Time Machine - keep backups on a disk-without having a full backup?

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• El Capitan to 10.11.6 now airport Time Machine keeps disconnecting update

  I've just updated El Capitan to 10.11.6.  Now the airport Time Machine keeps disconnecting. Any suggestions?

  Time Machine is a software on your Mac, which is used to save the contents of your Mac (s) at an airport Time Capsule.

  An Airport Time Capsule is a wireless router with a hard drive built-in, designed to store backups Time Machine of your Mac (s).

  With this in mind, could you give more details about the problem you are having?  Disconnection from the airport Time Capsule or disconnecting from Time Machine?

  Do you get any error messages? If so, what exactly is the message that you receive?

• Time Machine - I have masses of free space, but Time Machine keeps deleting old files - why?

  Time Machine - I have masses of space free (about 2.5 TB) but time machine keeps deleting files of more than nine months. Is there a parameter limiting that I don't know?  My backup drive is a 4 start Drobo drive.  I have everything works fine except this irritating issue.  Any ideas out there?

  Hello Mike Oscar.

  I hope that I am able to help you with your concern today. If I understand you correctly, in Time Machine, files of more than 9 months are deleted. Time Machine to save space. I'm not sure if Apple is allowing us to extend this period to 12 months or even 16 months, but it would be a great recommendation. I hope I could help you with your concern.

  Best regards

  Richard

• Time Machine keeps make full backups

  I have a TM drive (3 TB) backup 3 partitions (about 1.2 TB total) since October 2014.  TM keep doing strange things when I'm doing something unrelated to the TM. For example, temporarily starting in Mavericks (I'm under 10.6.8) completely wrecks TM in same 10.6.8 so I turned off it and physically disconnected the disk until I'm back in 10.6.8.  I spent 2 months with the support of Apple earlier this year to try to figure out how to make it work again in 10.6.8.  I have reset TM (Pondini.org pages) several times.  The most recent problem occurred when I tried to resize a partition on a disk mirror (excluded in the TM).  After you have finished resizing, TM has made a backup of 600GO when he was that nothing changed on any of the 3 targets TM usually saves.  I had to upgrade to a larger disk, earlier this year because of this kind of behavior (2 TB-3 TB >) and I have reset the UUID of the new drive so that it would continue from where the 2 TB drive left using the xattr and fsaclctl commands (it worked perfectly!).  I'm slowly running out of space again.  Does someone understand why this is happening?  More importantly, is there a way to delete a backup and do not have TM do it again.  I could easily delete the most recent backup but I suspect that the next time that TM made a backup, it will be rebackup the 600 GB. I suppose that one solution is to buy another drive and reset the UUID, but this does not solve the problem of weird behavior.  TM is an archive history is important, but it's a royal pain!

  Start with D3 and 4 in 1 related article.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• Two Time Machine drive backup restore to a single hard disk?

  Hello world

  I have a 2011 iMac that has a SSD running OSX and holding all of my applications.

  I also have a mechanical hard drive internal 3TO with my user on it and all my documents and files.

  I just bought a new iMac with a merger of 3 TB drive only and I need to restore everything as it is now (from two readers) on one drive in the new iMac.

  What is the best way to go about this?

  The SSD source looks like this:

  

  The Macintosh HD source looks like this ("timothy" is my user):

  

  Time machine has two backups separated according to me, one for each of the two drives internal, just restore both fully?

  Thanks for the help!

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• Time Machine failed backup. What are alternative backup software?

  A MBP with 1 TB HD could not continue the Time Machine backup, after update OS X to El Capitan 10.11.6. Old backups TM are automatically removed because of the error checking. The MBP also failed to make a new backup TM.

  I guess I maybe need a reinstallation of the OS X. How is it safe to reinstall OS X 10.11.6 without a backup?  Any suggestion of a software disk cloning? (e.g. copy of carbon can make a clone of disc? How do I?)

  You should check the drive you used for Time Machine backups with disk utility > first aid to make sure that the disc is not serious. If you mean Carbon Copy clone, yes it can create clones. Instructions to create a clone are provided with the program.

• 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 or backup from Sierra installed

  I backup my MacBook Pro and MacBook Air to Time Machine but show just 'preparation' constantly.  Tried rebooting the Machine and the time of the Macbook, and they are all connected via Airport utility.  Don't know what other troubleshooting I could undertake?  Any help gratefully received.

  Sierra is having issues and never use Time machine on top of an existing backup anyway.

  The steps are to.

  1. archiving of current backups.

  Plug a USB key that is equal to the size of the disk of the CT (you mix the terms Time Machine... software backup on the computer... and Time Capsule... material target for backups within a router).

  Archive is on the airport utility disk tab.

  

  2. once the backup is complete. It may take a day or two for 2 TB which is full drive.

  Erase the disc from TC... a quick erase is fine.

  It takes only a few minutes.

  3 factory reset the TC and reconfigure airport under Sierra on one of your Mac utility.

  Reset Time Machine preferences and it should start and run very well.

  But also, you should read some of the other threads here on the problem.

  For example... preparation is supposed to spend a lot of time when you try to use the existing backup... more wireless with two computers together... It will take days to complete.

  Open the activity monitor and ensure that other processes do not always use CPU. A person discovered photos was chew 90% CPU making a function which is part of the update and not allowing any time for TM backup in progress.

• 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.

• I want to use Time Machine to backup all emails in gmail to a drive.drive Seagate and Lacie.

  I have a Mac Mini with OS X Lion 10.7.5.  I want to use some software (Time Machine?) to back up my gmail

  emails dating back to 2006 on a backup drive Seagate.  I installed the time Machine, and he backs up everything but

  gmail emails.  Can someone give me help.

  Time Machine is to back up files on a local disk. If your gmail emails are in local hard disk, they are ongoing. But if they are on a Gmail server, this isn't a function of time Machine.

  https://support.Google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en

• time machine/capsule backup lost

  Hello

  When wanting to access the saved data of time capsule via the time machine, time machine shows zero backup history while there would be more than a year with a value of more than 900 GB.  I get this in time machine preferences:

  

  

  When you click on the available data disk, time capsule/machine displays no backup history and appears empty; the above data disk it is not accessible and cannot be removed.  Yet one of these disks is indicated as an accountant 963 GB of data, and I suspect that it is the only inaccessible.  How the hell could this happen?  Anyone has an idea, and advises?  I do not tinker with the application and airport utility shows no connectivity issues.  Please, let me know as soon as possible - thanks!

  Frank M.

  Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for Time Machine discovered a corruption of backup... it will then proceed to delete the backup and start over. The sparsebundle is not deleted... He still occupies the space that it used to before deleting the content took place.

  The only way to know if that is really what happened is to open the sparsebundle in the finder. See if it's contained in there... If there is... the question is different. TM has lost its connection to its own protection is also not rare. Any change in the network, you have done for this cause. It is possible to reconnect to the existing backups.

  My recommendations...

  1. read some of Pondini howto in order to understand what is happening.

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

  A4 and A5 are the most useful... TM to reset and verify backups.

  2. open the sparsebundle in the Finder and see if there is indeed always glad... If so, check in the TC. To do this through the disk tab in the airport utility. Plug in a USB key in the TC...

  

  Once you check the disk...... delete it and start a new backup.

  You can still access the old backup by plugging the USB directly to the computer... Right-click on the icon of TM in the dock. And select Browse... According to the screenshot below.

  

  The TM and TC combo turns out to be less reliable over time (pun intended).

• Time Machine: deleted backups of the status "pending".

  Hello world

  I manually deleted some old backups Time Machine interface, by clicking on the gear button in the backup Finder and selecting Remove backup.

  Now deleted backups are no more hard disk or in the trash, but they are always present in the Time Machine interface in a "pending" status and it is not possible any action on them.

  How can I remove them completely from Time Machine?

  Thanks in advance for any suggestion,

  Good bye

  Gabriele

  Manual removal of the old backups is not a good thing to do. Let Time Machine take care of itself.

  I suggest you use Spotlight to reindex your hard disk and backup disk, then run a backup Time Machine and see what clears the problem. If this isn't the case, you might be better off erase your backup disk and start a new Time Machine backup.

  Spotlight - re - index

• Time machine keeps 'prepare' update

  I noticed yesterday that this time machine turned when I was on finder. (the small wheel circulating)  I checked and the last update was December 27, several days ago.  I have not updated anything or any news apps in.  Nothing has changed.  I am running Yosemite 10.10.5. on my day 2010 27 "iMac.  After searching for communities, I saw one say to uncheck "put the hard drives to sleep when possible" under the energy saver.  I did and it made no difference.  I get all records of time machine that there is a problem, he just keeps trying to update.  I disabled the time Machine for some time and then restarted, it and got the same.  I removed the current and then attached to time machine backup drive, but no difference.  (the disc has 855 GB 2T available and is about a year.) Have no idea that it would take 5/6 days to prepare to be updated even though I had added something new.

  If I update to El Capitan would be it reset Time Machine.  I've been putting it off power to ensure that most of the bugs are out.

  Thank you

  Judy

  Start with D1 & D2 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

  Yosemite: If Time Machine still at the stage of the "preparation".

• IMac WITH TIME MACHINE WE BACKUP DATA FILES (MS Money) VMF

  Anyone know how to make a backup of the files to merge with Time Machine data?  I'm just using a virtual machine, no Boot Camp.  OS is XP running Microsoft Money and wish for these data files will be saved, as they automatically on Time Machine backup.  I tried to reset the backup to the shared folder destination, but then could not find it in the shared folder.

  Thank you

  ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

  It is stored in the file package VM, with everything else. So I think you're wondering if you can save the snapshot itself, without having to save the rest of the files for this virtual machine. The answer is probably not "easily", although I'm sure that others with more experience can give you a more detailed answer.

  The long and short if this is probably: If all you want to do, on a regular basis, save the files that are inside the virtual machine that have been changed (for example Money files), you must store them outside of the virtual machine (usually on a shared folder). But make sure you back up the virtual machine itself at least once, and probably whenever you install something again. But of course it depends on how paranoid, you will lose your hard drive (and paranoia is not always a bad thing, aty least in this case).

  Dan

• How to restore my Mac from a Time Machine archived backup

  I've tried Sierra for a few days, but since I discovered that some of my software work well with it but I restored my system to El Capitan via wipe HD. I want to restore my old data now, but I recently had to archive my TimeCapsule and all remaining backups come from the Sierra. I therefore need to restore my system completely from an archived backup TM. How can I do this?

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support