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Time Machine / Time Capsule - using just that for drive replacement

spaceballl

spaceballl

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Nov 2, 2003
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San Francisco, CA
Hi there,

I'm going to be replacing my brother's 80GB drive with a 160GB drive. I've done this by using an external enclosure, but I don't feel like spending the few bucks on one, and I have spare time. His computer is hooked up to a time capsule via gigabit ethernet. If I pull out the drive and install the OS on the new drive, can I then recover all of the data from the time machine backup on the time capsule? I'll be using gigabit ethernet. Thanks!
 
maflynn

maflynn

macrumors Haswell
May 3, 2009
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43,387
Yes but if you're recovering the entire system, it will be slow.

I did a complete restore on my MBP (because of a botched Snow Leopard install and it took nearly 8 hours. I'd recommend cloning the drive and restoring from that.
 
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