Time Machine setup with my Belkin N1 Vision

Hi, I purchased my first iMac (love it!) after being a Windows person forever. I have a home office setup with an Dell XPS One & my new iMac. Both are working perfectly with my Belkin N1 Vision router +(via direct ethernet connection, although both can access the wireless connection as well)+. I purchased the Time Capsule so that I can use it within my network (in partcular with the Time Machine for my iMac). I do NOT want to use the Time Capsule as a wireless network (+I like my Belkin too much and it is super strong within my home)+.
I plugged it directly to the ethernet port open on my Belkin to the Internet Wan port back of the Time Capsule. But no matter what I do, I can't see the Capsule on either computer. I have reset the Capsule several times and even reset my router a couple times. The Capsule appears to be working fine with a nice bright green glow. Can anyone help me or suggest something to get it working and or reconnized within my network? Have I connected it properly? I appricate any advice & keep in my I am a newbie with Apple OS +(expert with Windows)+. I am going to take the Capsule back otherwise, but I really wanted this to work! Thanks!!

On the screen of the Vision, can you scroll to the Devices pane? Are you seeing an IP address being issued for the TC you have connected?
From another angle, have you tried using only the Time Capsule and checking if the computers can see it then? Simply pull the plug on your Vision for a minute and try to connect to a wireless network (preferably not a neighbor, but that of your TC). The TC may be trying to host a DHCP server and is getting blocked by the Vision.
On a side note, having a Vision router and knowing someone with a TC, I believe the TC has better range than Belkin's product.

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just finished setting uo a Time Capsule as a WDS remote, for the time with a PB on its wired ethernet. added an external USB disk to the TC for trial.
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slide the switch, confirm the TC drive as a backup disk, enter yr password, then after a few minutes "error - no backup volume has been selected, open system preferences" (thats where i came from)
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Apple has never fully committed support of the Time Machine/Airport Extreme combination. I have a Airport Extreme 6th gen that supposedly supports the Time Machine, (page 13 of the installation manual). After a year of experience I have concluded that it does not work - period. If you have any critical data on your system(s) I would recommend that you use a dedicated backup/recovery product like Carbon Copy Cloner.

Time Machine Setup Questions

Hey all, I am looking to upgrade my Time Machine setup and was looking for some tips. Here's my current setup:
I had two (now three - see below) external drives: a 320GB WD drive that currently houses all of my family's iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie data as well as a few extraneous videos. We also have a second 1TB WD drive that currently has time machine backups from the iMac on it. Time Machine is also set up to back up the 320GB WD to the 1TB drive in addition to the iMac. Both drives are connected to our family iMac (Mid 2007).
The problem is that our 320GB WD that has all of our data is full. So, we bought a new 3TB (!!) Seagate USB3 drive. I am planning to have this drive be a backup drive for the iMac, our media (more on that in a moment), and two other computers (our 13-inch rMBP and my home-built mac (if you know what I mean)). This site suggested that I create partitions for each Mac that I back up. So I formatted the drive with three partitions: 2TB for the iMac and the media drive connected to it, 300GB for my MacBoook, and 700GB for the third Mac. BTW, I am planning to switch to using the 1TB WD drive that I currently use for backups as the new media drive, and retiring the 320GB WD.
I tried carrying the plan through, but I came across a few issues. First, I would like to keep the 930GB of backups that I currently have on the 1TB and move them to a new 2TB partition on my new 3TB drive. First, Finder refused to copy the backups.backupdb folder entirely, but I fixed this by reformatting the Seagate as a case-sensitive volume. Then, when I tried to do the copy it first just had the stripey progress bar for an hour at least saying "preparing to copy x number of items" and that number gradually went up. I left the computer running with Caffeine overnight, but it got stuck somewhere in the copy and I couldn't kickstart it again. Should I just abandon my old backups? 930GB is a lot of data to copy, but I don't see why it would get hung up somewhere. Maybe that was a sign that I should just start fresh with this new drive. Speaking of which, if I do start afresh, how can I get Time Machine to not format my drive as case sensitive? I've never used case sensitivity before (except when TM automatically formatted my last drive as such) and don't want it on my backups. Lastly, I still have the daunting task of copying all my data from the 320GB drive to the 1TB one. Should I just select all and copy, or should I use a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner? Additionally, would hooking both drives up to my rMBP speed up the copy? I'm just copying from USB2 to USB2. Does this sound like a good plan?
Thanks so much in advance for any answers,
Seamus

You propose to partition the 3GB this way ...
1 - iMac TM + media --> 2TB partition
2 - MB TM --> 300GB partition
3 - other Mac TM --> 700GB partition
That seems to abandon the use of any of the existing HDs. Why not do a partitioning this way?
3TB HD
1 - iMac TM --> 2TB partition (by itself rather than shared with media)
2 - other Mac TM --> 1TB partition (rather than a 700GB partition)
A - MB TM --> 320GB HD (rather than in a 300GB partition)
B - media backup --> 1TB HD (rather than in co-storage on a 2TB partition)
As to abandoning old TM backups ... To what extent do you believe that any of the prior backup files will be required in the future? To what extent can you pull those files separately from the TM backup and then archive them separately? IOW, to what extent can you look at your existing TM backup and say ... uh ... this is just old stuff that I will never need to (or have time to) see again or ... OH! ... this old file needs to be kept for the rest of eternity?
Unfortunately, I cannot speak for the process of copying an existing TM backup to a new drive, let alone partitioning with/without case sensitivity.
JJW

Time Machine Setup "Choose Backup Disk" Won't Recognize ANY Disks

I'm trying to configure Time Machine for the first time. I open Time Machine preferences and slide the slider to ON. Because no backup disk is selected, a window pops up where possible drives are to be listed. The Time Machine instructions say this...
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Time Machine.
Open Time Machine preferences
Slide the switch to On if Time Machine is off.
Click Choose Backup Disk (or click Change Disk if you have already set up Time Machine).
Step 4 - Choose a disk where backups will be stored, and click “Use for Backup.”
You see a list of every available disk that can be used to store backups, including internal hard disks (except for your startup disk), most external disks, and any Time Capsule devices set up for use with Time Machine. If you have partitioned a disk, the partitions are listed.
I do not see a list of any available disks, not even the internal hard disk on my computer. I only have two button options--Setup Time Capsule or Cancel.
When I click Setup Time Capsule it opens my Airport Utility and takes me to the setup page for my Airport Extreme. Why? My Airport Extreme Base Station is already setup and running. How do I get drives to appear in the Time Machine setup window?

My two external drives are connected to my Airport Extreme Base Station via USB. My tower is connected to the Base Station via Ethernet. My internal drive is, of course, internal and is supposed to show and it's not. Here's their formats...
Internal Drive - Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
My two external drives don't seem to show up in Disk Utility. In Finder the format shows as...
External Drive 1 - SMB (FAT)
External Drive 2 - Has two partitions (rather, 1 partition and two volumes) both of which are listed as Apple Share.
I just re-read your note. I connected External Drive 1 directly to the tower and Time Machine spoke right up and asked if I wanted to use the drive for backing up. The format then appeared in Disk Utility as MS-DOS (FAT32).
- It would appear the drive must be directly connected to the tower to be used by Time Machine. Is this true?
- Why does my internal drive not appear as the Apple Help file says it should?
- I may have to purchase another external hard drive. If so, is there a particular format it should be in for use with Time Machine?
Thanks...

Restricting Time Machine size with LaCie NAS Share

I have a question regarding quotas for my LaCie 2big NAS. I am using Time Machine on my MAC OSX. I had no issues in the Time Machine setup and initial backup so far. I wanted to limit the amount of disk used by Time Machine. I created a separate Share for Backup on the NAS. However, I am not able to set a quota based on the Share. I can only set the quota based on the user. I tried to create a user named "backup" which had a quota but the Time Machine sparse bundle has my own username (i.e., "my_username") as the file owner (it seemed like I needed to have the backup and my_username for the NAS with permissions on the Backup share). Time Machine identifies the disk as "Backup - My_NAS_Name" with the 500 GB limit which I established. This seems like it is working but I am not sure about the best approach.
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Brian Smale wrote:
Thanks, Pondini, you make a good point about using a USB drive with my Airport Extreme. The snag is, the Airport Extreme is in the same room as my computer, so it doesn't get over the co-location/fire problem. I suppose I could plug the Airport Extreme into my ethernet in another room, but this might compromise its coverage.
To protect yourself against fire, flood, theft, and direct lightning strike on your power lines, you need secondary, off-site backups. Get a portable external drive (or a pair, to alternate). Periodically do separate backups to it, and take it to your safe deposit box, workplace, relative's house, etc. CarbonCopyCloner (which I use in addition to TM), SuperDuper!, or the like would be fine for this, although you could use TM by just doing a +Change Disk+ each time.
Frankly, looking back 20 pages through this thread, I am astonished by the number of problems that people seem to be having with Time Machine. It rather looks like a flakey piece of software that's best avoided.
Don't be misled by what you see here. TM works just fine for most people. They only post here when there's a question or problem. Many of the questions wouldn't be necessary if Apple's documentation was better, and most of the problems are either things people did without knowing they shouldn't, or hardware problems. You'll find similar threads on the CCC and SD forums, too.

Time Machine worked- with caveats- but worked

Ok, TIme Machine rocks!
I screwed with some applications, I tried to make the dock and desktop my own and F'd things up.
What I was trying to do was to create stacks in doc.
I wanted stacks for apple apps, stacks for business apps, stack for art, and stacks for personal.
Plus I wanted easy buttons for kids to pick out games as well.
Idea was good but I did not execute it well.
While I can do everything that I wanted to do, what I needed to do was create alias of apps and then put those into folders and drag them into doc. I did not I put apps in folders and tried to put those in dock. I screwed up the computer, BUT I had Time Machine.
With Time Machine you can rescue the whole drive. There are a few caveats here too.
One you have to do this reinstall with the OS-X install disk.
Information is not truly clear on line and I called apple.
When I was trying install the screen said it was going to reinstall system. This made me think that I was going to install system and applications but what about my docs. I was not sure. I called apple and the tech I got on line said no problem I would get all back, he was sure! Then he put me on hold, ask someone made sure, but came back saying I would get everything back. System, programs and docs.
When you do a restart from install disk it gives you choice of install, you have to choose from the above drop down menus- reinstall from time mach. NOT install from main instruction on screen. This is a little hidden but for those with some experience should be easy to find.
I then ran into another issue. I ran reinstall and it looked good till about 4% was completed and then failed. Message said try again or lose all. Not a great message. I did this over and over 5 time, each time same results. I at this point thought I maybe was losing battle. For anyone that has lost data, they know it is a battle to get back data.
I then thought that I have external drives in a dazzy chain over firewire configuration. How about taking the drive with Time Machine back up and making 1st and the solo drive- WORKED.
Took about 3 hours to back up. I have older iMac and others may go quicker.
I did get everything back and was very happy.
Interesting thing after reboot was that the computer had to reintroduce it self.
Programs came up like mail and had too find accounts, mail saved, trashed and still valid.
iphoto and iTunes needed to find their associated files. As when iTunes came up it 1st showed no music, no video, Tv shows, but quickly started to find items.
Lastly Time Machine had to rescan the computer as it does when you 1st install program.
So over all great program!
My one question would be if I am using time mach and computer dies and I tried this reinstall on a new computer would it work as well?

This looks like it was a TERRIBLE restore. The whole point of restoring from a backup is that everything should work as it did on the date of the backup. No missing files, no reconfiguration of applications...

Will Time Machine work with an external hard drive connected (via usb) to Airport Extreme?

Will Time Machine work with an external hard drive connected (via usb) to Airport Extreme?

Sorry, but this article is about 4 years old, and was printed based on preliminary information at the time.
The bottom line here is that Apple does not officially support Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme.
If it works for you, great.
You might want to review the Apple Support documents below, which are far more recent than the article you reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038
It is supported.....
This is NOT correct. Please do not post false information on the forums.

Unable to re establish Time Machine connection with Machine A

Hello,
Time Machine was working on machine A. I was able to go into time machine, look at the files in my backup and restore a file if I needed to.
My machine A was out of service due to a power supply and I used a Machine B to access my time machine files. Machine B had 2 userid's. Both users were ADMINISTRATORS. The 2nd user ID was able to SEE the files, I was NOT ABLE to RESTORE. (insufficient privileges). The 1st user ID. I was able to restore and discovered this by accident. I restored what I need to and was able to work off a laptop until Apple fixed my machine A (it took 7 days)
Problem:
When I got my workstation back I plugged in the hard drive that contains my backup and figured...I am off and away just as before.
1. I was not able to get TIME MACHINE started. ( I cannot recall the series of steps)
2. Now when I select time machine the menus offers me...
BROWSE OTHER TIME MACHINE DISKS
OPEN TIME MACHINE PREFERENCES.
When I select browse the 1st item, I am not even able to see the backup that was there.
When I select the Open Time machine preferences, I cannot figure out how to re - attach the time machine backup that I used to have connected to this workstation.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Hello Scott,
I tried a sudo cmd from the terminal application and wound up with the same error.
Prior to runnin this cmd, I managed to borrow an external hard drive and backed up all of the data I needed in case the sudo cmd did something to prevent me from seeing data on my hard drive.
Sudo cmd did not work. Time Machine was giving me the same access errors.
Since by now I had made a back up of my data to another hard drive,
I reformatted my original external hard drive.
I went back to time machine and selected the external drive I just reformatted
I received the same error again, but about 30 seconds later, Time Machine responded with ....the drive has been selected for back up and about 90 seconds later, Time Machine initiated and is starting a backup in the background.
To summarize
Prior to doing the sudo command (I am a little cautious about doing things I have no idea what the end result will be....)
I backed up the external drive A to external hard drive B
used Deja Vu to perform an entire system back up of my workstation as well as another one of everything in my USERID
I tried the sudo command...when it failed
Reformatted external drive A
Time Machine is now working again
Thanks for your comments and feeback. Between your comments and VK was enough for me to put together the pieces and decide on a course of action.
I would recommend to anyone reading this to always back up as the safest course of action

Access my Time Machine backup with another Mac?

The HD on my 24" iMac just bit the dust and I am using my old eMac to try to get some work done while I wait for another. Fortunately, I have a Time Machine backup. Is it okay to access files off my Time Machine backup with my eMac, as long as I don't change anything? I don't want to mess up my backup before I can restore it to my new Mac.
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Should be, if the eMac is running 10.5.x be sure to turn off TM backups though.

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Hello all.
I had a time machine setup on a Lacie big disk 2 tb drive through firewire, but when i unplugged it (ejecting first) the plugged it back up in would not mount again.
I have done all the possible tests to diagnose the issue, new cable different port, different port type even a different disk drive. however it still wont mount. the drives will mount in a normal macbook but not in the xserve. my xserve is a 9g55 running 10.5.6 OSX server
The disk however will show up in the system information under the appropriate connection type..
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Hi adamramage-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple Discussion boards
Did you try a different FW port on the XServe? Have you tried connecting via USB to see if the drive show up?
Have you tried resetting the PMU?
Link here: Resetting the Xserve G5 PMU
You may want to try resetting the PRAM as well.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

Does time machine work with the trash folder?

Does time machine work with the trash folder? So if I have the entire aperture library backed up to the time machine. Is it safe to empty the trash folder in aperture? I am able to recover files from time machine later?

So make a top-level Project called "_Circular File". Put Images in there that you what to have out of your way but not discarded.
It really is good and proper to treat the Trash as trash. I instruct everyone to _empty_ the Aperture Trash at the end of _every_ session. The reason is this: it is the only time you will remember whether it is safe to delete the items in there. If you wait, you will then waste time trying to answer "Did I really mean to throw that out?" or, periodically, you'll give up trying to remember, and will empty the Trash without reviewing it. At the end of every session, examine the Trash, confirm that the items there are trash, and empty it.
Shocking, perhaps, but you should also empty your system trash every day. The real-life equivalents are good guides here. No-one in an office hoards their trash. If you mean to throw something out, throw it out. If you don't mean to throw it out, do not put it in the trash.
I don't know how TM handles the Aperture Trash. I do know, however, that I would not expect this behavior to remain consistent, and would absolutely recommend against a workflow based on it.

Does Time Machine work with a NAS?

Does Time Machine work with a network attached storage drive?
Thanks!
John

the only supported NAS for TM backups is Time Capsule. it also works with drives connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station. al other NASes are unsupported. there are hacks to make TM work with them but you are on your own if you use them
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080420211034137&query=time%2Bmach ine%2BNAS

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
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+ Allows for customization of backup processes by computer
+ Can setup specific space requirements for each computer
+ Backups are separate from each other
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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?
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Long time reader, first-time poster.
OK, so I just got my new 1TB Time Capsule, set it up and am ready to start designing my backup strategy for home. I'd like to do a few things, and looking for some advice:
1. I am currently using Time Machine to backup my iMac to an external 250MB drive. I want to switch over my Time Machine backups to the new Time Capsule (which I think I can handle), but then I want to format my other external drive and move my video files over to it to free up disk space on my iMac. Once I do that, how do I tell Time Machine to look for that external 250MB drive as well so that it backs up my video files? I see how to exclude files from the Time Machine backup process, but I'm not sure how to explicitly tell Time Machine to back up other drives outside the main HD.
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I haven't seen any postings like this in this forum, my apologies if someone else has already answered this...hope it makes sense.
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
~Monkey~

Long time reader, first-time poster.
OK, so I just got my new 1TB Time Capsule, set it up and am ready to start designing my backup strategy for home. I'd like to do a few things, and looking for some advice:
1. I am currently using Time Machine to backup my iMac to an external 250MB drive. I want to switch over my Time Machine backups to the new Time Capsule (which I think I can handle), but then I want to format my other external drive and move my video files over to it to free up disk space on my iMac. Once I do that, how do I tell Time Machine to look for that external 250MB drive as well so that it backs up my video files? I see how to exclude files from the Time Machine backup process, but I'm not sure how to explicitly tell Time Machine to back up other drives outside the main HD.
2. I also use a Windows XP machine for work and would like to configure Time Machine to look for that machine when I'm connected at home and back up certain files on the Time Capsule. Will it do this...or do I need to login to the Time Capsule from the Windows machine and do this manually over the network share (or use SyncToy or something). If this is the case, am I better off "partitioning" the Time Capsule drive so that Time Machine can use, let's say 750MB of the space and I keep 250MB in reserve for the WIndows Machine?
I haven't seen any postings like this in this forum, my apologies if someone else has already answered this...hope it makes sense.
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
~Monkey~

Time Machine backup with MacBook Pro 10.7.5 and Seagate Backup Plus Drive?

Anyone have any suggestions for a successful backup using Seagate Time Machine Backup Plus 1TB hard drive and 10.7.5 MacBook Pro?

Is it something like this? If so, then it's likely already formatted for use with OS X - "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". Just connect the drive, make sure that it mounts, and turn on and setup Time Machine in System Preferences.
The first backup may take awhile, but hourly backups should be quick. Don't worry about keeping the drive plugged into your Mac all of the time - when your on battery Time Machine will make local snapshots on your internal. Just plug it up when you're ready.
For a good introduction to Time Machine, see http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html.
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