Mountain lion backup

I'm sure this has been asked but I can't find it by this route. I have Mountain Lion on this computer but I need to make a backup copy for my other computer, which is 80 miles away and attached to a dsl modem (miserable). Can anyone tell me the most common or easiest way to make a thumb drive copy of the software to install it on another computer? Or, at least, direct me to the correct forum?
Thank you,
al

You want just OS X Mountain Lion?
Try this link. There are two ways to create a USB thumb drive installer to use on other machines.

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Time Machine only showing new Mountain lion backups

HI All,
Time Machine in 'star wars' display is only showing 2 recent Mountain lion backups even though 2 other older are there but greyed out, unable to access.
Is a USB external backup disk.
Have tried the method: http://pondini.org/TM/E2.html
but only seeing 1 disk to select from when choosing 'browse from other time machine disk'/
I can see the older backup files via finders but unable to move them to dektop as getting 'The operation cannot be complete as you dont have permission'.
Can any one help?
Have tried http://pondini.org/TM/E10.html
but as cannot not access it via 'Stars wars' mode unable to copy to image...
HELP please!!!
Thank you

I can't see backups for a disk/partition that's no longer connected

New Mavericks MB Pro - Mountain Lion Backup

Six months ago, I took a Time Machine backup of my old, Mountain Lion Mac and then sold it to someone. I'm about to buy a new 13" MB Pro which will come with Mavericks installed already.
I cannot find any tips or suggestions on whether or not I can restore that 6 month old Mountain Lion Time Machine backup onto the new, clean Mavericks MBPro. Any thoughts, suggestions, tips?

No, you cannot restore the whole backup as the new computer does not run Mountain Lion. What you can restore are your data files (what's usually in the /Home folder.) But you do need to be careful what you restore from the /Home/Library/ folder. Only copy folders specifically used by your third-party software.
If you use Migration or Setup Assistant to restore then limit that to the /Home/ folder, third-party applications and support files, and system prefs. Preferable to use the Setup Assistant.

Downloading Mountain Lion - Backup

Just downloaded OSX Mountain Lion and I'm up to the stage where it says its ready to install and i need to restart, however, do i really need to back up my files (what could happen if i dont?) ? Because if this is so, i need to wait about 2 days for my portable hard drive to arrive (buying online), will this do anything to the installation of mountain lion - will it cancel or do anything if i leave it at that state?
Also, mountain lion will work on my early 2011 mac pro right? its Mac OS X vers 10.6.8 2GHz and 4GB Memory
Also, (sorry for all these questions!), does anyone know if the ''Seagate 1TB Expansion Portable Hard Drive USB 3.0'' will work on the mac?
Thanks.

When you read around a bit in this forum you will see that everyone here advises strongly to make backups always and even better make several. So follow Mende's advice.
You can make a bootable USB stick with ML on it by using LionDiskMaker2 (works for Lion and Mountain Lion), so that you do not have to redownload when anything goes wrong. This you should do before installing the MountainLion installer in the Applications folder, because this installer will disappear when installing.
You can download LionDiskMaker here:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39701/lion-diskmaker

Mountain lion backup disk

I just downloaded and installed mountain Lion. Went well. Can I burn a backup disk of Mountain Lion?

Yes!
http://mac-how-to.wonderhowto.com/how-to/create-bootable-install-dvd-usb-drive-o s-x-10-8-mountain-lion-0138303/
Matt

HT201250 New Mac w/ Mountain Lion, backup is Snow Leopard

I backed up all files from my old snow leopard OS, this notebook was stolen, My new MAC has Mountain Lion, will I be able to just select a restore point
in Time Machine or will I have to do it manually. I don't know enough to know the difference in the two OSx's.

Darwindog wrote:
I read that Apple has loosened their licensing restrictions on older MAC OS versions like Snow Leopard. This would allow you to run Snow Leopard on a new MAC running Mountain Lion by using a program like Fusion or Parallels to create a virtual machine. Does anyone know if this is true?
I would like to upgrade to a new MAC but can't. Some of the software that I use withthe company I work for is PPC based and there will not be updates for at least another year.
It was a common Urban Myth that Apple's Snow Leopard EULA prohibited its virtualization in Lion or Mt. Lion. This myth has been debunked over the last year or so.
Hence, Apple did not necessarily relax any "licensing restrictions" that did not exist in the first place in this regard.
As I noted to you in your other thread:
Full Snow Leopard installation into Parallels instructions here
If you list for me your PowerPC applications that you need continued access to, I may have more information for you. Please do not double-post your answer to this question.
Kurt Lang wrote:
At the same time, there are plenty of posts Apple allows to remain on these boards (by way of a link to another site) explaining how to install a client version of SL in a VM.
Actually I initially posted these installation instructions on this forum, but discovered that this forum's lack of editing capability interfered with my ability to keep the initial post updated. This problem caused readers to have to review the complete thread to stay up-to-date. On MacRumors, readers need only read the first post for complete up-to-date installation instructions.
Here are my original installation instructions (now outdated) posted on this forum

Restoring files from time machine backup made using Mountain Lion

Hi Guys
I have trawled through the Internet and found many sources of help for some of my headaches but still can't help the problem. So here I am.....
I have an early MacBook Pro 13" that came with snow leopard. I immediately updated to lion which was a disaster being so slow etc. Then I upgraded to mountain lion which was pretty good. I always upgraded and never clean installed.
I have been running time machine on a Qnap nas (model 212) which I must add has been a headache to get going in itself.
Anyways I recently upgraded to mavericks which made my MacBook grind to a halt. I mean even the beachball was struggling. To the point after 2 weeks I couldn't get anything done on it!
So I decided to do a clean install. Did that and then tried to do restore files using migration assistant at first log in. Turns out my back is corrupted!
Now I know I have a good complete backup of my mountain lion system just 2 weeks old on my nas. Only problem is that mavericks won't let me get to that when I try to upgrade from that drive as it just says no OSX backup available.
Now I am trying to install snow leopard cleanly and the try and upgrade to mountain lion hoping that it would recognise the mountain lion backup on my nas.
Can you please let me know if I am going in the right direction?
Any help appreciated guys.
Thanks

Everything since the fresh install, has to be done manually from my Backup drive. Wasn't, or isn't TM supposed to do that automatically (for example restoring iTunes, is it supposed to restore just the application or all the folders with it as well?). Why, when I select a folder with many subfolders in it (and eventually the files I want within) does it say that the original whatever doesn't exist anymore at that location, then I have the option to choose a new location or to recreate the enclosing folders? I Click on recreate but when I do, just the top level shows (the first folder, for example, garageband). No more folders are shown inside, despite there being plenty of files in my backup version. Am I misunderstanding TM's powers/capabilities here? Is it supposed to be this frustrating and difficult?
Everything that I want has to be done manually it seems. I don't understand it. The other thing is that it denies me access (I don't have the privileges or whatever it says) to move the files directly via the mounted disk on the desktop rather than entering TM. So, I can't go into TM and click restore, I can't manually open the mounted drive and drag files (denies me permission). The only way I've been able to do anything successfully is to archive the **** folder/s or files.
Any help or direction, or a manual on how to use or tutorial on Time machine would be great. Someone point me in the right direction please, this is highly annoying and I am debating switching back to Leopard (having issues with iChat in Snow Leopard).
Thanks

Mountain lion Bootcamp Backup

Mountain lion backup utility used in bootcamp for an NTFS Win8 partition to external hard drive. Anyone with experience doing this?

Look at a few posts here for links to a new windows 7 ISO and another link to burn it to a new disk
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6071093?tstart=0

Imac keeps crashing in time machine backup after upgrade to mountain lion

2008 imac kept crashing (shutdown and restart) during first backup after upgraded to mountain lion. The backup size was about 10GB but time machine crashed after a while (at most 2GB) and never completed backup. So, I don't have any backup since right before I upgraded from Lion. Any suggestion?

Something strange happened. I was able to get time machine to work by going out to the login screen (the account kept logged in) and let it run the backup with the screen off (screen auto off after a few min). I tried it on two different external drives and that did the trick on both. Since the initial Mountain Lion backup was huge (155 GB), I was quite surprise that it worked at all. I assume your MBP was a Lion to ML. I also just did a 2012 MBP upgrade but that one was smoother. I did not recall having crashing issue. One thing I did find during this was that my WD passport USB drive was corrupted. Not sure it was the cause or not. I had to erase and reformat to get it back to work. Maybe do a verify disk to confirm. Good luck.

Lion cannot see mountain lion time machine backups

I have just had the HDD on my 2010 iMac changed under the 1TB replacement program. Before wiping my original HDD I made sure my time machine back was up to date. Originally my machine was installed with Mountain Lion, the new HDD has just Lion. I have just tried the recovery utility to restore using time machine and all it can see is my updates before I installed Mountain Lion. Presumably Lion cannot see Mountain Lion backups or something else. Does anybody know how I can simply get my most upto date time machine backup to restore the system.
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FYI I updated to Mountain Lion and still cannot do a full recovery from any Mountain Lion backups. The backups exist as I can see them in Finder and also when running the Time Machine app. In the app I'm able to restore individual items, but I don't want to waste my life doing this I just want to restore my system.

Using a time machine backup of Mountain Lion on Mavericks

I have just installed Mavericks with a clean installation from Mountain Lion. I have a time machine backup of Mountain Lion, but I do not want to use this backup to restore my system because I have a lot of problem and I would like to be sure that is not a problem connected to the software.
Can I use the previous time machine disk as backup of the new operating system without losing the previous backups?
If I use it, I cannot restore the system with the "Mountain Lion" state with the migration assistant, is it true?
Thanks

No. Time Machine will be replacing your existing backup with a new one of your Mavericks system. If you wish to replace Mavericks with Mountain Lion, then I suggest you replace it with another backup of Mountain Lion, if you have one. Otherwise, if you've permitted Time Machine to run since installing Mavericks, then you not longer have a Mountain Lion backup.
You will need to go to your Purchases page in the App Store and try to re-download your Mountain Lion purchase. If you can, then after the Mountain Lion installer downloads and opens quit the installer - do not run it. Now do this;
Make Your Own Mavericks, Mountain/Lion Installer
After downloading the installer you must first save the Install Mac OS X application. After the installer downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing.
Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the leftside list. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list.
Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash drive size.
Use DiskMaker X to put your installer clone onto the USB flash drive.
Make your own Mavericks flash drive installer using the Mavericks tool:
You can also create a Mavericks flash drive installer via the Terminal. Mavericks has its own built-in installer maker you use via the Terminal:
You will need a freshly partitioned and formatted USB flash drive with at least 8GBs. Leave the name of the flash drive at the system default, "Untitled." Do not change this name. Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder. Copy this command line after the prompt in the Terminal's window:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
Press RETURN. Enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed to the screen so be careful to enter it correctly. Press RETURN, again.
Wait for the process to complete which will take quite some time.
Now, run the installer flash drive, erase the hard drive, and reinstall Mountain Lion. You can then use Time Machine just to replace your data from your Home folder.

Trying to restore a Mountain Lion caldav.sql into a fresh/clean Mavericks installation

Call me cynical, but upgrades and Migration Assistant were never my thing. I'm starting to experiment with migrating some of my Mountain Lion OS X Servers to Mavericks.
Under OS X Server 2.2.x (Mountain Lion), I had a script that would individually backup the postgres_server databases, caldav, collab, device_management, etc.
I'm now working with a clean Mavericks installation and trying to restore the caldav db. Through the help of ~morgen, I've worked out that caldav seems to have its own postgres instance and I can see and view the fresh caldav database there:
/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/psql -U caldav -h /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9/ caldav
So, I backed that up before proceeding with:
/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/pg_dump -U caldav -h /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9/ -c caldav | gzip -c > /Library/Server/Backups/PostgreSQL/caldav.sql.gz
And then tried to use dropdb to drop it, so I could use createdb to re-create it and then use psql to suck in my Mountain Lion backup. The three intended commands in order would have been:
/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/dropdb -U caldav -h /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9/ caldav
/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/createdb -U caldav -h /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9/ caldav
/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/psql -U caldav -h /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9/ -d caldav < /Library/Server/Backups/PostgreSQL/caldav.sql
HOWEVER.... the first command failed:
dropdb: database removal failed: ERROR: database "caldav" is being accessed by other users
DETAIL: There is 1 other session using the database.
Interestingly, even though neither Calendar nor Contacts server are running, there's quite a bit running under _calendar:
_calendar         656   0.0 0.1 2471756   4412   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.03 postgres: caldav caldav [local] idle
_calendar         651   0.0 0.0 2471120   2228   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.11 postgres: wal sender process caldav [local] streaming 0/422E020
_calendar         650   0.0 0.0 2460732   2216   ?? S     6:53pm   0:00.07 /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/pg_receivexlog -h /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9 --no-password --directory /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/Data/Database.xpg/backup --verbose
_calendar         649   0.0 0.0 2491744   1496   ?? S     6:53pm   0:00.02 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
_calendar         646   0.0 0.0 2465500    652   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.19 postgres: stats collector process
_calendar         645   0.0 0.0 2465500    416   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.02 postgres: archiver process
_calendar         644   0.0 0.0 2470988   2460   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.12 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
_calendar         643   0.0 0.0 2470856    560   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.06 postgres: wal writer process
_calendar         642   0.0 0.0 2470856   1240   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.09 postgres: writer process
_calendar         641   0.0 0.0 2470856   1056   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.01 postgres: checkpointer process
_calendar         639   0.0 0.0 2455256    400   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.01 postgres: logger process
_calendar         638   0.0 0.1 2470856   5272   ?? S     6:53pm   0:00.08 /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/postgres_real -c listen_addresses= -k /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9 -c shared_buffers=105 -c max_connections=70 -c standard_conforming_strings=on -c log_lock_waits=TRUE -c deadlock_timeout=10 -c log_line_prefix=%m [%p] -c logging_collector=on -c log_truncate_on_rotation=on -c log_directory=/var/log/caldavd/postgresql -c log_filename=postgresql_%w.log -c log_rotation_age=1440
_calendar         636   0.0 0.0 2492336   2832   ?? S     6:53pm   0:00.04 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TCC.framework/Resources/tccd
_calendar         634   0.0 0.2 2472760 16104   ?? S     6:53pm   0:02.17 /usr/bin/python /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/xpostgres -c listen_addresses= -k /var/run/caldavd/ccs_postgres_3d403b3009fe0c830944d87bd751fbe9 -c shared_buffers=105 -c max_connections=70 -c standard_conforming_strings=on -c log_lock_waits=TRUE -c deadlock_timeout=10 -c log_line_prefix=%m [%p] -c logging_collector=on -c log_truncate_on_rotation=on -c log_directory=/var/log/caldavd/postgresql -c log_filename=postgresql_%w.log -c log_rotation_age=1440
_calendar         630   0.0 0.0 2471388    900   ?? Ss    6:53pm   0:00.20 /sbin/launchd
So, how can I gently get this mystical one user off of the DB in order to do this? OR, how can I start up calendar in such a way that this mythical user is not connected?
If I unload this job:
launchctl load /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.calendarserver.agent.plist
I can no longer access the postgres instance in order to drop and create the db.
Any other ideas / suggestions / solutions?

If you knew your sql, I don't think it would be insurmountable to pull apart the full dump.
As to the upgrades in place, here's some of the output in caldav's error log every startup:
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseSchemaStep#warn] Beginning database schema check.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseSchemaStep#warn] Required database key VERSION: 24.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseSchemaStep#warn] Actual database key VERSION: 24.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseSchemaStep#warn] Schema version check complete: no upgrade needed.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseSchemaStep#warn] Database schema check complete.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseAddressBookDataStep#warn] Beginning database addressbook data check.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseAddressBookDataStep#warn] Required database key ADDRESSBOOK-DATAVERSION: 2.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseAddressBookDataStep#warn] Actual database key ADDRESSBOOK-DATAVERSION: 2.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseAddressBookDataStep#warn] Addressbook data version check complete: no upgrade needed.
2013-12-02 21:29:02+1000 [-] [txdav.common.datastore.upgrade.sql.upgrade.UpgradeDatabaseAddressBookDataStep#warn] Database addressbook data check complete
To be clear, I don't believe its Server.app. Each of these services stores its schema version IN the database and its checked every startup, and it would appear, that each service knows how to perform that upgrade at each startup.

Mail recovery in snow leopard from mountain lion

hi,
i've just reinstalled my old snow leopard onto my mabook pro (2010).
but unfortunately my mail exports didn't include all my mails.
so now i would like to transfer my mails from my mountain lion backup (which i have on a external hdd) onto my snow leopard mail.
is that possible? i would like to skip the steps that i backup my snow leopard, recover my mountain lion from backup, copy the mails and reload my current snow leopard. i tried the migration service and directly copying the mail files ( the folder and the .plist file from the preferences, which had a unusual suffix attached to it so eventually it didn't work) but none of those steps worked out, maybe i did something wrong?
any suggestions? would really appreciate it!

Ok, i figured it out now. Here the solution:
-close mail
-allow finder to show hidden files -> google if you don't know how to do that.
-open up your time machine hdd and select the latest( or the one you want to recover) date folder. with your privat folder in it
-navigate to users/(your name)/library/mail and copy that folder onto your hard drive.
-open up your current user library folder and navigate to the same "mail" folder.
-from the importet folder "Mail", select the inboxes(they have your emailadress on it) you want to import. Navigate in that .mbox file to the subfolder "Messages", here you can see all your messages with the suffix .emlx, leave that finder window open
-on your current mail folder there is a subfolder called "Mailboxes" create a .mbox file there (just add a new folder and rename it to (name it as you want).mbox)
-create a subfolder in that just created .mbox file named "Messages" now copy all messages you want to import into that folder from your already opened imported mail folder.
after your done moving the files open your mail programm and click "import inbox" now just choose your created .mbox file, in which you copied all your mails and hit import. the mails will now be imported to Apple Mail.
and your done.

Time Machine after upgrade to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard

Hi,
I upgraded my Macbook pro to Mountain Lion yesterday from Snow Leopard. I just did the upgrade over the top of snow leopard so all of my apps and documents are exactly as they were (right down to the wallpaper)
However, there is a problem with time machine.
Time Machine no longer automatically backups to the drive I had been using for my snow leopard backups (I assume this is because I have changed operating systems).
How can i continue to use this drive for time machine?
Can I just select it again and will it retain my existing snow leopard backups?
Or do I need to format it?
Cheers guys.

Thank you, so that will retain my existing snow leopard backups and just start making new mountain lion backups? (There is more than 1TB of available space on the drive still)

How do I revert to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?

My white macbook (early 2009) cannot handle Mavericks. I need to re-install Mountain Lion, which I purchased and downloaded soon after it came out. ML is not showing up in my purchase history so I'm not sure how to get it back. I do have Time Machine but unfortunately haven't back up in 90 days. Any suggestions on how to return to Mountain Lion so I can get my computer working again?

You can restore a Mountain Lion backup, if you have one. Otherwise, you can purchase a download coupon for Mountain Lion.
Purchase a redemption code at the Online Apple Store: OS X Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. Use the code to redeem a download of Mountain Lion from the App Store. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
What problem do you have with Mavericks?

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