Automatic time machine backups on 2015 MacBook Air (running Monterey 12.6.8) not functioning properly. They won't allow selection of the HD disk; only offer external hard drive or other Airport capsule backup. looked into updating to Ventura but that is not offered. Need to get it internally backed up before a Genius Bar appointment Saturday, August 26.2023.
MacBook Air 13″
You can’t back up to the same drive it is backing up. You need another drive.
Links below related to Time Machine usages and Types of Drives
Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support (CA)
Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support (CA)
parchmentier wrote:
Thanks. Where does Time Machine normally back up if an external drive has never been used?
It doesn't. You have to configure a backup drive before it does anything.
Thank P Phillips. The issue is that the internet has been cutting occasionally while in use and is usually gone for 4 hours to a day for no apparent reason. All indicators say Wi-Fi is fine, four bars, green light, etc. Yet a blank screen comes up say9ing, "You are not connected to the internet." Many calls to tech support have not resolved the problem. In preparing the Genius Bar visit, I am trying to back it up but it only wants an external drive.. Will they work with that? When internet comes back on there is an odd thing happening that makes me wonder if its being hacked.
With or without a Reliable Internet connection or No Internet connection at all.
Attaching an External Drive Directly to the computer s Not Affected by any Internet Connection
The Physical Connection of Computer to the Attached External Drive does not require any Internet at all.
Welcome
The Time Machine Backup you create on your external Drive is to Protect Your Personal Data incase the Genius Bar needs to make changes on the computer.
They do not need the External Drive.
All the work they will be doing is On the Computer itself.
Not on the TM Backup Drive
Think of the TM Backup as a place you keep important Paper Files you what to protect when going away for a vacation.
I take my import papers like Birth Certificate, Marriage Paper to my Bank and put them in a Safety Deposit Box = Time Machine Backup Drive
Thanks. Where does Time Machine normally back up if an external drive has never been used?
Thank you. So will the Genius Bar people accept an external drive backup in order to work on resolving the other issue on my computer?
Time Machine backup not functioning properly.
