Cannot transfer Time Machine backups on the new drive

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• Transfer Time Machine backup on the new disk, preparing already > 24 hours!

  I followed the instructions on the web site (Time Machine: how to transfer backups from a current backup disk to a new backup drive - Apple Support -essentially a copy via the Finder) and after more than 24 hours the copy process is still "preparing to copy" and lists currently more than 4 million items.

  Yes, I have a large number of files, 2.65 TB of info I want to spend on a new disc of 6 TB, but this method of copy will take too long. I'm afraid I have to stop the process of copying in the morning, because I have to take my MBP on the road.

  Is there another "clever way" of making a Time Machine backup on a new external drive?

  You can try using the software clone to make a copy, but I'm afraid that the size of the data you are trying to copy will take a long time with any method.

  I suggest starting with a new Time Machine backup disk 6 to and leave the old time in the form of a Machine archive to use if necessary.

  Software used to Clone:

  SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/

  CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html

• How to transfer Time Machine backup to the new external hard drive

  I'm upgrading to a 1 hard external to the Western reader to with 5 TB of Seagate.  This is because Time Machine has used the 1 TB drive.  How can I transfer the files from backup Time Machine from the old to the new drive so that backups continue to have access to the old files.

  Although the documentation Apple says you can copy Time Machine backups in the Finder, it is very slow and sometimes does not.

  This technique works only if the volume that you copy to the same size or larger that that you are copying to.

  First of all, please open the Time Machine preference pane and click the Select Disk... button. You may be able to unlock the settings first, by clicking on the padlock icon in the lower left corner of the window. Log in as administrator.

  Remove the volume you want to copy in the list of backup destinations. Then turn off Time Machine.

  Launch disk utility, open the built-in Help and search for the term 'Double '. Follow the instructions. All existing data on the destination volume will be deleted. That shouldn't be a problem, because you do not want to mix non-sauvegarde and backup data on the same drive anyway.

  If the volume you are copying has been encrypted by Time Machine, you must first unlock it. Click the release button in the toolbar of the disk utility window.

  Turn Time Machine back on and select the new volume as a backup destination. Alternatively, you can continue to use the old volume, if you wish. Both will be alternated when both are available.

  ATTENTION: If you copy the volume is corrupted, as shown by the ERD or first aid in disk utility, while corruption is copied to the new drive. Do not copy data from a damaged on a faulty disk volume. Put aside the reader and do not use until you don't know that you no longer need the data. Then securely erase it and bring it to a recycling center. Do the same if the restore operation fails with "disk errors."

• Clone of Time machine backup to a new drive?

  I'm trying to help out a new Mac. Before, I had two back ups of all my data: on the hard drive of my old iMac and my external time machine backup disk. Long story, but during the process of troubleshooting using AppleCare support, my iMac has been cleared. Now, I have only the Time Machine external backup.

  I bought a new drive for Time Machine external backup on my new Mac. I am very very afraid of something bad happens to my old Time Machine backup during the troubleshooting process. My question is, is there a way to clone back to the top of my old drive time machine to the new, so I once more two copies?  If something happens to my old time machine up during this process of troubleshooting, I won't lose all my files.

  I'm not familiar with the Time Machine backups, and even if they need to be cloned since that they are not bootable backups.  The following link is dated but maybe having the relevant documents:

  The restore function of disk utility included in directions of OS X. alarm - http://discussions.apple.com/message/8799711#8799711

• Copy the old Time Machine files to the new disk TM

  Sorry people, I have to ask two (related) questions:

  (1) I have a WD My Passport for Mac drive connected to an Airport Extreme and 2 Macs use for backup via Time Machine. Now, the disk is full. I bought a WD My Book for Mac drive with a capacity of 4 TB and am ready to go.

  Question: can I copy the old files of Time Machine on my new book?

  (2) until now 2 different Macs used the My Passport as a Time Machine drive with no problems.

  Question: Should I partition the new drive (My Book) and every Mac uses its own partition as Time Machine or can proceed us as is?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  Question: can I copy the old files of Time Machine on my new book?

  Yes you can, but there is a lot of work, a little complicated, time consuming and not worth the effort for most users.  The main reasons for this are...

  (1) the older backups will take a good amount of space on the new drive, limiting the space on the disk again.

  (2) Time Machine backups for the old files will continue... it will make a new copy of every Mac and then go forward again with incremental backups.

  A better plan would be to keep the old drive on hand for a few months, in which case you need to go back and look for a file. After a few months, you will have a beautiful story from backup to the new hard drive and no need of older backups so you can remove the old disk and keep around as a spare part or use it for other purposes.

  Question: Should I partition the new drive (My Book) and every Mac uses its own partition as Time Machine or can proceed us as is?

  While you can partition the drive and save each Mac to a separate partition if you wish, there is really no need to do this since Time Machine will automatically create separate for each Mac backup files.

• Time machine backup on my external drive...

  Hello

  I am doing this for the first time so I need some help here please.

  I have a 5 years, 250 GB Mac Book Pro running on Mac OS X 10.6.8.  I have NEVER done a Time Machine backup first.

  I have an external hard drive 1 TB, which has about 200 GB of data backed up from my Mac Book pro and other files.

  I want to upgrade to El Capitan and want to back up my book ALL of the mac pro.

  My question is, is the external drive with about 750 GB of sufficiently available to back up my entire Mac Book pro...?  Looks like it should be. The IMPORTANT question is, somehow will it delete my existing files in my external drive...? How can I make sure that this does not happen...?

  Separately, I have 2 accounts on my Mac Book Pro, when I back up my laptop using Time Machine, goes up two accounts...? ... Should I be logged into my main account so it backs up two accounts...? How that will work in a restaurant...?

  Thanks in advance!

  Vik

  Hello

  Your best bet would be to clone your entire drive to another Partition on the hard drive, external, but repartitioning is not without risk.

  TM should work but is not ideal. TM backs up only the account your as I recall.

  Everything that you be sure to secure boot, now hold SHIFT key on startup to repair the startup disk, and then use Utilityto repair disk external hard disk.

• I have an attached external hard drive, I selected through Time Machine. But Time Machine also save the hard driver separately?

  I have an external hard drive attached I selected through a Time Machine, I found in the system preferences. Is - this time Machine even save the documents that I have on the hard drive? In other words, I want to be sure I have two back ups until I upgrade of the OS,

  Time Machine backs up all the readers who were not placed in the exclusion list.

• Time Machine backup after the installation of the Sierra

  I installed Sierra, which lasted 1 hour and went well. Everything was in place. I did a clean install with El Capitan, so I've updated with Sierra. I connected external drive, kept saying PREPARATION BACKUP, but she never did.  Just stuck.

  Does anyone else have this problem?

  Resolution?

  It is normal for a backup after an upgrade of the operating system to take some time.

  Please read If a backup time Machine takes longer than you expect and Sierra macOS: If Time Machine is slow.

• How can I make Time Machine backup to an external drive?

  I have an external drive that I stay logged in all the time, and I want that she is saved with my hour of hard drive internal Machine. I found the setting "IncludedVolumeUUIDs" in Library/Preferences/com.appleTimeMachine.plist, but I can't change the permissions to modify.

  Open the Time Machine system preferences pane, click Options, and remove it from the list if possible. Time Machine can't back up NTFS, FAT32 volumes and exFAT.

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• Restored HD from a Time Machine backup of my old iMac (stolen) from my new MacBook Pro.  Not all the files have been restored.

  My iMac 27 "(2011) so my wife 13 '' MacBook Pro (2011) were recently stolen after our House was robbed.  My wife got a new MacBook Pro and I restored it successfully its data (selected "backup restore Time Machine" during the installation of its new MacBook Pro).  However, I also got a new 15 "MacBook Pro in lieu of the iMac 27".  I have, once again, selected "Restore from Time Machine backup" (selected the iMac as the backup source) when installing my new MacBook Pro.  When it was finally over, I told Time Machine to inherit from the backup.  Unfortunately, none of the files in the My Documents folder or the photos in my photo library have been restored.  Was it a bad idea to try to use the backup of the iMac as a source for the MacBook Pro (both running El Capitan)?

  is it possible that your documents are stored on another drive which was not part of the backup plan? or is the HD in the big enough MBP to inherent the old backup.

  If you open the time machine with the original backup disc, you should be able to browse the content

  

  If the files are found, you can restore by right-clicking (or CTRL + left mouse)

• Cannot switch between multiple Time Machine backups

  I generally save my 2010 Macbook Pro to a 2012 Time Capsule, which is attached to my router via an ethernet cable (most recent) wireless. On a trip, I make the additional backups on an external hard drive. However, when I go home and try to return to the TC, my internal HD is now on the time Machine "Exclude" list and cannot be removed (greyed out). When I try to save, I get a message saying "no disks are available to back up."

  What has happened a few times, and the only solution I could find was to delete my original Time Machine backup and put a new (which took forever).

  Any ideas why my HD internal is added to the exclusion list after using Time Machine with an external hard drive?

  Time Machine backups on a network drive or a disc attached locally stored in different formats. Switching between them was not in the overall theme of the design of this service of OS X.

  I suggest that you set up Time Machine to use multiple disks.

  FWIW, in my case, I backup destinations, Time Machine on a Time Capsule and an external hard drive of 2 bolt of lightning. When both are available, the time goes 'take turns' Machine backup on each drive.

  If a disk is not available, it backs up to that which is, and which ignores the backup of the other. When the two are connected again, backups continue on both.

• I have 3 macs backed up on one machine of time driving.  How to transfer one of these worms a new drive?

  I have 3 macs backed up on one machine of time driving.  How to transfer one of these backups on a new drive?  Currently, the only way I know is to copy the entire folder Backups.backupdb containing all 3 backups on the new drive and then selectively delete the backup that I do not wish to keep.  However, this take several days!  I am running a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5

  This is probably the best advice you will find and it will not make you happy:

  http://pondini.org/TM/18.html

  Ciao.

• FTP settings can be retrieved from a Time Machine backup?

  I had to nuke my Mac and reload the OS, but I did not export the managed sites and FTP of Dreamweaver settings before you do; However, I have a Time Machine backup of the computer before I wiped the drive. Anyone know if I can recover the backup settings and copy them into the new installation? Two copies of the DW are the same and have been installed since the creative cloud. The only difference is the operating system where the old machine has the new El Capitan and Yosemite.

  I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, Mac, so a little extra detail on explanations will be very appreciated. Thanks for any help provided.

  Yes, they can.  In your time machine backup, you will need to go to the library: Application Support: Adobe: commune: {Version}: Sites.  Just take this file 'Site' Time Machine to restore and you should be good to go.

• I want to use Time Machine to format a new disk

  I had a hard drive failure (it was always a secondary drive) and I want to format a replacement with Time Machine backups of the drive it is replacing. How can I do this?

  You use utility disk to format, then Time machine to restore the files.

  OS X: on the recovery of OS X - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 - "OS X Lion and later versions include OS X Recovery. This function includes all the tools you need to reinstall OS X, repair your drive and even restore from a backup Time Machine. "- More information on the recovery of the Internet.

• Central Seagate NAS - "Invisible" Time Machine backup

  Running OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), have a central Seagate NAS connected to the same network.

  Struggling to locate/mount the Time Machine "partition" of the NAS using the Finder, even if the NAS works more or less perfect otherwise. For example, I have no problem to mount the NAS in the Finder and have accessibility without restrictions and read/write permissions to files on the NAS and visible files. I have also run the Time Machine backups with no problems, however, I can't physically locate the backup Time Machine (sparsebundle file) when you use the Finder. During the mounting of the SIN in the Finder (= "user1" user / password = *), I have 3 folders available and visible (with subfolders), "user 1", "Public" and "user 2". Unable to locate the backup in the any of these files.

  Then, when I run the terminal and run ' ssh ' user1@ipadressofNAS, then ´cd /', then 'data ls', I find several items, including the "Public" folder I mentioned, I do not see in the Finder above, and also a component called "user1.tm". Later in the user1.tm, runs "ls Data / user1.tm ', I find"mymac.sparsebundle"- that is.

  Then of course, the dedicated part time Machine is the NAS Server (I just pointed out Time Machine backup to the NAS Seagate available without being able to specify the directory), but I can not located this part physically using Finder. Just for reference, I also tried to find backups to the display of hidden files and directories using the Finder.

  Is it possible to physically see the backup Time Machine 'partition' in the Finder? I think that this was possible according to the default in some earlier versions of the operating system, but then the time Machine 'disc' disappeared as well as the evolution of the OS.

  A device third-party network attached storage (NAS) or a router is unsuitable for use with Time Machine, especially if it's your only backup. I know that's not what you want to hear. I know that Time Machine accepts the device as a backup destination. I know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and I also know that it usually seems to work. Except when you are trying to restore and find that you can't.

  Apple has published a specification for network devices that works with Time Machine. No third party provider, AFAIK, does meet this specification. They all use the application of Netatalk incomplete, obsolete Apple Filing Protocol.

  Apple does not endorse any device third-party network for use with Time Machine. See this support article.

  Network backup, use as destination an Apple Time Capsule or an external storage device connected to another Mac or a 802.11ac AirPort base station. Only 802.11ac base stations support time Machine, not older model.

  Otherwise, use Time Machine at all. There are other ways to save, although none of them are nowhere near as effective or as well integrated with OS X. I don't have a specific recommendation.

  If you are determined to continue to use the device with Time Machine, your only remedy for any resulting problem is the manufacturer (who will blame Apple, neither you nor anyone else but herself.)