Time Machine and VMWare (backing up Windows file too???)

Hello all ... I'm using VMWare to run Windows 7 from my MacBook Air. Does anyone know if I'm running a Time Machine backup from the 'Mac side' of my computer -- will it back up files from the 'Windows 7 side' of my computer? Thanks!

Hello,
Since there really is only a Mac side when you use an emulator like VMWare, everything will be backed up, including Windows, as the whole Windows Disk Drive is really a file on the Mac.
This assumes you didn't go out of your way to place that file on another Partition or Drive.

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HT201250 i would like to use time machine but also back up other file to my external drive?

I just got a WD T3 external hard drive and I would like to use time machine but also back up other files that to the drive. Can anyone help me out.
Thanks Mark

You would need to go to your Applications folder>Utilities>Disk Utility> and there create Two Partitions on your external hard drive, naming them differently. Then you could go back to your desktop, open the dock, right click on the Time Machine icon and select "Open Time Machine Preferences". In there select the external hard drive Partition that you want to use for TM. The other external drive partition will be available for other uses.
Hope this helps

Just baked up my macbook pro to an external hard drive. my computer died on me and i plugged it in and rebooted it ,started time machine and finished backing up but. just wondering if thats good or should i delete and restart

just baked up my macbook pro to an external hard drive. my computer died on me and i plugged it in and rebooted it ,started time machine and finished backing up but. just wondering if thats good or should i delete and restart

I wouldn't trust that backup.
Make sure the system is connected to AC and Do Over.

HT3275 Why I'm losing space on my internal HD, after i started to use the Time Machine, and after deleting all my files i still dont have any space on my internal HD!

Why I'm losing space on my internal HD, after i started to use the Time Machine, and after deleting all my files i still dont have any space on my internal HD?

Why I'm losing space on my internal HD, after i started to use the Time Machine, and after deleting all my files i still dont have any space on my internal HD?

Time Machine has stopped backing up new files, but it creates an folder as if it tried to back up?

I went use Time Machine and my file from 2 days ago was not available to me. I have worked on this file for over 2 weeks and expected time machine to keep my old version but it jumped to a folder 5 weeks back before the folder was created.
I an using a 3TB drive and and have 1.2TB available.

Because you are using Mountain Lion which has the network proficiency of tins cans and wet string.
See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3123920?tstart=0
Normally a simple restart of the whole network in correct order will fix this.. modem.. router/TC.. clients.. 2min gap.

How to store photo's on external drive and still use Time Machine and secondary back up plan

So, My Macbook Pro is now going on 4 years old and I've accumulated around 15,000 photos in iPhoto now. I would like to move everything (or at least everything older than 12 months) onto a portable external drive, but i'm not sure the best way to do this and still keep a good back up plan. My current process is the following -- I have external HD same size as my current internal drive on the MBP, which is formatted that i use Time Machine. I also have a paid subscription to Crash Plan online cloud back up that is connected to my laptop drive (CrashPlan is constant and easy, so I just USB plug in MBP to EHD a few times a month and that's it). If I were to move most of my picture/video's/important docs to an external drive, how would I back that up with Time Machine, and if I did, how would I back up my laptop drive with Time Machine also, and what drive would I assign my Crash Plan online account too? Cant seem to wrap my brain around the easiest and best method. (In short, I want most pics/video's stored off the laptop so that my HD is not consumed; but still easy to access if needed, and easy to back up) Also driving this need for a solution is the fact i would like my next lap top to be an Macbook Air, which I know I can't keep my current set up would not work. Any thoughts are appreciated.

if your internal drive has 250 GB and the external drive with the iPhoto library as well, your TimeMachine should have at least 1 TB.
I have read over some of CrashPlans support docs and it sounds like it will be able to back up and restore the iPhoto library, and as long as you restore the entire library and not single photos, it will save and restore all metadata as well.
I studied their documents to. They are saying they can backup any filetype. And they are saying the iPhoto libraries or Aperture libraries will be backed up automatically, when they are in in the Pictures folder, because the Home folder will be backed up.
On their screenshot you can see, that the libraries are backed up as a nested set of folders, and not as a package. That let's me doubt that the dependencies within the package will be treated correctly. To restore from the backup they recommend to restore the set of nested folders. What I could not find anywhere in the documentation is any information on the filesystem they are storing the backup on. If it is not Apple's MacOS Extended (Journaled, not case sensitive) the restored library may be corrupted, because the internal links in the databases may not work. Try to find out something about the filesystem on the backup servers, before you entrust your iPhoto library to that servers.

Using 1 disk for time machine and to back up and windows machine

ok so my parents need to back up their machines, my mother on a mac and my dad on a pc (has to use it for work). we have a single disk drive from OWC and im trying to figure out if i can partition it so my mom can use TM and my dad can still back up his machine on it?
if i partition it on mac both the partitions get in the journaled format, and if i leave free space on the drive it doesnt show up on mac (didnt try to see if it shows up on my dads pc)
how should i go about doing this or will it not work?
-matt

Some more info would be helpful. Depending on the Mac your mom has it should be partitioned to APM (PPC) or GUID (Intel) although this has been called into question. It should not be MBR.
The external HDD needs to be plugged into the Mac for Time Machine to work. For Time Machine, that partition needs to be formatted HFS+ (Mac OS Extended - Journaled). The PC partition may not matter as the PC should treat that partition as a network share. However, if your intent is to occasionally plug that external directly into the PC, you need to format that partition FAT/FAT32. The Mac can read and write FAT/FAT32, but it cannot write NTFS (without a paid third party app), hence why I didn't recommend that format. Leave lots of room for the TM backup (2-3 X the Mac's content) as that will gradually grow in size.

Time Machine won't back up new files

I've been having issues with Time Machine for a little while now. It would complete the initial backup just fine, and then run hourly backups afterward... but the hourly backups backed up nothing.
So, last night, I did a complete wipe of the external hard drive again, zeroing-out all data, and starting a brand new backup. Same problem. To make sure I wasn't crazy, I downloaded a 50MB file, then manually started a new backup. No luck.
Here's what console's been telling me:
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] Backup requested by user+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] Starting standard backup+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] No pre-backup thinning needed: 345.5 MB requested (including padding), 220.96 GB available+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] Copied 9 files (93 bytes) from volume けいこ HD.+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] Starting post-backup thinning+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist+
+03/10/08 8:10:34 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[30520] Backup completed successfully.+
So, as far as logs are concerned, Time Machine is working fine... any idea what might be going on?

Is it possible that you are saving the test file to a volume or directory that you have told TM not to backup in System Preferences >> TM >> Options >>> "Do not back up?"
-mj

Time Machine won't back up Windows Partition

When I first started using time machine my windows partition of my hard drive was automaticlly on the exclude list. I took it off and time machine would back it up. Today when I went into time machine my back ups of it were gone but it wasn't on the exclude list. I decided to add it on in order to take it off again to see if this would change things however now it won't allow me to take my windows partition off the exclude list. What can I do to fix this?

Time Machine shouldn't be able to backup a Windows partition. TM only backs up HFS+ partitions, not NTFS. You may have been mistaken that TM ever backed it up. If you are talking about a virtual machine of Windows (via Fusion or Parallels), that's a different story as you shouldn't be backing that folder up via TM anyways.

Replacement macpro, time machine won't back up bcs file is too large

In June I purchased a replacement macpro as the other one died. (allergic to water) When I set up the new macpro from my TC everything worked great and haven't had any issues since. However I just realized that I never turned Time Machine back on so I don't have any backups since June. I turned time machine on and it wants to back up the entire drive of the new macpro but there isn't enough room on the TC drive.
I would like to keep all the old backups on the TC but I don't know how or if I can do that. If not how can I go about clearing the TC so my macpro can get backed up?
(Full disclosure - I have only been a mac user for a few years so I am not too savy in figuring out what to do and more importantly what NOT to do!)

If you are really not going to use the old TM backups.. but just want to keep them as historical record.. plug in a suitable sized USB hard drive and use the archive utility in the TC to backup everything there. You can then disconnect that drive and store it somewhere safe suitably labelled.
Then proceed to wipe the existing tc drive and start the backups again.
Note there are million variations on this.
With what hard disks cost at the moment due to short supply it is cheaper sometimes to buy a new TC.. and store the old one. Also depends on how old the original TC is and the size of its hard disk, if it wouldn't be better to make the backup as described above.. ebay the old TC and get a new one.
Read the details in Pondini's excellent knowledgebase.
Particularly about moving or storing old backups.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Time Machine has some strange behaviour it what it keeps and what it wipes itself.. so it is well worth being aware of what it does and doesn't do.
Being a Mac user myself for a very short time.. and consider myself less than expert in even the most narrow field.. except that I repair TC's and have done a lot of them. So much so that I find it hard to trust them. Always have another backup.. a clone of the disk as it is right now.. backed up somewhere safe.. using a cloner software which are available even free, using a firewire drive hanging off your mac pro.. or even with all the extra space you have inside it.. shove the disk inside and do an internal backup.. but exclude it from TM so it isn't backing up the backup.

I deleted a contact from my phone and it synced with all my other devices including my Mac. However, I have setup time machine and have many previous backups. Can I open or use a file in back ups to get my contact back? Where and which one? Thanks!

Its all in the question.
I have backups from months ago.
And ICLOUD deleted my contact from others devices.

Bring the Contacts window forward, then enter Time Machine and scroll back to a snapshot that includes the contacts you want to restore. Select the contacts and click the Restore button in the lower right corner of the screen.
If you don't have a Time Machine backup, but your contacts are all on iCloud and haven't been overwritten, then you can recover them by following the instructions on this page. Double-click the downloaded file to import it into Contacts. This procedure will not work if you've synced an empty Contacts database to iCloud.

I want to use my 1TB Seagate Hard drive for time machine and transferring files from Mac to PC.

For about a year I've been using my 1TB external hard drive for only time machine. To be honest, it wasn't until today that I tried to connect my hard drive to a PC and realize it isn't compatible. I read about partitioning the hard drive so that it can work both for time machine and transferring files between pc and mac. I'm not what you would call tech savvy, so I was wondering if I can get some advice on how to do this.
Thanks in advance.

To do it, you have to partition the hard disk, so you will have one partition for Time Machine and another one to store files and use them in a PC and Mac. To create the partition, follow these steps > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU3.html
In order to read and write in the external disk on the PC, you have to select "MS-DOS (FAT)" as "Format". If you choose any other option, the PC won't be able to read your external disk. Apart from that, note that you can't use files bigger than 4 GB with FAT. If you want to use the external disk with files bigger than 4 GB, you have to format your new partition in exFAT, and you have to do it on a PC

Many events and photos are missing from my iphoto. I have time machine and would like to restore without creating duplicates. The issue is although my photos are presently blank time machine/iphoto does see the file so importing them will create duplicat

For some unknown reason, events and photos in my Iphoto are appearing blank. The photos have a title / placeholder but no picture. I use time machine and have back ups, my goal is to restore the photos without creating duplicates. Unfortunately iphoto sees the blank photos as if the picture exists? Help

If you want to use your back up you need to restore then entire Library from Time Machine, and then replace the damaged Library with it.
Regards
TD

I want to set up the Time Machine and I would love to use the Time Capsule but since I already have a wireless router I need suggestions on what other external disks Apple could recommend to use with the Time Machine and how to configure that disk

I want to set up the Time Machine and I would love to use the Time
Capsule but since I already have a wireless router I need suggestions on
what other
external disks Apple could recommend to use with the Time Machine and
how to configure that disk.
A complication that I need to resolve is the fact that I am using Vmware
Fusion to be able to use Windows on my Mac. Now it seems that Time
Machine is not backing up my files
on that virtual Windows without additional configuration and my question
is whether you can advise me here or whether this is only a matter for
the Fusion virtual machine.

If you want to use Time Capsule you can.. you simply bridge it and plug it into the existing router.. wireless can be either turned off or used to reinforce the existing wireless.. eg use 5ghz in the TC which is much faster than your 2.4ghz.
You can also use a NAS.. many brands available but the top brands are synology, qnap and netgear readynas series. These will all do Time Machine backups although how well always depends on Apple sticking to a standard. There are cheaper ones.. I bought a single disk zyxel which was rebadged and sold through my local supermarket. It actually works very well for TM at least on Snow Leopard. Major changes were made in Lion and again ML so do not instantly think it will work on later versions. I haven't tried it yet with those versions.
Any external drive can be plugged into the mac. Use the one with the fastest connection or cheapest price according to your budget. USB2 drives are cheap and plentiful. But no where near as fast as USB3 or FW800. So just pick whichever suits the ports on your Mac. Interesting Apple finally moved to USB3 on their latest computers.
TM should exclude the VM partition file.. it is useless backing it up from Mac OS side.. and will slow TM as it needs to backup that partition everyday for no purpose.. TM cannot see the files inside it to backup just the changes.
You need to backup windows from windows. Use MSbackup to external drive.. if you have pro or ultimate versions you can backup to network drive. But MSbackup is a dog.. at least until the latest version it cannot restore the partition without first loading windows. There are about a zillion backup software versions for windows.. look up reviews and buy one which works for you. I use a free one Macrium Reflect which does full disk backups and is easy to restore.. to do incremental backups though you have to pay for it.

Time Machine No Longer Backing Up

I have been using Time Machine since I installed Leopard in May. Before I began I partitioned the external USB 2.0 drive using Disk Utility into a 320G Back Up and a second smaller partition which I use when working with iMovie files. I occasionally [but rarely] had a failure to automatically back up but the next try always worked.
Since October 27 Time Machine has failed to back up. I have read the forum postings and am getting no results. I am now getting a message to reformat which I'd prefer not to do. Here are the specifics:
1. The last valid back up was at 2 am. The next one at 3 am failed. No one else was using the computer at the time. There was no power interruption.
2. Antivirus is not running.
3. I had not added any software between the last back up and the failure point.
4. I tuned off Time Machine and trashed the "in progress" file.
5. I did add the Time Machine Backup widget yesterday and got the following message:
Backup requested by user
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Main Back Up/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 816.3 MB requested (including padding), 266.65 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-43) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/X/Desktop/Worship Services/Music Master A-D.key/thumbs/st0-1.tiff to /Volumes/Main Back Up/Backups.backupdb/X’s iBook G4/2008-11-05-161929.inProgress/59B5A452-9916-4EF5-9647-4861E2A02C99/Macintosh HD/Users/X/Desktop/Worship Services/Music Master A-D.key/thumbs
Copied 4219 files (259.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
[for privacy I have changed my user name to X]
6. I then opened the named package and deleted the specified thumb
7. I rebooted - still not able to back up
8. I turned off Time Machine
9. I then went to disk utility which was unable to unmount the drive to check it.
10. Rebooted again and ran Disk Utility. It finally said it was a sibling conflict and could not be repaired
11. Now I am getting a message the disk is a read only file and to back up/reformat.
Any help would be appreciated.

Jean,
These suggestions have worked for others experiencing the "Read Only" error.
*_“The Backup Volume is Read Only”_*
*Cold Reboot the Hard Disk*
First, unmount the drive from the desktop.
Power it down.
Unplug it from the wall socket.
Disconnect it from the computer.
Wait 10 minutes.
Plug it back in to the wall socket.
Connect it back into the computer.
Power it back up.
When it reappears on the desktop try backing up again. This simple step has worked for some in this situation. Regrettably, most who experience this error have had to reformat their Time Machine hard disks. So prepare for this eventuality.
If the above doesn’t work, let us know. We may have other options if you have access to another Mac.
*Use “Get Info” to Change Permissions on 3rd-Party Hard Disks*
Highlight the external hard disk on your desktop.
Go up to the "File" menu and select "Get Info".
At the bottom is "Sharing & Permissions".
Click the little lock icon in the lower right and enter your Admin Password.
Are you (Username) listed in the Name column? If not, add your user account with the tiny “+” button.
What does it say under "Privilege" beside your name?
If it is "Read only" change it to "Read & Write".
Close "Get Info".
Now try to backup.
*By-Pass USB Hub*
If you are using a USB hub, try by-passing the hub and connecting the external hard disk directly into your Mac.
*Use DiskWarrior to Rebuild Disk Directory*
For some, using DiskWarrior to rebuild the backup disks’ directories was the answer. While not cheap ($100), it is definitely an indispensable tool to have at your disposal for some. This procedure make require more than one attempt, but it has resolved this issue for some.
“After a few frustrating days, I used Disk Warrior version 4.1 to rebuild the directory of the Time Capsule. It failed the first time. However, on the second try and after about half an hour process of rebuilding, it successfully rebuilt and fixed many problems in the TC directory….The Read Only error disappeared.” [http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8386348#8386348]
Let us know if any of the above resolved your issue.
Cheers!

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