Time Machine Hybrid (Mac Windows) possible solutions.ro

Is it possible to create an Hybrid Net with use of Mac (MacBookPro) and PC Windows ?
Thank you.

Let me get this straight.. You have a network using a Time Capsule.. (never Time Machine which is backup software). and you plugged a 2TB USB hard disk into the TC for media storage.
when I installed my storage device, I formatted in Journalised mode so now I think I have to format my HDD in a format available even for Windows.
No, this is not correct.. I would advise everybody plugging a disk into any Apple router to format it HFS+, ie Mac OS extended Journaled.
Windows does not read the disk directly in a network drive.. nor does the Mac for that matter. Both talk to the OS of the Time Capsule which offers clients disk space using a known network protocol.. nowadays it is always SMB for both Mac and Windows.
A Mac and a PC can store and read files equally well.. but it might not understand a file format.

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Can Time Capsule be used as a time machine on a Windows Server. Is this possible, and how do i configure this?

I like to use the new TC in my office as a time machine on a Windows Server. Is this possible, and how do i configure this?
In fact my plan is to make the first back up by connecting to the server via an ethernet cable, but thereafter i like to bring the TC to my home and perform the incremental backups over the internet. This is for safety reasons, in case for example the office is broken into, or flooded, or fire (god forbid).
I sincerely hope it is possible, and not complicated.
Alternatively i would not mind replacing our current Windows server 2003 with an Apple server, but all computers in the network (except mine) are Windows 7 or 8. Would it work?
Thanks in advance.
Paris

I will consider the WD My Cloud device.
It is a NAS.. it is designed to provide a cheap centralised file storage.
What is NAS?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
A file server like windows uses heaps of power to do very little.. in your setup.. In most setups like SBS it will do exchange server and provide a heap of useful connectivity to your clients.
Since you are not using the windows server in anything but simple file serving you can replace with a NAS..
Problem with the TC is, it is a router with a hard disk inside.. designed specifically for Time Machine.. it fails to provide what a NAS does.. easy access to any clients, local or remote.. TC is designed by apple for apple and the rest of world is not really invited to the party.
It provides no backup.. no data protection.. and is so specifically apple orientated I do not think it works at all well with windows.
For a simple example.. windows will have file issues with large files.. because it is only NTserver FAT32 to windows.. bad luck if you have large files.. !!
Plainly if you use active directory in windows that facility is gone.
I just like Apple products, find them more stable than Windows and easier to use. Plus i can access the server from home if it is an Apple Server.
If you only need remote access for yourself that is fine.. too bad for the windows clients I guess.
Or you open it up to the world and bad luck for security.
Apple do not design for mixed environment.. in fact with the TC there is no provision for windows access officially at all.. so anything you do is a fudge.
You can use the TC for your Mac backups within the network.. that is fine. Apple provide no software at all to help with your windows clients.

What is the best USB powered portable 1TB hard drive for a macbook pro that allows Time machine to work, windows (thru Parallels software) and mac storage and is available in Australia?

What is the best USB powered portable 1TB hard drive for a macbook pro that allows Time machine to work, windows (thru Parallels software) and mac storage and is available in Australia?

I agree with teh OWC sggestion above, but why must it be USB powered? I find that far more unreliable, and the low power devices slow.
I'd frankly get a good external enclosure and buy a bare drive. But the OWC stuff is quite good - vastly better than some of the majors (WD being aprime example of stuff that's boderline quality and often not compatible)
Grant

When using Time Machine in Mac Mail, everything works fine but restored files do not appear in MM - On My Mac, and I cannot find them anywhere. Thanks

Time Machine Problem: Mac Mail. Cannot Find Restored Files in Mac Sidebar where they are supposed to go.
I am using Mountain Lion on my MacBook. I have successfully used Time Machine in the past, but I have incurred the following problem that I am requesting help on.
I am attempting to recover Sent and Inbox Mac Mail sent. I go through all the steps properly and locating what I want to recover, and after hitting Restore everything seems to be working and I get a message "Restoring 207 files". The guides say that then I am supposed to find the files in Mac Mail sidebar under ON MY MAC. But they are not there nor anywhere else I have looked. In other words, everything appears to be working fine except I cannot find the restored files.
Thank you for you help.
Jerry

Although you can restore messages from a Time Machine snapshot within the Mail application, it generally won't work with messages that were saved by an older version of Mail. In that case, you have to use an alternative method.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Inside that folder are subfolders representing your Mail accounts. The names refer to the email addresses you use. Decide which ones you want to restore messages from.
Enter Time Machine and scroll back to the snapshot you want. Select the account folders you want and then selectRestore ... to... from the action menu (gear icon) in the toolbar of the snapshot window. Restore the folders to the Desktop, not to their original location.
From the Mail menu bar, select
File ▹ Import Mailboxes...
Import from the mailboxes in the folders you restored to the Desktop. The imported messages will appear in a new mailbox. Move the ones you want to keep wherever you like and delete the rest. Then delete the folders on the Desktop.

MacPro backed up to Time Machine, added Mac Mini now get "The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Jerry Booher's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use." error when Mac Pro tries to back up

MacPro backed up to Time Machine, added Mac Mini now get "The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Jerry Booher’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use." error when Mac Pro tries to back up

It is standard Mountain Lion error due to the networking ability which is comparable to wet string. (actually that was lion.. it dried out some with Mountain Lion.. higher in the hills perhaps!!)
See C12 and C17
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
But many people are suffering the same issue..
And the above is even a little out of date.. you might need to do a reset to the TC.
Welcome to Apple's beta program for everyone.

Time machine for Mac OS X and Windows Server 2008 R2

Hello,
I am using Mac OS X Lion (Maciontosh HD) and i am using Windows Server 2008 R2 (BOOTCAMP) through Bootcamp.
Now i am trying to change my 320 GB HDD to 750 GB HDD. So, i back up my mac data (Maciontosh HD excluding BOOTCAMP part) through Time machine and backup the WS Server (BOOTCAMP part) by windows backup management.
Now i am able to restore both, but the interresing thing is i can not see the data of Windows server while i am using Mac OS. Anybody can help me?
Is there any suggestion regarding the backup and restore of like dual booting?
Regards,
Huq.

Hi, did you end up finding a solution to this? I'm looking for the same thing. Thanks a lot

Retrieving Time Machine Files with Windows or Other Mac

Hi everyone. I'm using a MacBook 4,1 running 10.6.8 and I also have an external hard drive in order to use Time Machine for backup.
If my MacBook dies then all I'm left with is the aforementioned external drive. However since my files have been backed up via Time Machine – and not the usual copy/paste method – what happens then? Do I need to buy a new Mac or is it possible to retrieve those files with a computer running Windows?
Please keep in mind that I only have one account – the administrator one – which is password protected, requested at login. In case I can't possibly retrieve them with Windows and I buy a new Mac, will the fact that they are password protected be a problem and prevent me from accessing them?
I can't possibly try it out myself because I don't have any other Mac or Windows computer/laptop.
Any insight is more than welcome. Thank you for your time.

If my current MacBook stops working and I get to buy a new Mac, is it possible to choose individual files (like iTunes libraries only, or pictures folders etc.) from my current Time Machine backup on my external HD and move them to my new Mac, instead of loading my entire backup on to the new one? (including system files and other files that I don't really need).
Pretty much how one might use Time Machine, where you browse backups by date, find the folders and files that you want and restore them back. You don't restore the entire backup.

If i upgrade from 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion and do a Time-Machine-Backup, is it possible to restore my mac on Mountain Lion?

If i upgrade from 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion and do a Time-Machine-Backup before, is it possible to restore my mac on Mountain Lion with this Backup made on Snow Leopard?
Thx guyz

You don't need to restore anything.
Just upgrade. That replaces Snow Leopard with Mountain Lion, without disturbing anything else.
But by all means, always keep up-to-date backups, in case something goes wrong.

Time Machine Disk Crashes Windows

Hi everyone,
When booting into Windows, I have been getting a blue screen and crash. I noticed that this problem goes away when I remove the Time Machine disk from my machine. The disk is mounted internally in my Mac Pro, so it is a little inconvenent to have to remove it everytime I boot into windows. Any ideas?
The same issue was raised here by another user, but no responses, so was hoping that maybe there's an answer now. Thanks!!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3291854

Jonathan Kleinow wrote:
I bought an AirPort Extreme base station about a month ago. It's currently in bridge mode, connected to my U-Verse residential gateway, and has a 1 TB hard drive attached to it that I use for Time Machine backups.
I hate to have to tell you this, but backing-up that way is "iffy" and +*not supported by Apple.+* See Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Every few days, usually overnight, Time Machine will stop working, saying that it cannot connect to the backup disk.
Yup, that's the sort of thing that happens sometimes in this scenario.
You might be able to improve that by, of all odd things, changing some names. See #P1 in the same place.
Another possibility is the external HD going to sleep and not waking up quickly enough. Check with the maker for firmware updates or ways to adjust it's sleep (or "spin down") performance.
But if I click on "Manual Setup," it will time out. If I try to restart the router from the menu bar option, it will time out. The only way to fix it is to manually unplug the router and restart it that way. Is anyone else having a similar issue, or know how to prevent it?
That, I suspect, is a different problem (and mostly out of my area).
But this Apple article may be helpful: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728
Hopefully one of the networking gurus, such as Tesserax or Bob Timmons, will have more insight.

Transfering Back up from Time Machine to a Windows 7 computer

I have a 1st Gen MacbookAir, LOVE IT! but the hard drive is failing and computer is on last leg...i do not have the money to replace it with another Mac, or to fix my harddrive, my only option is to purchase a cheaper PC laptop until i can either fix my Air or can purchase a new one...
So how would i go about getting my Time Machine transferred to a computer with Windows 7?

Technically you cannot. TM backups are intended to exist only on Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volumes. The backup would not only be of no use to you on a PC, but transferring it to a Windows PC could result in loss of data. I think a new hard drive would be a cheaper solution than buying another laptop. All you need is a replacement hard drive and an external enclosure supporting Firewire or USB.

I can't access to time machine hdd in windows

hi, guys...how u all. Recently i used my external 2tb hdd as a time machine backup....For backup first i format it then backup my mac. Now, when i connect it to my pc (windows), the hdd doesn't show up. Hope i will get a solution from u guys.
Cheers

Per HT1427: Setting up Time Machine backups using an external drive
Note: Every available drive that can be used to store backups is listed. If you’ve partitioned a drive, the available partitions are listed. Time Machine can’t backup to an external drive that's connected to an AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, or a drive formatted for Microsoft Windows (NTFS or FAT format). If you select an NTFS or FAT-formatted drive, Time Machine prompts you to reformat the drive. Choose a different drive or reformat the drive in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Because reformatting erases any files on the drive, only do this if you no longer need the files or if you have copies of them on a different drive.
The most common format for a Time Machine backup drive is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, but Time Machine also supports Mac OS Extended (Case sensitive, Journaled) and XSan formats.

Time machine doesn't see possible disks

Hi there,
Have several Macs in house and they are all Tiger. Now we have also few month old MacBook and that one is only one with Leopard. I am trying to setup automatic backups with Time Machine and it stops in second screen where it suppose to see possible hard drives used for backup.
we have Airport Extreme with big USB hard drive connected to it.
All Macs including this one see and communicate with that shared USB hard drive but it doesn't show up on the list of available drives for Time Machine. I expected to see iDisk and that HD but nothing.
Any suggestions?? thank you in advance,
Zack

Zack,
It's likely that the USB Hard disk is not partitioned correctly. Even though you may have reformated it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) long ago, It may still not be partitioned correctly. See the following:
*_How Should a Time Machine Hard Disk be Prepared?_*
For Time Machine to work properly, the hard disk must be formatted “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and its’ Partition Scheme should be either GUID or Apple Partition Map.
Time Machine is incompatible with disks partitioned as Master Boot Record (MBR). Unfortunately, this describes nearly every hard drive you can buy because MBR is a Windows partition scheme. (Naturally, this DOES NOT apply to Apples’ Time Capsule.)
For some, Time Machine begins to perform as expected with a new external hard disk. But then the initial full backup or subsequent incremental backups fail. The user only later discovers the hard disk was still partitioned as Master Boot Record (MBR).
One article on Time Machine made this observation: “Virtually everybody will have to open Disk Utility and repartition the disk as APM or GUID. It doesn't really matter which one because the Time Machine disk will not be bootable anyway. APM allows a disk to boot a PowerPC, GUID allows the disk to boot an Intel processor but both are easily digestible by Time Machine on either kind of processor.” [http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/backups.html]
It’s been recommended by many here that your reserve +at least+ double the size of your primary hard disk, that way Time Machine backups have room to grow as the size of your data grows. Additionally, the more space you give Time Machine the more history it can preserve. The less space you reserve for Time Machine the sooner older backups & deleted items will disappear.
One poster recommended this regarding multiple partitions: “If you do create multiple partitions (half and half would be a good place to start), make sure you use the first partition for Time Machine, and the second for your own stuff (the first one will be on top in the graphical representation shown in Disk Utility; you'll understand when you see the partition tab). This way, you can expand the Time Machine volume at any later time by deleting the second partition. Disk Utility allows this dynamic re-sizing of volumes, but volumes can only be expanded toward the end of the drive, when a volume that comes after is deleted to create the room.” [http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712437&tstart=0]
Procedure
Connect the hard disk you wish to use for Time Machine backups.
Launch Disk Utility.
It will appear twice in the pane on the left. (Make sure you recognize that it is different from the 2 icons that represent your Macs' internal drive.) The upper entry represent the device as a whole, including the controller inside. The lower entry represents the hard disk contained within the device.
Click on the upper icon of the external hard disk.
Select the "Partition" tab.
For "Volume Scheme" choose "1 partition". (Choose 2 partitions if you intend on storing other data on the disk besides your Time Machine backups. Ensure that the two partitions have different names.)
Name the disk.
Format should be "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
Click "Options".
Select either GUID or Apple Partition Map. (See above for significance)
Click "OK".
Click "Apply". Then click “Partition”.
Once the external hard disk is repartitioned, select it again in Time Machine preferences and use it for your backups. If you chose to create 2 partitions, then select the first partition for Time Machine backups, and the second for additional files/folders.
Let us know if this was helpful.
Cheers!

Do you have Time Machine in Mac OSX Server 10.6?

Do you?
How does it work? Does it back up the data every hour, or is is possible to do it more often?

Time Machine is variously incompatible with the creation of backups of the Mac OS X Server box itself; while the basic TM configuration might (does?) work, but the advanced configuration won't work. Well, you'll probably get copies of what was once an "advanced" configuration, but whether you can restore and resume use of those can be problematic at best.
You need take explicit steps to gain consistent and restorable archives of various Mac OS X Server configurations.
Have a look around the forums for existing discussions of (for instance) shutting off dovecot to get a snapshot of the mail store.

Can time capsule be partitioned so as to back up osx with time machine and bootcamped windows drive with win 7 ulyimate

have imac 27 inch. I plan to bootcamp the drive and install win 7 ultimate to run AutoCAD. I want to backup the imac using time machine and the boot camped drive to one device. Can time capsule be partitioned to use time machine for osx and win 7 backup for bootcamp drive.

You cannot backup a Windows partition or system using Time Machine. Nor can you partition a TC as far as I know although Airport Utility may allow that now. See:
A whole lot about Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.
Of course you should carefully read the documentation that came with your TC to find out what options are available.

Issue with Time Machine backup to Windows 7

My problem is tough to search for as the keywords are common for other issues, so excuse me if this is something that's already been answered.
I want to use Time Machine to back up my MBP onto a folder inside a partition of a harddrive on my windows 7 machine. This partition is exclusively for backups; there are 2 disk images that are backups of partitions on my windows machine and that is all.
I created a folder for the backup i was about to create of my Mac. I followed these instructions for networking and sharing settings: http://hciguy.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/using-time-machine-to-backup-your-mac-to- an-ntfs-drive-over-the-network-running-win-7/
Everything seemed to be in order. Finder was able to connect to and mount the folder I made for the backups. Then I noticed something frustrating. The files that the instructions said I should copy to the windows folder appeared in Windows Explorer, but Finder thought that that directory was EMPTY. I created a folder using Finder to see what would happen to it, and it disappeared before I could name it. It appeared in Windows Explorer, however, where I deleted it.
This is not an issue of hidden files; I already explored that theory. Also, I think that this issue is what keeps Time Machine from failing its backups. The error that TM keeps giving is related to the username and password, but I am using the correct windows login and password, as I did to connect to the volume initially.
Thanks in advance

eyebo wrote:
My problem is tough to search for as the keywords are common for other issues, so excuse me if this is something that's already been answered.
I want to use Time Machine to back up my MBP onto a folder inside a partition of a harddrive on my windows 7 machine. This partition is exclusively for backups; there are 2 disk images that are backups of partitions on my windows machine and that is all.
I created a folder for the backup i was about to create of my Mac. I followed these instructions for networking and sharing settings: http://hciguy.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/using-time-machine-to-backup-your-mac-to- an-ntfs-drive-over-the-network-running-win-7/
Everything seemed to be in order. Finder was able to connect to and mount the folder I made for the backups. Then I noticed something frustrating. The files that the instructions said I should copy to the windows folder appeared in Windows Explorer, but Finder thought that that directory was EMPTY. I created a folder using Finder to see what would happen to it, and it disappeared before I could name it. It appeared in Windows Explorer, however, where I deleted it.
This is not an issue of hidden files; I already explored that theory. Also, I think that this issue is what keeps Time Machine from failing its backups. The error that TM keeps giving is related to the username and password, but I am using the correct windows login and password, as I did to connect to the volume initially.
Thanks in advance
I would suggest posting this exact question to the OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard or OSX 10.5 Leopard forums. In each there is a subforum on Time Machine. Those people there are experts on TM. whenever I have an issue on TM, I get answers literally minutes after posting. They are good. You will find that many users specialize in certain forums. I will see different names in each one.
Any ways, post the link to the thread in the Time Machine forum here, so that anyone sees this, knows to go over there.
I'm pretty good at TM, but I have no clue how to answer your question. I think you're using competing operating systems, and they're having a war. Metaphorically.

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