Grey no entry sign... Options?

[Cassady]

Things appear to be properly borked.

Somehow managed to activate the installer on the main drive. It loaded, after counting down the 18 minutes, it finally rebooted. Only, it then returned to a similar looking Yosemite installer screen, and automatically started the process again. And then hung.

I've now recreated a new USB Yosemite installer off the Mini, and am trying that.

Time Machine backup was done on Thursday. So I'm looking at losing two days of work, which is not fun.

Hoping this last trick works...

 

[Cassady]

Oh my shattered nerves. Lovely conversation with myself these last few hours - but figured I'd close this loop!

Happy to say the 5th attempt off the newly-created USB installer (thanks Bwana) did the trick. Back in, and everything as it was - incredibly. I'm still a bit dumbfounded. Doing back-ups now, before I start digging!

 

[noxibox]

Why not leave your backups running, then you can always have a backup that is no more than an hour old?

 

[Cassady]

Why not leave your backups running, then you can always have a backup that is no more than an hour old?

Mainly because I'm forgetful! I move the MBP back and forth between home and work, and often forget to plug in the external.

That all being said - I'm still amazed at how things worked out in the end. Was convinced it was tickets, and that I'd need to spend hours trying to get everything up and running. As it turned out - the longest wait was downloading Yosemite to re-create the USB installer.

 

[vinodh]

Mainly because I'm forgetful! I move the MBP back and forth between home and work, and often forget to plug in the external.

That all being said - I'm still amazed at how things worked out in the end. Was convinced it was tickets, and that I'd need to spend hours trying to get everything up and running. As it turned out - the longest wait was downloading Yosemite to re-create the USB installer.

Why didn't you just boot from the Time Machine drive and restore from it directly?

 

[Cassady]

Why didn't you just boot from the Time Machine drive and restore from it directly?

Didn't want to risk losing the two days of work I had put in after my last TM backup - so figured I'd first try saving things with the reinstall. Very pleased that it worked!

 

[noxibox]

Mainly because I'm forgetful! I move the MBP back and forth between home and work, and often forget to plug in the external.

I forget too, but Carbon Copy Cloner pops up a warning if it can't do its scheduled backup. Time Machine only warns me after a long time, but it might be possible to tweak that somewhere.

 

[vinodh]

I forget too, but Carbon Copy Cloner pops up a warning if it can't do its scheduled backup. Time Machine only warns me after a long time, but it might be possible to tweak that somewhere.

Here's a tutorial I found on how to get Time Machine to remind you when to backup: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_create_time_machine_backup_reminder_alert