Time Machine: After Migration, How do I get it to See Old(er) Backups?

ingenious

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 11, 2008

• #1

I just got my iMac back from the Apple Store; they replaced some bad RAM.

They wiped the hard drive, and so when I plugged in my TM drive, it asked if I wanted to use it for TM, so I (of course) told it yes.

All of my old backups then showed up in the TM browser, but now, after migrating my old account from my TM backup, all I have is a backup from yesterday appearing; it won't back up any more data because it says it's out of room (apparently, it's trying to do a complete backup).

How do I get it to see the old backups and start doing incremental (or whatever!) backups again?

 

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MurphyM

macrumors 6502

• Feb 16, 2008

• #2

I'm in the same boat. My Mac was migrated from my old Mac. I can see all my old backups. I don't need to restore like you did.

I don't want to wipe out all the old backups and start over. But it's telling me there's no room to backup, even though there is.

I'm thinking our only choice might be to start over.

 

DoFoT9

macrumors P6

• Feb 16, 2008

• #3

hhmm i know that its all still there.. its just that i dont know how to restore it all automatically.

on the TM HD there should be a folder called backups.backupdb.. all the files are in there, its basically a copy of your HD. i dont know how to restore them but...(settings that is) documets/musik etc can be restored easily but

 

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MurphyM

macrumors 6502

• Feb 16, 2008

• #4

Take a look at this thread.

I'm leaning toward starting over instead of doing this.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1307738

 

deboni

macrumors member

• Feb 16, 2008

• #5

Migration Assistant

I was reading earlier today that you can use the migration assistant to regenerate an old system onto a new disk from TM backups. I don't know how, but it's alleged to be easy.

Tom

 

ingenious

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 16, 2008

• #6

*sigh*

I started over.

I STILL can't get TM to back up my HFS+ (journaled) USB drive...

deboni said:

I was reading earlier today that you can use the migration assistant to regenerate an old system onto a new disk from TM backups. I don't know how, but it's alleged to be easy.

Tom

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yea, it is easy... 😀 it's what we used to restore our systems. read the first post.