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shareef777

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Jul 26, 2005
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So I migrated to a new 2018 MBP temporarily (from my 2016 MBP). Did a final back of my 2016 before it went out for repairs and restored the TM backup to the 2018. It was pretty much amazing. I continued off using the 2018 as if it was exactly like my 2016 (including continuing backups to the same TM locations). Fast forward a week and I get my 2016 back from repair and I did the same in reverse. Made a final backup of the 2018 and restored the TM backup to my original 2016. Everything worked out of the box (again) except for TM backups. Now whenever I try to run a TM backup it sits at preparing backup ...

Don't want to blow away my existing TM images as they have backups over the past year. Any ideas around getting it fixed?
 
So I migrated to a new 2018 MBP temporarily (from my 2016 MBP). Did a final back of my 2016 before it went out for repairs and restored the TM backup to the 2018. It was pretty much amazing. I continued off using the 2018 as if it was exactly like my 2016 (including continuing backups to the same TM locations). Fast forward a week and I get my 2016 back from repair and I did the same in reverse. Made a final backup of the 2018 and restored the TM backup to my original 2016. Everything worked out of the box (again) except for TM backups. Now whenever I try to run a TM backup it sits at preparing backup ...

Don't want to blow away my existing TM images as they have backups over the past year. Any ideas around getting it fixed?

Looks like it fixed itself. Took 12 hours for the TM backup to get out of preparing backup, for both the USB mounted backup as well as the NFS one.
 
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