Thursday, July 1, 2010

Recover data from Time Machine in mac

Time Machine is an advance and popular data backup tool thats take backup of all the data regularly in 10.6 Snow Leopard OS and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard mac machines . It is invented to work with Time Capsule Universal Serial Bus and FireWire hard drives. The software helps you to restore entire data, selected files or even a single data file. This backup tool stores current state of data on your Mac OS X hard disk. However, you may face some critical data loss problems with Time Machine volume after installing updates of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Time Machine backup volumes becomes inaccessible After installation of the updates. The “Get Info” window is safe only for checking size of file, folder, or hard disk volume. You should not click the permissions tab at bottom of the “Get Info” window, because this may result into data loss .
Sometimes the permissions can be changed successfully using Terminal application, however in some cases it may make your system unbootable, leading to serious data loss conditions.

TO resolve this issue these steps should be followed

A)  Remove your hard drive, both Time Machine backup disk and data disk.

B)  Perform Archive and Install installation of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system.

C)  If it does not work, perform Erase and Install installation of the OS.

D)  Format Time Machine backup drive using another Mac machine.

E)  Backup data on Time Machine disk again.

When you go through the above steps, you may possible sort out your problem from system point of view, but you come across several new problems related to your data. Erase and Install installation of Mac OS X operating system removes all the data from hard drive and leads to critical data loss situations. At this point, need of  File recovery mac solutions arise.

Mac time machine recovery is best possible using powerful commercial applications to recover time machine from mac system. They comprise of high-end scanning methods to thoroughly scan entire drive and extract all inaccessible data from it.
Mac file recovery software do not demand sound and prior technical skills as of their interactive graphical user interface.