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Hi

have just changed from a core duo MacBook to a core 2 duo MacBook and have been running Time Machine backups since February.

I would really like to keep the backups going on the new machine - and to be able to use Time Machine to go back to February.

I know Time Machine uses the ethernet MAC address to identify what machine it is backing up.

Has anyone found a simple method of fooling Time Machine into thinking that it is still backing up the same Mac.

I have yet to use Time Machine with the new MacBook but have cloned the drive so the computer name's are the same - just the MAC address that is different.
 
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