Restore Failure - not enough space!
Hi all,
I just used Disk Utility to make a backup of a MBA (65GB) onto a 500GB external drive (Restore from internal HDD to external HDD). I then reformatted the internal hard disk and proceeded to restore my backup (external HDD to internal HDD). I soon received an error message stating "Restore Failure - not enough space". I guess that means Disk Utility backups are a one-way operation, since you can't restore from a larger drive to a smaller one? Is there something I am overlooking? I ended up using Carbon Copy Cloner to do the job, but I'm wondering how (if?) restoring from a larger backup drive is possible using Disk Utility?
Another way of dealing with the problem would be to install OS X and then transfer the data in Setup Assistant.
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Restore Failure: not enough space on /dev/disk2s2 to restore
New MacBook Pro with Lion all up to date. Have 9 partitions (plus the two hidden ones). Operating system is on one with 125GB. 82.72GB are used and 42.28GB are available (says disk utility). I want to "restore" to an external hard drive. I don't care if that partition is bootable or not. It is 124.48 GB and 124.26GB are free. When I try to do the restore, I get the message in the subject above.
Background. I've been doing exactly this for 8 years on my two previous macbooks. It used to be that you could do this with the computer running, but it didn't always work. Now you have to unmount the partition to restore it, which seems more likely to work. In other words, you have to restart and go into recovery mode. Irritating, but if it worked better it would be worth it. (Only have to do this for the operating system partition. Easy to backup all the others and that's been done. However, I would really like to back up the operating system partition.) I have always found this an easy operation. You could copy your computer onto an external drive, replace the computer's hard drive and copy things back, all using restore in disk utility. Obviously, if I can't copy the partition off to somewhere else, I'm not going to be able to copy it back if I ever need to.
It is true that the OS partition just points to /. Is it possible that restore wants to carry along all the other partitions as well and that's why there isn't enough space? If so, this is a bug, since OS has always pointed to / and there has never been a problem before.
I am moderately paranoid because I have lost enough hard drives in my life. I do have time machine but I read that if you backup from it, it wipes out your recovery partition. I'd like to have both my time machine and my restore copies.
I'm thinking of packing up the external hard drive and the computer and making an appointment at the apple store. Help very much appreciated.W Stephen Wilson wrote:
Disk utility seems to be broken now, at least from my point of view.
Disk Utility's restore function never was quite good to begin with, very dumb.
You'll like Carbon Copy Cloner, it's the best, and it's smart.
Especially the huge control it gives and the fact that you can update the clones and even save states between the updates as backups.
Best of all it will copy EFI and Recovery and "fit" to upgrade to larger or smaller partitions if the data will allow it. The scheduling ability is a nice feature too.
I use it for auto-updating and/or reminding me to update clone on another partition on the boot drive and external drives every few days or weeks or so, depending upon my needs. So it's nice for the fact that I can scheduale many clones on seperate hardware.
All my clones are option key bootable, plus the files can be accessed directly by any platform that can read the HFS+ format, I'm not locked into using or restoring only to another Mac.
Freedom is good, TimeMachine is the absolute purist evil as a backup system. (just kidding, it's ok for some )
BTW, if you want your data to be a lot more reliable on hard drives, you should perhaps read this.
Reducing bad sectors effect on hard drives -
I have recently backed up my Iphone 4. However now it will not restore as it claims I have not enough space on the iphone. I am in a major hurry to get this up and running by tonight as need it for work ?
Hey annefrombeach,
Thanks for the question. It sounds like you are unable to restore your backup due to an error message regarding not enough free space. The following resource outlines troubleshooting steps for this specific error message:
iOS: If you can't back up or restore from a backup in iTunes - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ts2529
Thanks,
Matt M. -
Can't restore iPad, not enough space, lost Pin to get in.
Password was changed on iPad and when trying to restore to factory settings, I can't as there is not enough space. What can I do? I can't see the iPad on "Find my iPad" on iCloud either, so that is not an option.
Hello jlawre23,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Best of luck,
Mario -
Unable to create restore points not enough space on the disk. 0x80070070
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chief444 wrote: When trying to create a restore point I get error "There is not enough space on the disk. 0x80070070" Which is wrong I have tons of space. How do I correct this problem. Thanks
Hello chief444, You might try going to this Link , and see if the information there is what you require.
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Hi,
I made an itunes backup of my ipad, but now itunes doesn't want to restore it!
I always get an error saying it couldn't restore, because there isn't enough space available on the COMPUTER.
The computer I backed the ipad up to, has a 40gb hdd. The backup is about 20gb. I think itunes first makes temporary files in order to restore. But i can't manage to get enough space free, i have about 10gb free.
I tried putting it on an external hdd to restore on another computer, but it always says it couldn't copy some of the files. The drive i used is fat32. Could that be the problem, altough when looking through the backup, there isn't any file bigger than 3gb? I'm trying to get an ntfs drive and see if i can copy it to that drive. If not, how can i recover my files?
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the bad english.Hello jlawre23,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Best of luck,
Mario -
I changed my LCD last day and now i noticed all my pictures on my phone are gone. I tried to restore the back that I got yesterday but it wont let me because its telling me there is not enough space on my phone!!! That's wierd because I didn't download any app or anything else since my last backup and on the other hand about 3000 pictures are gone, how come there is not enough space left! I also check my usage on my phone and it shows that i have about 7.0 GB pictures!!! BUT my photos is empty! I want my picture back on my phone any solution anyone?
Thanks for your reply!
I just called the guy who changed my LCD and asked him what happend, he said there were no pictures on your phone when you gave it to me! i know he is lying tho!
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I have updated up my ipad2 which had the original version on it (4.??) to the latest version of IOS. Before I did this I backed up the ipad to my laptop so I wouldnt lose precious pics and videos of my baby boy. Now that the latest version is on the ipad it is now asking me if I want to start as a new ipad or restore my backup from itunes. So i select restore my backup from itunes and connect to itunes but it now says there is not enough space to do so. I have a feeling it is because there are alot of pics on our ipad which i presume are all in this backup, many of which we do not need on the ipad anymore but I have no idea on how I go about deleting these pics?? And how do I find where on my laptop this backup is and most importantly the video and pics of my baby boy.
Restoring an iPad from an iTunes-generated backup should not require an Apple ID password.
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i just restored my ipad2 to iOS 6.1.3 yesterday. i have been trying to restore from backup, but i keep getting error messages from itunes (running latest version of itunes) that says there is not enough space to save the backup on the computer. i have tried clearing up as much space on my PC (windows xp), but there is still not enough room. and ive tried disk cleanup on my computer and resetting the ipad and running it through recovery mode (as some articles sugggested it would help with restoring after failed attempts). i read on another question in the apple support discussions that someone just moved his whole backup folder into his external harddrive and then he was able to restore from backup.
the backup is definitely saved on my computer (itunes confirms that), and the backup folder is supposed to be here \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\, but im still not finding it with that file path. i get as far as "username" and then i dont see "application data" and so on. but when i try searching that file path in google chrome, i find it and i see it, but its strange that i cant find it in the "docs and settings" folder in my C drive.
please help! i just want to be able to move the backup folder to my external to restore from backup. thank you in advance!!Thank you! I was able to find it. Im sorry, i have a few follow up questions. Does the iTunes have to be running from my external as well to do the restore from backup? And if so, how do I move iTunes to external and run it from there? Also, I just copied over the "backup" folder (last part of that file path to my external, is that enough, or did I have to copy it starting from the beginning (docs and settings and so forth)? Lastly, when I select restore from backup in iTunes, would it automatically know that it's the copy on my external to restore backup from? Or do I have to delete or do something with the original file path in my computer?
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I upgraded to an Iphone 5 and open new Icloud account, I then backed up my phone on my brothers Mac Pro, I now want to restore my info to my phone and I get a message that says not enough space. What do I do
Delete all back ups on MacBook and create new back up. Restart his MB and attempt to restore again. Do not forget to erase your iphone 5 before restore.
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What to do when you want to restor your ipod but it says there is not enough space to do it ?
My problem is that i have 21go of the section "others" on my iPod 5. So, I went on internet to find what is the solution (or what to delete to get more space on my iPod), and I found that it was a problem to have more than 5go of "others", and that the only solution was to restor it. My second problem is that I can't even restor it because it says there is not enough space to do it. So, I deleted stuff and there is now 4.73go of free space. But it still says that there is not enough space to restor it !!!
No, it says that i don't have enough space on my iPod ;$ But it's ok now, I went on youtube to find a way to restore an iPod (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzyy4puapig). But thank you for trying to help me !!
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Restoring backup in itunes fails- not enough space
After upgrading ios on my iphone 4s all contacts lost. Tried restoring from itunes only to get message "Can't restore...not enough space on iphone" when there is plenty. Have taken screen shot. Help. Spent several hours trying to find support for this. I'm new to communities so patience please.
This has really put me off switching to the Apple environment which I was considering doing. Think I'll go down the Google/Android/Samsung product route.nutdrum wrote:
This has really put me off switching to the Apple environment which I was considering doing. Think I'll go down the Google/Android/Samsung product route.
Thanks for letting us know.
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I have a windows HP computer with windows 7 installed, when I try and update and restore my phone, I get an error message of there is not enough space on your computer to restore your phone. Any suggestions and help is appreciated.
You need to discard or save to an external disk and then discard some of the stuff we all tend to keep forever (movies, music, pictures, docs, apps no longer used, etc.). A clogged up disk also does not function ideally either.
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Recently updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 6.1.3 and lost all of my contacts after doing so. Tried to restore phone to latest backup performed in iTunes but I get an error message that tells me there's not enough space on my iPhone to perform the restoration. The ultimate problem I'm trying to solve is the loss of my contacts so if there's another way to solve that please let me know. If restoring my phone is a proper solution please help me do so.
1. How do I get my contacts back?
2. How do I restore my iPhone from latest backup when getting "not enough space" error?
Please help!Contacts are not part of the backup. They are seperate and either you need to sync them with an email program such as outlook or use icloud mail,contacts, and calendars on the phone. Unless you did that then the contacts are gone.
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Hello
I wish to help me iPhone 5 64G stolen
now I bought the iPhone5C 16G
If i restore from last backup
Not Enough Space on iPhone to Restore Backup!!!
sms and contcts and photos only i needd
I do not care apps anthor thing ..
so what is the solutionYou'll need to extract your contacts/photos from your backup, using something like this:
http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/
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