Recovery from FileVault backup disk

I have a friend who had Filevault active and suspected it was causing problems so he disabled it following the instructions to the letter. After working for over an hour, it said it was done and when he restarted it would not boot. He took it to the local Apple store for "recovery" but it appears that all that was done was to erase the drive and reinstall the OS. He has a Lacie drive that he kept a backup on but it appears not to have a user folder for his account. Is it encrypted and therefore invisible? If so, what can be done to recover the data?
G5 2.0 DP, MacBook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Boot from the LaCie, assuming that his backup is bootable. that should allow the user's folder to decrypt. Once that's finished, then drag & drop the user's folder onto the Mac Book's User folder. Finally, do a search for file vault or filevault, review the postings, and decide whether or not to ever reenable it.

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Retrieving certain files from previous backup disks

My computer crashed and I ran the Recovery Disks that I created when I first bought it. This reinstalled Windows 7 to it's factory settings. I like what I have now but I would like to recover my documents, photos and music from my backup.
I have over 90 disks of backup and the first few seem to have the same files on them.
How do I find my documents, photos and music from the backup disks? How do I install only those files from the backup? I don't want the whole backup because I don't want all the stuff that was on the computer before.
Thank you!

Hi christmaslyric,
How do you create the backup disks?
Do you select the option Let Windows Choose or Let me choose?
I have tested in my environment, and I can restore the specific folder like document and music from the backup in my computer.
Due to the lack of the environment like yours, I suggest you to try to restore these folder from the backup disk and let us know the result.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

I am changing to a larger hard drive on my Mac. Can I copy the Aperture library from my backup disk running Time Machine without loosing anything?

I am installing a larger harddrive on my Mac. Can I copy the Aperture library from my backup disk running Time Machine without loosing anything? I am getting help migrating everything else on to the new harddrive, but since copying the 350Gb Aperture library takes a lot of time, I am planning to do that part myself.

I found the following information on Time Machine help about restoring Aperture library from TM
Restoring Your Aperture System
If you buy a new computer or use another system at a different location and want access to the Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as fire or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
HideTo restore the entire library from an external backup disk
Restoring Your Aperture System
If you buy a new computer or use another system at a different location and want access to the Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as fire or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
HideTo restore the entire library from an external backup disk
If you buy a new computer or use another system at a different location and want access to the Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as fire or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
HideTo restore the entire library from an external backup disk
Connect the hard disk drive that contains the most up-to-date vault to your computer and open Aperture.
Choose File > Vault > Restore Library.The Restore Library dialog appears.
Choose the vault you want to use to restore your library from the Source Vault pop-up menu.If the vault doesn’t appear in the Source Vault pop-up menu, choose Select Source Vault from the Source Vault pop-up menu, navigate to the vaults location in the Select Source Vault dialog, then click Select.
Click Restore, then click Restore again.

Windows Server 2012 - Backup failing with Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed

Hi
We have a Windows 2012 server with Exchange 2013, all is working fine except now i am getting issues with the backup.
'Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed for the component Microsoft Exchange Server'
I have checked the database all is fine, i have created a new db and move all mailbox;s over and then removed the old db, i have enabled circular logging and then disabled it, it seems no matter what i do i cannot get a full backup!
i did have to restore the server once and the backups still worked for about 4 days after that and then stopped, i have also tried to remove and re add the backup role!
i am stumped, any advice would be great!

Hi
Ok, i created a test db and tried to back it up right away, it failed, i did not add any mailbox's to it either. i got quite a few events in the windows logs, as well as the same event above i got the following:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database 4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261645</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261646</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2034
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Replication service VSS Writer (Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9) failed with error FFFFFFFC when processing the backup completion event.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">2034</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261649</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>FFFFFFFC</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: SPP
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 16389
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Writer Microsoft Exchange Writer experienced retryable error during shadow copy creation. Retrying... More info: .
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="SPP" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">16389</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261650</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Microsoft Exchange Writer</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error may not reoccur. (0x800423F3)</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>00000000A5120000981200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Migration Assistant from a backup disk...

Is it possible upon first booting (or subsequently) to import the user account from a FireWire disk? I mean, it is so easy to import from another Mac with Migration Assistant but is there no similar way to import from a backup disk?
I'v done it the hard way by dragging and dropping the files but it seems like the permissions are always messed up and need time-consuming repair. It is also very difficult getting the preferences to be accepted while the application is already running.
Hoping there is an easy way, because I prefer to wipe the hard disk and install freshly.

no, MA will not understand that. then you'll have to migrate things by hand. check out this [link|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507] for a list of things to move.

Time Machine Full Recovery From Wireless Backup

I am reporting this as a learning experience for all.
I just had a hard drive fail on my MacBook. Apple Care was golden and now I have a clean install with Leopard.
Here is my situation. MacBook backed up via time machine on a wireless network. Windows on boot camp partition. Dedicated disk (1TB Buffalo) connected to wife's iMac via firewire.
I want to do a full recovery. I start up leopard and it gives me the option to do a full recovery during setup. I have no time machine backup list provided. I continue with setup. When I go to the recover option of time machine I am asked to select a file. This is when I call tech support.
Tech Support says I should have had the backup disk connected directly via firewire for setup to see it. Time machine stores the backup under these conditions as a Sparse bundle. Now that I am past setup I have to do a migration rather than a recovery. I start up the migration assistant and I still cannot access the sparse bundle as it is grayed out. The leap here is you have to mount the sparse bundle, double click, then it shows up as a disk you can migrate from.
Windows Partition, as TS puts it is "on its own".
The confusion for me was that I could not recover exactly as I had backed up.
I hope this helps someone. Cheers!

coma53 wrote:
It seems to be. All music, photos, applications, etc. are present. I have not had time to do a complete review of my migration, I will track this post for a while and report any problems. There were significant OS updates which were required. I thought that they would be included as part of the migrate, not so. Perhaps they are on a true "full recovery" from setup, any one know?
Migration has no option for any part of the OS. It assumes you already have it.
If you recover your entire system from a TM backup (assuming nothing significant was excluded), you get your entire system back exactly the way it was: the OS, Apps, settings, preferences, user data, etc.
You don't load a new OS from the Leopard Install disc -- you only use it for it's copy of Disk Utility and the installer -- everything else comes from your TM backup.

Recovery from OKR backup problem

I have NB Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 (from Christmas 2011).
At 2 November 2013 I backed up the system disk using One Key Recovery.
The size of C: partition was approx. 670 gigabytes, approximately halfway filled (photos, videos, etc.).
Backup ran all night, but in the morning the advance was done, no error message or warning was not there. Backup size was approx. 376 gigabytes
A few days before Christmas (at 17/12/2013 ) the hard drive failed. There were a number of bad sectors on it. Until the end of the guarantee remained approx . 2 days. Although I managed to fix hard disk using chkdsk, the number of bad sectors means that HDD is bad. I put it thus in warranty repair shop replaced. Trying to backup using OKR despite Win7 backup system failed this time, I have therefore relied on the November backup.
However, when the NB came out repairs exchanged harddisk, I found that my OKR backup fails - reported something like "The Image file is not valid ... " . After a phone call to the call center I just learned that the original hard drive I cannot get back and that probably my backup is bad. They advised me company that provides after-sales service. But there told me that they are doing just ThinkPads, IdeaPads they only send somewhere to Poland to replace parts.
Further investigation on the Lenovo websites I found that while OKR will make a deposit of any size , but in an earlier version is able to make the recovery only from 100 GB backup and later from 300 GB. For larger backups than 300 (in an earlier version 100) GB writes the message "The Image file is not valid ..." and refuses to continue. However, neither NB nor user manual for OKR mention about it.
Does anyone advise me how to restore data from this backup?
Or at least some address at Lenovo, where they advise me how to solve this problem?

The first step for me was identifying the recovery images. The name and file extension are not as important as the file size. I did finally succeed in downloading win 8.1 core (skipping 8 tottally) AND using the built in key. It was a pain but it can be done. I finally muscled through the "huge pain / learning experience" of installing Windows 8.1, skipping 8 altogether. Below are the steps that I took and the concepts you must understand. # 1 >> First and most importantly, you must understand that you stand no chance of loading Windows 8.1 properly, using your built in license if you do not install it in pure EFI. So then the challendge becomes booting into a medium that is UEFI. A Windows 8.1 PE live image would have been perfect in this situation, but alas I didn't have one. I imagine you may be able to use a Windows7 Live Disc/USb for the following steps, but I just ended up downloading a pirated & precracked version of windows 8.1 so that I could run the software to recover the key from the UEFI firmware. ** IMPORTANT - Once again, please understand that if you do not boot up into pure UEFI (no legacy support enabled in bios), your computer will be running off of an emulated bios running between your OS and your firmware which I have come to suspect is the reason I could never get any other OS to run stable after I wiped windows completely. # 2 >> Boot into your temporary UEFI Windows and dl and run This Program to reveal your product key. Copy and paste it into text file and save it on your usb or email it to urself. # 3 >> From this point, your mileage may vary... if you can find a clean oem installable image of 8.1, god bless your heart. Download it, burn it to disk. Make copies. Otherwise you should be able to launch the Windows 8.1 installer directly from your Live CD/USB... I'm thinkin this is the way I went. Upgrade / Installer # 4 >> Before the install gets too carried away, it asks you for your product key... copy and paste as you see fit, install takes about 20 min and you are good to go. // I did have issues building a bootable UEFI drive at first. The key to this is to use a program like Rufus to create a your drive so that it looks like #### NTFS PARTITION #### | ####UEFI ### | 000000 EMPTY 00000000 |Then, using your favorite martition manager software, move the UEFI partition to the end of the USB medium and expand the ntfs partition.When your done the the partitions should look like #### NTFS PARTITION ################################### | ####UEFI ### | It should boot into UEFI at that point and I think that is where most people fail. Good luck.

Data Recovery from crashed Hard Disk

Hi,
My HP Pavilion Laptop's internal Hard Disk (Seagate) has crashed Suddenly and it is not getting detected by system.
This hard disk contains some of my important documents which I want to recover. When I contacted a service center, I was told that it can be recovered by some expert professionals but that is a bit costly affair.
Can anyone suggest, how the data can be recovered from the hard disk.?
Thanks in advance for help.
Regards,
Rajeev

If your hard drive is spinning then using an effective data recovery software you can do recover your data yourself. I would advice you to try Kernel for Windows Data Recovery Software to recover your data from Windows file system.

I can't successfully migrate an account from my backup disk.

My mac's hard disk broke down. Therefore, I went to the apple store and they gave me a new hard disk. Then, I went home and tried to migrate all of my previous account's data onto my new hard disk using migration assistant.. One account succeeded, but the other account failed.
It seems that all of the files on that account don't give me permission to view it. I have never changed the permission settings on that account, so can anyone please help me?

I understand its not iCloud that its a symbol im just not explaining myself very well. But that symbol doesn't really matter. What matters is I keep downloading or I should say restoring the same files because it keep coming back with the same 1 next to it letting me know I still had the bonus pool in the game and I'm trying to start completely from the beginning with the app. I have talked with the developer and they can't seem to figure out what the problem is either. They told me to do all the same things Ive been told here and it just won't load. I dont know if there is an update for it but the app store doesnt show one and yes the install always complete. The app doesn't crash because it won't load. It didn't crash when I played it last either. When I went back to open it it just wouldn't load. The blueshell logo comes up then it goes back to the normal screen. I just feel like I keep restoring this app instead of downloading it fresh. And i deleted it from the backup or so it says. The reason I believe that is restoring it is because the app logo I have is black red and gold and the new app logo for this game is gold and black but that one never shows up in the new download. I have friends with this app and it has never done that before to them. But I don't understand why this app can't be somehow erased completely from the history if I want it to be. That's what make me believe its keeping some small .exe file along with it.

How do booth my computer from my backup disk?

I am using Silverkeeper on a LaCie firewire external drive, and have backed up regularly every week for the past few years. As I am getting ready to install Leopard I would like to find out how to use my backup to restart my computer in case the installation has problems. Specifically, what key do I use to start from the external drive? As an example, to start from the installation disk I press the C key.
Thanks!
Ruth

First, you need to get a program that will make bootable backups, such as SuperDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner, then use them to back up.
To boot from an external disk, hold 'option' during boot. All boot volumes will be listed.
One note: before upgrading to leopard, unplug EVERYTHING from your computer except for keyboard, mouse, and the power cord. That will help avoid problems during installation.
Good luck!

Can't copy iPhoto from my backup disk

I had to restore a lot of apps from my external backup drive yesterday. Most of them went OK, but, among others, iPhoto and iWeb wouldn't copy over to my iMac from the external drive. And, as luck would have it, I can't find my original iLife disks
Is there no way to copy these from my backup?
Any help appreciated!

Terrence, thanks for the response. I used SuperDuper for the backup. I didn't try to restore from SD after erasing my hard drive because I'd have brought the problems over from the backup that caused me to reinstall the OS in the first place. So I dragged what I wanted from the backup over to the newly initialized and "systemized" internal hard drive.
But what I decided to do was to get iLife 09. I've been wanting to do it for a time now and this seemed like the ideal time to do it, given the problems.
Again, thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.

How to do media recovery from cold backup?????????/

Hi
i take cold backup of my 9i database ....
in case my database is up .....
how will i recover my database if i lose a single database file and i want to recover it from cold backup......
Thanks in advance
Gagan

Here you go
These are the steps:
1. Restore the lost file from a backup.
2. If the database is down, mount it.
SVRMGR> STARTUP MOUNT PFILE=<location_of_pfile>;
3. Issue the following query:
SVRMGR> SELECT V1.GROUP#, MEMBER, SEQUENCE#,
FIRST_CHANGE#
FROM V$LOG V1, V$LOGFILE V2
WHERE V1.GROUP# = V2.GROUP# ;
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sequence and first change numbers.
4. If the database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode, issue the query:
SVRMGR> SELECT FILE#, CHANGE# FROM V$RECOVER_FILE;
If the CHANGE# is GREATER than the minimum FIRST_CHANGE# of your logs,
the datafile can be recovered. Just keep in mind that all the logs to
applied will be online logs, and move on to step 5.
If the CHANGE# is LESS than the minimum FIRST_CHANGE# of your logs, the
file cannot be recovered. Your options at this point would be to restore
the most recent full backup (and thus lose all changes to the database
since) or recreate the tablespace as explained in scenario a.
5. Recover the datafile:
SVRMGR> RECOVER DATAFILE '<full_path_file_name>'
6. Confirm each of the logs that you are prompted for until you receive the
message "Media recovery complete". If you are prompted for a non-existing
archived log, Oracle probably needs one or more of the online logs to
proceed with the recovery. Compare the sequence number referenced in the
ORA-280 message with the sequence numbers of your online logs. Then enter
the full path name of one of the members of the redo group whose sequence
number matches the one you are being asked for. Keep entering online logs
as requested until you receive the message "Media recovery complete"
7. If the database is at mount point, open it.

Undo tablespace recovery from RMAN backup

Hi,
Lets's assume we have RMAN backup and archivelog backups, and now
my undo tablespace's disk crashed ,how can i recover?
Can i recover while database is up?
Thanks,
Kumar.

to recover UNDO tablespace from RMAN backup you must shutdown the database and start it in the MOUNT state to recover the missing files as follows
rman target /
RUN
STARTUP MOUNT;
ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch3 TYPE Disk;
RESTORE datafile 'c:\u01\prod3\undo01.dbf';
RECOVER datafile 'c:\u01\prod3\undo01.dbf';
ALTER DATABASE OPEN;
RELEASE CHANNEL ch3;
hope this will help you

Photo recovery from itunes backup

Hi,
Today Apple swapped out my daughters IPhone 4S (for the second time in a week) as it had a repeat of a wi-fi issue. They asked me not to restore the iTunes backup as they think that the settings of the old phone may be causing some sort of firmware issue. There lies the problem, the phone is backed up but the photos and contacts are not sync'd to my computer. Is there anyway of extracting the photos from the backup to my pc without restoring the backup to the phone.
I have checked out a couple of extraction apps but they all want to charge me top dollar unless I just extract 1 photo or one contact at a time !!
Thanks in advance

Man, that MediaRECOVER worked great from a preview standpoint! I not only saw my previously deleted photos from the last "roll" but also saw additional photos as well from earlier rolls. I wish I had this a few weeks ago...
Anyway, I haven't purchased it yet as I am in process of erase and installing OSX on my laptop again. I may have been able to get the photos from the a target disk mode data pull onto my older mac, but if that didn't work I'll simply use my latest backup file to restore all of my lost photos and use MediaRECOVER to get the photos that I added after the last backup.
Thanks!!!
PS - For anyone considering using this, make sure you have a media card reader to create a disk image of the flash memory, and don't take any more pictures using that memory until you use MediaRECOVER. The next pictures you take will replace the "deleted" images if you do this.

RMAN RECOVERY FROM INCREMENTAL BACKUP

Hi,
hOW TO RECOVER FROM INCREMENTAL BACKUP ?
Any script for recovery from Full+incremental BACKUP?
Many thanks before.

Thank you,
but I can not connect from RMAN when database is shutdowned.
C:\Documents and Settings\Farid>rman catalog rman/****@reprman target sys/***@bd1
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Ven. FÚvr. 16 18:28:19 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: Úchec de l'initialisation du gestionnaire de rÚcupÚration interne
RMAN-04005: erreur de la base de donnÚes cible :
ORA-12514: TNS : le processus d'Úcoute ne conna¯t pas actuellement le service demandÚ dans le descripteur de connexion
tnsping BD1Adaptateur TNSNAMES utilisÚ pour la rÚsolution de l'alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST
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OK (30 msec)

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