timemachine

Hello, I have formatted my external HDD as APFS Encrypted with some password, and then I've set up this HDD as TimeMachine with "encrypt" option selected and it asked for another password. Did this second password "cancel" the previous password, which I have set up when formatting it as APFS...

Hi guys, I have a mbp late 2013 ， and recently i want to downgrade it from bigsur to Mojave，while it seems that Time Machine backups cannot be recovered in Mojave（It even cannot recognize my backup hardware）. It bothers me a lot, and i need your help so bad. It there any way to downgrade...

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...

I just confirmed that networked TimeMachine backups use APFS in the same way as they would work on a local APFS disk. APFS TimeMachine protocol has been completely reworked to use snapshots instead of hard links - faster and much more reliable. TimeCapsule also works with this, since networked...

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...

Am close to purchasing a Mac Mini. From research it only has 2 USB As. Any suggestions for a dock or adapter with more USB A connectors? I need to connect: - Logitech Camera - Blue Yeti MIC - Dongle for mouse/keyboard (thinking I might just use Bluetooth - but, heard users having connection...

I am trying to have a HomeKit-enabled smart plug power on my backup drive at a specific time of the day and power off the smart plug once the Time Machine backup is completed. So far I’m able to back up to the drive and automatically eject it upon completion. For more info see the following...

I just wiped the boot disk of my little server from Catalina and went back to Sierra Server. The reasons are simple: Content caching that works nicely. TimeMachine that always works. A Server interface that makes control simple and tells me whether all the Macs in the house are getting backed...

Im using timemachine (TM) and everytime i wish to delete big files, i open TM and delete the backedup file too. Im doing this in order not to leave deleted files in the backup, so i can reduce the space in the drive that is used by TM. Pretty frustrating when doing it with many files... so i...

The folders that the Time Machine backup creates, consists of folders named with the dates that the backup is created. What are the differences between those folders? Are they the same plus the extra files that have been added? I mean, if i copy/paste (do it manually) the last folder of the...

I have mistakenly placed (manually pasted) files from MacBook into Time Machine backup "Backups.backupdb" which is my time machine folder. I need to completely copy/move those files into my MacBook again, however, when I try to do that, it does not allow me. The only option I have is to upload...

Hi all, I've used Time Machine to back up my internal and an external harddrive in one go for several years. I now want to add a new external harddrive (so one external 4TB HD is used to time-machine-backup my 1tb internal and 2 1tb externals). The two externals are called 'Samsung_T1' and...

Hi everyone, I'm a professional photographer and taking the opportunity during this pandemic to reorganise and ramp up my back-up system. I used to work with a ton of external drives and do a lot of manual backups. But I switched to a Synology NAS, use it as an archive that is automatically...

Hi. I'm thinking about using my good old MacPro 5,1 as a Time Machine backup server in my network. Can you recommend this? Will it be woke-up when one of the other Macs try you start a backup? Thanks for any help and advice in advance.

The external HDD I use for my TimeMachine backup is suddenly not mounting or even showing up in Disk Utility. But when I try diskutil list in Terminal it seems to be there. Any hints on how to mount this so I can restore from backup? /dev/disk3 (external, physical): #...

I am running three different backups on my MBP (yes, I like to play it safe): Monthly CCC to HDD TM to USB-C connected HDD - which gives me about 80 MB/sec average backup speed TM to network connected Samba server on Intel NUC with SSD drive - gives 6 - 8 MB/sec (used to run) TM to...

So I did something stupid, meaning that I've unplugged an external drive during a Time Machine backup causing the partition with the backup to be corrupted. I can't mount it, erase it, or do basically nothing with it. It's not encrypted, yet, I have no idea of what to do with it. How can I...

Hi, I have 2 MBPs. One from 2018 with Mojave and one from 2014 with Sierra. For both I backup to a Synology NAS, using TimeMachine. Previously both were running Sierra and backup-ing was no problem. Life was good ;) I updated the 2018 MBP to Mojave in December 2018. Everything worked like a...

I'm running Yosemite and hope to stay with it as long as possible. However, I know at some point I'll have to move forward, and I haven't downloaded any interim versions of macOS, so I'm thinking I'd better get High Sierra before things get too nuts and my hardware isn't supported anymore. I'm...

Hi all, I have a Seagate 3Tb hard drive that I was using as a Time Machine for about 2.5 years. Halfway through a backup, it all of a sudden stopped accepting the drive. Now on startup every day it says that there is an "uninitialised drive" which is the Time Machine. I can't reset the drive...