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• Time Machine must create a new backup

  I received the following message: Time Machine has conducted an audit of your backups on "Personal Cloud."  To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.  Does this mean that to maintain backups, my previous backups will be gone?   I'm basically ignoring tech.  Thank you!

  Does this mean that to maintain backups, my previous backups will be gone?

  Yes.

  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.)

• Migration of Time Machine to the new drive, backups are larger than the Original drive

  I am currently migrating my Time Machine backups from a 2 TB WD My Passport for Mac to a new WD 6 to my book for Mac. I have 63 backups on the old disk, and Finder says that the reader has TB filled 1.96.

  However, each individual backup is about 350 GB, which certainly does not. I think normally it was something weird with the Finder listing the wrong sizes, except that when I copy the backups to the new disk, they copy effectively to 350GB a piece. I initially tried to copy everything the ~ 2 TB Backups.backupdb at once, but it was so great, she didn't, then I copy on each both a backup in a folder that I had planned to rename "Backups.backupdb" at the end. At this rate, I will fill new TB cases 6 drive long before copying all backups on.

  How is that possible?

  Just to be complete, I'm using a Macbook Pro of the retina 2012, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 graphics card Intel HD 4000 1536 MB, 512 GB of storage, under OS X 10.11.3.

  Time Machine saves the previous backups for the continuous backup size to become more wider until there is no more space on the backup drive. It is quite normal because Time Machine is an archive backup utility.

• Time Machine Sparsebundle NAS based Backup-error

  Like many times before, I This Time Machine Sparsebundle NAS based backup errors trying to force me to remove all my backups before creating a new - and I turn down this time.

  I found this article http://www.garth.org/archives/2011, ased 08,27,169,fix-time-machine-sparsebundle-nas-b-backup - errors.html which seems to be great, but already at the beginning that the commands do not work for me any more:

  MacBookPro: ~ root # chflags nouchg /Volumes/Data/MacBookPro.sparsebundle r

  MacBookPro: ~ root # hdiutil attach nomount - noverify - noautofsck - /Data/MacBookPro.sparsebundle

  hdiutil: attach failed - no such file or directory

  The path to the sparsebundle is TimeCapsule/Data/MacBookPro.sparsebundle.

  I have no idea of this Terminal stuff, so I am at a loss.

  For further help, thank you very much!

  Peter

  

• Hello, I have a question. I want to buy a new macbook pro. On my old macbook is photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 6. When I put the time machine on my new macbook. Does PS and LR?

  Hello, I have a question. I want to buy a new macbook pro. On my old macbook is photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 6. When I put the time machine on my new macbook. Does PS and LR?

  We do not recommend installation from a backup, time machine, or migration of files. All programs must be installed from the installation files.

  Please try to install from here: Download produced CS6

  After downloading the installation files, see these instructions to extract the files and install your product.

  And lightroom from here: Download Photoshop Lightroom

  Moving to download, installation, setting up

• Time machine can finish no backup on airport time capsule

  Time machine can finish no backup on airport time capsule.

  explanation: there is no access to the/volumes/data-1/macbook diskcopiefile xxxx.sparsebundle that is used to back-up pro (error (null))

  The network failed to halfway through the backup.

  To resolve this problem, we need to know your complete network type.

  This modem do you have? Brand and model please.

  Who is your ISP? It is important for the IPv6 configuration.

  What model is the TC?

  What the configuration of TC in the network?

  How old is the MBP? If you have an ethernet port that you use it instead of wireless?

  Is this a first backup? Or were you works well for awhile and it's broken now?

• Time Machine asking to create new backup, backups, but seems to work very well

  Time Machine tells me that he wants to delete my backup history and create a new backup volume, but it seems to be back up files very well. I use an Apple AirPort WiFi. Must I just keep ignoring Time machine to start a new backup volume? I really don't want to lose my backup history.

  Something is not here.

  When time Machine tell the backup is corrupt and he must wipe... then it can save is more to it.

  That probably makes TM uses your local hard drive to a backup snapshot from the network on your Time Capsule version (or AE more USB drive) is now corrupted.

  Sorry, but your history of Time Machine is now dead and lost... and just need to bury. There is rarely any great point by making a backup of the sparsebundle... but if you are adamant then for sure just copy the sparsebundle to a different location... erase the drive, and then start over... You have no choice.

• Transfer only a single backup time machine to the new drive

  Old drive has Time Machine backups for macbook and iMac. A drive is not partitioned.

  New B drive has been partitioned and my intention is to transfer a backup to each partition.

  I can't drag the folder Backups.backupdb on the new disk as it will put two backups on the same partition.

  Can I create a folder Backups.backupdb on each partition, and then drag the backups in their respective folders on their respective partitions?

  Thank you.

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

• Time Machine do not hourly backups on WD My Book for Mac new

  My 1 TB time capsule was too small for the full backup so I just bought a 6 new to WD "My Book for Mac" and have now a new back up, but it won't backup time as usual. I am running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Can anyone who thinks that the reason for what I fear not having a reliable backup. The problem with the new hard drive external or is - a problem with EL Capitan?

  Hello Arnaud,.

  Thank you for using communities of Apple Support. It is my understanding that Time Machine was not back up as expected. I certainly understand how it is important to be able to back up your content. I'm happy to help you.

  There are several factors that could influence the automatic backup. Please follow the steps in the link below to fix this problem:

  If you cannot back up or restore your Mac with Time Machine

  In addition to these measures, hourly backups could be affected by your sleep Macs and power Nap settings, depending on which Mac you use. To ensure that your hourly backups are finished, set your Mac sleep to a longer period time. For testing purposes, try to set the duration of sleep at least 1 hour. You can do this in system preferences > energy saver.

  In addition, if you use a portable Mac, make sure that it is connected to power during the tests to see if hourly backups work. See the link below to view information on how Power Nap works and how it can affect Time Machine.

  How Power Nap works on your Mac

  Keep in mind, that Time Machine backs up only files that have changed since the last backup.

  Have an amazing day!

• Virtual machine does not start after restoring from Time Machine to the new Imac

  I got my IMac replaced by Apple, after that they could not fix the old one.  They did a full restore from a Time Machine backup.  The virtual machine does not open now.   When I navigate to the file to try to open the virtual machine at the VMware logo in the bottom right of the icon displayed with large yellow exclamation appears on the icon?  Anyone encountered this problem before.  I'll take the Imac in Saturday if I can not solve.  The machine has the same size as before.  There are a few aspects of sharing with the Mac application miss me?

  According to the MacVirt.vmdk folder, you have the right number of segments of shared disk so you should be able to create a new VM by pointing to the disc in the new VM Wizard by pointing to the MacVirt.vmdk file.

  Note: After you create the new Virtual Machine, I would not suggest the Virtual Machine to stop, pause and close merge and then move all *.vmdk files in the package of the virtual machine, and then manually change the computer configuration files virtual .vmx and change the path to a little to view the MacVirt.vmdk file.  In this way, everything is in one package and is easier to maintain.

• I keep El Capitan, but Food Lion of Time Machine on a new partition on HDD. Is this possible?

  I run a Macbook Pro in 2011. I recently updated my OS from the Lion to El Capitan.

  Unfortunately, a major program I need to use is not compatible with the new OS X 10.11.

  Fortunately I made when I was still on 10.7, a time Machine backup before the update.

  I think to partition my internal drive to keep El Capitan, but also restore Lion of my Time Machine backup on the new partition. This way I can continue to use the program, I need by starting the Lion of the second partition.

  Is this feasible? If so, how can I restore Lion of Time Machine after partitioning my drive?

  Thanks in advance. Any help is very appreciated.

  Yes, but only if your computer can boot from a system of Lion. With regard to the full system restore using Time Machine: Please consult the FAQ of Time Machine of Pondini for help with Time Machine. It is a vast site with almost everything that you need for using Time Machine. You will not find a better resource for Time Machine in one place. Due to the disappearance of James Pondini is the site is no longer updated. Therefore, some information may be somewhat outdated.

• 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 stuck at "Preparing backup...". "for external drive

  Hello.  I recently upgraded to El Capitan of Lion - a terrible experience, but finally got it work.

  Anywho, today I tried to backup on Time Machine for the first time since the upgrade.  I left it at "Preparing backup...". "about four hours without change.  Then, I checked with the activity monitor essentially ~ 0 activity (< 1.0%="" cpu). ="" i="" then="" followed="" the="" instructions="" here:="">http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/31/time-machine-stuck-preparing-backup-mac-fix/, asking to delete the "inProgress" of the hard drive.)  I deleted the file from the Recycle Bin, restarted and still no luck.  I'm not sure of the "Spotlight indexing' - as I understand, I want to ensure is completed.  So I checked the status and progress is null and has been for over an hour.  (There are no blue in the status bar, just gray.)

  I then followed these instructions: problems of time machine of El Capitan by watching the Console application.  Here is an example of one of my tests:

  10/01/16 18:44:08.123 com.apple.backupd [495]: from manual backup

  10/01/16 18:44:08.549 com.apple.backupd [495]: backup on/dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/AMYTUZ/Backups.backupdb

  10/01/16 18:44:10.193 com.apple.backupd [495]: store event UUIDS do not match for the volume: Macintosh HD

  10/01/16 18:44:13.152 com.apple.backupd [495]: event Deep scan to the path: / reason: who must analyze subdirs. new event db |

  10/01/16 18:44:13.152 com.apple.backupd [495]: running the event analysis

  10/01/16 18:44:59.269 ntpd [183]: time together + 0.387310 s

  10/01/16 18:45:07.639 netbiosd [538]: nameserver down?

  10/01/16 18:45:18.381 com.apple.cts [41]: com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.keep - living-on-sale: Planner returned false. However, this task is overdue 1 seconds. Run anyway.

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.625 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.625 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:10000 regularImport:0 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.626 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.669 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:643) SDB consistency check from

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.671 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.672 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.672 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.672 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.674 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:10000 regularImport:0 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.674 [60]: (DiskStore.Normal:2407) _importFilesWithUTIs maxCount:0 regularImport:1 queue: 0

  10/01/16 mds 18:45:18.677 [60]: checksum (DiskStore.Normal:658) SDB full for 0 items

  10/01/16 18:46:12.141 netbiosd [538]: nameserver down?

  10/01/16 18:47:27.183 netbiosd [538]: nameserver down?

  Uh, help?  Haha!  Thanks for reading.  Hope that someone has comments.  El Capitan has forced me to learn more about Mac than ever.  -My first upgrade!

  So, my guess is that your external drive is not happy.

  I suggest to run disk utility and see what it reports.

  This disk must be reformatted.

• is it better to restore from time machine or from a backup cloned

  I just got my replaced Mac hard drive. Of course, I did a backup first - two, in fact. One is my Time Machine stored on my Time Capsule backup. The other is a backup cloned, made with SuperDuper!, stored on an external hard drive.

  Now, the mac is back with it's all new hard drive, and I was wondering: is there an advantage to restoring from a backup vs the other? Is "Restore from Time Machine backup" a better option than with SuperDuper! to restore the clone bootable? Or vice versa? Or does really make any difference at all?

  Additional info: the TM and Clone were both looking at the same time (give or take a few minutes) and the Mac, at the time where it has been saved, ran the Mavericks. I also asked Apple to install the Mavericks on the new hard drive instead of El Capitan.

  Display?

  Thanks in advance.

  It really makes no difference that you are restoring from.

• 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!

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