WRT1900AC and Apple Time Machine backups

I just bought this router, am getting a 27" iMac running OSX Mavericks, and wanted to put storage on the router to use for Time Machine backups. I have the latest firmware, but, the PC Magazine review of the router stated that it doesn't work with TIme Machine. Is that still true, or will it work now?
Thanks!

I can confirm the WRT1900AC DOES NOT work with a hard drive connected to it's USB port as a time machine disk. I have a 2Tb drive formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required by the Time Capsule utility to function properly, and the disc is visible using the SmartWiFi interface. However, when I enter the Time Machine Preferences on my Mac, and select the "Choose Disk" option, the drive does not appear as a option.
This is a terrible shame, since now I have to connect my old Time Capsule in Bridged Mode just to use the backup option on my wireless network. Other than this and a few minor quirks, the router is a stellar piece of equipment.
Hopefully Linksys will address this with a future firmware or once the open source software has been properly developed and this will be a perfect device.

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Need to reformat hard drive and restore Time Machine backup. What's the safest way to proceed?

I have a Mac desktop, purchased in 2007. We upgraded last year to Snow Leopard. It has been slow for a few days, and yesterday wouldn't go past the gray screen. Tried booting in recovery with no success, same for safe mode. Even tried fsck -fy. Eventually went to the Snow Leopard install disk and tried to repair disk, but got an "Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files" message. I've got Time Machine back ups on an external hard drive, but I want to make sure I do this right and don't make things worse. What steps do I need to take?

In most of the cases, that Disk Utility message means that the hard drive is damaged.
However, you can try to erase the disk and restore the Time Machine backup to see if it works. Follow these steps:
1. Insert the Snow Leopard DVD and press the C key while your Mac is starting.
2. Go to Utilities menu > Disk Utility, select Macintosh HD on the sidebar, go to Erase tab and erase the disk. If there's an error during this step, take the Mac to an Apple Store to get a new hard drive.
3. Close Disk Utility, go to Utilities menu, choose the option to restore a Time Machine backup and follow the steps.
If the computer is slow after doing this, take the Mac to an Apple Store as soon as you can

How do i reformat imac hard drive and restore time machine backup?

How do I reformat my iMac internal hard drive and restore from a Time Machine backup?
I have an iMac 20" Mid 2007 with a problematic hard drive.
IntelCore 2 Duo, Processor speed 2 Ghz
800 Mhz Bus speed
4 GB RAM
250 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
10.6.3
Was getting a question mark upon booting up, so I booted from a 10.6.3 Snow Leopard CD and ran disk utility. Repair disk was interrupted with an error message. 'Disk utility can't repair disk. Backup files, reformat disk and restore backed up files.'
1. Should I select Erase, Mac OS Extended Journaled, Erase?
2. If I do this, won't I lose my networkability, and therefore lose access to Time Machine backups?
3. If it were you, would you go ahead and replace the hard drive? Not sure I should trust this hard drive!
4. If I need to replace the hard drive, can you send instructions?
Thanks!

Clean Install of Snow Leopard
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.
If you have your Time Machine backup drive connected, then you can use Setup Assistant to migrate your Home folder, application support files, and third-party applications and system preference files. I recommend doing this via the Setup Assistant when the option appears.

Data Loss -- maverick kills mbp17 and related time machine backup

We started several days ago to install Maverick on our MBP17 / 8GB. The installation runs fine and we are excited to use the new maverick OS.
B U T
After reboot the system becomes unusable because all available memory was eaten up by kernel_Task and mds_Stores immidiately.
We contact apple support and the answer was incredible: "You should not use Maverick because it is new and the first version"
End of support. Ticket is still open and no answer is arriving to us.
Unfortnately we need our system for real work and we lost already some days !!!!. So we started a reovery process by our own knowledge.
Now we started to recover our system from Time Machine backup at our OS X Server ML. Things are becoming worse !!!!
First time recovery runs fine ( despite the duration of more than 8 hours ) but system doesn't boot. OOhps !
Second Timme recovery was done using Ethernet and gives us a booting system with Mountain Lion after 7 hour.
But the Time Machine Backups for this MBP17 at our server are no longer Available. Back volume missing, in use or whatever as error message is known to Time Machine.
Two Years of data are gone
Thank you Apple it's worse than your card application and even more worse than windows 8 upgrade process

Try a new post in the 10.5 Time Machine forum.
DALE

Macbook Pro to Mac Mini data sharing, sync, and/or time machine backup?

I currently have a MacBook Pro and am about to buy a Mac Mini. I do a good deal of multitasking on the MBP I and would like to use the Mac Mini as the "home base" of my dealings and my MBP as an extension of it, the way it should be. In short, I will have a desk for the new Mini but I don't really intend on ever being physically at it. Rather, I will be on my MBP or remoting in to it from a PC. At any rate, as an example, is it possible / what would be the best solution for being able to work on my iWeb site via my MBP if it's housed and stored on my Mac Mini?
Secondly, since I will now have 2 mac machines, there is a data question at hand. Specifically, is there a good way to sync all information and settings bewteen two macs running Snow Leopard? If so, what/how, if not, what would be the best option for accomplishing this type of goal?
Lastly, since I will now have 2 mac machines, how should I handle the time machine backups? I have a 2tb ext hard drive serving as a time machine backup for my MBP right now but how would I go about doing the same for the Mini? Should I / can I use the same drive for the mini or does it have to be a seperate time machine backup?
(For the record, I do have an additional 2tb ext hard drive that I would be happy to use as a sync point for all of this data if needed should it be possible to "share" data, apps, etc between the 2 machines. I would be able to broadcast it wirelessly via a device called pogoplug.)
I feel like there is a better and more efficient way to integrate what it is that I'm trying to do here. Any thoughts on the matter?

There are numerous solutions to sync information on two or more Macs. Try doing a google search for "Mac sync" or something along those lines.
As for Time Machine backups, you could connect an external disk drive to your Mac mini and use it as a Time Machine disk for the Mac mini and if you share it out, you can probably also use it to do Time Machine backups of your laptop, but I personally have not tested that yet so I cannot say with certainty that the sharing part will work.

How do I set up external storage and a Time Machine backup?

I am trying to organize my external storage for a new iMac with an 500G SSD drive. I have a new thunderbolt G-Raid drive and an aging Airport Time Capsule. I was thinking of storing music and pictures, as well as a Time Machine backup of the SSD, and storing a Time Machine backup of my music and pictures on the Time Capsule. Is this reasonable? Will I need to partition the G-Raid? Are there any special issues of which I should be aware?

Although it's getting a bit dated since the owner passed away this site given to us by the late, great Pondini will answer all of your questions about Time Machine and more http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html

Deleting and restarting Time Machine Backup

I just bought a new iMac and am giving my Mac Book Pro to my daughter. I deleted many of the applications and files on the Mac Book Pro. Can I go into the Time Capsule and delete the Mac Book Pro backup then have Time Machine backup so I get a fresh back up?

Can I go into the Time Capsule and delete the Mac Book Pro backup then have Time Machine backup so I get a fresh back up?
Yes, you can.
However, it will be much, much easier if you simply erase the Time Capsule disk rather than try to delete the MacBook Pro backup....which will take hours. The erase procedure will only take a few minutes in contrast.
This assumes that you do not have backups from other Macs on the Time Capsule.....which will also be wiped clean if you erase the Time Capsule disk.

Upgrade to SSD and restore Time Machine backup

Hi, I tried to install a new SSD on my MacBook Pro Late 2008, but I can't restore previous backup made with Time Machine.
I tried two way:
1) restore backup from bootable DVD, but in the selected disk the system can't find the backup;
2) restore from migration assistant, but the system does not recognize the external disk as Time Machine backup.
In past I restored many time the backup, but in the same HD, now the transfer to HD to SSD seems doesn't work.
Please help me!

I'm having the same problem
I've just installed a SSD on my Macbook Pro (late 2011) and i'm having real problema on restoring backups from my old HDD.

Can both the old(migrated from another external HD) and new time machine backup be read on iMac?

HI,
I lately migrated the time machine backup from an external HD(WB) to a new one(G Drive). If I connect the new one i.e. G Drive to my iMac for Time Machine, will there be a new folder created in G Drive? Will it be a new backup i.e. backup everything on iMac? Can the old time machine backup be read when I enter Time Machine on my iMac? Thanks in advance.

Hi, best info I can find on it is here...
http://pondini.org/TM/32.html

External hard drive connected and running time machine backups but icon not showing up in finder

My external hard drive has been connected for a couple of years and is using time machine perfectly. i am trying to save my iphoto library on the external drive but the icon is not displayed in finder. Only time machine icon is displayed......thanks for your help!

Did you create a second partition for your iPhoto Library or did you just use the same single partition that TimeMachine is on?
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Disk failure and no Time Machine backup

Hi, I had hard disk failure on my iMac and I don't have Time Machine or any other backup.
By press 'Option' key, I may access Disk Utility, but failed if trying to verify or repair disk (see photo), and it asked me to '...Backup as many of your files as possible...'
I also tried to 'Reinstall OS X' via Internet, but the Mac seems getting frozen (spinning beachball) at 'Loading Installation Information' (see photo)
Could anyone please tell me how to '...Backup as many of your files as possible...'???
Do I have to disassemble iMac and pull the hard disk out......?
Thanks

Removal of the disk drive sounds like your only hope of recovery any data
You are probably going to need recovery software because it sounds like the directory is totally corrupted.
You can find information about a bunch of them at http://mac-data-recovery-software.esoftreviews.com
If the recovery software is not able to recovery enough of your data, there are services that can do that for you. But expect to pay big bucks for that, think like $$$$.
You are going to implement a backup plan after this episode?

Mounting any and all Time Machine Backups?

I have a 2 TB Time Capsule that is serving as my wireless router. None of my Macs are hardwired to it. It is backing up 4 Macs.
The newest Mac is a 27 inch iMac that I cloned from the Mac it will replace (24 inch iMac).
I know that in Migration Assistant, I can see all backups as possible candiates for cloning a new user on a Mac. However, is there a way to mount the various sparse bundles and extract files manually?
My plan is to redeploy the 24 inch iMac and remove my old home directory, but I want to keep an up-to-date TM backup on the Time Capsule just in case.
TIA for any suggestions.

Douglas Amsbury wrote:
OK a little more info.
1. I back up to an external hard drive.
2. If I open Time Machine I see a folder titled "Douglas Amsbury's imac"
This is not the recommended way to view your backups. Be +*extremely careful+* using the Finder on your backups; if you move, change, or delete anything, you can hopelessly corrupt them. And don't try to copy things that way, either, as you'll have permissions problems. Use the Time Machine interface (the "Star Wars" display), by clicking the TM icon in your Menubar and selecting the +Enter Time Machine+ option, or click the TM icon in your Dock.
3. If I open that folder I see a lot of folders with dates and serial number like "2009-05-08-091747."
4. If I open any of these folders I get a folder titled "Macintosh HD"
5. If I open this folder I get all the info on my HD.
6. The problem is that they all contain the exact same data as the last back up.
7. Thus I can not go back to a previous date and see what my HD displayed at that time.
8. It appears as though each time the back up updates all the previous folders.
Try this: via a normal Finder window, use the "gear" icon (or +File > Duplicate+ from the menubar) to duplicate a file or folder, so it has the original name plus "copy." Then do a backup (select +Back Up Now+ from the TM icon in your menubar, or right-click the TM icon in your Dock and select it.)
Then +Enter Time Machine.+ Navigate to your most recent backup. The "copy" should appear. Navigate to a previous backup, and see if the "copy" is there, also.

What is the difference between an archive and a time machine backup?

I would like to save a lot of video to an external hard drive and have the drive fill up until it is full and then I'll use another drive to continue to save video. I do not want to backup my entire hd on my mac, just the video. Then when I want to access the video I want to be able to fetch it off the external drive and view/edit it in imovie.
How do I do that?

If you want the videos directly available to iMovie, do the move within iMovie.
Open the Event Library if it is not already, then click on the Hard Drive icon (highlighted in blue on the screen shot).
Then drag your events from the iMovie Events that are under your Macintosh HD onto your external hard drive in the Event Library list. There is some more information in the iMovie Help, under Lesson 7, for organizing your event library.
When you import video from a camera, you can choose to store it on the external hard drive instead of the internal.
Be careful not to select the external hard drive when you are looking for clips. Nothing bad will happen, but iMovie will load all of the video on the drive into the clip window. That takes a bit of time if the drive is full.
Now, you should back up that external in some way since you don't want to lose all your video if the drive crashes. I have been considering a RAID setup with mirrored drives, but I haven't looked that deeply into the idea. Right now, I just copied from one drive to the another as a stopgap solution until I implement a better, incremental backup system.

HT201250 I have 2 Lacie external drives connected to a Windows PC. What is the best scenario for backing up files on both computers? I would like to save all my files on one backup drive and have Time Machine backup that external drive to the other.

I don't know if this is a good idea, because the external drive is going to be slower than using my local hard drive to open files from. My IMac has 1tb and the 2 external drives have 1tb each. The IMac is my computer and my Wife uses the Windows PC, so I have to make sure both of our files are backed up. Thanks in advance for any advice regarding this issue.

I'm in a similar situation including movies I've purchased from iTunes...
Here's my setup:
I have all my iTunes data (music, movies, etc.) as well as about 10 GB of photos stored on a nework storage device that uses RAID-5 with SATA disks. This is basically a little toaster-sized NAS machine with four hard drives in it (www.infrant.com). If one of these drives dies, I get alerted and can insert a new one without missing a beat since the data is stored redundantly across all drives. I can also just yank out any one of the four drives while the thing is running and my data is still safe (I tried this after I bought it as a test).
That's how I prevent problems with a single disk... Redundancy
Now onto "backups"...
Nightly, my little RAID toaster automatically backs itself up to an attached 250GB USB drive. However, these backups are only of my critical data... documents, photos and home movies... I don't bother backing up my "Hollywood" movies since I can live without them in a disaster.
... I actually don't permanently store anything I care about on a laptop or a desktop. It all goes on the NAS box (Network Sttached Storage) and then my other computers use it as a network drive. It's attached via Gigbait to my main computer and via wireless to most everything else.
My achilles heel is that I don't store anything outside of my house yet. If I was smart, I'd alternate two USB drives attached to my NAS box and always keep one of them somewhere else (Safe Deposit Box?).
...and that's just one way to do it.
-Brian

I get these crashes regularly, several times a day.. mostly during disk access and/or time-machine backup

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 91987 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          5
Anonymous UUID:                    B0924435-E795-4CE8-94B2-9233830B2071
Wed Dec 28 14:14:46 2011
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 0) 0x0000000000000c09:
family: 6 model: 42 stepping: 7 microcode: 26
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz
9 error-reporting banks
threshold-based error status present
extended corrected memory error handling present
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0xf20000c000010005 valid
MCA error code:            0x0005
Model specific error code: 0x0001
Other information:         0x000000c0
Threshold-based status:    Undefined
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
Error overflow
IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
Package 0 logged:
IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c2c95): "Machine Check at 0x00007fff8c6d2aa1, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000100afe000, CR3: 0x000000005ed16044, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0\n" "RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x000000000000000a, RDX: 0x0000000000000000\n" "RSP: 0x00007fff6d1e2dc0, RBP: 0x00007fff6d1e2de0, RSI: 0x00007fff8cfe2838, RDI: 0x00007fff723a3680\n" "R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x00007fce9ce91ac0, R10: 0x000000010dd79880, R11: 0x000000010dd79ff0\n" "R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0x000000010dde9600, R14: 0x00007fce9eb4d7b0, R15: 0x00007fce9ec602b0\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000000246, RIP: 0x00007fff8c6d2aa1, CS: 0x000000000000002b, SS: 0x0000000000000023\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c:2 78
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff800081bd20 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff800081bda0 : 0xffffff80002c2c95
0xffffff800081bf00 : 0xffffff80002d83ef
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Finder
Mac OS version:
11C74
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 59275DFA-10C0-30B3-9E26-F7B5DFB1A432
System model name: MacBookPro8,3 (Mac-942459F5819B171B)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 2602723119878
last loaded kext at 1911948933880: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC    4.1.15 (addr 0xffffff7f80791000, size 16384)
last unloaded kext at 2139148857068: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC    4.1.15 (addr 0xffffff7f80791000, size 12288)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs    1.7.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelProfile    85.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor    1.9.4d0
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch    66.3
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.59
com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver    122
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver    2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AGPM    100.12.42
com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer    7.1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.9
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.0.26
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor    3.0.1d2
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet    1.0.0d1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU    2.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver    1.2.1
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin    4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.5.3
com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000    7.1.4
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I forgot to mention.. this is a brand new mac book pro + apple genius bar ran hardware test overnight, no failures, they replaced my WS .. same issue!!
I works fine until I add my personal files (~~100 gig of text and bin files in my home dir), then it fails.. I have file-vault enabled.. but it failed without it.

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