Remote disk and time machine?
i have my external hard drive attached to my airport extreme and all my computers, mac and windows, play nice and can copy files to and from it but i have partitioned the hard drive to allow for space for time machine to work but time machine wont find it or if it does refuses to use it as a disk. does time machine work with remote disks?
heay,
I had the same issue with an exteral 250Gb USD WD disk....
I found the solution to my issue in the following manner.
1) the disk/partition must be formated "OS X extended" format.
2) you should be able to use you the Disk/Partition with TM while connected directly to the MAC. (this is just to make sure TM works fine.
3) connect the disk to the airport extreme via USB.
4) mount the the disk on the desktop
5) go to TM preferences and change the backup disk to the disk/partition you just mounted.
6) Activate the TM "status info" in the menu bar
7) turn TM "ON" (DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN TM, or you'll have to do the entire procedure from scratch)
8) close the TM preferences.
9) unmount the disk from your desktop (use the the eject button on the shared devices tap in the finder)
10) restart the MAC (you don't need to do this... but this is just to make sure that the disk is unmounted completely)
11) once the boot-up is completed, go to the TM status icon and choose "backup now"
You must make sure that the disk and or partitions you want to use with TM are never mounted before or during the TM process.
As long as the disk/partition is mounted TM will not function.
if you need to use the disk for other purposes than TM wait until TM has done its first run... then you can mount and unmount freely... TM is very sensitive to this "mount" issue.
Note that sometimes TM will fail to funtion... this is not a big problem...
you just need to make sure the disk/partition is unmounted and then run the TM back from the menu bar.
Also note that your first backup will most likely take a very very very very very long time to be completed. just leave the MAC on a make sure it does not fall sleep.
try the above and the let me know if it works or not...
www.gekko-systems.com
Similar Messages
-
Trouble with LaCie disk and time machine
HI everyone,
I've been having trouble with using time machine to back-up to my 1 TB LaCie drive (purchased 5/12, unfornuately I was dumb and didn't register the drive and no longer have the box with the serial number and there is no serial number on my drive. The only problem I had up until the end of August was that every so often the LaCie drive (using my FW 800 port) would unmount after waking up from sleep.
The end of August the drive unmounted for no reason while I was on the computer doing a task. Could not get the LaCie drive remounted (rebooting, etc. etc.) To make a long story short, ended up calling apple care who took me through resetting my SMC and PRAM to no avail. Was booted to higher level of support who walked me through trying to repair my drive using the disk utiltiy. When that didn't work, she walked me through erasing and reformatting the LaCie drive and starting a new time machine back-up. Every thing ok until about ten days ago.
Last week, when I woke my iMac up from sleep, I got an error saying that the disk was not ejected properly and I could not mount the drive. Restarting did nothing, the disk did not mount. Shutting down and rebooting seemed to solve the problem and the disk was mounted. Every so often I've had the problem with the disk unmounting after waking up from sleep before. So, I changed my energy sleep preferences. At the end of the day when I am done, I'd unmount the LaCie drive before putting the Mac to sleep using the apple menu.
Today I came in to start my day, plugged the drive in and it would not mount. Tried rebooting nothing. Went into the disk utility, at first the LaCie drive passed the disk verify (6:26:25 and 6:26:38). Then I went into repair disk on the indented drive at 6:27:13, I wasn't sure what it is was doing, thinking that it had hung, I stopped the repair at 6:27:24. Exited disk utility, and the LaCie drive mounted. But I was getting a read only error when I tried to back-up using time machine. So, I went back into disk utility at 6:27:35, when I verified the disk (indented disk), I got an error saying the disk need to be repaired. After several minutes the disk could not be repaired. So, I erased and reformatted the drive. Ran a time machine back-up and it seemed to back-up everything on my hard drive. Just ran another verify disk and it passed.
Is the drive failing? Have some other back-ups of my documents, my address book, iCal and am going to make a backup of some of my pref files and important e-mail files and am going to do some more back-ups after I am done.
Have reached out to the women at apple care whom I talked to last August, but don't expect to hear back from her for at least 24 hours.
Here is my disk utility log
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Verifying partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Verifying partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:13 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Verifying and repairing partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:27:23 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Reviewing boot support loaders
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Updating Windows boot.ini files as required
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “LaCie”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2013-11-07 06:28:05 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Volume repair complete.2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2013-11-07 06:35:05 -0500: Stopped by user
2013-11-07 06:44:56 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:45:59 -0500: Missing thread record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:46:06 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:46:19 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: (It should be 0 instead of 4)
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: (It should be 166840 instead of 166841)
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:47:05 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:48:10 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: The volume LaCie was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “LaCie”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:50:41 -0500: Missing thread record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:50:48 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:51:02 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: (It should be 0 instead of 4)
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: (It should be 166840 instead of 166841)
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:51:47 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:52:55 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Missing directory record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Look for missing items in lost+found directory.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:53:16 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 06:53:22 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:53:35 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:53:53 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 5 instead of 6)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:54:20 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:55:25 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:55:26 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:55:26 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:58:07 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:58:12 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 06:58:18 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:58:31 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:59:17 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 07:00:22 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 07:00:24 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 07:00:24 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 07:03:04 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 07:03:09 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 07:03:15 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 07:03:29 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 07:04:14 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 07:05:19 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 07:05:20 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 07:05:20 -0500: The volume LaCie could not be repaired after 3 attempts.
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Volume repair complete.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500:
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Disk Utility stopped repairing “LaCie”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500:
2013-11-07 07:09:45 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Preparing to erase : “LaCie”
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: 1 volume will be erased
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Name : “LaCie”
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Size : 999.86 GB
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: File system : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Unmounting disk
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Erasing
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Initialized /dev/rdisk1s2 as a 931 GB HFS Plus volume with a 81920k journal
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Mounting disk
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Erase complete.
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500:
2013-11-07 10:38:00 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 10:38:12 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 10:38:12 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 10:38:29 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 10:38:29 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 10:38:41 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 10:39:04 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 10:39:31 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: The volume LaCie appears to be OK.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: Repair tool completed:
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500:
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500:I just got a call back from the upper level support person at apple care who had been advising me on my trouble with time machine and my LaCie 1 TB FWD. I had sent her much of the same verbiage as I posted here. As some of you have probably figured out, the verdict is that the drive is probably failing. She says this because I have had to do two erase and reformats. She thought that the intermitant problem that I have had with the drive unmounting when my iMac wakes from sleep could be related to the drive failing.
In the meantime I have a secondary back-up (not using time machine) and the LaCie 1 TB FWD is working for the moment.
Thanks to all who read all my verbiage.
And in the meantime, I've learned something. I marked this question as solved. But I'm open to other things to try.
Message was edited by: njtreehugger minor edits and update -
I have backed up my disk using Time Machine. I then deleted the back-up files from my MacBook hard drive.
I then reconnected my external hard drive and find the files I deleted from my hard drive are also deleted from
my external hard drive. Can someone tell my what what happened? I'm confused.Hello,
Time Machine is not a good way to do that, when it eventually needs more room it deletes old Backups to make room.
If you really want to keep Files but remove them from the Internal Drive, then I'd get another external drive to copy or clone them to that is not used for TM. -
I need to configure a new hard disk as backup disk for time machine.
The set up program is running since two hours and it says it will take 9 days to backup about 56 GB.
Is it normal ?Roberto 17 wrote:
I started this morning at 12 and after 5 hours now the backup is about 6 GB up on 56 GB.
The new HD is a WD My Passport Edge 500 GB capacity
5 hours to do 6 GB of transfer is NOT normal, even for USB 2.0 so there's something wrong here. I'd say cancel it, wipe the drive and then test the integrity of the drive. Do some file transfers over to and see if it's behaving normally. It could be a bad USB cable, it could be a bad drive or bad enclosure. As it's new, I suspect you haven't really put it through its paces yet and it's important to do that first before commissioning it to serve as your "reliable backup." -
Backing up photos on iMac using external hard drive and time machine
How do i back up photos from my imac using an external hard drive and time machine
Thanks in advanceApple explains how to use Time Machine in http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427.
Setting up and using TM is very simple to do, connect any external HD (format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) using Disk Utility ) and your computer shoudl ask if you want to use that EHD for a Time Machine backup. If you have any questions visit your local Apple Store or reseller and they can answer how to setup and use TM and also should be able to offer suggestions on EHDs. My personal preference is OWC (www.macsales.com) Mercury Elite Pro due to the build quality and OWC's level of support. -
I have been using a Mac Mini with an external hard and Time Machine. I bought an Airport Extreme and have had problem setting up the hard drive using the USB port on the Airport Extreme. I also just recently bought a Mac Book Air and hope to have both computers back up to the external hard drive using Time Machine and Airport Extreme. I have been using the optical drive from the Mac mini to load programs into the Mac Book Air. I think I'm just getting confused in Finder. I am just not seeing the hard drive. I ended up plugging the hard drive back into the Mac Mini and that is work fine again. How do I setting the external hard drive up to the AirPort Extreme and use for both computers? Or at least to start with the Mac mini.
It's critical to understand that Time Machine (TM) stores backups differently between local and network drives. That would mean the TM backup on your locally attached USB hard drive will not be directly useable when it is connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS). There is a way to copy a local version to a network version, but it is not fool-proof. When you do connect this drive and point TM to it, TM will start a brand new backup, leaving your existing backup as is.
If your current backup is critical to you, you may want to consider getting a second USB drive to attach to the Extreme and use your existing one as a backup ... or use TM's multi-backup process to backup to more than one destination drive alternatively.
So, at this point, you may want to make a decision on how you want to go forward to help provide a solution for you.
To directly answer your question, when you go to select a destination for a Time Machine backup, the drive(s) that show up under "Backup Disks" are those that TM already recognizes and has backed up to. Those listed under "Available Disks" are drives (either local or on the network) that TM can back up to. -
Can two macs use same disk for Time Machine backup with Airport Extreme?
Hi
I use a Western Digital disk as a wireless Time Machine backup connected to the USB port on my Airport Extreme and it works great. My question is: can my girlfriend use that same disk for Time Machine backup from HER computer too? (I don't mind formatting the disk if needed.)
If she can't, is it then possible to connect a USB hub and have two disks hooked up to the Airport Extreme?
Thanks for helping. I am constantly in awe of all the help people like you give people like me. Thanks!!!
JakobI've gone through the manual setup and the assisted setup and can't seem to get my MacBook to use the Time Machine. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.
Well, as the Jolly Giant points out....+this type of configuration is not supported by Apple+, so it's difficult, if not impossible, to provide a fix for something that Apple says that you cannot do. Reference these Apple Support documents regarding this topic:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
Your situation is not unlike other users who try this and find that one computer may backup...(usually for a limited time before corruption issues start to creep in)...but another computer cannot backup. Count me as one of those users who thought that because things seemed to work that I had somehow "beat the system".
I started getting the corruption error messages after 4-5 weeks of successful backups, so I figured that it did not make sense to continue to try to get a second computer to backup (yes, I too could not setup a second Mac to backup).
Sorry, I could not get a second machine to backup, so can't tell you how to accomplish that goal. If you want to continue to try backing up this way, you might want to also think about a second backup strategy...just in case backups become corrupted on the WD drive.
Maybe if Apple says you cannot do this, they just may be right?
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons -
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. -
Hard drive both as s startup and Time Machine
Right now I am using an Iomega 360 GB hard drive for Time Machine. I would like to put a system on the Iomega so I can use it as a start up in case something hapens with my computer's startup. If I do this will it erase the year of Time Machine copies I have on it now?
Can the system startup and time machine both be on my Iomega hard drive on the same partition" Or should I have 2 hard drives. One for Time Machine and the other for the system startup?
I'm just a little freaked out because of the trouble I have had with installing Z.6.360GB is kind of small for a Time Machine drive already (unless the data you are backing up is something like 160GB), so you may not want to install additional stuff on the same drive. However, the Time Machine backup archive is kept in its own folder, so you can put other data on the same drive, including a system installation.
If you are installing Leopard, as long as you don't select to run an +Erase and Install+, and there is no existing system on that drive, the installed system will be added to the existing data.
Ideally, it would be best to have a separate volume that is only used for Time Machine. A volume can be a partition (it does not need to be the whole drive), so you could partition that drive to have a big partition and a small partition (20GB should be enough), and put the emergency startup system on the small partition. If it is for emergency startup, you can Customize the Leopard installation to de-select things you do not need, such as languages, printer drivers, and bundled apps; that will reduce the size of the installation quite a bit. I use an old FireWire-based iPod with a broken screen as my emergency/maintenance startup disk (about 20GB).
I'm just a little freaked out because of the trouble I have had with installing Z.6.
Is that X.6 (Snow Leopard)? What trouble are you having? -
Time Machine Restore Leads to Kernel Panic and Time Machine Inaccuracies
Last night I had to do a full restore from time machine because I had disturbed system files. So I boot in the OSX disk and run time machine from utilities to a time before I messed things up. After it finishes I restart as the screen prompts me to do and I get in a kernel panic restart cycle.
So I reinstall snow leopard from the disk, and for some reason instead of being formatted everything appears as it did at the beginning of summer (I've had Snow Leopard since it came out). So I boot in the disk and try a time machine full restore to a different backup, and after it completes I again get into the kernel panic restart cycle.
So I reinstall snow leopard to the same effect, thinking I'll just go into time machine (star wars interface) and manually update all the important files, but even though I have regular updates that run all the way to may, they are inaccurate. For instance: my downloads folder remains identical in all of them, even though it is altered almost daily, also my documents don't change: for instance an essay I'm working on doesn't contain changes which I made and through all of the time machine backups has not been modified since may 10th (quite wrong). But oddly, programs which I had installed recently remain on the computer.
Disk Utility and Disk Warrior both report my internal hard drive and my external hard drive (where the time machine backups are stored in their own partition) are intact.
All I want is data restoration, and none of my methods have worked.... if there is a workaround to my time machine kernel panic issue and time machine would give an accurate restoration then I would do this... hopefully some of you have ideas... Thanks.
Running:
Macbook 2.13 Ghz
2 gb ram
was running the most recent edition of Snow Leopard, after restore I'm running the original OSX 10.6You might try the following to repair permissions in your Home folder. Disk Utility does not repair permissions in the Home folder.
To fix Home folder permissions
Open the Terminal application in the Utilities folder. At the command line prompt enter or paste the following command line:
sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` ~
Press RETURN. You will be prompted to enter your admin password which will not be echoed. -
My external hard drive for Back Up and Time Machine is full. I bought a new HD. Can I just begin using it and rely on the old HD for past Time Machine versions, or must I transfer the old Back Up and Time Machine files to the new HD?
It is your choice.
If you don't want to be able to far back into the time slots covered by the old disk then just start using the new disk.
If you want to retain the ability to go back into those time slots then copy it.
Allan -
well as the title says i have a 500gb hard drive with 2 partitions one with time machine and one for files it worked perefectly until yesterday only the time machine partition appeared in finder, i checked disk utility and both partitions appeared but the one for files appeared in grey and when i press mount an error comes up.
The repair shop likely replaced a major circuit board on your MacBook Pro, so Time Machine thinks that you have a "new" computer and it wants to make a new complete backup of your Mac.
You are going to have to make a decision to either add another new Time Capsule....or USB drive to your existing Time Capsule....and in effect start over with a new backup of your Mac and then move forward again.
For "most" users, I think this is probably the best plan because you preserve all your old backups in case you need them at some point, and you start over again with a new Time Capsule so you have plenty of room for years of new backups.
Or, as you have mentioned, you have the option of erasing the Time Capsule drive and starting all over again. The upside is that you start over and have plenty of room for new backups. The downside is that you lose years of backups.
Another option....trying to manually delete old backups individually....is tricky business....and very time consuming. To get an idea of what is involved here, study this FAQ by Pondini, our resident Time Capsule and Time Machine expert on the Community Support area. In particular, study the pink box.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/12.html
Once you look through this, I think you may agree that this type of surgery is not for the faint of heart. I would suggest that you consider this only if one of the other options just cannot work for you. -
After an install of Lion, my secondary internal hard drive used for backup and time machine is not showing on the desktop. Cannot be located with Disk Utility either. Contains vital files! please help...
I have a TB internal drive, but this is what it shows for memory slots:
Memory Slots:
ECC: Enabled
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1:
Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 800 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x0000
Part Number: 0x000000463732353642363145353830304600
Serial Number: 0x00000000
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2:
Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 800 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x0000
Part Number: 0x000000463732353642363145353830304600
Serial Number: 0x00000000
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 800 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Serial Number: 0x42076007
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 800 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Serial Number: 0x4207631E
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3:
Size: Empty
Type: Empty
Speed: Empty
Status: Empty
Manufacturer: Empty
Part Number: Empty
Serial Number: Empty
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4:
Size: Empty
Type: Empty
Speed: Empty
Status: Empty
Manufacturer: Empty
Part Number: Empty
Serial Number: Empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3:
Size: Empty
Type: Empty
Speed: Empty
Status: Empty
Manufacturer: Empty
Part Number: Empty
Serial Number: Empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4:
Size: Empty
Type: Empty
Speed: Empty
Status: Empty
Manufacturer: Empty
Part Number: Empty
Serial Number: Empty -
How to limit the amount of disk space Time Machine will use?
On Yosemite, how do you limit the amount of disk space Time Machine will use?
I'm using a Seagate Goflex Home 2tb drive connected to my router as a Time Machine backup drive. I use this for three things 1)Time Machine 2) an occasional backup of windows document subdirectory 3) backup of music and photos for long term storage. Doing something like re-partioning the drive is not an option. I'll just go buy another drive for time machine's sole use. In addition, using software from Seagate is not an option. I don't want to use their software for different reasons (mainly the GoFlex home is really designed as a "media server" which I don't use. I, of course, use iTunes. ) On the Mac, I'm only using about 250GB total but time machine is rapidly using up space.
Apparently using a terminal command like below, used to work, but no longer works under Yosemite.
For a limit of 100gb the number below would be 100 x 1024
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize 102400
To remove the limit, use the following command:
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize
Now, I'm not too familiar with terminal and I'm not about ready to issue a command without knowing exactly what it is going to do.
Is there an easier "switch" someplace or an app that does this?
If I don't limit the size, at some point there will not be any space left for windows backups and additional photo and music files.Hmm- added "sudo" and there was no error reported:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize xxxxxx
I guess we'll see. -
Direct connect macbook air and time machine
Any idea how to direct connect my macbook air with my time machine?
I am wanting to do a large restore from my old mb to my new air. This would take 18+hours over my network.
Few tidbits: my time machine isn't the newest version so it doesn't have a thunderbolt port. One usb and several ethernets.Complete an Time Machine backup of ypur old machine to an external USB hard disk
If the Air is "brand new", you are in luck. Use Setup Asistant on the very first Boot. Upon that boot, the system will aks if you would like to transfer files, applications and settings from another computer. You would then attach your USB disk, the Time Machine Backup, and direct the sytem to import all the information from the TM backup.
Here is everything you need to know, and more.
Maybe you are looking for
-
Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 config. failed during installation
{color:#0000ff}Hi, I have installed sun java communication suite 5 on a single host on sun solaris 10. I have installed required packages and it works fine. But as per organization need, I have to change domain name. So i have uninstalled everything
-
How do I put a space in my App Name? Portal App Loader won't let me!
When I Put a space in my product name (Example: 'Cool App'), it builds just fine and shows up on my DEV iphone with the space. However, when I try to release it that way to Apple, the Application Loader in Portal complains that no spaces are allowed.
-
IPS Tech Tip - Evasions - TCP/IP examples and handling - Sig team presentation
Hi Customers, Its summer time and nothing evokes cool quite like a discussion into the TCP / IP stack and how creative attacker types try to hide attacks behind it. This presentation will feature a security researcher from our signature team and wil
-
Dear Friends, I am looking for the functional module which give me list of work center ; Like Customer will provide the product requirement and depend upon product specification i should get the specific work center where the product will manufacture
-
How to print only the 2 most recent values in a multi-value table field
Hi there, I have a history table field in my report that may contain anywhere up to 100 values for any one database record... however for each database record, I only want the LAST 2 (ie. 2 most recent) values of this field to be included in the repo