Will using time machine also save online user names?

Will using time machine also save online user names, such as online banking, forum login etc.?

If you're using a web browser which remembers that information, yes.
(107065)

Similar Messages

HT201250 Will using Time Machine on my external drive, reformat or wipe my external drive?

I need to backup my whole computer, and was wondering if I can do this with Time Machine using my external hardrive. The problem is, that I am using this same external hardrive for other things and I don't want to lose that data. Will using Time Machine wipe my external hardrive? Apple did not make it so clear in their guide on using Time Machine, but I have a feeling that it must reformat the hardrive. If my hunch is correct, is their any other way I can backup my computer using an external hardrive without having to wipe it? I was thinking about just dragging Macintosh HD into a folder on my hardrive and letting the file transfer. What are the downsides of doing this?
NOTE: Don't know if this makes a big difference, but I am running OS X 10.8.3

If the drive is not formatted correctly for Time Machine, then it will have to format it. But, it won't do that automatically. It will ask if you want to use that disk for Time Machine when you attach it.
You can have Time Machine on a drive with other data. See Pondini's Time Machine FAQ: http://pondini.org/TM/3.html

Use time machine to save both the iMac hard drive data & an external one

Can i program time machine to save both the iMac hard drive data & an external one

Yes, but it's not advised because it's placing too many backups into one hardware basket, also it will greatly shorted your TimeMachine states where you can go back in time to undelete a file.
It's better to have two backups, each on seperate hardware of each drive.
So if you have a boot drive and a external drive, you should have a clone drive and TimeMachine drive of the boot drive, and a backup drive of the external drive. (or two depending how valuable the data is)
If you drop a drive, or knock it over while it's running, all the data could be lost.
With only TimeMachine as your backup, if you drop or lose it, or if it gets stolen, it takes two backups with it.
A clone and a backp of the external drive stored safely off site is ideal, update it once a week or bi weekly as needed.
A clone is bootable, and is exactly like your boot drive, up in seconds.
A TimeMachine can only boot to restore to a new drive if your boot drive dies for some reason.
read more here
Most commonly used backup methods

I can't set up Time Machine---Help! What "User Name" and password do I use

I finally got the Time Capsule and installed Leopard, but now that I'm trying to set up Time Machine, it's asking for a user name and password. I've entered the admin user name and password to my computer with no luck, then tried the name of the Time Capsule and the password for that, no luck there either. What the heck is it looking for? Thank you for any help you can give me!!!!

smithrj wrote:
Thank you for correcting me, I think it's time for bed.
Ray
Hey, I got left and right confused late one night No problem.
I mentioned it only because I once used that software and only because I checked it before upgrading to Leopard did I realize it didn't work too well, even with Tiger.
LaCie makes great hardware, but in the software area they are a bit soft.

How to use time machine to migrate a user from one mac to another

I have a brand new iMac that was set up about a week ago which contains information from my old PC. I did a time machine back up and now I am trying to import that user to my new macbook air.
Using Migration Assistant, I imported from the user from the Time Machine backup (iMac) to the Macbook Air using my external hard drive.
When I restarted the computer, all that came up on the Macbook Air was the test account I created, not the user from the other Mac. The data is on the computer because the space on the hard drive was taken up. I just don't know why the user isn't showing up.
Can anyone help me to resolve this issue?

stevem902 wrote:
I imported the user from another iMac. The user accounts had the same name. What I should have done at that point is DELETE the old user on the computer I was importing to.
What I did to resolve the issue was create an admin account on the new computer.
Delete the old account that I was replacing on the new computer
Run import from time machine backup again.
Make sure. You have an extra account, and the one you migrated may not be recognized as the same one as on the old Mac. If you need access to that user's files on the old Mac; the backups; or any other drives, be sure you do. That's the possible downside to +Migration Assistant+ vs. +Setup Assistant.+

Using Time Machine with Online Service like Mozy or Carbonite

Can anyone advise me on whether or not I can use Time Machine with a Online Service provider like Carbonite or Mozy. I'm looking for best practices assuming it works at all.
Thanks
MikeK

No, Time Machine because of the way it's written will only work wirelessly with the Time Capsule device. Althought it's not supported i've seen instances where you can use a third party router with an external HD to back up, but most of the time you won't actually be able to do a restore of the OS/individual files. Online storage is to say basically; completely out. Hope this answers your question

Had to create new user to fix mobileme sync issue, can I use time machine?

I had to create a new user for myself. I want to associate the new username with time machine backups
that I currently have, and not start from scratch of course.
1. Will using time machine at this point:
1.1 create new backups?
1.2 delete whats on the disk and then create new backups?
Last time something like this happened (I dont remember the details) I lost all my backups.
At this point I d like to be able to use the current backups with my new username and not lose any data/backups.
Thanks,
Eric

ebarlier wrote:
I had to create a new user for myself. I want to associate the new username with time machine backups
that I currently have, and not start from scratch of course.
1. Will using time machine at this point:
1.1 create new backups?
Of the new user account, yes.
1.2 delete whats on the disk and then create new backups?
No. Time Machine will never delete anything from your system. But it will, eventually, delete it's copies of things that no longer exist on your system.
At this point I d like to be able to use the current backups with my new username and not lose any data/backups.
That's going to be difficult, since OSX in general (and Time Machine in particular) think those two accounts are for two different people, and neither should have much access to the others' files.
Why did you have to create a new account?
Is the old account still on your Mac?
Assuming the old account is still there, your best bet may be to sign on as the old account and grant permission to your files to the new account; then sign on as the new account and copy them. But until you're sure you don't need anything from the backups, don't delete the old account, so you can use it to restore anything you need.

Beginner's question: Using Time Machine with a WD External Drive

Hello folks,
Could someone help me with some basic questions?
I have a MacBook with Mac OSX 10.5.5. It has Time Machine but I've never used it before. I've just obtained a Western Digital External Hard Drive which is Mac compatible but, I'm told, may not be formatted for Mac.
1. If that's the case, how do I format it for Mac so that I can use it with my MacBook? Or can I just plug-and-play?
2. Once ready to use, I'd like to use the external drive for two purposes: (a) to create back-up images of my entire computer using Time Machine, and (b) as a second drive where I can just drag-and-drop selected files when needed (e.g. so that I can put photos in a photo folder on my external instead of on my MacBook hard drive). Will my MacBook let me do this, or will using Time Machine effectively reserve the entire external hard drive for Time Machine and not allow my to drag-and-drop files?
Thanks! And Happy New Year!

Question 1:
1. Launch Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utility folder.
2. Click the "erase" tab
3. Select your entire WD disk on the sidebar (the uppermost icon).
4. Format: "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"
5. Name the Disk
6. Click on "erase"
Question 2:
What is the size of your drive? If it is large enough you can partition it but Time Machine backup will "grow". So if it's important to you to save all backups you'll want to give it the whole disk. If not, you can partition the disk at the same time you format it.
Follow the steps here. It will accomplish both Q1 & Q2.
-mj
Message was edited by: macjack

HT201250 Will the Time Machine restore lost SMTP server password?

Lost SMTP password.... will using time machine reset old password and allow me to use email server again?
I can backup all new files on ext. drives

It won't. Time Machine doesn't interact with the EFI hardware (the successor to the BIOS, if that helps), which is where Firmware Passwords are set up.
HTH.

If I restore using Time Machine, will I restore permissions also?

Here is the deal. We have a MacPro and I would like to use Time Machine to backup the computer, then wipe the hard drive and the restore only the software and media. What we DO NOT WANT is for any of the problems (like the permissions that are messed up) to be restored also. When I say permissions I mean in our office we have to hold shift to start up in safe mode, then restart, plus other stuff . I really don't want to get into all that. Please tell me if problems will be restored as well, after the use of Time Machine, cause that's what we want to avoid.
Speak slowly and clearly please.
MacPro Version 10.6.8
2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3
I'm not sure of the year (let me know if it matters in this case)

Is there anyway to avoid that.
No.
How can I, "exclude from the backup?"
Apple menu > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options...
So using Time Machine, in my case, is a waste of time?
Not necessarily. You could restore from a snapshot taken before the damage was done. In that case, you lose all more recent changes to your files, but you could restore those selectively.
Also would upgrading to Mountain Lion solve this issue?
I'm not sure what the issue is, so I don't know.
Is the way to restore the OS to default, but leave all new media and new software in place?
Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup) and select Reinstall OS X. Don't expect that action to solve any problem other than corrupt or missing system files, which are relatively rare.

HT201250 I'm using Time Machine. Its Full. Deleting older backups as it goes. My desktop Mini is full. I want to delete all files on my computer. How will this affect Time Machine?

I'm really wanting to make room on my Mac Mini. I have about 70 gb left. I'm not sure what to do. I'm using Time Machine to regularly backup my computer and its already full and deleting older backups. I used to, in the past before Time Machine, just drag and drop files into an external hard drive and empty the file from my computer. Should I follow a similar procedure here? If I have time machine backup up, and I remove all my files from the computer, will Time Machine begin to backup a "clean" machine onto the external drive and begin deleting past backups? What would be the best way to approach my backups, remove all my files from my computer since a variation of them are already on time machine, and not lose viable backups? Thank you.

If you erase the hard disk and you install a new Mac OS X copy, Time Machine will start a new backup and will stop using all backups you made in the past.
One option you have is to reinstall Mac OS X and restore a Time Machine backup, but restoring only some files: for example, instead of restoring everything, restore only your user files, and not your applications, so you will have more free space. Also, doing this, Time Machine will continue backing up to your old backup, because Time Machine will detect that you have "the same computer with the same files and the same Mac OS X version", but it's not.
If you have more questions about Time Machine, see this site > http://pondini.org

Re Time Machine I have an external hard drive with files I backed up manually over the past 2 years 1TB of memory. I am finally taking the leap to use Time machine to back everything. will I have to reformat that drive, thus wiping my previous bac

Re Time Machine
I have an external hard drive with files I backed up manually over the past 2 years 1TB of memory.
I am finally taking the leap to use Time machine to back everything.
will I have to reformat that drive, thus wiping my previous back ups?
can I split it the drive in two partitions?
Also
as I have two separate Macbook Pro's- one older than the other.
OSX 10.68
the other is
OSX 10.75
can I back them up separately?
or even synch and merge files and folders etc? between the two?

You CAN use a drive with files already on it to store Time Machine backups. But long term, that is not recommended. You do not need to reformat or re-partition the drive to do this. Once Time Machine Backups are established, you could remove the old files.
But do not delete Time Machines files with the Finder -- that can cause it to lose its place and lose everything.
With the cost of backup drives under US$100, it might be a better idea in the long run to get another drive. Best results from Time Machine is a drive about 3 times larger than the drive(s) you are backing up.

I have a Macbook which is running Snow Leopard. I back up using time machine to an external drive. If I purchase a new Apple Macbook pro running Lion if I use the backup to this will I be able to use Leopard on the new computer

I have a Macbook running Snow Leopard which I back up to an external drive using time machine. If I purchase a new MacBook pro and transfer backup from time maching to MacBook Pro will it also transfer Snow Leopard as its is my preferred O.S.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
If the new computer did not originally ship with Snow Leopard installed, no, you will not be able to go back from Lion. Snow Leopard lacks the necessary drivers required for newer hardware.

I am having sporadic issues after new hard drive install and recovery using Time Machine. The same sluggish response, start up screen pixelating...If I reinstall Lion will it wipe out other applications? My HD was formatted and partitioned correctly, I ha

I am having sporadic issues after new hard drive install and recovery using Time Machine. The same sluggish response, start up screen pixelating...If I reinstall Lion will it wipe out other applications? My HD was formatted and partitioned correctly, I have a late 2009 iMac.

Use the trackpad to scroll, thats what it was designed for. The scroll bars automatically disappear when not being used and will appear if you scroll up or down using the trackpad.
This is a user-to-user forum and most people will post on here if they have problems. You very rarely get people posting to say there update went smooth. The fact is the vast majority of Mountain Lion users will not be experiencing any major problems with the OS, or maybe with apps which are not compatible, but thats hardly Apple's fault if developers don't update their apps.

Will external hard disk with firewire help me to back up my laptop using time machine?

Hi,
I have macbook pro from 2011 with 750GB hard disk and I try to back up my hard disk using time machine for the first time.
I used time machine before in the previous OSX versions but I had to format the external disk.
I have an external Western Digital hard disk with 3TB space. It has only usb connection.
When I try to backup all my data (650GB) the speed is 25GB per day, so it will take me about a month to backup my disk.
It's my work laptop, so I can't leave it for backup for more than 2-3 days.
I read a lot of forums and tried to see if the small speed is only at the beginning of the back up.
I also tried all the tricks with turning off the spotlight indexing and so on.
Nothing really helps, so my question is:
Is it going to help, if I buy an external disk with a firewire connection? Will I be able to backup my data in 2-3 days?
Thanks,
Arshavski Alexander

A Firewire drive would only be about twice as fast as USB 2, so you're still looking at 15 days. Something isn't right. I'm usinge FW800, and my my 1TB backs up overnight.
Take a look here and see if anything helps: http://pondini.org/TM/D2.html

Will using time machine also save online user names?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for