Time Machine - multiple backups - different set of each backup folders

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• Can I use Time Machine for several different backups?

  I have my 500 Gb HD Macintosh that saves on two external hard drives (two 500 GB), so I always have two backups! But I have another external hard drive (1 TB) with a lot of footage on it I want backe up on top of a new external drive (1 TB)! It is possible to configure Time machine to do it automatically for me, also two different backups?

  TM can run a backup plan. You can include the other external drive backup on the backup TM drive or the existing disks as well as your Mac HD drive. You can save all the new 1 TB disk readers (or readers if you want to add others). 500 Gig drives are not big enough for all readers of backup too.

  What you might consider is use SuperDuper or CCC to back up the other disk to the new 1 TB drive.

• Time Machine - an exclusion different backup for the backup drives different time machine

  I hope someone can help me.

  For these past years, I used 2 Time Machine backups to keep all safe. I have 1 backup x who lives at home and is 3 times the size of my disk. I also have a second drive of laptop that I travel with, which is partitioned to give a little time machine backup, more than 1.5 TB of "overflow storage (for movies, video files, etc).

  Recently however, I realized that my "storage of listening" actually contains a large amount of data I wouldn't lose (especially the photos of my children because they were born), so now I want to save this drive as well.

  If my ideal situation is to have a huge drive I leave at home. This contains backups of the computer AND 'excess of storage' backup. It's pretty simple to implement.

  But can someone tell me if my trip backup, will try also to the other partition of the backup drive? And if so, is there anyway to give different time machine backups different exclusions.

  Hope that makes sense and hope that someone can help me.

  Thank you
  John

  You will need to manually change the exclusions when you going on a trip. There isn't a way to change automatically.

• Time Machine Error - backup failed

  Hello

  I get "could not complete back, an error occurred when creating the backup folder"-I have an iMac with an Iomega eGo external hard drive. I checked the previous discussions about this and can not solve. What should I do?

  Please take each of the following steps that you have not already tried until the problem is resolved.

  1. disconnect, then reconnect the drive.

  2. in the menu bar, select

  ▹ System Preferences Energy Saver power adapter ▹ ▹ 

  and uncheck the box marked

  Put the hard drives to sleep when possible

  If it is checked.

  3. some external drives ignore setting the energy saver and turn down in any case. The 'KeepDriveSpinning' of the Director Jon Stovell application can help in this matter. (Credit to ASC member dsrtmacusr for this solution).

  4. If the drive is connected to a hub, connect it to a port built into the computer. If it is already connected to a built-in port, and there is another such port, use.

  5. If the player has more than one deck (for example, FireWire and USB), try another.

  6. check the Web site of the provider of the car for an update of the firmware.

  7 contact the seller to see if there is a firmware setting, you can change.

  8. If you have installed the provider for the reader software, uninstall it.

  9. triple - click anywhere in the line below on this page to select this option:

  /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

  Right-click or Ctrl-click on the highlighted line and select

  Services ▹ reveal in Finder (or just to reveal)

  in the context menu. A Finder window should open with a selected file. Copy the file to the desktop. Then he (the original, not the copy) move to the trash. You will be asked for your administrator password. Restart the computer and re-create your settings in the Time Machine preferences window. It will show you that you have no backups. Don't worry; which is expected. Perform a backup to test. The backup can take much longer than usual. If TM now works as expected, delete the file that you copied to the desktop.

  10. If none of the steps above resolves the problem, the drive may be defective. Try another. You may be able to save an external drive mechanism by installing it in a different pen.

• 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).

• 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!

  The guarantee gives the right to the free phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.

• Time Machine - multiple disks?

  Hello

  I just lost my cloud storage because prices went through the roof looking for alternatives.

  I am currently using Time Machine to do a general backup to my Macbook and the connected player, but I want to be able to do the following:

  Continue to make my Time Machine backup as usual

  Once every week/month attach a new/other drive and make a backup with Time Machine, this drive will be then stored in my work

  In this way, I have all my data on 3 discs in different places

  Is it possible to do this easily and simply?

  Hope that makes sense

  Is it possible to do this easily and simply?

  Yes. Just add more backup destinations. They will be rotated automatically, or sauteed if not available.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• adding the 2nd Time Machine disk backup capability

  I have a Mac pro OS X 10.11.5 with two discs devoted to the backup. When I wanted the first filled to the top, then add the second to continue archiving backup files.

  I don't want to lose my older archived data in backups on disk 1.

  What happens when I add a second drive to add capacity to the Time Machine backups?  Once the first drive is hard full TM then will use the second drive until it is full?

  When you add the second drive, I get a warning that the TM will take turns using the disc 1 and disc 2. But 1 disk is full. TM will not delete old information on Drive 1 to make room? If Yes is not good because I want to keep the old data. I just want to keep incremental backups to Drive 2.

  Please specify the feature.

  Yes, TM will continue to save on disk 1 and delete older backups and take turns with disk 2. If you want to keep 1 as it is by car, then you must remove it from the list of backup. Start a new backup on disk 2, and continue. In both cases, the disc 2 will make a new full backup of your computer.

• Time machine and backup Mail, Contacts and calendar

  I installed an SSD hard drive 120 GB in my Mac Mini. I formatted and installed El Capitan in this SSD, then I'll just install my apps in there. All of my documents will remain in the original of the Mini hard drive. This is why I am asking how to transfer all my files from mail and messages, all my calendar events and all my Contacts on the new drive. I tried to use my Time Machine backup, but I don't know how. Is there an easy way to do this?

  Do you use iCloud?

  http://www.Apple.com/icloud/

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

  After that I moved all my old backup data on a new player and liked that I expected Time Machine (TM) just continue where we left it when the smaller drive has been marked as complete. On the contrary, it seems that TM took a full backup take a lot of space for backups that already existed between the data leave the smaller drive?

  This kind of destroyed the concept of TM "incremental forever" which I assumed could survive a movement of backup of data from a smaller to a larger drive?

  If I missed something along the way I would like to be reminded...

  Time Machine: How to transfer backups from a current backup disk to a new backup drive - Apple Support