Lion AFP Time Machine

I have a MacBook Pro & a Mac Pro, both have fresh installs of Lion. I've also set up the Mac Pro as a Lion Server. I've set up a few AFP shares on the Mac Pro & I notice there's no "Time Machine Destination" option on the shares. I know this option was there on Snow Leopard. When I connect to the shares on the MacBook Pro, they do not show up as backup disks in the Time Machine preference pane. Is it possible to do this anymore?

I'll answer my own query, in case others are having this issue. Lion makes many back-up drives unreadable. There is a workaround posted, using terminal, but frankly, it's beyond me. Seagate only says "We're aware and working on it."
For the workaround, go here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15918465#15918465
I just knew upgrading to Lion was a mistake, but I gave in and did it, luckily on only a single machine.

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Hi,
Can anyone help me to recover OSX Mountain Lion using TIme Machine backup as i accidently corrupted the recovery HD and the Macintosh Drive?
Regards,
Sanil

As Linc stated, you can boot from your Time Machine backup of OS X Mountain Lion.
Restart your machine and hold down the Option key. Select the Time Machine backup drive to boot from. When it boots into the TM drive you will get the same OS X Utilities screen like in the recovery HD. You can use Disk Utilities to erase your Macintosh HD then restore your Mac OS X from Time Machine.

Mountain Lion creates Time Machine problem

Hello,
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion whenever Time Machine attempts to backup to my Time Capsule I get this error message:
"The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/(user)'s Mac Book Pro 2.sparsebundle” is already in use."
The Time Capsule firmware was updated a couple of weeks ago to supposedly make it ML compatible.
Anyone KNOW how to fix this or is it a bug?
James

You will not lose any of your backups. You just need to disconnect the drive and reconnect it.
Open time Machine preferences and click on Select Disk. Select the disk that you use as it should be listed at the top of the window. Click Remove Disk. this will remove the disk that you are currently set to use for backups, but leave all the data on the drive. You can then click on select disk again and select the volume that you want to send your backups to and it should then run correctly.

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1) upgrade to Mountain Lion first;
2) connect the OS X Lion Time Machine backup, then run the Migration Assistant (Mountain Lion).
The first time I did it, I migrated everything to the MacBook Pro. Then the user accounts and home folders all mixed up. The Lion's applications replaced Mountain Lion's applications of the same names, so and so... Problems gradually surface in two days, that I spent. The Mountain Lion crashed and the MacBook Pro had to reinstall the OS X Lion, then repeat 1) and 2) above.
The second time I did it, I told Apple of my experience, and they told me to uncheck everything else except the user account I wanted to migrate. Then after doing 1) above, and at 2) above, I found that nothing could be unchecked. I told Apple, and they told me to go ahead. After migrated everything, including Applications and the user accounts and data, The Mountain Lion crashed in many native applications, again. (Long story cuts short!)
Now, the thrid time, after wasting my week's time. Apple still tells me to upgrade to Mountain Lion before recovering the user from the TM backup drive. And I have again spent 6 hours in such things as wiping out everything (I guess Apple used Disk Utility to create 1-partition, quickest), install OS X Lion, and I installed Mountain Lion (less than 2 hours inlcuding download and install), then manually "copy" the one user account needed from the last completed (not the "Latest" and not the one with .InProgress) Time Machine dated backup/Machintosh HD/Users to the new INTERNAL Machintosh HD/Users. (The current logged-on account is "test" which is different from the one I need to migrate.)
What next? I shall create a new user account and assign the migrated user as the home folder of the new user account. Does it work? I don't know.
Why not simply restore the user account and data from OS X Lion's Migration Assistant, then upgrade to Mountain Lion? Why?
What about other applications? (e.g. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011), native iPhoto, iTunes....?)
Scenario: If my Time Machine backup was started a year or 2 years ago from Snow Leopard or Lion, and all the way to Mountain Lion. Then one day the drive crashes. Can Time Machine / Migration Assistant give me a one-click-done restoration? Or I need to go through this teasing process again?
Is Time Machine serving its purpose? (Who's purpose? Increase Apple's sales? or Recovering everything for the Mac user with a crashed drive?)

Try the following:
Restore Lion to your HDD. During setup, use setup-assistant to restore your data from TM-Backup.
When this is done upgrade to ML.

Since upgrading to Lion, my time machine backups are failing - error message: The backup disk image "/Volumes/Jackie Scanlon's Time Caps/Jacqueline Drabczynska's MacBook.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1). Any ideas?

Since upgrading my Macbook to Lion, the time machine backups are failing - error message: "The backup disk image “/Volumes/Jackie Scanlon's Time Caps/Jacqueline Drabczynska’s MacBook.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1)." I have rebooted the TIme Capsule and it worked OK, but don't want to do that every time. Any suggestions? Thanks

Any new info on this?
I had the exact same problem and went crazy and spent a hecka lot of time trying to deal with my brand new 2TB Time Capsule and almost brand new MacBook Pro. Then I thought I fixed it...and I tried SO MANY things, I don't really know what did it...except taking out any apostrophe's in names of stuff that Apple puts in there...BUT...now it's back.
Grrr...

After installing Mountain Lion, my Time Machine won't back up ... says the sparsebundle is in use

After installing Mountain Lion, my Time Machine won't back up ... says the sparsebundle is in use

Standard problem in ML.. apple do not seem to want to recognise.
Reboot the TC .. if that fails restart the whole network in correct order.. modem.. router/TC... clients.. with 2min gap.
There are other suggestions like changing the password.. all they do is the same as reboot.
Read C12.. most quoted Q in pondini website history. This is asked 10 times a day.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Here is another way to get a useful utility in ML.. rather than toyland version.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.

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Can I restore to Snow Leopard from Lion using time machine? I did not make a new partition on my external HD. My reason for doing this is to import data from Quicken 2007 to Quicken Essentials and then upgrade back to Lion. Can I restart and hold down the "OPTION" key upon start up that will take me to Apple Recovery HD and recover from time machine? I'm a noob at these sort of things. I appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Probably not. See Kappy's going back to SL from Lion guide.

How can I downgrade my Os x Maverick to Os x mountain lion without time machine

downgrade os x maverick to os x mountain lion without time machine back up and disc

To downgrade you have to have a copy of the Mountain Lion installer, download from the Mac App Store but be sure to go to System Preferences > App Store first and uncheck boxes that will automatically install the download.
You will have to erase the hard drive and then install from a saved copy of the installer, saved to a flash drive for instance.
This is going to be a time consuming exercise, so is there a specific reason for wanting to downgrade?

HT4927 How to restore photos in mountain lion from time machine ?

How to restore photos in mountain lion from time machine?

I have tried doing this but it dosen't work.
I opened time machine. I picked the file from the date needed.
I restored it (I told it to keep both).
Then when I double click on the file it opens a treminal window.
I have also tried opening iphoto while holding down the option key.
This file is not slectable.....
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Lion disable time machine background animation

when screen sharing to a Mac in Time Machine, the animated background grinds the screen to a halt.
I have tried this tip:
http://hints.macworld.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=117454
but my Lion's time machine background still animates. Is there a different solution for Lion?

I just posted a similar question in the OS 10.8 section: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20848493#20848493
Have you had any luck in turning off the background animation?

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I did a fresh reinstall of Lion using Time Machine and not Mail won't open.
It says that mail cannot be opened because of a problem and suggests I contact the developer or possibly reinstall app.
I've looked around for solution but none of the ones out there work.

Indiogdp,
There may a simple answer for you. It was for me. Make sure that Mail (mine is 5.2) is running in 32 bit mode. To check, go to Applications, right click on Mail and select Get Info (command i will do it too). Then find the checkbox next to "Run in 32 bit mode," and select it. Although you probably don't need to leave the info box open I did until I satisfied myself that it worked.
Hope this helps.
Area Man

Best Setup for Lion Server Time Machine Backup with Drobo?

I've been thinking about this a lot, yet I don't feel I have a good solution for this, so I'm going to throw it out to the community.
I have a home server setup using a Mac Mini running Lion Server 10.7.2 with a Firewire 800 Drobo attached. The Drobo is used for both Time Machine backups and files. I also have a Powerbook G4 running Leopard and a MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with Lion 10.7.2 which connect to the Server and the Drobo wirelessly thorugh an Airport Extreme.
I want to use Time Machine to have all of my computers back up to the server & Drobo, but realize there are several ways to go, each with their pluses and minuses:
Server Time Machine Backup:
+ Centralizes backup process, rules, and other elements
+ Currently Mac Mini is backing up to the Drobo correctly using this process
+ Have setup size limit on Server backup so that it does not eat up file space
- Would combine laptop backups with server backup into one sparse image: this would lead to the computer with the largest backup needs taking up too much space
Client-Driven Time Machine Backup:
+ Allows for customization of backup processes by computer
+ Can setup specific space requirements for each computer
+ Backups are separate from each other
- Wireless backup from laptops to Drobo is not functioning currently
Any thoughts or experiences on how best to set this up? I tend to do most of my work on the MacBook, hence I am concerned about it having it's backup space eaten up by the server, but that may be more of a theoretical issue than a real one.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Well I'm not sure if I am following you but I will explain how I set mine up. When I got the Drobo I inserted 2 drives and selected the highest available volume I could (16TB). My drives are 4 TB each and I knew I would soon add 2 more. Then Drobo did its thing and prepared these drives. The Drobo shows up on my mini desktop as an external drive. When I log into my server from my other computer I can see the mini server volume and the Drobo volume. I can access each no problem. They act as regular volumes. Soon after I added the second two drives and everything stayed the same meaning I could still see and access the Drobo on the desktop of my mini. So it sounds like you used the Drobo dashboard to partition yours for two volumes? Are they both showing on the desktop?
"Maybe the Drobo needs to be mounted on the desktop to be considered AFP feature enabled." I could be wrong and hopefully someone will correct me but I think the Drobo (or volumes) have to be mounted on the desktop to work with AFP.

Upgrade to lion and time machine does not work

I upgraded to Lion and my WD Live network drive that I always used for wireless time machine back ups no longer works. I get the following error:
Time Machine could not complete the backup.
The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.
What can I do to fix this?

Your network drive isn't compatible with Lion. See #C16 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

E4200, Lion and Time Machine backup

Hi there!
Sorry if I'm double posting this, but I didn't find any posts of this thread.
Since lion is there for a while, it is still not possible to make a time machine backup on an USB hdd that's connected to the router.
Is there a fix or workaround for this? Or is Cisco coming with an firmware update?
Thanks in advance!
- Michael

fernandoe wrote:
I know, late to the party... But was wondering if anyone had any success in connecting an HFS+ formatted external HDD to the E-4200, and being able run Time Machine backups against it?
The disk does not have to be HFS+ formatted. The disk must be formatted in whatever format the NAS, i.e. the E4200 can handle.
Time Machine saves backup in a sparsebundle on network drives. A sparsebundle can be written on any formatted drive. Doesn't have to be HFS+. I do time machine backups on a NAS with ext3 formatted drives...
As mentioned before: the problem is with AFP the protocol to access the network drive. AFP is required to access the network drive and if that doesn't work you can't do the backup. You'll have to wait until Linksys fixes this...

Lion breaks Time Machine backups with Western Digital Drives.

How can I find out what's being done about this from an Apple and a Western Digital angle? WD has nothing on their site. Apparently there is an 'AFP' protocol change. Help, I have upgraded all machines to Lion and now no upgrades are possible.

Time Machine was never supported on 3rd party remote drives other than Apple's own Time Capsule and MacOS X Server. Event the Airport Express with an external drive didn't support Time Machine. If any 3rd party products want to support Time Machine, it is their responsibility to stay up to date. Lion has been available to developers for months.
If you want to hack up your Lion to use the older protocol that Apple now feels is insecure - here you go.

Lion AFP Time Machine

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