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Recovering system software situation from a earlier date

I have a problem with the Backup on Time Machine.
Already for some days I get the message that "Backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk"

It is not unlikely that I removed by mistake, an essential system file when removing files in a recent clean up?


In Windows it was always possible to go back to a selected date and replace the system files with the situation as it was on that earlier date. Using this Windows-capability has solved for me some serious problems.


Time Machine informs me that the most recent Backup has been performed on July 4th.
So if I could go back to the system files situation before July 4th I might be able to solve this back up problem with Time Machine?


Can anybody help me in this matter?

Thank you on beforehand!

Harry

iMac 27" i7, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jul 8, 2013 12:26 PM

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Jul 10, 2013 10:59 AM in response to norm123

Thank you, Norm, for your suggestion.

I already had a look at this article, but it is not very helpful.
Under the heading:

"Unable to Backup - An error occurred while copying files to backup volume" - which is what shows up on my screen, the advise is:

"Restart - then try the backup again"

Regrettably it doesn't say what to do when the restart and retry still doesn't produce a backup!


I have no idea what to do to have Time Machine backup again?

Harry

Recovering system software situation from a earlier date

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