Hi,
I have a question regarding Time Machine that I'm sure somebody will know the answer to.
Leopard is running slow as hell on my Macbook Pro and it's been more than a little bit buggy (actually, horrendously buggy) since upgrading from Tiger, so I'm going to try a fresh install. I have a 320GB USB Time Machine disk to store backups from the 160GB MBP drive. My question is this. If I format the MBP right now and install Tiger normally, where on the external would I restore my select files from? I'd just want some applications' settings (which I'll probably do through the migration assistant anyways), music, files, etc. I do not want to restore directly from the backup obviously as that would defeat the purpose of the fresh install.
From what I understand, since Time Machine utilized multiple 'hard links', any one of the dated backup folders should allow me to select complete folders of files I'd like to bring back to the MBP. Does that make sense? Basically, each folder is in fact a complete backup (but files that have remained the same in multiple backups are 'hard linked' to by several of those backup folders)?
That was a little bit lengthy, sorry about that. I want to make sure this happens properly of course, avoiding copying 100GB of data to a different external. I'd appreciate any help you can provide! Thanks in advance.
I have a question regarding Time Machine that I'm sure somebody will know the answer to.
Leopard is running slow as hell on my Macbook Pro and it's been more than a little bit buggy (actually, horrendously buggy) since upgrading from Tiger, so I'm going to try a fresh install. I have a 320GB USB Time Machine disk to store backups from the 160GB MBP drive. My question is this. If I format the MBP right now and install Tiger normally, where on the external would I restore my select files from? I'd just want some applications' settings (which I'll probably do through the migration assistant anyways), music, files, etc. I do not want to restore directly from the backup obviously as that would defeat the purpose of the fresh install.
From what I understand, since Time Machine utilized multiple 'hard links', any one of the dated backup folders should allow me to select complete folders of files I'd like to bring back to the MBP. Does that make sense? Basically, each folder is in fact a complete backup (but files that have remained the same in multiple backups are 'hard linked' to by several of those backup folders)?
That was a little bit lengthy, sorry about that. I want to make sure this happens properly of course, avoiding copying 100GB of data to a different external. I'd appreciate any help you can provide! Thanks in advance.