HT3275 Time Machine only goes back one week!

I've been backing up for well over a year. My backup disk is 1TB and my Mac drive is only 500MB. The backup is still only half full. Why can't I find data from months ago?

Did you upgrade to Mavericks between then and now.. if so the old backups are difficult to get hold of.. you can do it but only by manually accessing the sparsebundle..
See the info in Pondini here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Try Q15 but it is good to read the whole section on restore from 14-17..
Mavericks has made life that much harder.

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Topic says it all.
I'm in a bind and I need something that might have been on my hard drive a month or so ago.
Anyway, I click time machine because that's the whole point of having a backup app, and to my suprise, the bar on the right only goes back to yesterday at 2am.
What the ****?? Is there some way of opening my time capsule bundle package file thing or what.
Thanks
Running leopard, time capsule is 500gb and set to only take my pictures, music and a couple other folders.
Thanks

jackbyo wrote:
Topic says it all.
I'm in a bind and I need something that might have been on my hard drive a month or so ago.
Anyway, I click time machine because that's the whole point of having a backup app, and to my suprise, the bar on the right only goes back to yesterday at 2am.
What the ****?? Is there some way of opening my time capsule bundle package file thing or what.
Thanks
Running leopard, time capsule is 500gb and set to only take my pictures, music and a couple other folders.
Did anything change on your computer just before today? If you look at your Time Capsule's "Data" disk, how many "sparsebundle" files do you see?
If you see more than one (assuming you're only using it to back up one computer), Time Machine may have decided to start a new backup set. in that case you can probably access the old data if you click-and-hold (or control-click) on the Time Machine icon in the Dock and choose "Browse Other Time Machine disks".

Ipad Calender strange behaviour - It goes back one week

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I have identified the TM hang problem on my system. It was related to a problem in mds (indexing routines). Apparently changes in 10.5.6 have affected indexing (and there are reports of these 10.5.6 indexing issues and related Spotlight problems on the Leopard Use forum). A problem (IMHO a bug) in one of the mds routines, probably mdimport, had mds trying to import files for indexing on behalf of a specific UID. The account associated with that UID had no imported files. Neither cleaning the user's cache nor deleting the existing indexes (with mdutil) helped; I finally changed the user's UID and that fixed the problem.
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How do I get Firefox 4 to show the last several pages visited instead of only going back one page at a time? It used to show last 10 or so pages with a down arrow. The down arrow is gone.

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In Firefox 3.6 the back arrow button to go back a page also had a down arrow button that would let you jump back multiple pages. How can I get that to show in Firefox 4?

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I don't think otherwise. This is a "Who's on First" scenario. I set up a partition in my external drive called "Backup". I choose it as the destination and get an error that the destination is the same as the source. That's the whole problem. If I let it go TM will back up the info on the back up drive to the back up drive.

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I just got a new MacBook Air with Lion. On my old Mac, I thought I remembered that Time Machine would only backup files that have changed since the last time I backed up my drive. I used Time Machine to transfer my old desktop to my new Air. Today when I tried to use TIme Machine to back it up, it said I did not have enough space.
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FWIW I had this sort of problem which generally #$%^& me off. I had a brainstorm and tried somebody's MBP and it worked just as expected. So I reinstalled Leopard after erasing and formating the drive and using time machine off my external LaCie.
That didn't work worth a #$%^&
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So something MIGHT be hosed on your system, and if you feel that you have a solid back up, reinstall off the DVD and then migrate with time machine.
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I have time machine saving onto two usb drives. The backup is 4.6TB. Each drive is 6TB. Why is time machine only updating one drive? (The other has been the same for two weeks.)

I have time machine saving onto two usb drives.
The total size of the files being backed up is 4.6TB.
Each external USB drive is 6TB. So I have 12 TB of space for Time Machine.
Why is time machine only updating one USB drive? (One drive has been the same for two weeks.)
I have selected both drives in the Time Machine settings panel.
My understanding was that it would do a full backup, and then incremental backups of changed files, getting rid of old copies as needed, and alternate between the two drives.
But it looks like drive A has one complete backup, dated two weeks ago, and drive B is the only one getting action.
There is a red icon on drive one that says the drive needs 120GB more space to do a backup -- which is strange since the whole backup set is only 4.6TB in size, and the drive is 6TB in size...

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Hi I'd like to jump in here. Your app showed me this:
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My Time machine has stopped backing up saying there are some read only files.

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Time machine only copies User Info and Users (Applications, Library, and System are missing) from my quad core Mac Pro. 45 Gb of 162 Gb are missing. Any one having success with time machine copying all folders using Mavericks? What do I need to do dif

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The late, great Pondini was investigating that issue before he passed away.
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HT3275 Time Machine only goes back one week!

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