Tag: Time Machine
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Remove Backed Up Items from Time Machine
To get back disk space on your Time Machine Backup drive you can delete or remove backed up items from Time Machine permanently. First, go into Time Machine by clicking on the clock arrow icon in the Dock (top right hand corner beside your clock). Then in Finder (with all the files and folders listed),…
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Automountd trying to connect to Backups.backupdb
An explanation of why automountd is trying to find Backups.backupdb on the Internet… I woke up this morning with a warning from Little Snitch outbound firewall that automountd wants to connect to Backups.backupdb on port 111. Here’s what I’ve discovered since then. automountd is a system service which mounts and unmounts network file systems (NFS)…
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SuperDuper backup not bootable in Mac OS X Leopard
If you’re having troubles booting off of a backup of your Leopard OS X install made by SuperDuper!, you’re not alone.ย SuperDuper! full system backups are not bootable under Leopard. If you try to boot off a SuperDuper! created backup on an external USB disk or external firewire disk, the Mac OS X boot screen…