Time Machine: Create Local Sanpshot???

I do not find more to activate Create Local Sanpshot? where is it?
this option in the last Beta was really interesting ...
was removed in retail? why?

Hi Linc,
WD MyBook Live support Time Machine, here a screenshot of the control panel:
Maybe it is not stable like a Time Capsule or an hard drive connected via USB or FireWire?
Thanks

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Time machine created new backup file

After migration, time machine created a new data file in time capsule. How do i instruct it to access the original? Thanks!

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Time machine to local sparsebundle...

Hello everyone!
Is it possible to tell time machine to use a local sparsebundle as a backup drive ?
I know TM can work with this, since it creates sparsebundles when backing up over network
i need this for 2 reasons:
i could place a sparsebundle with hfs+ inside onto an external raidz (zfs)
i could encrypt my backups, by creating an encrypted sparsebundle
any ideas?
thanks
franz

Backing up to a 'local' sparsebundle is possible using an external drive. I assume that's what you mean. An internal partition on your mac local hard drive might also work.
To this, you just have to let TM "prepare" the sparsebundle first for a few seconds while it is connected via a network share. Then you can connect the drive directly to the mac, and perform the first (and future) backups locally.
This post at macosxhints.com details the process:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071110145136486

Time Machine Creates New Sparse Bundle

I have a 1TB hard disk connected to a Mac Mini over USB. That disk is shared on the network. My laptop and my wife's laptop are both set up to use that shared disk for Time Machine backups. Generally, things have worked fine.
This morning, I discovered a message from Time Machine on my laptop stating that there wasn't enough space on the drive to complete the backup. That didn't make sense - too few files had changed. When I investigated, I discovered that Time Machine had, after a successful backup at 21:29 last night, started creating a new sparse bundle for its backups.
I restarted my laptop and ran Disk Utility's Repair function on the shared drive (using the Mac Mini to run the repair). I've toggled Time Machine off and back on in System Preferences. The behavior remains: even though there is an existing sparse bundle (machinename.sparsebundle) on that share, when I tell Time Machine to do a backup, it creates a new sparse image: machinename-1.sparsebundle and starts backup up all of my files to it.
Also, if I "Enter Time Machine," Time Machine informs me that it can't find the disk. But it does offer for me to "Use Previous Disk..." if I first mount the "old" disk image (machinename.sparsebundle). Having the old disk image mounted does not prevent Time Machine from making machinename-1.sparsebundle when I tell it to do a backup, however.
I'm at a loss. I've checked the console logs and there's nothing useful there. Is there some hidden setting something that "forces" Time Machine to write to a specific sparse bundle?
I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that these "over the air backups" aren't worth the bother: a directly-attached disk seems much simpler and more reliable.
Thanks in advance for any helpful hints,
Tony

Pondini wrote:
When you do a +*Repair Disk+* on a directly-connected volume that contains a sparse bundle, the sparse bundle itself may not be repaired. Drag it into the Disk Utility sidebar via the Finder, then select it and try +*Repair Disk+* again.
Okay. I did this - but it told me that the disk appeared to be okay. Which jives with my intuition, since Time Machine is able to use that image +for recovering files+ if I manually mount it and inform Time Machine that it should use it.
Pondini wrote:
Try the widget in #A1 of [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Does the widget source a different set of logs than the Console app? When I select "All Messages" in Console, I get the following when I attempt to do a backup:
11/12/10 2:35:23 PM com.apple.backupd[9404] Starting standard backup
11/12/10 2:35:23 PM com.apple.backupd[9404] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://media@Media%20Center.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Terrabyte
11/12/10 2:35:25 PM com.apple.backupd[9404] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://media@Media%20Center.afpovertcp.tcp.local/Terrabyte
11/12/10 2:35:26 PM com.apple.backupd[9404] Creating disk image /Volumes/Terrabyte/transient 1.sparsebundle
11/12/10 2:35:26 PM kernel AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Terrabyte, pid 9405
11/12/10 2:35:28 PM hdiejectd[9413] running
11/12/10 2:35:38 PM hdiejectd[9413] quitCheck: calling exit(0)
I read this as "Time Machine didn't even bother trying to use my 'transient.sparsebundle' that exists on that disk."
A couple of notes:
* My wife has no difficulty backing up to her image on that same AFP share.
* Between my initial post and this one, I updated to 10.6.5 - with no change in behavior.

Can I use 'Macintosh HD' folder time machine creates like any other hard drive folder?

Very simply, is it possible, after using Time Machine to back up my Laptop, to use the 'Macintosh HD' Folder it creates like I would any other hard drive by selecting and extracting specific folders and backed up items as I see fit instead of going in to the Time Machine software and asking it to restore the drive to one of its 'backups' -essentially governing what exactly goes back in to my freshly cleared out laptop's internal hard drive? Will I run in to any problems? I am asking as I have picked up a software bug that I need to wipe off laptop hdd that would still be in the backups I have done and go back on to the laptop if I just asked Time Machine to restore.

See Pondini's site for all of your Time Machine questions http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
In your case specifically http://pondini.org/TM/15.html

Time Machine creates duplicate bu of external hard drive

First, some disclosure:
1. I utilize Logic Studio (Pro 9) and use it daily. It crashes 2-3 times a week with little justification.
2. I have begun getting a prompt that says I’ve removed a drive without ejecting it first....but in reality, I haven’t ejected anything.
3. I get a prompt stating that a backup has failed.... but it appears my backups have all been completed.
With these problems I’m wondering if I’d be better off making the move to Lion, or would this just complicate my problems? Well, that's why I'm telling you folks my tales of woe....
I was using Time Machine for about 6 months when the following problem occurred:
Last July I went to check a backup and saw that an external drive, called...VIDEO was backed up, BUT Time Machine also created another backup of the same drive called VIDEO 1. The same exact number of files and same number of bytes appeared to be in this "newly created" 1 backup. I did not check exactly when Time Machine starting creating this duplicate.
I contacted Apple for service and eventually a tech walked me through the steps to eliminate the problem. I’m sorry but I don’t remember the steps that were taken. I later found the external BU drive had a problem and figured that's what may have created the duplication. I replaced it with a new BU drive and life was good. This happened last October.
Tonight I checked one of my Time Machine backup files. I found that TM had again created a duplicate backup of an external drive. It was neither the same VIDEO drive nor the same data that had been involved in the earlier occurrence. TM again used the number 1 to differentiate it from the actual drive that it was supposed to back up.
I went back and found this recent duplication had first occurred on a backup created Dec 21st. The backup from Dec 20th did not have this duplication, nor did any other previous backups on this new hard drive. I do not remember the significance of that date but I “think” I installed Snow Leopard sometime in December.
Tonight, using Disk Utility, I’ve verified the permissions on the drive which TM duplicated and it says they’re OK. I’ve verified the permissions of the internal drive and they’re OK. I’ve verified the permissions on the external BU drive and they’re OK.
If I need to send screenshots of logs or whatever, I apologize but I might need a bit of an explanation as to how to get to that information.
Thanks much in advance for all replies.

SO, I downloaded and installed Lion. Lion seems a bit faster than SL but Time Machine is still creating the duplicate drives with the number 1 after the name of the legitimate drive.
That's all I got.

Time Machine creates new disk image when backing up but files not visible

When I back up my files (daily) to tan external drive TM creates a new disk image (named laptop) on my desktop (in addition to the image for the external drive named TIme Machine Backups). When I click on the new disk image while it's backing up I see a list of recent backups. However the disk image disappears after completing the back up and the files do not appear in the Star Wars screen - only old back-ups from 2009. How can I access the newest backups?

alanol wrote:
A disk image labeled Time Machine Backups resides permanently on the desktop
Right-click it, and select +Get Info.+ See what the path is (after +Disk image+ near the top of the General section).
Also the amounts for Capacity and Used.
as a consequence of the repair a sparse bundle (Zero KB) folder was created.
No. That may have been created by the new backup, though.
Also a new "lost +found" folder was created containing several ".emix" files.
Those are email files.
Net, net - same basic problem, can't see the newest backups in the Star Wars screen.
I suspect they're in the disk image.
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Does time machine backup locally mirrored idisk?

I was wondering if anyone knew if time machine backed up a locally mirrored idisk? The main advantage of this being that you could go back and see files that were on the locally mirroed idisk a month ago rather than just what is there today.
Thanks,
David

David-
I have been wrestling with this issue also. I put my working files on iDisk so that I can access them from my laptop, other office, etc. Works great--but--as I recently learned the Time Machine doesn't back up those files.
And the sparsebundle (or whatever it's called) has to be excluded from the Time Machine backup (or else it'll fill up your TM in about 2 weeks)
I THINK that I may have found a solution (at least for me). I have a program that backups the iDisk to my DOCUMENTS directory on my hard drive. So--every day at 9PM it backups/mirrors my iDisk to my hard drive and then TM makes a copy of the hard disk DOCUMENTS directory into TM.
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I have never used Time Machine, but local snapshots "MobileBackups" show up. Why?

I want to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make backups periodically. Therefore, I have never used Time Machine. My TM preference is always OFF. However, I noticed that I have local snapshots on my Volumes folder which is a function of TM to keep backup when I am away from TM backup disk. WHY?
I just want to know why it LOCAL SNAPSHOT shows up although I have never turned on TIME MACHINE on this MacBook Pro EVER. Please dont tell me how to turn Local Snapshots off, I knew the command.
Thank you in advance!

AFAIK, it's mommy Apple protecting your laptop from yourself. See Pondini's TM FAQs for possible clarification on this nonsense. I, likewise, don't use TM, preferring CCC bootable clones, but I don't have a laptop.

Can Time Machine Backup Local Backups?

Hi and tnxs for reading.
I have noticed that time machine is backupping only one backup per time, i.e. at the time of the execution of the backup.
Is there a way to backup on an external HD also all the local backup aswell?
For example, if I do a Time machine backup per week, I only have one backup per week on my time machine hd backup; however it would be interesting to let time machine saving all the local backup aswell on hte hd, so as to have more time continuity without having to connect more often the external hd.
Is this possible?
tnxs, cheers

Thomas A Reed wrote:
Time Machine won't back up those local snapshots. However, if you were to maintain a secondary set of backups using something like Carbon Copy Cloner, it should copy the local snapshots.
This makes sense because according to this article the content of the local snapshots is supplemental, and when you re-connect your TM backup drive all interim changes are included in the TM backup and the local snapshots become superfluous.
If the local snapshots don't seem to be enough, you could do something like what I do when I'm away: I use Back to My Mac to clone my MacBook Pro Documents folder to my home Mac (as Docs are really the only things which change while I'm away). Another "away" option would be to back up Documents folder to some free online storage, as Documents-only would not require as much space as a full backup.

Time machine on local WiFi network - OS Extended (Journaled) format error

Hi guys,
I did an initial Time machine backup of my Macbook Pro via Firewire to an external hard disk. Everything went smoothly and later Time Machine did regular backups without any problem.
When I attached the external Time Machine hard disk to one of the Macs in my local WiFi network the troubles began.
My Macbook could still see and mount the Time Machine drive via the network but didn't want to backup to this drive any longer. It came up with this error message: "The backup volume is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required..."
When I connected the Time Machine drive back to my Macbook directly via Firewire, it resumed its backup duties without complaining. Very strange...
Whenever Time Machine tries to excess the drive via the network (AFP shared) I get the format error message. Attached directly to the Firewire port it works flawlessly. Any suggestions how to solve the problem?
I really want to do my backups via the wireless network and without having to plug-in the drive directly into my Macbook, which wouldn't be a very mobile solution for a laptop
Would an Airport Extreme station with an attached USB drive behave differently?

read this:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/04/02/exploringtime_capsule_time_machine_over_the_network_vsusb.html

Time Machine creates multiple sparsebundles on Airport Extreme

I recently started using a new hard drive for Time Machine, attached to my Airport Extreme (previous 250GB WD portable, now 1.5TB Seagate Freeagent). I never had any issues with the old drive, but have noticed a very weird problem on the new drive, and despite a lot of searching online I can't find anyone with the same issue.
What I've noticed is that on occasion, Time Machine decides not to use the existing sparsebunle on my drive, and instead creates a brand new sparsebundle and starts to backup my entire system from scratch. The new sparsebundle has the same name as previously, just with " 1" added to the end of the name. E.g.:
Original - "Peter's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle"
New - "Peter's MacBook Pro 1.sparsebundle"
If I delete the new sparsebundle from the drive and get Time Machine to "Back Up Now", it seems to find the original sparsebundle again, and will do an incremental backup like nothing ever happened.
Two possible leads on why it might be happening:
1 - I've noticed in the last two days that this has happened on the first backup after I get home from work. I.e., Time Machine fails to backup all day while I'm at work (cause it can't access the drive) then when I get home and connect back to the Airport, the first backup creates the new sparsebundle. Only noticed this the last two days, so it's not a long-running pattern.
2 - The new drive does make a lot of loud "clicking" noises (apparently a running problem with Seagate's 1.5TB Freeagent drives, relted to power-management of the drive).
Either of these sound like a possible lead on the issue? Anyone have ideas on a possible fix?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Peter

Denis77 wrote:
One evening about 8 I came to the the computer to find a dialog box indicating that it was backing up something over 800,000 files, about 60 GB and counting; Time Machine indicated a Latest Backup at 3:30 that afternoon. No unusual events that afternoon to set things off track, as far as I know. It was creating a new sparsebundle as Pete A indicated, same name with a <space> "1" added. Unlike his experience, however, deleting the newer sparsebundle does not provide access to the older one.
Any ideas how to redesignate the older sparsebundle as the real backup? The Mac is not seeing it now, which is why it keeps starting a new one. Since this is apparently a baseline snapshot, I would like to get my backup history back.
Most likely, the old sparse bundle is corrupted, and Time Machine can't use it. Try repairing it, per #A5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If it can be repaired successfully, Time Machine may continue using it.
If it can't be repaired, or TM won't continue using it, there's not much you can do. Keep the old sparse bundle for a while (you may be able to browse and restore from it, per #E2 in the Troubleshooting Tip. Once you're sure you don't need the old set (or Time Machine runs out of room and has to start deleting backups from the new set), delete the old sparse bundle via the Finder.

Can't Backup to Time Machine to Local Snapshot

Before Mavericks I could Backup Now to Mobile Backups and Enter Time Machine. Now the only way I can do both is when I am attached to my Time Machine back up disk. So with this "feature" the only way I can restore something from the Mobile Backups is to be connected to the backup disk.
Is this a bug? Is it a new "feature?" And if so why?
Also the lock on the Time Machine preferences has disappeared. Why?

Sorry for late reply, It is definitely a bug because if you cant restore from mobile backups when external drive is not available it totally defeats the point of having local snapshot. At first I thought my time machine was bugged but I was wrong, I tried restoring my Macbook pro retina, Macbook air all of them have the same problem, I filed a bug report 4 months ago, apple still didnt fix it.
It is surprising to see that such a key component of time machine is broken and they cant even be bothered to fix it.
Are you seeing this message when you try to enter time machine ? : Your Time Machine backup disk can’t be found.

Time machine creates new machine

Hi just before christmas I moved to leopard and started using time machine. Everything was fine, however 2 weeks ago I sent my computer to an apple authorised repairer as it needed a new logicboard (3rd replacement in 15 months!!!).
The machine has come back and now when it boots up I can click the time machine icon and see and access all my backups since december but as soon as the system does its hourly backup it decides to create a new system profile in time machine and to do another 60gb backup.
Basically it can't see the existing backup when it goes to update but it can when you are checking. Whilst I highly suspect it has something to do with the logic board changing I am not 100% sure.
Any ideas?

Hi, thanks, yes they are the same name. The machine is called "Big Mac". If you let it create a backup it makes a new machine called "Big Mac (2)".
It was not the same fault, The first two could not boot external drives or boot camp, the third developed a sound problem (and they forgot to attach the ir sensor back). The latest one came back today with a fan sensor problem (all fans spinning at max all the time) and there were disk images in my trash of my itunes collection where they had burnt the directory using disk image. After a big complaint they came to my house and did it onsite. I am not surprised because it shows that they were A)stealing my music and B)not testing finished work.
But enough about that, anybody with any more ideas I would be greatful.

Time Machine creates two sparsebundle backups on network drive, then questions their validity

Time Machine first creates a sparse-bundle backup on the network-drive, called xxxxxx MacBk.sparsebundle, which appears to be at or near the full qunatity of data being backed up (about 65Gb).
Then a message appears saying something like the Identity of the backup disk cannot be confirmed, has it been changed (don't have the exact wording before me), and asks me to confirm whether I want to continue using that disk.
When I look a this disk, I see the first sparsebundle that was created, xxxxxx MacBk.sparsebundle, at about 65Gb, and then a second one, called
xxxxxx MacBk.sparsebundle1, which has just started to be created, and is perhaps a few hundred Mb.
The TM message asks me to confirm whether I want to continue using the disk, which it regards as suspect ( I am not asked to confirm the sparsebundle itself, there is no option for that).
If I click yes, the TM then reports that there isn't enough room on the disk to create a backup, so presumably it is still ignoring the first sparsebundle and trying to create yet another.
I have tried deleting the smaller sparsebundle, and trying backing up again the same, with the same effect (not enough space reported)
I have also tried deleting all sparsebundles and starting again with the backup, and then the problems of two sparsebundles reappears, so back to square one.
I am backing up a 13" white macbook, using OS 10.6.8. and a hard-drive connected to an imac, which is connected to a brand new Airport Express base-station router . The macbook is connected to the router via Mains Internet , not wi-fi.
This system has worked very well for me for several years, first with a Time Capule, then an old Netgear router after the TC broke, and never had problems. A couple of weeks ago I switched to the new Airport Express base-station, due to unrelated problems with the old router, and now have this problem.

Denis77 wrote:
One evening about 8 I came to the the computer to find a dialog box indicating that it was backing up something over 800,000 files, about 60 GB and counting; Time Machine indicated a Latest Backup at 3:30 that afternoon. No unusual events that afternoon to set things off track, as far as I know. It was creating a new sparsebundle as Pete A indicated, same name with a <space> "1" added. Unlike his experience, however, deleting the newer sparsebundle does not provide access to the older one.
Any ideas how to redesignate the older sparsebundle as the real backup? The Mac is not seeing it now, which is why it keeps starting a new one. Since this is apparently a baseline snapshot, I would like to get my backup history back.
Most likely, the old sparse bundle is corrupted, and Time Machine can't use it. Try repairing it, per #A5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If it can be repaired successfully, Time Machine may continue using it.
If it can't be repaired, or TM won't continue using it, there's not much you can do. Keep the old sparse bundle for a while (you may be able to browse and restore from it, per #E2 in the Troubleshooting Tip. Once you're sure you don't need the old set (or Time Machine runs out of room and has to start deleting backups from the new set), delete the old sparse bundle via the Finder.

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