes that you still have plenty of space on the external hard drive to backup the laptop.

HT3275 does time machine back up email?

Does time machine back up all the emails in your apple mail?

Yes, assuming of course, that you have not specifically excluded Mail from backups.

Time Machine back-up, only restores application, how do I open it to retrieve the contents?

I have iWeb 3.0.3 with a large web site on it that I maintain each month - www.wworkshop.net - This has been running on a G5 Power PC Mac with 10.5.8. The G5 has just given up the ghost, luckily - I had hoped - I have been backing up regularly with ‘The Time Machine’ onto a ‘My Passport for the Mac’. We also have in the family a G4 Power PC Mac PowerBook with 10.5.8 on it, together with an iMac running 10.6.8.
On attempting to reinstall iWeb from the back-up, first it is not recognized by the Time Machine on the G4, it is however on the iMac, and on restoring iWeb appears to be loaded, such that the new size of iWeb on the iMac corresponds with the original - about 500MB as compared with about 30MB for the application with out the web site attached. My problem is, that when I open the back up copy of iWeb on the iMac, the web site is not there, it only wants to start from scratch. I also have a second back up machine that also has (an older copy) of the web site on it, with in a copy of iWeb, that did restore onto the G4, but again, the size would indicate that it contains the web site, but it also only opens to start a new one.
Question.1: How do I get iWeb to cough up my web site, instead of trying to start a new one when I open it?
I always save to a desk top folder from iWeb when updating my web site, then from there load it up to the WWW.
Question.2: Is there any way of using the saved data in the folder to get it back into iWeb to recreate it in the application, or do I have to recreate the complete web site from scratch, all 2500+ photos and text?

When you backed up the website, you should have backed up iWeb the application, but you also needed to back up your domain.sites file - your website in iWeb is not automatically part of iWeb the application, so there is no website for iWeb to "Cough up" - it is the application only, so you need your domain file.
Your domain.sites file is located and stored under your User Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites. This is located under your User Library and NOT your System Library and if you wanted your website back again as well as iWeb the application, then it is this file that you should have baked up.
No, there is no way to get your data back from saved published files on your desktop because iWeb does not and never has had an import facility, so it cannot open these files. The only way is your domain.sites file and if you do not have access to these, then you are looking at re-building your site from scratch.
iWeb is no longer a supported product and has not been sold or supported by Apple for over 2 years now.
If you need to re-build your website from scratch, then do so with an application that is actually being actively developed and supported such as EverWeb.
Other alternatives are RapidWeaver, Sandvox, Freeway Pro/Epress 7, WebAcappella 4 and Flux V.
Also, your OS and your Macs generally seem to be old and at some stage you should consider updating. You should consider purchasing an Intel Mac rather than the Power PC, because you can then update your OS to the latest - you still appear to be running Snow Leopard, which is old now and does not support all the latest technologies. Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and now Yosemite have gone before, so you should consider upgrading to an Intel Mac and keeping at least one Mac fully up-to-date. If you don't do this, it just means that you cannot run the latest software on your Mac and some iPhones, if you use them are incompatible with earlier versions of iTunes.
Technology moves very fast these days and you need to ensure that you keep at least one Mac up-to-date, even if this means buying a new one - you can get re-furbished Macs at cheaper prices.
Unfortunately, as you did not back up the right things, then you'll have to re-build your site from scratch, but don't use iWeb - it is not a supported product and has not been for over 2 years. Get something newer.

Can Time Machine back up a failed hard drive, and how long will it take to prepare?

1. The hard drive in my 2009 MBP has failed. My Time Machine external drive failed about three weeks ago, and I don't know if I'll be able to restore from it. Is it ever possible to backup a failed hard drive with Time Machine? The machine boots, it just comes up beach balls if I use any applications for very long.
2. I'm trying to back it up right now. I have Time Machine running to a new external drive. It has been stuck on "preparing backup" for about 20 minutes. Everyone says that preparing a first backup takes some time, but no one says if "some time" is 15 minutes or one hour or more. What is a typical length of time for preparing first backup? At what point should I walk away?
If it's not worth trying to back this drive up myself anymore, I'd love to just drop the thing off and get the hard drive replaced -- but if it's worth doing, I'll take the extra day to back up what I can.

You might have better luck using a clone.
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Can't access previous Time Machine back ups to restore my personal data

I restored my very slow iMac using original discs and then rolled forward to get the software up to the lastest version of OS. I restored some personal files from Time Machine and then did a back up. Since doing the back up I can no longer access my old files. Any solution? Oh, and the performance is OK now!

Assuming by "old files" you mean TM backups made before you "rolled forward," you need to use the 'browse other disks' option described in the green box here to access them.
BTW, it isn't clear what version of OS X you are running on your iMac. It can't be any version of iOS like is shown in your product data -- that is just for 'i devices' like iPhones or iPads. If you "restored" from original disks you must have started with some version of Snow Leopard (OS X 10.8.x) & if you had previously upgraded to 10.7 or 10.8, you would have had to erase the HD to reinstall the older OS (which is probably why TM thinks the older backups are from another Mac).

Time Machine backing up, but restore option not available

Macbook Pro with OS X, 10.5.8. For some time now time machine has been backing up to the external hard drive, but when I select an earlier date to restore my system, the "restore" selection is not available. Any ideas?

Try Section E Here...
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Time Machine back up freezes Finder, System Preferences and Time Machine

When I attempt to use time machine to back up to an external hard drive and come back to the computer I find that finder, time machine and system preferences are locked. I can open other software but those applications although "on" are not accessible.

That's quite strange.
Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Navigate to a backup where this happened, copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).

Will Time Machine back up two internal hard drives on the same computer?

Hi,
I'm running a Quicksilver G4 - the last of the dual booters - and I have two hard drives installed. One is an 80Gb carrying the OS, apps, and iMovie projects and photos.
The original 60Gb drive is still in there, and has the old OS9 and all my work on there, and my iTunes library.
I currently back up to a MyBook 500Gb firewire external drive. It's partioned into 3 sections. One for long term storage, not backed up. The other two hard drives are backed up completely in the other two partitions, using Retrospect.
Can I use Time Machine two back up these two drives, and what do I need to do to the partions?
I thought it best to ask first.

Thanks Ewan,
What I'd like to do is to abandon Retrospect and use Time Machine only for both the internal drives. The remaining part of the external drive just used for storage and not backing up, I'd like to leave how it is, I just drag and drop there.
On my partions, I've allowed 80Gb and 60Gb partitions, the same size as the drives, though neither drive is more than half full.
When you say I can change the disk volume for backup, do you mean that I have to give Time machine a seperate instruction and schedule for backup? That wouldn't be a problem.

Time Machine backs up 256G SSD but now skips the internal 1TB ATA

Hi,
Time Machine has been working flawlessly for over a year. But now something strange is happening. TM reflects changes on my 256G SSD internal drive but not my internal 1TB ATA drive. I have an iMac i7 2011. I have an external 2TB WD drive that I backup to and it's nowhere near at capacity. My 1TB ATA, under TM, shows me a state that's a few weeks old and no changes I make are backed up, even when I perform a manual backup.
I've checked the console log. There's nothing out of the ordinary:
28/05/12 8:29:18 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
Starting standard backup
28/05/12 8:29:18 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
Backing up to: /Volumes/My Book/Backups.backupdb
28/05/12 8:29:19 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
No pre-backup thinning needed: 835.7 MB requested (including padding), 1.62 TB available
28/05/12 8:29:23 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
Copied 383 files (75 KB) from volume iMac-HD-SSD-256GB.
28/05/12 8:29:24 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
Copied 388 files (75 KB) from volume iMac-HD-ATA-1TB.
28/05/12 8:29:25 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
Starting post-backup thinning
28/05/12 8:29:25 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
28/05/12 8:29:25 PM
com.apple.backupd[2535]
Backup completed successfully.
I'm about to give up on TM.
Thanks,
Vanessa

Forgive me, but how do you know it's not backing it up?
The log you posted shows data copied from both iMac-HD-SSD-256GB and iMac-HD-ATA-1TB. Those are the SSD and HD, aren't they?
(There is an occasional bug in the logs, where TM erroneously reports the same amount of data backed-up from each volume.)
Try this: open a Finder window to your Computer (or press Shift+Cmd+C), then Enter Time Machine. Don't select anything on the Finder windows in the browser yet, but click one of the backups in the TimeLine on the right. That should show a folder representing each volume that was backed-up, sort of like this:
Click the volume in the sidebar (or the icon in the center) to see the backups of that volume.

Time machine back-up on external WD drive and Mountain Lion: Error:(22) setxattr message in my system log:

Nov 23 18:11:26 DBYAFs-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[2170]: Starting manual backup
Nov 23 18:11:26 DBYAFs-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[2170]: Backing up to: /Volumes/My Passport for Mac/Backups.backupdb
Nov 23 18:11:27 DBYAFs-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[2170]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/My Passport for Mac/Backups.backupdb/DBYAF‚Äôs iMac size:37
Nov 23 18:11:37 DBYAFs-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[2170]: Backup failed with error: 2
Can someone help please?
Thank you
DBAYF

Usually that error indicates a drive malfunction; specifically, the drive is spinning down and not responding to bus signals. Some "Eco" or "green" drives are known for this behavior. The following steps may help:
Select  ▹ System Preferences ▹ Energy Saver ▹ Power Adapter and uncheck the box labeled Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible, if it's checked.
If the drive is connected to a hub, connect it to a built-in port on the computer.
If a firmware update is available for the drive, apply it.
Contact the drive manufacturer to see whether there's a firmware setting you can change.
If you installed vendor software for the drive, uninstall it.
If none of the above steps resolves the issue, try another drive.

How to restore Time Machine back-up if not even Recovery Tools work?

After a hard and unexpected crash on 2012 macMini I tried everything from this list: OS X Yosemite: Ways to start up your Mac Only 2 things worked: hardware test (via Ethernet: option+D; everything passed) and detailed status mode (command+V) which listed a bunch of errors concerning booting (missing or corrupted files and/or folders). Which is probably the reason I couldn't launch Recovery Tools - neither locally nor directly via Internet (Ethernet plugged in, option+command+R). I would get the message that the Tools are launching, but after the Apple logo showed up followed by the spinning circle, the screen would go light grey 4-5 seconds into the process and the thin black progress bar would appear. It would grow to 1/3 of its length, stop for several seconds, then the computer would restart, the bar would show up again, grow to 1/3 etc., etc.
Assuming that nothing else could be done I started the mini in the target mode (T), plugged it into my old 2007 mini and re-formatted the internal drive, thinking that I could either try Recovery Tools again (no luck) or just clean install Yosemite on the 2012 mini first and then use my Time Machine back-up to restore my files. Unfortunately 2007 mini can only install Lion - even on the external drive - but nothing higher (so I can't upgrade to Mountain Lion, Mavericks and finally to Yosemite). And 2012 would not start with Lion on it. Still no luck with Internet Recovery Tools btw (same symptoms).
The only other thing I can think of is finding a newer Mac and use it to install Mavericks or Yosemite on my 2012 mini. If this fails, it's a trip to the Apple store.
If anyone has any other ideas, please share.
(2012 has no CD/DVD drive)

Your description of Internet Recovery sounded much like Safe Mode, not Internet Recovery. I don't think you will see an Apple at all. It should be a spinning Globe. Or, when you say "spinning circle" was that the globe spinning?
From the App Store on the 2007 mini, can you download the Yosemite installer?
That's about all I can think of besides taking it to an Apple Store.

HT3275 oes time machine back up and restore boot camp and the OS inside boor camp

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