Is it significantly faster to hardwire into a time machine to do a complete restore on a new macbook pro? I have a new one coming tomorrow and need the fastest turn around as i have to fly out for work the next morning. The backup of my existing mbp took a long time and wasn't sure what the fastest way would be to do a full restore on the new one. Can you hardwire into the time machine to make it significantly faster? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Fastest way to do a complete restore from Time Machine
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When I got my last macbook, the wireless backup was taking forever. I I did some googling and found that I had to turn something off. I think it was “encrypt backup’ or something like that. Once I did that, the rest of th backup only took a few minutes. An Ethernet backu pwould probably be faster, Deng on how quick you need t to be, but the wirelsss backup was still pretty fast.
I suggest that you wait for the restore on the new MBPro, (continue to use your old MBPro) until you have more time.
When I get rushed to complete a restore, I always seem to experience some glitch that I have never seen, making me do the restore a second time.
(Anyway, that has been my experience when I try to rush things along...
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I hope that won't happen for you - but, stuff happens, you know, and that would be really frustrating if you are also trying to rush the restore, just so you can take the new laptop with you.
When I get rushed to complete a restore, I always seem to experience some glitch that I have never seen, making me do the restore a second time.
(Anyway, that has been my experience when I try to rush things along...
)I hope that won't happen for you - but, stuff happens, you know, and that would be really frustrating if you are also trying to rush the restore, just so you can take the new laptop with you.
One more vote for CCC.
Do this:
1. Download CCC if you don't have it already, from here:
Carbon Copy Cloner - Download
(CCC is FREE to download and use for 30 days)
2. Launch CCC and accept the defaults.
3. Do a clone of the internal drive. You don't really need to clone the recovery partition (if it asks).
4. Take the cloned backup to the new Mac
5. BEFORE you power up the new Mac for the first time, connect the cloned backup
6. Now boot the new Mac and begin setup
7. At the appropriate moment, setup assistant will ask if you wish to migrate data from another computer or drive. YES, you want to do this
8. "Aim" setup assistant at the CCC cloned backup
9. Select what you wish to bring over
10. Let setup assistant "do its thing".
11. I've read that migration using CCC can be considerably faster than using a TM backup. I've never used TM (and never will use it) -- can't speak from experience.
Do this:
1. Download CCC if you don't have it already, from here:
Carbon Copy Cloner - Download
(CCC is FREE to download and use for 30 days)
2. Launch CCC and accept the defaults.
3. Do a clone of the internal drive. You don't really need to clone the recovery partition (if it asks).
4. Take the cloned backup to the new Mac
5. BEFORE you power up the new Mac for the first time, connect the cloned backup
6. Now boot the new Mac and begin setup
7. At the appropriate moment, setup assistant will ask if you wish to migrate data from another computer or drive. YES, you want to do this
8. "Aim" setup assistant at the CCC cloned backup
9. Select what you wish to bring over
10. Let setup assistant "do its thing".
11. I've read that migration using CCC can be considerably faster than using a TM backup. I've never used TM (and never will use it) -- can't speak from experience.