Server Time Machine Needs Fileshare Mount

I've got a Server set up as a Time Machine host. I can see it in the Time Machine preferences on clients if it's volume is mounted via fileshare first, but if I dismount it, I can't see it anymore.
Once it's selected as the backup source, the client will automatically mount the share during it's regular backup. However, now that I'm trying to restore from backup, I boot from the install disk, go to restore system from backup, and it can't see the server backup. I can't mount the fileshare manually like I do from a normal OS, and I can't boot off another drive and use the Install Disk's restore option.
I thought perhaps I could use the "mount_afp" command via Terminal, but this mounts the share as unreadable, and inaccessible again via Time Machine.
1. How do I get Time Machine to show the server's backup volume, without manually mounting it via fileshare?
2. Barring that, is there any way of doing a complete Time Machine restore, that allows me to first mount a fileshare volume?

Everyone in my company is having the exact same problem. We bought an Xserve and Xserve RAID with the sole intention of using it for backups and calendar/contact sharing. This Time Machine problem makes the application next to useless for most of the users, as they aren't going to remember to mount the AFP share every single login.
Coupled with the inability of iCal Server to handle event invitations to individuals not in LDAP, we're questioning sticking with Apple products in the future. This release of Leopard/Leopard Server seems to be missing some major features for some of the most simple workgroup applications.

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Possible solution: Time Machine can not mount disk

Like many of you, my Time Machine started acting up after working fine for months.
I have an external USB (Western Digital 500GB) drive connected to a Airport Extreme (N-speed) as an AirDisk.
I have an iMac (iSight 160GB) connected via ethernet to the AEX and a MacBook (60GB) connected to the AEX. Both have less than half HD usage.
After a few months, the MacBook would fail to backup properly: “Unable to Mount” message after the TM process was going for a few minutes. I could access the WD drive in R/W mode otherwise from the same machine. I read on these boards that I should erase the sparsebundle on the WD drive associated with the MacBook. I did that, and all was then well.
Fast forward a few months, again the same problem on the same machine. I ran DiskWarrior against the WD drive to ensure permissions were fine. Mind you that the iMac TM backup’s have been working fine all along.
Yesterday I solved my problem by reading various tips on these boards:
- Always mount the AirDisk via “==> Go ==> Connect to Server” within the Finder
o As per Apple KnowledgeBase article
- *Proper Computer Name*
o Ensure that your computer has a proper name in the Sharing Preference pane.
o Go into System Preferences --> Sharing.
o Is the box labeled “Computer Name” empty? If it is blank, you need to put in a name for your computer. Otherwise Time Machine won’t be able to perform backups. Additionally, Time Machine needs to differentiate this computer from others on your network (i.e. "Bills MacBook" vs "Office iMac"). As a result, no two Macs should have the same name. If the "Computer Name" field is blank, create a unique name for this Mac.
o Also, Time Machine may experience problems if your computer name includes certain characters. Make sure the computer name only includes ASCII characters from the following set.
o (0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)
o Once a change in the computer name occurs, you should stop and restart Sharing on the affected computer. Uncheck and then recheck Sharing in the Services list on the left.
The combination of these two steps has my MacBook working smoothly once again with Time Machine, Airport Extreme and an AirDisk.
GOOD LUCK

Most likely, the power interruption corrupted the sparse bundle containing your backups.
Try to repair them per #A5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

Best Setup for Lion Server Time Machine Backup with Drobo?

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

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

Restore Lion OS from Lion Server Time Machine Backup?

I am running a Intel Imac 2008 clean install SL then Lion upgrade, followed by Lion Server install. I have multiple home macs, and intnded the server as a way to monitor and restrict kids internet use. In short, it has changes/screwed up multiple programs, and complicated home sharing issues considerably. Mail on the server machine has permission problems (cannot send mail, unable to sign), Spotlight in mail is non-functioning, finder spotlight searches are inconsistent, etc. I want to revert to plain old Lion.
I have done disk utility/verify disk and verified/repaired permissions, and have 'fiddled' (i'm not an expert) in the keychain/certificates areas, but I think the best solution is a clean install of Lion. QUESTION: When I backup to TIme Machine, is there a way to pull a 'Lion' version of my disk image back, and just not upgrade to Server? I understand I can disable Server and turn off applications in Server, but it doesn't fix my buggy machine. My options are to back up my 250GB of music, 100GB of photos, 100GB of movies, etc on to external drives, and clean install and then reimport everything, but even that will probably mean I cant reinstall my single user licesnse of MS office, VMware fusion, etc that I didn't buy on the App store. I'd really love to be able to do this with Time machine. Any chance? or do I need to do the dark deed of 2 days of backup?

Sorry, I don't mean to be stupid, but I want to be sure. My impresion of Time machine disk images (I'm not a computer genius, but I'm , lets say, an expert novice) is that disk images (my term for the 'total view' of a computers main disk), differ depending on the OS. I assume that applications and preferences referenced under SL could not be seamlessly imported into a Lion environment. I'm assumng that the upgrade to Lion server has irrevocaby altered my startup/main volume into a "Lion Server" volume, and that if I try to pull my applications/data/preferences/mailboxes back onto a fresh Lion interface, it won't work. Are you saying I'm wrong, and that I can simply erase my disc, clean install Lion via an internet connection, and re-import my "lion Server- altered' stuff back from aLion-server Time Machine disk image, seamlessly, into a Lion OS environment? Sorry to be so concrete, but my wife will kill me if I %$@ the bed on this. I appreciatre your help.

Lion Server Time Machine sparsebundles

Subject indicates where I think my problem lies, but for background:
MacBook Pro got bit by Thunderbolt firmware upgrade snafu last week. Contacted Apple Store the next morning, saw Genius at 11:00. Concuded hardware and firmware were OK and because I had a Time Machine backup less than an hour old I gave permission to install a fresh 10.7.3 image on my bare metal.
Got home and booted Command-R. Happily saw my Time Machine shares on Mac Mini Server running Lion Server 10.7.4. Yes, "shares." A Backup and Backup-1.
As a Lion Server novice I found a tip here to "defaults write /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Backups timeMachineBackup '(1)' to make my shared mountpoint work with Time Machine over the network. Perhaps thats how one does it if one doesn't have Server. I later found the Time Machine panel in Server and turning that on gave me a Backups-1 share as well.
So back with Command-R my MacBook Pro saw both the Backups and Backups-1, I navigated to Backups and it saw its previous Time Machine archive. I started a bare metal restore and happily went to bed. Next morning found the restore stopped at about 20% of the progress bar and message instructing me to reboot the computer. Repeated, same results.
Back to Command-R I reinstalled a new copy of Lion from Apple over the internet. Did minimal configuration until I could get into Time Machine and try to manually pull files. Again it quit unexpectedly no matter holding the Option key to Verify Backups passed.
So back to the Mac Mini Server I turn off Sharing from System Preferences and Time Machine from Server. The /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Backups file disappears when Server Time Machine is turned off.
I have attempted to move "David Kelly's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" from "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Backups" to "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Shared Items/Backups" where Server Time Machine seems to expect it. The problem now is that the MacBook Pro doesn't see this Time Machine archive in that location, or see it at all.
I have performed the Disk Utility verify tasks listed in the Time Machine FAQ with no errors found or repaired.
I have seen a -6584 error this week but don't remember exactly when: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3123920?start=0&tstart=0
How can I get the sparsebundle back under Time Machine Server?

Finally figured it out on my own 2 weeks later.
You have to open the Lion Server app and then turn on Time Machine on the server.
It will then ask what disk you want to use, which in my case was an external 2tb USB.
My confusion was that this is not they way you had to do it on Snow Leopard Server.
On SLS, I never used Time Machine, but had to partition my external disk individually for each user. e.g. 2tb disk was partioned into 4 separate volumes. This was necessary to keep one user's Time Machine backup from taking up the whole disk and not leaving room for the other users.
You then setup these partitions as Time Machine Sharepoint which would then show up as a choice on the users machine under Time Machine preferences, select disks.
Therefore, under SLS, a user could select from any number of partions to backup to on the server. On Lion Server, it appears you do not have a choice and can only backup to the one disk you selected on the Server App.
At the risk of carrying on a conversation with myself online, my concern is now about limiting the size of the individual user's sparse bundle to again keep one user from taking up the entire disk for their Time Machine. I guess that is another fight for another day.

Server Time Machine vs File Sharing TM

For a couple of years I have used file sharing on my Mac Mini to provide Time Machine backup space for the Mac Books in my collection. This has worked well, with multiple hard drives and partitions providing redundant backup space (every Mac has at least two concurrent Time Machine backups, each in different hard drives attached to the MM). I have been examining OS X Server, and am wondering what benefit Server Time Machine service offers over my current arrangement. I can see no functional difference. Is there any?

Functionally, I don't believe so. If you're able to back up and restore your Macs over your LAN using File Sharing then the Time Machine Service in OS X Server won't do you any good.
I use OS X Server and the Time Machine Service for back ups/restore. I know I can restore any Mac client as long as the server (Mac Mini) is up and running. I simply select the network back up while in the Recovery HD of the client, log into it and select the date I want to restore. I don't know how File Sharing works if you have to restore one of your Macs from the Recovery HD.

Time Machine displays wrong 'Mounted At' Name for TC

I made my Time Capsule the primary router in my home network and imported the config file from the Airport Extreme to speed the setup but now Time Machine shows the 'Mounted At' name as "<NetworkName>AirportExtreme" as opposed "<NetworkName>TC" (see below). I can't seem to change the 'Mounted At' Name displayed in the Time Machine Preferences display. Any suggestions?

The configuration file is xml..
So you can edit the name.. directly .. save the file and import it.. it isn't a great way to do things but I have tricked stuff before like that..
But in this situation it is still a different product.. if it was from one TC to another I would say go ahead.. or one extreme to another .. sure.. but you are using an identical configuration .. for two non-identical products.
syDN ..
That maybe the name which is listed in a local DNS table in the TC.
In mine it has the TC name.
<key>syDN</key>
<string>Tardis4</string>
... Changing it has what effect. I don't know.. you can try.. change it and see what happens.. but that is still working around the idea that a factory reset and redo of the setup maybe faster and will surely be better.

Time Machine shows multiple mounts in finder

I have a client running the latest version of 10.6 and backing up via Time Machine to a Mac Mini Server also running the latest version of 10.6. Over the course of a week he will build up a collection of Time Machine mounts in the finder that cannot be ejected. It seems sometimes it ejects correctly and other times not. I don't see a pattern to what is happening.
I tried deleting his backups and starting from scratch an that didn't help. I'm thinking it could be something on his iMac. Anyone else seen this problem?

Are those backups on a network?
If so, yes, that does happen on occasion. Exactly why it happens isn't clear, but It may be that while the volume is mounted by Time Machine to do a backup, the user enters the "Star Wars" display to look at the same set of backups, and somehow with both accessing it at the same time, the last process to use it doesn't realize it needs to be unmounted.
It may also be that the backups aren't finished indexing when the backup completes, so doesn't unmount them.
You might want to try repairing them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Leopard Server Time Machine Questions

We've been running Time Machine to backup client data for about 20 users for a number of months. We've set this up with Time Machine saving to a 750GB RAID 1 external drive mounted as a share point. Each user has a maximum disk quota on the share point (set up using 'edquota'). We now have some questions about how Time Machine is supposed to work:
1) We're starting to get errors that Time Machine has run out of space for individual users. We understood that Time Machine would simply delete the oldest backups and then continue (as it does with standard Time Machine on an individual Mac) but this doesn't seem to happen. Instead we get a warning that there isn't enough space. Is this correct for Server-based Time Machine or is there something we can/should do to make Time Machine behave 'normally' and auto-delete oldest backups to make space for new backups?
2) We've used 'edquota', 'quotacheck' and 'repquota' commands to create our user quotas on a share point. However we can't find any way of removing an individual user's quota completely - it seems we can change their quota but we can't remove them and start again without removing the user completely from the server. Is there any way of resetting and/or removing a user's disk quota on a share point, including clearing down all their data? For example, we have one user that has 3GB of 10GB quota 'in use' even when all their data has been removed manually. There are no hidden folders/files etc. but 'quotacheck says they are still using 3GB!
3) We have an HP Ultrium 960 LTO-3 SCSI tape drive. Does anyone know how we can backup our Time Machine data onto these tapes for off-site archives? We've looked at EMC Retrospect 8.1 but this doesn't seem to work properly with Time Machine data (and seems to be generally flakey!). Does anyone know of general OS X/Unix drivers for this type of device that would allow us to use Unix commands ('tar' etc.). Alternatively can anyone recommend a backup software solution that actually works with Time Machine data?
4) Can anyone recommend a known working solution to keeping long term archives of Time Machine data?
Thanks for any help!

Thanks for a quick response!
We only backup selected client data, excluding system, apps, music, photos etc. i.e. only company data not personal data or general system data (our client systems are built from a common standard build brick). So 10GB-25GB is fine for many months of Time Machine backups for our user population.
We like Time Machine because the user doesn't have to do anything for backing up, it works automatically and the user can recover their 'oops' files without tech support help. So we're keen to get the benefits of Time Machine for several months of immediate backups that users can deal with themselves, but also we'd like some kind of longer term off-site archive capability - this is why we'd like to tape the Time Machine data.
We don't have a working tape solution at present. We have an old Retrospect 6 licence which explicitly does nothing (but complain!) with Time Machine data. We tried a trial licence of Retrospect 8.1 but it seems flakey in general and did not cope reliably with Time Machine data. We wondered about Bru but we'd have to remove Retrospect 6 (which we're keeping in case we need to recover from old archive tapes).
Currently our server is backed up using a combination of techniques:
1) Time Machine of the server itself (system and data)
2) Time Machine of the company data share point onto an external 750GB RAID 1 drive (2 active disks mirrored + 1 spare disk)
3) Weekly 'breaking' of RAID 1 mirror using a spare drive (i.e. weekly rotation of mirror drive)
4) Weekly clones of server system material (but not data) onto FireWire external drive
5) Monthly clone of RAID 1 onto another external FireWire drive (we intend to rotate this with another identical drive)
Can you confirm the situation regarding Time Machine when it runs out of space - how do we get it to 'roll over' old backup data?
Thanks again

My time machine will not mount under 'devices'

I restored my mac air because of system corruptions. I went to migrate my former build's user profile to the new system, but when I entered time machine it only showed me backups from the rebuilt system. The only way I restored my files/settings was by navigating to my old backups in the finder (under devices in the finder) and copy/paste/replace into the new user profile.
Now I have 2 problems despite having searched the apple support docs and the forum.
First, I want to manage my old user time machine backups through my time machine app. All I am able to access are the 4 backups made in the new system since the reinstallation. That gives me a gap of several months back to when I purchased my air. How can I access them while in my current user profile?
Second, my time capsule isn't mounting under devices. I've got "show external discs" selected in finder prefs. Obviously, it was showing earlier because that's how I got my files reloaded.
Which of course has me in a catch 22. Even if I knew how to access my missing backups via time machine, I can't access the time capsule to set it up in the first place.....
Advice?

First, I want to manage my old user time machine backups through my time machine app.
Manage meaning what.. an old backup cannot really be managed.. it is a backup.. you restore from it.. you don't manage it.
But if you merely mean to open it.. and TM is refusing to allow it to be opened.. well that is part and parcel of the Mavericks TM... !!
Pondini has instructions for opening TM backups from other Macs.. same rules apply here.
See Q14-17 here. 16 and 17 being the key ones.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Once you are out of a TM backup you cannot then use it for continuing backups.. You can try and inherit it but I think you are too late.. that should have been attempted immediately.
See B5 and B6 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Second, my time capsule isn't mounting under devices.
This is typical Mavericks excellent networking.
Time Capsule should appear under shared not devices.. Once you mount the backup it will appear under devices but not until mounted.
1. I strongly recommend full factory reset of the Time Capsule.
No files on the disk will be lost.
The Factory Reset universal
Unplug your TC/AE. Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on.. all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. The time is not important.. it is the front LED rapid flashing that indicates you are in factory mode.
Release reset.
If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have released reset at some point and try again.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
2. Redo the setup with all short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
See apple documents which finally have fessed up to some of this.
OS X Mavericks: Time Machine problems
Although apple says 27 characters max.. please keep it under 10 if you can and 20max. eg TCgenx as base station name.. replace x with actual gen.
TCwifi for wireless name. Do not accept the names the airport utility will give you.
3. Mount the TC manually in Finder. Use Go, Connect to Server.
AFP://TCgenx.local (where you replace with your actual network name.. same as the name if you have followed the rules.. local is TC domain and helps).
When asked for disk password supply that and remember to save it in the keychain.
4. Reset TM see A4 in Pondini troubleshooting.
5. You will need to point TM to the newly named TC.. it will take some time for it to pickup the current TM backup but that should not be a problem once it starts backup.
One thing you should do before starting.. change ipv6 setting on the computer to link-local only.

ML Server: Time Machine   Spotlight = freeze???

Hi there!
I encountered a pretty annoying issue:
running a fresh/clean installed OS X ML Server (Mac Mini i7, 16GB RAM), imported OD, FileShared, Collaboration (Wiki, Calendars, Addresses, etc.) from an older Mac Mini SL Server, configured Time Machine for full backups (no excludes except of removable drives/media)...
It happens pretty often, that Time Machine is backing up the server (FileShares are pretty big) and consumes up to 90% CPU... AND IN THAT TIME mds and md_woker are starting to do some tasks and are also consuming 90>100% CPU... After some minutes, the while system is inaccessible... neither remote (ScreenSharing) nor directly on the system (screen and keyboard).
All I can do then is force power off the system and boot it again.
The mentioned combination appears up to 5 times a day... this is really annoying due to tha fact that we attached some external (Linux-) Servers to the OD and when the ML Server freezes, some applications can not be used .....
What i already tried:
- clean re-install the server and re-importing the data (no migation, no migration-assistant, copy and paste the data from SL to ML machines)
- disable Spotlight (added the full disk to the provacy tab, mdutil -a -i off)
- clean install to another server (2nd Mac Mini i7, 16GB RAM)
But the issue still exists....
I write a small bash script which restarts the server every morning, but the result is still not propely working.... sometimes it is enough to restart the sever once.. sometime i need to restart it up to 5 times a day.
Any hint, tip, solution?
And it is NO SOLUTION to DISABLE the BACKUP
Regards,

Step 1
If you have more than one user account, this step must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -F bsd -k Sender mdworker -o -k Sender mds | grep -v Norm | tail | awk '/:/{$4=""; $5=""};1' | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.
Step 2
Enter the following command as in Step 1 and post the output:
mdutil -as 2>&- | pbcopy
You can then quit Terminal.
Step 3
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Terminal. In the Console window, look under the heading DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION on the left for crash reports related to Spotlight. If you don't see that heading, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar. A Spotlight crash report has a name beginning in "mds" or "mdworker" and ending in ".crash". Select the most recent such report, if any, from the System and User subcategories and post the entire contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

My HDD died and my Time Machine won't mount, what can I do?

My late 2011 MBP lost its drive due to some mystery physical damage, so I popped it out and replaced it with a Crucial SSD. I thought it was weird that I couldn't reboot from my time machine backup on a WD My Book 3TB external, I had to get a friend to make a bootable Mountain Lion flash drive for me. That worked like a charm, but the problem is actually with the time machine disk... it's dead too.
What's happening is that when I plug it in it will mount for maybe 30 seconds... I can see one or sometimes both partitions and it will sometimes appear in Disk Utility, sometimes not. Sometimes the files appear on the drive, sometimes not. Whenever I try to do any action on the disk, whether its open a folder or repair permissions or whatever, the computer hangs up until it's disconnected. No matter what I do, the disk will dismount "improperly" after 1-2 minutes.
The drive itself is an ex-government USB 3.0 external. I have a spare identical drive around, so I took that apart and used its SATA hookup on my time machine drive, which didn't fix anything. This extra drive fully assembled also mounts and works fine. So that rules out the computer and the SATA connection, I think.
So what can I do to save my data short of mailing in to a recovery place? Are there any utilities that can pull data from an unmounted drive? Any tricks to keep it from dismounting? Running out of ideas here. Thanks for any help you guys can give.

This seems to be a common occurance with Western Digital external drives. More than like the physical drive inside the enclosure is fine, maybe not, but the enclosures electronics are failing. Only way to tell is to remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it to your Mac with a SATA to USB adapter. If the drive is fine you will then be able to read from it and restore your Mac from it.
NOTE:
The late 2011 model and beyond can use the Apple Online Internet Recovery system. That is where you boot the system from the Apple server from over the internet. To use that you have to hold down the Command + Option/Alt + r keys at startup and keep them held down until you see a globe on the screen.

Time Machine needs file sharing mode

I have a Time Capsule (1rst Gen 2008, 500 Go) 56GB left, connected through Ethernet.
I just rebuilt the index but i still find odd it needs 4 mn to backup 10MB every hour
I have strange errors
mds[78]: ERROR: _MDSChannelInitForAFP: AFPSendSpotLightRPC failed -1
and
mds[78]: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
also,
1) i need to enable file-sharing (with airport utiliy), or Time Machine won't start
2) the name of the disk is incorrectly spelled in Time Machine preferences (with a "-1" at the end, as if there were two disks with the same name. There are not)
3) Time Machine seems to be using afp for the backup
com.apple.backupd[3242]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://MyDisk
i wonder if there is a problem in the way Time Machine is configured
Any ideas ?

Please visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.

How much space does Time Machine need?

My computer's hard drive is 100 GB, so I created a 100 GB partition on my external hard drive for Time Machine, before I really understood how it worked. Of course, I eventually got a message saying it was out of room. If I understand correctly, Time Machine will continue to back up changed files, but it can no longer maintain a complete series. Rather, it will be forced to delete older backups to make room for newer.
Anyway, do you think a 200 GB partition would be big enough? Or does it simply depend on how much work you do on your computer (or how many files you change and how big they are)?
I'm thinking of reformatting my 500 GB external hard drive into five partitions...
100 GB for cloned copy of my hard drive
200 GB for Time Machine
Three other partitions for quickly backing up and/or storing websites, graphics, music and things that take up too much space on my computer.
I still don't see a tremendous need for Time Machine, as I very, very seldom go searching for lost files. However, I suspect there may be occasions when it might come in handy.
Thanks.

Really depends how much stuff you do, how many files you change each day, how much stuff lands on your computer for a few days then is deleted (for example I have several GB of photos on my Mac for a few days until I do some work on them and drop them on the company server, so I have lots of stuff getting backed up into Time Machine that doesn't even stay on my Mac)... It doesn't hurt to have a backup of them locally in case something goes wrong on the company server...
So what I'm saying is, it totally depends on what you do with your Mac... I've got a 120GB drive, getting backed up to a 500GB drive, and I figure that gives me a year or two of not having to think about it. Drives are so cheap now you are best to just go a bit bigger for the convenience of letting it backup everything..

How to reinstall on client from Lion Server Time Machine backup?

I have a Mac Mini running Lion Server and a black MacBook running Lion. I recently needed to to perform a format and reinstall of the MacBook, so I used the MacBook's Recovery HD partition and reinstalled Lion. I then went back to Recovery HD to reinstall apps from my Time Machine backup' which is managed by the Lion Server Mac Mini. On first attempt, I saw the right files, but in the process it hung. I recently tried to do it again, and now it claims that there are no backups found.
My suspicion is that as this is a Lion Server managed backup, it bundles the server backup and the MacBook backup in the same bundle. Revovery HD looks for the latest compete bundle, then finds the matching backup for the MacBook. However, if the Mini is continuing backups of its own, the more recent bundle backups only have mini info, not the MackBook, hence they "disappeared".
I can see older backups when I look at the backup drive, so I suspect that my MacBook files are still there.
Any suggestions on how to recover and get my MacBook files reinstalled? I'm new to this home server thing, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jason

One partition 2.5TB will be my new Time Machine Backups and the other 2.5TB for iTunes Library so I never have to worry about this again.
Your worry now is what will you do when the single hard drive containing both your library and its backup makes a screeching sound one day and is toast, or get stolen?
from a YouTube video
Uh-oh, those unspecific and sometimes incorrect YouTube videos. I dislike those things. I watched one once and some kid droned on in a barely audible monotone for about 5 minutes to show how to do something to which I could have typed instructions in two sentences.
Downloading (using iOS or computer) past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519

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