Hey everybody,
I had an iMac that went bad and just died. 5 years and 367GB later. We just had a baby girl in July, so a lot of my files are hpictures and videos
It wouldn't let me back up with time machine, so I had to use CCC Carbon Copy Cloner before it died.
I found my Aug. 31 backup folder from CCC on my external HD and tried to turn it into a Macintosh HD.dmg, so I could use Disk Utility to
Select it as a source and replace the HD on an iMac I borrowed from work, so I could ultimately gt a Time Machine backup and restore it to a new iMac.
Well, the .dmg file didn't make it cause it was too big for my external HD, so I was left with a 367GB Macintosh HD.sparsebundle.
I just read somewhere that Time Machine recognizes .sparsbundles! Is there any way boot up off the Lion USB keychain and use Restore from Time Machine Backup on the .sparsebundle file? Again I created the .sparsbundle file by mistake in Disc Utility once I found my CCC Aug 31 Macintosh HD.
If I could restore that with Time Machine to this iMac on loan from work, I could take another external HD and create a real Time Machine backup to restore to a new iMac !!!
Please help, I thought I was backing up correctly with Carbon Copy Cloner cause my Time Machine went on my computer in May and I will have missed all the pictures and videos of my 6-week old daughter. My wife and I are devastated, we thought we could restore like Time Machine with Carbon Copy Cloner
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated !!! Thanks.
I had an iMac that went bad and just died. 5 years and 367GB later. We just had a baby girl in July, so a lot of my files are hpictures and videos
It wouldn't let me back up with time machine, so I had to use CCC Carbon Copy Cloner before it died.
I found my Aug. 31 backup folder from CCC on my external HD and tried to turn it into a Macintosh HD.dmg, so I could use Disk Utility to
Select it as a source and replace the HD on an iMac I borrowed from work, so I could ultimately gt a Time Machine backup and restore it to a new iMac.
Well, the .dmg file didn't make it cause it was too big for my external HD, so I was left with a 367GB Macintosh HD.sparsebundle.
I just read somewhere that Time Machine recognizes .sparsbundles! Is there any way boot up off the Lion USB keychain and use Restore from Time Machine Backup on the .sparsebundle file? Again I created the .sparsbundle file by mistake in Disc Utility once I found my CCC Aug 31 Macintosh HD.
If I could restore that with Time Machine to this iMac on loan from work, I could take another external HD and create a real Time Machine backup to restore to a new iMac !!!
Please help, I thought I was backing up correctly with Carbon Copy Cloner cause my Time Machine went on my computer in May and I will have missed all the pictures and videos of my 6-week old daughter. My wife and I are devastated, we thought we could restore like Time Machine with Carbon Copy Cloner
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated !!! Thanks.