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• 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.)

• I would like to add a folder of photos on a USB key for time machine backups

  I have a new time capsule, and I am attaching a USB hard drive that previously held some my time machine backups and all my photos. I would now add the photo of backups auto time folder machine on the time capsule. But in time machine preferences I don't see the folder or the USB key. Although I can see the USB in the finder as well as the time capsule window. I can copy and paste the photo time capsule file it's just I wanted to time machine for backup for me. Any help much appreciated.

  The time Capsule is what we call a 'network' of the road, so when the USB is connected to the time Capsule, which would make it a "network" drive as well.

  Unfortunately, Time Machine is unable to back up a 'network' of the time Capsule drive.

  If you want to save the data or the USB disk using Time Machine drive, you will need to connect the drive directly to your Mac and then it will be saved with your Mac... assuming that the drive has been formatted for Mac to Mac OS extended (journaled) format. Then, the player will become a "local" drive

  If you need to keep the USB connected to the time Capsule, the only way to back up data automatically on a schedule would be to use a commercial program like Carbon Copy Cloner or ChronoSync.

• Time Machine backup missing group containers folder?

  I'm on a MBP running 10.11 (Yosemite) - I tried to free up space on my SSD, and I finally remove some profile folders that it turns out that I really, really need. Specifically, I deleted the following:

  • ~/Library/group containers/UBF8T346G9.ms
  • ~/Library/group containers/UBF8T346G9. Office

  Archive a large number of emails locally, and (thought) they are all written in this file. So yes, whatever.

  I thought, "I'll go in a time Machine backup from a few days ago, cling to these bad boys, and I'm back in business." Unfortunately - I searched several TM backups taken in the last few days/weeks and I can not find the folder ~/Library/Group containers. Zero, zip, nada.

  I thought that maybe it's a hidden file or something, so I used the option to make hidden files visible in the Finder. The saw there and also hidden files in Time Machine. Anyway... no group containers folder.

  Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated!

  Find my own solution.

  It turns out that group containers is folder/system /. Library - and the. Library file is a hidden folder. Once I thought, I found what I need. BOO!

• Go new Time Machine backup drive

  I have searched the forums and have not been able to find the answer to this yet.

  It is my Time Machine backup on an external hard drive. I want to move it to a new drive and get rid of the old drive. But I can't find any information that explains how to migrate from one disk to another. Can I just copy the folder Backups.backupdb on the new drive? I'm guessing that's not as simple as that.

  In addition, on the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox. I'm confused by what I read in the forums because it's kind of like a double negation. Once & for all, for this new album I want it checked or unchecked? And why?

  Thanks for your help.

  You can make a copy of the Finder to the new drive, but sometimes it hangs and does not work

  Try using disk/restore to copy the backup to a new location. Please note that this will reformat the destination partition.

  Checking ignore permissions usually eliminates any permissions problem which may occur.

• Change Time Machine backup

  Time Machine and I never got along. Time and time again, I tried to turn it on, but it always ends up biting me in the... back.

  This is how I have a disc that I had tried last to use as a Time Machine drive. Once more I gave (my different posts on these forums are prolly still out there proving my frustrations). But now, I met another problem. I'm establishing another backup strategy and all I want to do is get my stuff off the drive I was using. Well, guess what? (you prolly already know this) I'm not being allowed to edit the folder Backups.backupdb in any way, shape, or form. I can't drag something out of it, I can't rename anything; I can't trash anything. I tried to "deselect" this drive as the TM drive to see if that would allow alterations, but I couldn't find a way to do it.

  Although, no, this is not quite true. I CAN drag things from her on my system drive, but my SSD, basically, 500 GB cannot accommodate all at once. I have to go pieces transfer ten ad THOSE before I can move on. But above all I want pictures and videos from the TM drive and those, of course, are the biggest.

  A strange thing that happened that I did drag the Backups.backupds folder on an external one and, surprisingly, has begun to transfer things. But he got about 2/3 of the way through with it and then stopped. as if to say, "oh, wait, I'm not supposed to be allowing this.» So now I have this folder Backups.backupdb partial to this external one, similarly, can I do anything with! Just like the real TM reader, I can't change anything on/in it. And I can't get rid of it!

  What the heck can I do about it? TM drive has stuff on it that I have anywhere else.

  Oh, another thing. I tried to go "back in time" as TM was supposed to do, and I told myself I am not able to access any Time Machine drive. WHAT is everything?

  THX

  Alan b

  Start with B5 and B6 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• How can I restore mac Time machine backup to most recent?

  So, I recently met several problems with my old mac. He started acting upward with the blinking folder and question mark more often. So I did multiple time machine backups and have since then tried to reinstall the OS and many other options, but it looks like my mac middle of 2007 has had its day. So I bought a new mac and tried to restore the back upward on the external hard drive. I get the message that his back is an older version and it cannot be restored and I should use from the other mac migration assistant.

  So the question is: If the first mac is burned and I can not restore settings etc of the time external hard disk machine, how to restore the whole upward? Can I transfer files only?

  Very much appreciated.

  g

  Hi Sir,

  You cannot restore data in time machine just like that. You use the data transfer assistant to recover your old records to your new Mac.

  The data that you used time machine made to your old mac are not available to your new mac. There is limitation of the system.

  Hope this could help you.

• Cannot transfer Time Machine backups on the new drive

  I store my backup Time Machine on a Seagate 1.5 TB drive when the drive starts giving errors.  I had files on this computer and was able to transfer all except for 2 who were on unreadable sectors.  Fortunately, one of these files was an older archived version that I could afford to give up and the other was a temporary file in the photo library and since all other items were okay, I think I'm good.

  The problem came when I tried to transfer my Time Machine backup of 800 GB for a new disk.  When I copy and Exact-paste (cmd-opt-shift-v) the Backups.backupdb to the new drive, it gets the extent of November 23, 2015 and then dies because reports of the Console to the system, it gets an IO error when you try to read:

  /Library/SystemMigration/history/migration-245250B6-4F52-4FBB-BD61-546A8C19CCD5/ QuarantineRoot/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64

  in the relevant backup.  And because it's an IO error it simply abandons the whole process so I have no backup from November 23, included, for now.

  Because the disc is unstable, I wasn't able to use disk utility to make repairs on it.  The disc is what is and I have to deal with the mess, that I do not have the disorder, that I would have.

  I tried to manually place the missing files in the database, but the operating system will not let me.  I want to just copy my backup / OS X stop abandonment and be more like Windows and give me the options to "try again" or "fail" instead of just quitting!  I mean, why should I lose my backup all hierarchy of 23 November and beyond, simply because you cannot read a file, a file that I could simply replace in the backup of the current version or you can just ignore it.

  I tried to copy files on and setting xattr on them to be backup items, but they are wrong.  I tried chflags parameter to make the writable directory, but it does not work.  I can't copy the missing files to fix my archives.  Help.

  Please, don't try to transfer backups of a failed drive. Placing the disk aside until you don't know no longer you need the data, then delete and recycle. Start a new backup set on the new drive. For more security, you always have more than one backup.

• Backup a Time Machine backup?

  When troubleshooting a Mac in the past, I had the frightening experience of him erase my Time Machine backup.  Fortunately, I was able to restore the backup on the disk.

  Now I'm troubleshooting a Mac, I have my external drive Time Machine and a blank disk.

  For security reasons, before making troubleshooting more away from the Mac, I want to back up the Time Machine disk to the blank disc.

  Of course, I could just drag - copy the folder of documents from one disk to another, but it can cause all sorts of permissions problems. Would it not possible (or better) to use a backup like Carbon Copy Cloner for this application?

  Try using disk/restore to copy the backup to a new location. Please note that this will reformat the destination partition.

  You can then go to system PreferencesTime Machine and add the blank disc as a backup drive.

• Time Machine backup keeps causing MBP restart

  Hi all

  I'm a DJ and just more than one year, I bought a brand new series of mid-2012 13-inch Macbook Pro (non-retine) with an i5 2.5 Ghz processor.
  I installed a 750 7200 RPM HARD drive and max had the RAM to 16 GB with memory mac 'official' of CanComputers. I only use this machine for DJing. I have all my music in two folders on the desktop, I have 2-3 music applications and she. 10.9.5 running and I'm doing time machine backups every month.

  This month, my time machine was told the drive was corrupted and that I was able to read (it was a 500 GB Lacie Rugged). OK: I had another drive, a 1 TB USB3.0 Toshiba Ext HDD. 4 GB in the new backup, laptop computer suddenly shutdown, reboot and I get the message that the computer turns off due to a problem. I looked in the logs and nothing in particular stood out.

  I tried excluding my office of the backup and it worked - it supported a set of 3 GB. Then I added a little music on the desktop and excluded other files, and it has not yet. The entire backup is estimated to be about 450GB.

  I don't have time to play the files on this computer. Someone please tell me what I can do to solve this problem, or at least what is causing the problem. In the meantime, does anyone have an effective solution for the backup of these files?

  Thank you

  Danny

  These must be run as administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

  Please launch the Console application in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  In the Console window, select

  DIAGNOSIS AND diagnostic USE information reports ▹ System

  (not diagnose them and use Messages) in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu bar.

  There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points downwards. You will see a list of reports. A report of panic has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends with ".panic." Select the most recent. The content of the report is displayed at right. Allows you to copy and paste to validate all of the content, text, not a screenshot.

  If you don't see any report, but you know, there was a panic, you have chosen diagnostic and using the list of Log Messages. INFORMATION on the USE of DIAGNOSTIC AND choose instead.

  In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you change the UUID ' anonymous, ' a long string of letters, numbers and dashes in the header of the report, if it is present (it cannot be). "

  Please do not post other types of diagnostic report.

  I know that the report is long, perhaps several hundred lines. Please report all this anyway.

  When you post the report, an error message may appear on the web page: "you have included content in your post that is not allowed", or "the message contains invalid characters." It's a bug in the forum software. Thanks for posting the text on Pastebin, then post here a link to the page you created.

  If you have an account on Pastebin, please do not select private in exposure menu to paste on the page, because no one else that you will be able to see it.

• What happened to my Time Machine backups?

  I'm on Yosemite on a 2012 end Mac mini server, with an external HARD drive, I use for backups.

  The short version: I can "enter Time Machine" see my backups, but after restoring my system, my Time Machine configuration seems to have been lost and my Time Machine drive partition so that the backup has a "sparse disk image" bundle inside. (My other partition for backup of my laptop, has a "Backups.backupdb" folder to the root). On the partition of disk for backup of Mac mini, the "Backups.backupdb" folder is the bundle-sparse disk image file. When I "enter Time Machine", I'm assuming that Time Machine looks like in the package of disk for the historical image backups. However, I don't know if it will continue to backup where it was stopped.

  Background: this week, I was unable to boot from the hard drive of my Mac mini; There was something wrong with the partitioning which makes the player no longer starts. However, I also had a Windows partition which is bootable, and when I was on Windows I could see all the files on the Macintosh HD partition. Finally, I started in my Windows partition and the partition backup and cloned my Mac partition disk images on my backup drive - to the same partition on the backup drive where lived my backups Time Machine for this drive. Then I reinstalled OS X on the Mac mini.

  Surprisingly, when the Mac is started, all my files were already on it and I didn't need to use the Migration Wizard make most anything from the disk image I had cloned. However, when I went to save the newly installed system, I noticed that Time Machine has been configured is more - in the preferences of Time Machine, the oldest backup, and the last time read 'None', and there is no excluded folder. Curiously, however, when I go to "enter Time Machine" it evokes all the backups.

  I then compared the partition where I save the Mac mini on the other partition on the backup drive, where I save my laptop. On the partition of the laptop the "Backups.backupdb" folder is at the root. On the partition of backup for the Mac mini, there are three disks images - the clone of the Mac Mini hard drive and HDD Windows bootcamp, and another image called 'Of Paul Mac mini' which is a rare disk image containing all my backups Time Machine.

  Is it possible that I can configure Time Machine to ensure continuity with the old backup set? Even if I go up "By Paul Mac mini" Time Machine preferences don't recognize it as a backup drive. Do I have to get rid of, the clone images and copy the files of the sparse image to the root of the backup drive?

  See if you can inherit from the backup.

  Inherit from a backup

  Inherit from a backup (2)

• Time machine backup failure message

  I get the following message is displayed:

  "Time Machine could ' t all"backup time"backup."

  Full backup impossible.  An error occurred during the creation of the backup folder. »

  I could clear the error by restarting the system.

  The message passed every day.  Time has worked the last 3 days, but I suspect that it may begin to fail.  I'm not holding my breath as time machine can begin to fail again.

  Any ideas?

  Start with C10 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• Door key lost in the time machine backup

  Dear community,

  Because I had trouble with the speed of my MacBook Pro (and nothing else developed), I had to set up entirely new.

  Before installing El Capitan, my MacBook Pro (starting 2011) ran on Yosemite 10.10.5. I made two backups with time machine, generated a bootable El Capitan installation USB key, in format Macintosh HD, installed at El Capitan and ran all the updates. The system works well, everything works perfectly and my Mac is fast again. Now, I manually copy things that I need in my system of charges.

  Here, the problem is: I can't find the old keychain file in the time machine backup!

  Keychain works with the keys stored in iCloud. However, the other buttons are gone.

  As I discovered, ~/Library/Keychains is hidden. I did it visible on my system running. However, this does not work in the backup file. It remains hidden or - worse - have not been stored in the backup. I don't know that I have excluded from time machine backup only two totally different folders (dropbox and movies).

  You have any ideas how I can find my keychain (login.keychain if my search was right) in the time machine backup?

  Thanks a lot for your help!

  Time Machine, please press the shift-command-C key combination. The windshield will show the mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and search for files to restore.

  If you need to restore from a backup of the hidden user library folder, first select a snapshot, and then press shift-command-G. A go to the folder dialog box opens. In this document, you enter the path to the folder. The dialog box will help you by automatically filling parts of the path when you start typing.

  The path starts with the slash character ("/"). Enter that. The rest of the parts is separated by slashes.

  The next part is the date and time of the current snapshot. Enter a '2', and the rest of the date should be filled in automatically. Press the right arrow key to access the end of the path. Enter a slash to start the next game.

  Next is the volume name (usually "Macintosh HD" unless you assigned a different name.) Start typing, then jump to the end and enter a slash.

  The next part is 'Users', followed by a slash.

  Then is your short user name. It is also the name of your home folder, which is represented by an icon of the House in the sidebar of a Finder window.

  Finally, enter "Library", and then press return. You should now be in the library folder. From there, you can move like in the Finder. You can also select another snapshot of the same folder.

• Time Machine backups do not complete

  My main problem is when I start a Time Machine backup, it works quickly for an hour or two and then slows down to a crawl and never ends.

  I'm on 10.11.1.  I reformated my Time Machine backup disk to try to begin to clean up two or three times and I have the same problem.

  It started when I updated to El Capitan.  My original backup has been corrupted.  I reformatted the drive and now I am at this point.

  These must be run as administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

  Please launch the Console application in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  The title of the Console window should be all Messages. If it isn't, select

  SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ all Messages

  in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu at the top of the screen bar.

  In the upper right corner of the Console window, there is a search box to filter. Enter the 'Start-up' (without the quotes). You should now see messages in the log with the words "departure * backup," where * represents one of the words "automatic", "manual" or "standard".

  Each message in the journal begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the time stamp of the last 'Start' message that matches the start of a normal backup. Now

  DELETE THE WORD 'Start' TO THE TEXT BOX

  so that all messages are showing and highlight the newspaper at the same time, you noted. Select the time-stamped messages since then until the end of the backup or the end of the log if it is not clear. Copy to the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command + V.

  If all you see are messages that contain the word 'Start-up', you clear the text field.

  The journal contains a large amount of information, almost everything that is not relevant to solve a particular problem. When you post a journal excerpt, be selective. Don't post any more it is requested.

  Please don't dump blindly thousands of lines in the journal in this discussion.

  Please do not post screenshots of log messages - text poster.

  Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

  When you post the journal excerpt, an error message may appear on the web page: "you include content in your post that is not allowed", or "the message contains invalid characters." It's a bug in the forum software. Thanks for posting the text on Pastebin, then post here a link to the page you created.

  If you have an account on Pastebin, please do not select private in exposure menu to paste on the page, because no one else that you will be able to see it.

• The merger with Time Machine backups

  I fear I know the answer to that, but would like confirmation.

  I am running Fusion 2.0.4 and have Mac OS 10.5.6.

  As part of support to replace a faulty card from the airport on my MBP, Apple did a new install of the OS and erased my disk. When I started the laptop I told it to restore from a Time Machine backup. He restored all the files under the My Documents folder, except for my virtual machines. He has even restored a text file I had in the 'Virtual Machines' folder, but not the virtual machines themselves. Looking back through the external drive for Time Machine, I don't see the virtual machines to any previous backup.

  I guess I'm watered at this point, although I'm hoping the actual VMs are located elsewhere, and under 'Virtual Machines' files are just links. Does anyone have an idea what I can try, or why the virtual machines are not saved?

  Thank you.

  Jeff

  If your virtual machines were in the "Virtual Machines" folder, where they are. Although it is possible to create a configuration where this isn't quite the case (for example, the link hard to another directory or volume), the simplest and explanation of the default value is that your virtual machines were either not stored (in this case I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news) or in the first place never were in this folder (you can check your drive to backup files/folders - virtual machines tend to be big so should stand out).

  As to why it is, Time Machine in the first versions of Leopard would cause a deadlock (and hang the Mac) in certain circumstances, one of them was a virtual machine. To work around this problem, Fusion told Time Machine to exclude virtual machines. Apple has fixed the bug of Time Machine and deleted merge the exclusion of Time Machine, but it is possible to get into situations where virtual machines are still excluded.

  In general, we do not recommend the use of Time Machine to back up virtual machines - the short version is that it will go quickly through space and that it still does not produce a viable backup. Instead, we recommend that you back up files in the comments (or their mirror to the host and let Time Machine pick them up there), or manually back up virtual machines when they are not running.