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Q: Can't start Time Machine backups on Catalina

jbeldockRunning OS X Catalina, I am unable to initiate backups of any sort from Time Machine. Here's the UI error I get: Digging in under the hood, I find console errors from backupd that look consistently like this: Failed to create APFS snapshot with name 'com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-11-17-174139....

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Q: Restore from Time Machine backup stalls on disk password request, won't accept true password

mixI have a machine whose drive became corrupt. I erased the drive and installed a basic system on it. I'm now trying to restore it to its previous state from the last Time Machine backup. I had been backing the machine up to a NAS drive--which I was unable to restore from—so I copied the sparsebun...

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Q: Is there a way to see if a macbook had a time machine backup done? How to erase this information?

MACCI was wondering if there's any way to see if someone did a Time Machine backup on a macbook and, in case that is possible, how can that log information be erased so that there's no information available if a backup was done or to which medium. Thank you.

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