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Use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos, email, and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that were deleted, or that were lost because the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac needed to be erased or replaced. Learn how to restore your Mac from a backup.
I use Time Machine and let it do it’s hourly thing whenever my Macbook is tethered to my desk. I, also, have as second external drive where I maintain a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner. I, usually, update this every few weeks (and ALWAYS before performing a system upgrade). Hi, I am trying to assist my husband to migrate from MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 to a MacBook Air using Time Machine backup on a hard drive connected directly to the MacBook Air. I get to the page to select the Time Machine backup, tick all of the relevant boxes and there is 78.86GB selected with about 27.81GB available after transferring.
Create a Time Machine backup
To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you connect the storage device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
Connect an external storage device
Connect one of the following external storage devices, sold separately. Learn more about backup disks that you can use with Time Machine.
- External drive connected to your Mac, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive
- Network-attached storage (NAS) device that supports Time Machine over SMB
- Mac shared as a Time Machine backup destination
- AirPort Time Capsule, or external drive connected to an AirPort Time capsule or AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac)
Select your storage device as the backup disk
- Open Time Machine preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Or choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.
- Click Select Backup Disk.
- Select your backup disk from the list of available disks. To make your backup accessible only to users who have the backup password, you can select “Encrypt backups”. Then click Use Disk:
If the disk you selected isn't formatted as required by Time Machine, you're prompted to erase the disk first. Click Erase to proceed. This erases all information on the backup disk.
Enjoy the convenience of automatic backups
After you select a backup disk, Time Machine immediately begins making periodic backups—automatically and without further action by you. The first backup may take a long time, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
How Do I Use Time Machine On Macbook Air Pro
To start a backup manually, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Use the same menu to check the status of a backup or skip a backup in progress.
How Do I Use Time Machine On Macbook Air
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- Learn about other ways to back up and restore files
- If you back up to multiple disks, you can press and hold the Option key, then choose Browse Other Backup Disks from the Time Machine menu.
- To exclude items from your backup, open Time Machine preferences, click Options, then click the add (+) button to add an item to be excluded. To stop excluding an item, such as an external hard drive, select the item and click the remove (–) button.
- If using Time Machine to back up to a network disk, you can verify those backups to make sure they're in good condition. Press and hold Option, then choose Verify Backups from the Time Machine menu.
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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
To do this with a Time Capsule, you have to partition the sparse bundle.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
The point of this hint is to be able to have a bootable drive as quick as possible. Time Capsule doesn't apply here.
Why not wait until the failure, drive to your local retailer, purchase an external HDD, and then restore?
I'm not saying this is a better solution, just an alternative for those of us that live within 30 minutes of a Target or other similar store. This solution also scales better (as you increase the number of macs) since you get to fully utilize all of the space on your backup drive and you only spend extra when you need to.
I'm not saying this is a better solution, just an alternative for those of us that live within 30 minutes of a Target or other similar store. This solution also scales better (as you increase the number of macs) since you get to fully utilize all of the space on your backup drive and you only spend extra when you need to.
At that point, I'll simply be buying a new internal HDD. The above solution is simply a way to stay up and running (at no extra cost) until you can get your machine sorted.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
I don't see the need to partition your drive ahead of time, except maybe to make sure that space is available. Disk Utility on the install disk will let you partition once your disk fails.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
>> I don't see the need to partition your drive ahead of time, except maybe to make sure that space is available. Disk Utility on the install disk will let you partition once your disk fails.
Thank you!! Just answered my question..I didn't see why that blank partition needed to be sitting there unused either.
Thank you!! Just answered my question..I didn't see why that blank partition needed to be sitting there unused either.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
I suggest that repartitioning the drive your backups are on before doing a restore is absolute insanity.
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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Except for the fact that Time Machine will keep making backups until the partition its assigned to fills up. At that point, if you you try to repartition, you'll be overwriting data.
Or am I missing something. I think this is a great hint.
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Or am I missing something. I think this is a great hint.
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windrag | 2.4GHz MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo | 160GB HD | 2GB RAM | OS X 10.5.1
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
The paranoid obsessive backer-upper will also want to have a (SuperDuper or Carbon Copy) clone of his drive stashed somewhere.They're not paranoid nor obsessive. Having an up-to-date bootable backup/clone that you can test to ensure it works exactly like the original is a lot better than banking on making a good bootable backup after your main boot volume exhibits problems. With an up-to-date backup/clone, all you have to do is restore it to the main HD. Just my 2¢.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Absolutely. I was being facetious about the 'paranoid obsessive' part. My livelihood is in my Mac, so I keep a SuperDuper backup, a set of DVD backups, a .mac backup, and, just to be thorough, I put everything I absolutely do not want to lose onto the safest, most reliable medium, good old paper.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Just a note, I'm pretty sure you can only restore a bootable copy from a Time Machine backup if your backup includes the system files. That is, if you've set Time Machine to exclude 'System files and applications' in the Time Machine preference panel, OS X isn't smart enough to install the OS on a blank partition and pull everything out of the backup at the same time.
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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Basic editing software free. A good point. I guess in this case you would first have to install OS X and your applications onto the blank partition, which you should still be able to do even if your main hard drive has failed (as long as you have their original install discs).
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
In fact, this just happened to me when my MacBook's internal HD crashed. I simply replaced the drive, reinstalled Leopard, applied the system updates, and used Migration Assistant to move the data from my external Time Machine drive. I would like to point out that at first, I forgot that I had excluded the system files from my backup, so I tried to select my Time Machine backup when I installed Leopard. It actually let me do this, and then hung at the screen where it shows your backup recovery progress. I was pretty concerned until I realized what was going on.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Woops.. that last comment was a reply to DylanMuir's.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
In my case, it was time to buy a new MacBook (I bought the old one when it was Core (not 2) Duo, with 512Mb memory and 80Gb HD).
The backup volume I made with Time Machine worked fine and I used it without incident until my new MacBook arrived a week later.
I then installed my system onto the new MacBook using the latest Time Machine backup, and everything was hunky-dory.
The backup volume I made with Time Machine worked fine and I used it without incident until my new MacBook arrived a week later.
I then installed my system onto the new MacBook using the latest Time Machine backup, and everything was hunky-dory.
10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
How Do I Use Time Machine On Macbook Air Force
A variation on the method (to make it a self-contained solution).
1) Partition your backup harddisk right away. Once disaster strikes you DO NOT want to do anything to the harddisk that has all your precious data. So - partition it NOW, when you still have the original data if the partitioning goes bad.. Leaving an empty partition the size of your system disk is well worth the (marginal) extra cost.
2) Partition as follows:
- Mac OS X Install (7.2 GB)
- Boot partition (The size of your backed-up harddisk)
- (For the really experienced or disaster-prone:) A snapshot partition (The size of your backed-up harddisk))
- Time Machine (the remainder of the space on your backup harddisk).
E.g., my USB-powered Macbook Air recovery disk is partitioned 7.2 + 55 + 55 + 390GB
3) Populate the partitions as follows:
- Use the hard disk utility (or another block level duplication utility, e.g., Carbon Copy Cloner) to block-level copy the install dvd (disk 1 if more than one) to the 'Mac OS X Install' partition. The result is a bootable partition.
- Leave the boot partition empty
- Make a system snapshot to the 'snapshot partition' (using CCC or the equivalent - making it a bootable volume). Redo whenever you feel like it.
- Point the time machine to the 'Time Machine' partition.
4) WHEN disaster strikes (and it will), do the following variant on the hint:
a) Boot from the 'Mac OS X Install' partition
b) Then follow the hint given: On the second panel (after choosing a language) go to the utility menu and select 'restore from backup'. When given a choice about which one, pick the (most recent) one from the 'Time Machine' partition, and for destination select 'Boot partition.'
Why the variation?
1) Some machines do not have DVD drives (e.g., the Macbook Air)
2) This way everything is in ONE place (on that one harddisk). Just one thing to remember to bring when you travel (which is when disaster strikes)
A couple of notes:
1) Restore from backup is a LOT faster than an installation followed by a migration. On my MBA the restoration takes about 90 minutes, whereas the install + migration takes hours. I suspect it is also a higher fidelity restoration of the original system.
2) Small, USB-powered disks are getting very cheap - I carry a 500 GB Store-it Drive with me when I travel, and the safety it provides is wonderful (see below)..
A WARNING:
The DVD media distributed with the early Macbook Airs (system 10.5.2) is DEFECTIVE: The 'restore from backup' crashes almost immediately. The media distributed with later MBAs (I have 10.5.4) functions well.
An anecdote illustrating why this is important:
I once arrived in Mumbai at midnight after 14 hours of work done on the plane. During work I had my USB drive plugged in, and time machine did its thing. Upon arrival I realized that I did not have the phone number of hotel, and upon opening the MBA to retrieve it discovered that its harddisk had gone missing.
Recovery (this done e middle of the night, balancing the MBA on a luggage cart in a sea of people):
- Boot from the USB disk into the snapshot partition (20 seconds).
- Use time machine to retrieve the file with the phone number (20 seconds).
- Shut down the MBA and,
- Call hotel
- Arrive at hotel
- Boot from the 'Mac OS X install partition' (<1 minute)
- Use 'restore from backup' to the empty boot partition (90 minutes)
- Restart from the (now restored) boot partition, and then
- Continue working, with data current as of the time of arrival in Mumbai.
- Get home (one week later, lots of work done, all on the USB disk)
- Turn in the MBA for repairs while continuing to work on another computer, off the USB disk (now safely backed up, of course).
- Retrieve the Air from the shop, and image the USB boot partition back to the repaired Air.
Lessons:
1) Your harddisk WILL DIE. and at the most inopportune time imaginable.
2) With proper preparation (in this case $2-300 worth of harddisk, properly set up) recovery is a matter of an hour or two only.
1) Partition your backup harddisk right away. Once disaster strikes you DO NOT want to do anything to the harddisk that has all your precious data. So - partition it NOW, when you still have the original data if the partitioning goes bad.. Leaving an empty partition the size of your system disk is well worth the (marginal) extra cost.
2) Partition as follows:
- Mac OS X Install (7.2 GB)
- Boot partition (The size of your backed-up harddisk)
- (For the really experienced or disaster-prone:) A snapshot partition (The size of your backed-up harddisk))
- Time Machine (the remainder of the space on your backup harddisk).
E.g., my USB-powered Macbook Air recovery disk is partitioned 7.2 + 55 + 55 + 390GB
3) Populate the partitions as follows:
- Use the hard disk utility (or another block level duplication utility, e.g., Carbon Copy Cloner) to block-level copy the install dvd (disk 1 if more than one) to the 'Mac OS X Install' partition. The result is a bootable partition.
- Leave the boot partition empty
- Make a system snapshot to the 'snapshot partition' (using CCC or the equivalent - making it a bootable volume). Redo whenever you feel like it.
- Point the time machine to the 'Time Machine' partition.
4) WHEN disaster strikes (and it will), do the following variant on the hint:
a) Boot from the 'Mac OS X Install' partition
b) Then follow the hint given: On the second panel (after choosing a language) go to the utility menu and select 'restore from backup'. When given a choice about which one, pick the (most recent) one from the 'Time Machine' partition, and for destination select 'Boot partition.'
Why the variation?
1) Some machines do not have DVD drives (e.g., the Macbook Air)
2) This way everything is in ONE place (on that one harddisk). Just one thing to remember to bring when you travel (which is when disaster strikes)
A couple of notes:
1) Restore from backup is a LOT faster than an installation followed by a migration. On my MBA the restoration takes about 90 minutes, whereas the install + migration takes hours. I suspect it is also a higher fidelity restoration of the original system.
2) Small, USB-powered disks are getting very cheap - I carry a 500 GB Store-it Drive with me when I travel, and the safety it provides is wonderful (see below)..
A WARNING:
The DVD media distributed with the early Macbook Airs (system 10.5.2) is DEFECTIVE: The 'restore from backup' crashes almost immediately. The media distributed with later MBAs (I have 10.5.4) functions well.
An anecdote illustrating why this is important:
I once arrived in Mumbai at midnight after 14 hours of work done on the plane. During work I had my USB drive plugged in, and time machine did its thing. Upon arrival I realized that I did not have the phone number of hotel, and upon opening the MBA to retrieve it discovered that its harddisk had gone missing.
Recovery (this done e middle of the night, balancing the MBA on a luggage cart in a sea of people):
- Boot from the USB disk into the snapshot partition (20 seconds).
- Use time machine to retrieve the file with the phone number (20 seconds).
- Shut down the MBA and,
- Call hotel
- Arrive at hotel
- Boot from the 'Mac OS X install partition' (<1 minute)
- Use 'restore from backup' to the empty boot partition (90 minutes)
- Restart from the (now restored) boot partition, and then
- Continue working, with data current as of the time of arrival in Mumbai.
- Get home (one week later, lots of work done, all on the USB disk)
- Turn in the MBA for repairs while continuing to work on another computer, off the USB disk (now safely backed up, of course).
- Retrieve the Air from the shop, and image the USB boot partition back to the repaired Air.
Lessons:
1) Your harddisk WILL DIE. and at the most inopportune time imaginable.
2) With proper preparation (in this case $2-300 worth of harddisk, properly set up) recovery is a matter of an hour or two only.