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Time Machine back up to windows. HELP
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just buy an external HDD; they are cheap. You can do a clone backup via CCC or SuperDuper which is faster.
I hate to say it, but your only choice is to drive an hour away & buy an external drive....or ask a friend or two if they have one available for use. That's as fast as it's gonna get in your situation.
It's not possible to a Windows PC. The Time Machine drive needs to be Mac Formatted.
Best go warm the car up...
Best go warm the car up...
ok thanks for your help. i wish there was an app or something that would let me do it
It's a no for technical reasons. What use is a backup system that might corrupt the data?
how could it corrupt the data? i am rather new at this but it seems like if the computer just dumped all the data in a file it would be fine
That's not quite how it works.
You could, if you have a PC laying around with enough hard drive space, create a shared folder on it where you could dump your files(I strongly recommend you use either firewire or ethernet to do this, wi-fi will be painfully slow).
Even though this will work, it is in no way shape or form a reliable means of backup. You could forget things, and it cannot be automated.
Good luck!
Time Machine over a network uses sparse disk image to store the backup data. I previously used Time Machine to backup over a network to a shared drive on another Mac. It worked for a few weeks before it corrupted the disk image and Time Machine forced it to read only.
If it's that flaky on AFP it's going to be even worse on SMB shares, hence why Apple disable it.
Time Machine works best with locally connected storage so it can store the files on the disk directly.
If it's that flaky on AFP it's going to be even worse on SMB shares, hence why Apple disable it.
Time Machine works best with locally connected storage so it can store the files on the disk directly.
well i would want to move over is my music pictures and a few apps... it is a new macbook so i don't have much on it. would i be able to use it just for that?
well its not like i would be running the apps. just keep them there for less then an hour so i can do a clean install
Time Machine would not see the drive it was restoring from if it wasnt formated for OSX, you alos cant write to a windows formatted drive you can only read files off it
so if i have macdrive 8 i can put my music files on a windows computer? then get them after the install?
You've been wrestling with this since Monday (6 days now). In that time you could've made the 2 hour round trip, gotten a cheap USB drive and be back in business that same day. (With a new backup solution already in place)
You've been wrestling with this since Monday (6 days now). In that time you could've made the 2 hour round trip, gotten a cheap USB drive and be back in business that same day. (With a new backup solution already in place)
haha yeah i know that. i need to do a clean install because every time i wake up my macbook pro from sleep it will go back to sleep after a few seconds. then the 2nd time i wake it up it will work fine. so it is more of an annoyance then a large issue. i brought it into the apple store and they said that is what i had to do. i would rather not drive all the way there an back if i could do it from home. and i am very busy and don't want to spend two and a half hours driving around.
Well, since you can live with this "annoyance" for a few more days... there's this new company called UPS that actually delivers stuff - right to your door!
Yet the OP will spend longer that that trying to find a way other than the best solution over 5 days on an internet forum!
Even my local supermarket sells USB HDDs.
Even my local supermarket sells USB HDDs.
Well, since you can live with this "annoyance" for a few more days... there's this new company called UPS that actually delivers stuff - right to your door!
i bought one. it is being shipped here. and i wish i had a local store. all i have in town is a gas station and a little grocery store that sells basic things.