If you restore without installing an operating system: All the backup will be restored to your disk, including the operating system (for example Yosemite). NOTE: If the Mac you are restoring to does not support the version of macOS in your TM Backup, it will still not be able to boot from the restore. Responsible for the strategy, tactics, and programs of several departments in a $20+ million software company. I joined Faronics as a product manager, focused primarily on their Mac OS X products initially, then was put in charge of multiple departments throughout my time as the company more than tripled in size.
I use a dual G4/1000 running the Mac OS X Server software to provide TimeMachine services over our home network. There is an external firewire hard drive connected for the network users and their TimeMachine virtual back up disks.
The pop-up is basically a counter reaction of your Mac that you should take measures to manually remove the file that is in inverted commas. Most files of this character could be of outdated or old programs that have leftover information trackers or other junk files that are unnecessary and if those files are still activated, a Mac can catch them and present the Will damage your computer. Of course if the OS/hard disk crashed, the server at that machine is already stopped. Now, MySQL installation is in 2 folders (for me at least) - 1. Program Files / Program Files (x86), and 2. C: Program Data MySQL in windows 7 and C: Users All users Application Data MySQL in Windows XP. Use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that have been deleted or were lost because the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac needed to be erased or replaced.
This has been working out pretty well (as far as I knew) until this week when an iMac G4 crashed and was not able to start up again. When I looked at it, the iMac did actually boot up – once. I saw the desktop, saw the icons, and that is when I checked to see when the most recent TimeMachine back up was (last night at 7:42 pm). Because the user of this computer uses Entourage 2004 for her email, and Entourage 2004 keeps all it's mail and attachments in one huge database glob, and it probably does not get a good backup of that glob unless Entourage was quit/closed during backup, I was concerned that we might not have a good backup. So I pulled the TimeMachine menu to get that started.
And within a minute, the iMac had kernel panic-ed. Oof! That can't be good. Tried booting from a firewire hard drive, which also kernel panic-ed right away. Could be the internal hard drive is really corrupted, or maybe the computer is toast.
'Oh well' I said stoically, 'At least we have hourly TimeMachine Backups!' … Except we apparently didn't.
Because when I booted up an old G4 eMac with the Leopard installer CD to 'Restore System from Backup' it was not able to mount her TimeMachine backup. Something about 'operation not supported on socket' which did NOT sound good. Disk Utility was completely unable to fix anything. Even more scary – when I went to the Xserve & looked at the TM Sparsebundle file it was not openable there and the size was reported as 0, ZERO MegaBytes. I also did not like the 'date modified' as June was several months ago!
Oh man! This is getting worse all the time! It is days like this that make me question why I do tech support professionally, much less as a hobby. But otoh it's not like anyone else around here is going to do any better than I do. But it physically hurts me – pow- right in the lower gut, when things are not working well and I might have to deliver bad news. I really like it when things are working well. Luckily for me, things usually do go well, and I rarely get that painful feeling. (And as it will turn out, the modified date of the sparsebundle file apparently does not get updated by TimeMachine – so that is not to be worried about).
So, I searched the internet for 'operation not supported on socket' and 'time machine sparsebundle error'. i also tried using 'get info' to give myself permmissions to that sparsebundle, but although it seemed like it ought to work, it did not.
The winning answer was a combination of several things I read, plus a couple of necessary additions of my own.
Here is what I did to fix that damaged TimeMachine SparseBundle file, so I could restore it to a different Mac that does work.
Begin by going to the XServe and disabling TimeMachine to prevent it from trying to mount this unmountable volume while I'm working on it. The rest of this also takes place at the Xserve keyboard.
Open Terminal and type;
hdiutil attach -nomount -readwrite /path/to/Louise123456.sparsebundle
(Substitute the path & name of your own sparse bundle of course.)
In my case this did not work. It failed as not being possible.
Tried again as SUDO without success.
Rebooted, (not just logged out/in… Rebooted to release the damaged volume which may have still reported itself as 'busy').
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Opened Terminal, login root
While logged in as ROOT, then tried that command again, Hey! Here we go! It returned:
/dev/disk1 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk1s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFSX
So I now knew the unix name of the disk volume that needs fixing; disk2s2 (the one that is not the partition map nor scheme). Yours may be different.
So now type;
fsck_hfs -rf /dev/disk2s2
(substituting your disk's unix name at the end there). R&F are to 'Force' the repair on a journaled system, and 'Rebuild' whatever is broken.
and expect to wait 5 to 55 minutes for the repairs to take place. (That time over 10bt for a 120gb TM volume). What you're hoping to see is:
** /dev/rdisk2s2
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
** Rebuilding Catalog B-tree.
** Rechecking volume.
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
blah blah blah…. And then –
** The volume Backup of Louise was repaired successfully.
At this point – if you're really lucky, you can double-click the sparse bundle file open. But I couldn't. It gave me that same old dumb error we started with; 'operation not supported on socket'. And the stupid thing still said it was zero mb in size. But after seeing that it knew some names of files inside the sparsebundle, I wasn't fooled. But I ran the repair command again while I considered what to do next.
fsck_hfs -rf /dev/disk2s2
I logged out of the XServe, and logged in as Root. Some people will be quick to tell you that sudo is a better way, but I tried sudo and it did not work. But logging into the effing machine as root did work. Once logged in as ROOT, I was able to see that this file was 120GB (better than zero!), and simply double-click open that SparseBundle file which opened…. after several minutes. *WHEW*!!! and HOORAY!!!! I looked in there, and sure enough, it looks like a TimeMachine back up is supposed to look like.
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Ok, so moving forward! I have a spare eMac that wasn't doing anything important, so it is going to be her replacement Mac for now. I booted it up from the Leopard install DVD, (actually an external fw drive with a SuperDuper clone of that Leopard installer dvd – runs faster), selected my favorite language, and
Pulled the 'Utilities' menu to 'Restore from Backup'.
It asked what backup I want to restore from, and
I choose the Xserve volume, providing the username and password.
Ruletrix mac os. After several minutes of 'checking' it finally comes back with the correct name of her backup volume (another good sign!) After informing me that this operation will completely erase whatever drive I select in the next step, I select the eMac's internal HD as the destination and proceed.
As I write this, the replacement eMac reports that the 'System Restore' with all user data will be finished in 19 hours or less. Zoom hide seek mac os. Wonderful. Everybody is going to be happy.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a network is only as fast as its slowest hub. So that is wired 10baseT speeds. I'll be sleeping while the computers are working tonight!
Epilogue:
The Restore from Time Machine Backup went just fine, working from 10pm Sunday evening to 3pm Monday afternoon. So it guessed 22 hours, and only took 20. This on an eMac 1.42Ghz 1.5 Gb ram, over 10bt wired Ethernet, getting it from the firewire400 external hard drive attached to a Dual G4/1000 Tower running Leopard Server & TimeMachine services. When the eMac was restarted, everything was just as expected, even Entourage is ok. *Whew* and double *whew*! :-) What a relief. Btw, her sparsebundle file on the server never did update its modified date, and I guess it never will.
At some point I'll take apart the errant iMac G4 and see if replacing its hard drive makes is useful again. I will also be putting a larger hard drive into service as the network TimeMachine Server. Moving a TimeMachine backup to a new hard drive is another article – (hint: Turn off TM, then use DiskUtility to 'Restore' the old hd to the new hd, disconnect the old TM drive, and enable TM). Link
Use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that have been deleted or were lost because the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac needed to be erased or replaced. Find out how to restore your Mac from a backup.
Create a Time Machine backup
To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you've connected the storage device and selected it as your backup disk, Time Machine will automatically make hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups will be deleted when your backup disk is full.
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Connect an external storage device
Connect one of the following external storage devices, sold separately. Find out 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 only accessible to users who have the backup password, you can select 'Encrypt backups'. Then click Use Disk:
If the disk you've selected hasn't been formatted as required by Time Machine, you'll be prompted to erase the disk first. Click Erase to proceed. This will erase all of the information on the backup disk.
Enjoy the convenience of automatic backups
After you've selected a backup disk, Time Machine will immediately start making periodic backups – automatically and without any further action needed by you. The first backup may take a long time, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine only backs up the files that have changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
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.
Learn more
- Find out 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 you're 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.
