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I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ?
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I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
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In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ?
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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Then I would remove it from the exclusions list.
Then click on the Time Machine icon on the top menu bar and select back up now…
Paul
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
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Yes
Jeannie?
On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
Hi
In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ?
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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Should have said no to that. The only thing excluded is the ?time machine external drive. My other external drives are not excluded , as they are only on when I send something to them
Jeannie?
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On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
Hi
In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ?
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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Sorry about telling you yes..Got a bit confused. I have tried googling to see how to add my Macintosh HD, but can’t find how to any where. This is a new machine, an I Mac. On my old Mac Pro, the internal drive sst was backed up along with one ?of my external drives, the one that is always on
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On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
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Then I would remove it from the exclusions list.
Then click on the Time Machine icon on the top menu bar and select back up now…
Paul MacTech Services --? ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
Yes Jeannie? On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
Hi
In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ? MacTech Services --? ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want?to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time?machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to?bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD,?which is an sst [sic], I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set [sic] Mac HD?
Jeannie?
How many external drives do you have?? Is it 1 with photos on it + 1 with Time Machine?
How many new photos do you bring in every week (# of images, or GB) (i.e., does the photos drive change a lot in any given period of time?)
I keep my recent/active photos on my main drive, which is continually backed up with Time Machine, and archive all my older photos on an external volume – presently about 218 GB of old photos. Since that archive doesn’t change very often, I don’t use Time Machine to back it up, but periodically make an exact copy of that volume to a similar partition on a second external drive.
How many GB of your internal, boot, HD are in use? How big is the Time Machine drive or partition? Do you want to consider having a bootable clone backup?
By default, Time Machine should try to backup EVERY partition of EVERY drive in or connected to your computer. It should have at LEAST 2 times the space as all the data being backed up occupies.
That said, it is possible to EXCLUDE particular volumes if you wish. It if is indeed NOT backing up your main internal drive, (the SSD), the SSD must at some point have been added to this exclusion list.
Open System Preferences Click on Time Machine Click the lock and enter your password Click on Options in the lower right You should see listed any volumes excluded from backups You can add or subtract volumes using the + and - signs
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I was going to wait until at least 10.15.01. However, after careful consideration after reading a couple of weeks of posts, I did it. No problems at all. I didn’t use any of the 3 32 bit programs that were on my drive and just deleted them. No loss there. Some folks this might be an issue. The ONLY suggestion that I would have for you would to BACKUP to a BOOTABLE clone of where you are at immediately before the upgrade. CCC has been updated to work with Catalina. Not everyone is as fortunate as I am and not had any issues requiring a backup. Have fun! On Oct 24, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Jeannie Girard <photojeannie8@...> wrote:
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. Bob ’The Beckster’ Beckham FCC RadioTelephone Licence P1-6S-2422 w/Radar endorsement. Apple iMac 27” Late 2012 - macOS 10.15.0 - RAM 16 Gig 2016 Harley-Davidson FLHTKL 1993 Allen MDS Theater 2
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I have 5 external drives, But only 2 are on all the time. I have never counted how many photos I bring in a week, But usually on a normal week, especially if the weather is good, and I am out shooting 5 days that week, the number can be considerable. My back up drive is 3 TB. I use another external drive in which I bring in all my pics, and that is always on.It is 2 TB, and its contents change daily.That one is defiantly being backed up. My internal HD which is SST and holds all my apps is 512GB. My 3 other backup external HDs are only on when I have completed a folder on the active external HD that is always on, and I send that folder to all ?3 other drives, then turn them off.
There is no lock to click on the machine preferences, and the only drive to be excluded is the backup drive itself.
Yes, I would like ?to be able to make a notable clone drive
Jeannie?
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On Oct 24, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io < jimdoc@...> wrote:
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want?to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time?machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to?bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD,?which is an sst [sic], I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set [sic] Mac HD?
Jeannie?
How many external drives do you have?? Is it 1 with photos on it + 1 with Time Machine?
How many new photos do you bring in every week (# of images, or GB) (i.e., does the photos drive change a lot in any given period of time?)
I keep my recent/active photos on my main drive, which is continually backed up with Time Machine, and archive all my older photos on an external volume – presently about 218 GB of old photos. Since that archive doesn’t change very often, I don’t use Time Machine to back it up, but periodically make an exact copy of that volume to a similar partition on a second external drive.
How many GB of your internal, boot, HD are in use? How big is the Time Machine drive or partition? Do you want to consider having a bootable clone backup?
By default, Time Machine should try to backup EVERY partition of EVERY drive in or connected to your computer. It should have at LEAST 2 times the space as all the data being backed up occupies.
That said, it is possible to EXCLUDE particular volumes if you wish. It if is indeed NOT backing up your main internal drive, (the SSD), the SSD must at some point have been added to this exclusion list.
Open System Preferences Click on Time Machine Click the lock and enter your password Click on Options in the lower right You should see listed any volumes excluded from backups You can add or subtract volumes using the + and - signs <Screen Shot 2019-10-24 at 4.09.41 PM.jpg>
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That should say Bootable clone drive..Mac Spell check at work..sigh
Jeannie?
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I have 5 external drives, But only 2 are on all the time. I have never counted how many photos I bring in a week, But usually on a normal week, especially if the weather is good, and I am out shooting 5 days that week, the number can be considerable. My back up drive is 3 TB. I use another external drive in which I bring in all my pics, and that is always on.It is 2 TB, and its contents change daily.That one is defiantly being backed up. My internal HD which is SST and holds all my apps is 512GB. My 3 other backup external HDs are only on when I have completed a folder on the active external HD that is always on, and I send that folder to all ?3 other drives, then turn them off.
There is no lock to click on the machine preferences, and the only drive to be excluded is the backup drive itself.
Yes, I would like ?to be able to make a notable clone drive Jeannie? On Oct 24, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io < jimdoc@...> wrote:
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want?to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time?machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to?bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD,?which is an sst [sic], I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set [sic] Mac HD?
Jeannie?
How many external drives do you have?? Is it 1 with photos on it + 1 with Time Machine?
How many new photos do you bring in every week (# of images, or GB) (i.e., does the photos drive change a lot in any given period of time?)
I keep my recent/active photos on my main drive, which is continually backed up with Time Machine, and archive all my older photos on an external volume – presently about 218 GB of old photos. Since that archive doesn’t change very often, I don’t use Time Machine to back it up, but periodically make an exact copy of that volume to a similar partition on a second external drive.
How many GB of your internal, boot, HD are in use? How big is the Time Machine drive or partition? Do you want to consider having a bootable clone backup?
By default, Time Machine should try to backup EVERY partition of EVERY drive in or connected to your computer. It should have at LEAST 2 times the space as all the data being backed up occupies.
That said, it is possible to EXCLUDE particular volumes if you wish. It if is indeed NOT backing up your main internal drive, (the SSD), the SSD must at some point have been added to this exclusion list.
Open System Preferences Click on Time Machine Click the lock and enter your password Click on Options in the lower right You should see listed any volumes excluded from backups You can add or subtract volumes using the + and - signs <Screen Shot 2019-10-24 at 4.09.41 PM.jpg>
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When you look at the backups.backup folder on the Time Machine destination drive, do you see a folder with the name of the current computer (the same name that is in the Shared system preference pane)?
I would a)unhook all externals except for the Time Machine destination drive, click the drop down icon on the menu bar and select backup now. Then I would open the System Preferences and click on Time Machine and watch the progress bar. That should prove or disprove whether the internal hard drive was being backed up.
Alternatively you could just choose to purchase either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and make bootable backups of the internal drive. A new 2 TB drive for that purpose and the software mentioned should be a little less than $100.
Paul
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
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Should have said no to that. The only thing excluded is the ?time machine external drive. My other external drives are not excluded , as they are only on when I send something to them
Jeannie?
On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
Hi
In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ?
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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Thank You , Paul. I found it when I went into the drive. I also found the old folder from my Mac Pro, which I deleted
Jeannie?
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On Oct 24, 2019, at 10:58 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
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When you look at the backups.backup folder on the Time Machine destination drive, do you see a folder with the name of the current computer (the same name that is in the Shared system preference pane)?
I would a)unhook all externals except for the Time Machine destination drive, click the drop down icon on the menu bar and select backup now. Then I would open the System Preferences and click on Time Machine and watch the progress bar. That should prove or disprove whether the internal hard drive was being backed up.
Alternatively you could just choose to purchase either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and make bootable backups of the internal drive. A new 2 TB drive for that purpose and the software mentioned should be a little less than $100.
Paul MacTech Services --? ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
Should have said no to that. The only thing excluded is the ?time machine external drive. My other external drives are not excluded , as they are only on when I send something to them Jeannie? On Oct 24, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Paul < paul@...> wrote:
Hi
In your system settings time machine, when you click on the options button, on the lower right, is your internal drive being excluded? ? MacTech Services --? ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
I am finally going to take the plunge and install Catalina very soon. I want to make sure I have a back up of my Macintosh HD. I went into time machine, But all I see being backed up is the external drive which I use to bring in all my photos . Despite googling how to add my Macintosh HD, which is an sst, I can find no way to add it to the time machine back up.
How can I back up my set Mac HD?
Jeannie?
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