Hehe,
Yes, lessons learned ;o)
Just because Apple provides a ³Stop Backup² command does not mean that you
should actually USE it!
Cheers
Neil
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Email: n...@possumology.com
on 1/3/15 17:48, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com
Pleased to hear the problem is fixed... at last Neil ;)
The Moral Of The Story is - Don't stop a Time Machine Backup, especially NEVER
stop the first TM backup after a migrate/restore of Time Machine backups to a
New Backup Drive!
It will always cause corruption...
Cheers,
Ronni
On 1 Mar
Hi again Neil,
If YES is the answer to the 4 questions I asked in my previous email yesterday.
I’m 99.9% sure that you will not be able to complete a TM Backup on your
Seagate 2TB external Time Machine backup drive UNTIL you delete these
incomplete folders/files.
How To Delete a In.Progress
,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4
On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:56 pm, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote:
Re: HOW TO -MIGRATE TO A LARGER TIME MACHINE DISK Hmmm,
When you say:
Yes, it will take a long time on the first ³Indexing² (the Restore) just
let it complete.
How long are we talking
Problem has now been fixed see Reply 1 in previous email for details.
Reply 2.
Comments in-situ below.
Again, many thanks for your advice, assistance patience Ronni.
Cheers
Neil
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Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: n...@possumology.com
Comments
Hi Neil,
I will get back to you when possible, as I mentioned in a quick reply to
Severin, I've been busy and just now trying to work through emails.
Just to clarify with you:
1. You completed the Restore successfully to a newly formatted drive now named
'Seagate 2TB'?
2. You have not been
Hi Ronni,
Thanks for the quick feedback. Yes, I suspect everything would have gone OK
if I hadn¹t panicked about the thunderstorm.
I did a bit more looking around and found the TimeMachineBuddy widget that I
had downloaded but not got round to installing. I did that and for the last
backup it
Hi Neil,
Firstly I’ve never had any problems with the instructions in my tutorial.
I’ve migrated to larger Time Machine Local Drives to larger Time Capsule Disk
.
I’ll try to just cut and reply to your actual questions:
On 26 Feb 2015, at 2:27 pm, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote:
Hmmm,
When you say:
Yes, it will take a long time on the first ³Indexing² (the Restore) just let
it complete.
How long are we talking? It has currently been over 19 hours and the Time
Machine preference pane is still showing ³Indexing backup² and Spotlight is
showing Indexing Seagate 2TB,
Australia
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on 26/2/15 14:14, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote:
Hi Ronni,
I just used your very informative guide: HOW TO -MIGRATE TO A LARGER TIME
MACHINE DISK to move from an almost full Iomega 1TB drive to a 2TB Seagate
drive
Hi Ronni,
I just used your very informative guide: HOW TO -MIGRATE TO A LARGER TIME
MACHINE DISK to move from an almost full Iomega 1TB drive to a 2TB Seagate
drive.
All went well up to step 7 - the restore completed in about a day and a half
and then I proceeded to Eject both old and new backup
machine
oh bugger.
Try to Repair the Time Machine Disk:
1. Turn OFF Time Machine
2. Open Disk Utility
3. Select the Time Machine Partition (indented
in left side panel) it will be named something
similar to 'Time Machine Backups'
4. Make sure 'First Aid' button is selected.
5. Click
Machine Disk:
1. Turn OFF Time Machine
2. Open Disk Utility
3. Select the Time Machine Partition (indented
in left side panel) it will be named something
similar to 'Time Machine Backups'
4. Make sure 'First Aid' button is selected.
5. Click 'Repair Disk'
It DU does repair anything
Hi People,
I've changed Philip's Subject as each of his emails to WAMUG had a different
subject that did not indicate the problem he was experiencing.
On 13/11/2010, at 4:19 PM, Philip Trouchet wrote:
Since installing OSX 10.6.5 on my new MBP my Time machine does not connect?
I get message
I am in process of reassorting my hard disks and intend moving Time
Machine to a different drive. Clearly I can just start from scratch
with the new drive and no serious loss in discarding the saved
backups. However, is it possible to copy the whole existing TM drive
across to the new
On 09/07/2010, at 3:35 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
I am in process of reassorting my hard disks and intend moving Time Machine
to a different drive. Clearly I can just start from scratch with the new
drive and no serious loss in discarding the saved backups. However, is it
possible to
Hi again Severin,
I just located my more detailed notes on when I transferred my ™ backups from a
500GB Drive to a new 1TB Drive.
1. After attaching, formatting (Mac Journaled), and naming the new drive,
launch Time Machine and switch it off.
2. Unmount the current Time Machine drive by
Many thanks Ronni for your usual spot on solution!
Severin
On 09/07/2010, at 4:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Severin,
I just located my more detailed notes on when I transferred my ™
backups from a 500GB Drive to a new 1TB Drive.
1. After attaching, formatting (Mac Journaled),
I have a disk assigned as Time Machine disk (no partitions) and in use
by Time Machine with accumulated backups. I wish to use some of the
spare space on the disk for storing other files. Are there potential
problems?
1. Will Time Machine recognise the other material or regard the whole
, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
I have a disk assigned as Time Machine disk (no partitions) and in use
by Time Machine with accumulated backups. I wish to use some of the
spare space on the disk for storing other files. Are there potential
problems?
1. Will Time Machine
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