time machine

Hello everyone. A little backstory. I was a hackintosh user for over a decade, with my latest machine being an i7 6700k running Catalina. The machine was/is absolutely bombproof, super stable, quiet, and always worked with everything I threw at it. Never felt any bottlenecks with even the most...

I have a home network with several Macs. Now that I again have a dedicated Mac serving as a Time Machine backup repository, I am trying to set this up on an individual Time Machine client, which I want to get backed up to the server. All computers involved are running Ventura. The server is a...

I've used Time Machine many times with the same setup. Today, it displayed a message that it couldn't complete the backup. Details pointed to a single .mov file in a desktop folder. I moved that file off of my computer, started TM again and it ran successfully. Which leads to a few questions: o...

I have a SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD with 4 TB capacity that's hooked up to my MacBook Pro 2018, whose internal hard drive is 2 TB. When I initially set up the external drive, backing up my computer to it worked without issue, maybe for about a week. But then I started getting regular...

Hi folks, My Time Machine backup is to a Synology NAS and I'm trying to restore some directories from a few months ago. I go into Time Machine, scroll back to the date, it sits there loading for a few minutes and then it scrolls back by itself to a backup from yesterday. It won't let me...

Hi I was wondering, so the old iMac a Late 2009 (it's still good to use and is amazing as an external monitor) is still used if this is possible (also save space, keep the stylish glass and aluminum desk tidy): partition it's storage to a few GBs for macOS, just to make it work as an external...

Hi to all, I just got a more recent MacBook Pro than my current Late 2013 and in the transitory time in which I'll still have both but using only the newer one, I would like to keep the most recent part of the Time Machine history of the older one which went way back, occupying some 1TB of data...

Hi all. I was running an external hard drive on my Mac Mini to store my data. I backed up this hard drive to another external hard drive with Time Machine. Well, the time has come and my data hard drive died. I entered into Time Machine mode, but I can't seem to find a way to access my files...

Hello Apple & Mac friends. Because of the Monterey bug with USB external drives as many are experiencing here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/does-monterey-have-a-bug-with-mounting-external-drives-images.2331283/page-4?post=31365916#post-31365916 I've not backed up for about a year...

Hello everyone, I've been a MacOS user since several years, lately on a Macbook Pro Late 2013 where I've been careful to stay with Catalina since I have installed a few apps (especially Adobe) which are in old versions (not available anymore) and wouldn't almost certainly install and/or work on...

Is anyone else experiencing Time Machine problems with the .1 update? This is what I'm seeing: The normal prompt pops up requesting the password to enable use of the Time Machine disk, which is encrypted Upon putting the correct password in, there is no response for several seconds; then the...

Kinda new to apple in general and not really familiar with time machine backups yet. One thing for sure though, dont wanna backup tens of thousands of dependencies like for example javascript and npm with node_modules. What language do you use and what folders do you exclude? I am getting...

Hi all I am on MacOS Monterey. I am trying to delete one particular date from the Time Machine on my SSD Storage. How exactly do I do this? I have read some people say I cannot do it if I am on APFS, only can do it on HFS. How do I know which one mine is? And if I am indeed on APFS, surely...

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Hi! I am using an external SSD Samsung T7 (2TB) as Time Machine for a MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021), Apple M1 Pro, having installed macOS Monterey 12.4, and I have certain problems using it. To be more specific, when the Time Machine SSD is plugged in for the first time after the MacBook is...

Good morning to the community, New M1 Pro MacBook owner, after waiting two months for my order to come into store, I finally got a day off work to open and set it up only to find the screen was smudged and the charger would randomly make the plugged in sound, guttered was an understatement...

I did move from an iMac Intel to a Mac Mini M1 I did use the same TM disk but I did not restore from TM backup since I was moving from intel to M1 When I first connected my TM disk macOS asked me if I want to inherit previous backup and I said YES I can see on the right hand side older bars...

Just got a new MacBook Pro M1 Max and I need an external hard drive to do time machine backups. I think 12-14 TB should be enough. I want to spend around $250. Any recommendations? I’ve looked at Western Digital Elements and My Book, as well as Seagate Expansion. But they all got some bad...

Real actual experience anyone? If it IS possible, how many hours did it took per gigabyte of backups? (I have 7.8TB to convert...)

I might have some corrupted backups in my TM drive. And my TM does not always succeed to make a backup maybe because of this. Anyway the drive is full, so I bought a double sized disk (8TB->16TB). For my past experience, when I notice something is missing, it is usually acidentally deleted...