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OS X software that backups up your drive to an Apple Time Capsule or other hard drive.

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Using bash to write a plist to a sparsebundle

I'm trying to write a Time Machine backup script. Everything is working on its own. The sparsebundle is created but the plist file doesn't save into it. I tried using the same code and saving somewhere else and it worked just fine. Any ideas why it…
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git is out of date after a Time Machine restore

I just reverted my Mac back to its state 10 days ago using Time Machine. I then updated my website's repository folder back to 1 day ago to keep coding. When I run git status or gitk, it shows the 10-day old view, not the current view, so it's…
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Backup MySQL on Apple time machine

not sure its a stack overflow question I have a Mac and am hosting a Apache MySQL server on it using MAMP Pro. If I back up my data on the time machine, is MySQL database also backed up or do I have to create mysqldump and backup up as a cron job?…
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Getting code files from Mac OS X Lion Time Machine

I'm new to working on a Mac and have had Time Machine backing up to an external HDD since I started using my MBP recently. Today I wanted to get the code from a previous version of a file and managed to go back a few days, find the file in question,…
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Apple Mac Ventura Time Machine always want to erase the content of my external drive - how to kep data & time machine backup?

I bought a new Mac Air M1 and I can not find out how to stop Time Machine to erase the content of my external drive. I tried formatting the "container" as the old HFS+ format as explained in Steve Sande's post BUT it does not work. format drive as…
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Notification when TimeMachine backup starts/ends

I want to get notified in my Swift Cocoa Application (not sandboxed) when a TimeMachine starts or ends. So far I tried to listen for every Notification coming in the DistributedNotificationCenter by setting the name: parameter to nil as suggested in…
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What's the best way to deal with bad exec files after loading an Intel-based Time Machine backup into an M1 chip computer?

I've loaded a copy of my Intel-based mac into an M1 chip mac through Time Machine. However, I've been constantly running into bad CPU type files and needing to reinstall some apps that are built for Apple silicon. (I also feel like my laptop's…
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Time Machine Disk not Recognising

I took the backup of my system on Time Machine disk , at that time it was running Mac Big Sur. Now i want to restore the data on Mac Capitan but its not Recognising the external hard drive. Do i need to upgrade it to Big sur and then try restoration…
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How to exclude a hidden MacOS folder like Library/Spotify from Time Machine?

After figuring out that Time Machine always commits a lot of stuff whenever I use Spotify (using sudo tmutil compare "path1" "path2" ), I wanted to remove Spotify from being backed up. In the time machine options, it is easy to add folders to be…
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Reduce time machine backup size

I want to create a testing setup where i just want to take backup of 1gb folder through time machine on nas device. Even after removing hidden files from time machine backup prefereces, it shows 15-16 gb, is there any clue to reduce it…
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What does 'U

I see the following ps output. What does U
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Time Machine for Business Intelligence (PHP/MySQL)

Currently I am developing a time machine for a open-source Business Intelligence software from scratch using PHP/MySQL. My time-machine table is used by all other tables that need date info (such as orders, products, etc.) and they binding with…
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AFP and Time Machine stopped working on QNAP HS-251+

Time Machine and AFP have stopped working. I think it may have happened at the firmware update before last but cannot confirm that. I have an HS-251+ w/ firmware version 4.3.6.0959 I have macOS 10.14.5 and QNAP. When I try connect to the NAS using…
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Event notifications in macOS

Is it possible for a macOS application to listen for specific events originating from another application? I'd like to detect when Time Machine backups are initiated, in order to create point-in-time snapshots of the NAS folder where the…
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Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk

Here is a working solution if you get a pop up warning like Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk. when browsing Time Machine and Verify/Repair Disk turns out OK in Disk Utility. See my answer below.
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