Hi, had to buy a new disk from Apple store for SL (Were just about to send them back!) I had lost my original disk.
Question is, I'm running lion and I'm wondering will my time machine have SL backed up on it, so if I do go back to it, the lion back ups won't conflict with SL??
It's got about 30 days of back ups, so I'm guessing it has, wasn't sure if Lion cleared the SL back ups, etc?
Here is what I did last night. I decided that working on SL on my 2010 Mac Pro was much better than with Lion. The MP had a 1.5TB OSX partition, a 500GB Windows 7 partition, and the Lion restore partition on a WD RE4 2TB HDD.
I booted it with the original gray SL install disk. It took some time to load but eventually gave me the install screen. I chose restore from Time Machine backup from the menu.
After selecting one day before the Lion installation day it took about four hours for SL to be restored from my 2TB Time Capsule which is hardwired by ethernet to the MP.
After rebooting System Update suggested six updates including the latest Safari, which I like, the latest iTunes and that last 6.8.8 update. Some of the libraries, like iTunes, were rebuilt to match the current versions.
Other than that Time Machine decided to back up the whole boot drive again everything went perfectly smooth. The Windows 7 install works perfectly and the Lion Restore partition is still there for if and when I decide to go to a later edition of Lion.
It's so nice to be back to colored icons, smooth Spaces transitions, a Contacts app that isn't ugly and the Calendar that doesn't make me want to throw up.
Total success.
