time machine

I will be upgrading my mid 2014 MBP soon to an M1 Max 16 inch MBP as I think its time. My question is will I be able to transfer my all my stuff like I did when I first turned on, my iPhone 13 pro and transferred my stuff from the XS. Can I transfer this away or will I need a portable USB drive...

I now have two MacBooks in the home (one is mine, one belongs to partner). We do not share files, but both wish to back up our data on the same device. Here's my setup: MacBook Pro - Big Sur (500GB drive) MacBook Pro - Monterey (512GB drive) Netgear Nighthawk R700P Router with (1) available...

Hey guys, I have a really strange issue (at least for me) with Time Machine after upgrading to Monterey. Normally, a new complete backup takes between 3 to 5 hours for me using a 4TB USB 3, my Passport drive as the time machine drive. After upgrading to macOS Monterey, the system is very...

My old Macbook Pro isn't on the list of supported Macs for Monterey. Question: Will I be able to take the Time Machine backup (an external hard disk) of my old MacBook Pro running Big Sur and use it in the Setup/Migration Assistant on the new MacBook Pro running Monterey? I might have to...

Dear community, currently, I am a Windows user. I will get the new 14“ MacBook Pro with 512 GB storage when it’s out. I am not storing videos/pictures, mainly office stuff. Now I am looking for an external backup system. In my imagination, I want to use an HDD/SSD which I stick in from times...

If I don't exclude anything in my Time Machine settings, what doesn't macOS actually back up / restore? I recently sent my Mac in for a hardware repair and was surprised to find that the technicians wiped my hard drive, so I'm restoring from a Time Machine backup I made right before taking it in...

I got new external SSD and want to use it for Time Machine backups, but it switching to "read only" after configuring the Time Machine. SSD is working, I can format it in exFAT or APFS and use like normal external drive, but right after selecting it for Time Machine, it switching to RO. I'm...

After updating to 11.5.1 tonight, I didn't use my 2019 5K iMac any further. I just woke it up from sleep and got an unpleasant surprise. My Time Machine external drive (just a normal 1TB external drive, no Apple time capsule) has suddenly crashed?! Anyone else having this issue? It is coming...

I think Time Machine is antiquated software that really hasn’t been maintained by Apple. It has a complicated backup structure that seems to depend on the hard drive being formatted as a certain file system in most cases, and the backup “images” are extremely volatile and aren’t resistant to...

Hi, I have configured my TM to a NAS and I noticed that the files don't get updated. Every new Backup has the same files/folders and filestamps like the initial backup. When I browse through the TM tree I have for every Backup 2 entries with the same time > one is pointing to the backup on NAS...

Since there's no this option in 10.11: "Share as a Time Machine...", is it not possible to share a local time machine disk to another mac? The mac that would use the shared Time Machine disk has 10.15.

I'm new to using Time Machine (TM) and have a couple of questions. First, I assume that each backup is incremental to the initial one. So what would happen if I enter TM and manually delete the oldest backup? I read that TM automatically deletes the oldest one when disk space is running low...

Got a 2012 non retina MBP: Noticed a weird thing yesterday - when I went to do a 1st time machine backup via FW800, the trackpad/cursor glitched out & became almost completely unusable. It was tremendously laggy & mostly unresponsive while the FW800 drive was plugged in. Plugging in a...

I have had some random problems with Big Sur since 11.3 (ex. photo screensaver doesn't work anymore, much slower & the 'beach ball' is showing up all the time, etc.) I assume anything that I have added to my Mac since then will be gone? I have a Time Machine backup but wasn't sure if I could...

I have already scheduled a Genius Bar appointment for this coming Thursday. I wanted to post this to see if there is any hope, but I think its looking grim for my 4 TB G-Drive. This week I updated my M1 13 inch MacBook Pro to Big Sur 11.3. Personally, I am not one to get the latest updates and...

I don’t understand why there is a red exclamation mark next to ‘latest backup’ , I have attached the screenshot showing what it says when I click on it .. Is this backup safe to be transferred onto a new MacBook? I don’t want to transfer a corrupted backup; oh and it’s also not allowing me to...

I have a 12TB external drive for my time machine backup. It's been fine since September 2020. But now it's saying that backups fail because of a lack of space. Currently 600GB is available, and the calculated size of the full backup is 6.54TB. When I open the drive and look in the backups...

Hello, I'm getting ready to retire a Time Capsule I've used for years as both wifi router and backup location for Time Machine. What systems are you using for Time Machine over wifi that are working? I would like to replace the Time Capsule with a new wifi router (that will hopefully expand...

I have a unique problem. I had 2 different model MacBooks operating simultaneously. I have a disk with time machine backup files from one of them that had completely died. Is there a way to recover this backup to an external hard drive in order to try and retrieve, for example, old project files...

Based on the details below, I am curious. If I have a 512GB drive in my Mac, can I partition that drive, for Time Machine backups? Thus, if needed, use said partition to perform a restore of sorts? Details: Error: SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired) Link...