Restoring time machine backup to smaller hard drive partition

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  1. phonyreal98, Jul 25, 2013

    phonyreal98 macrumors newbie

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    What is the best way to restore a time machine backup to a smaller hard drive partition? My original partition was ~190 GB, I have about 90 GB worth of files that I need, and I would like to restore into a ~170 GB partition. My time machine backups are stored on an external hard drive.
     
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  2. Fishrrman, Jul 26, 2013

    Fishrrman macrumors G5

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    I don't think there will be any problems doing this.

    TM doesn't back up "empty space" on a hard drive.

    Just "used space" -- the files that are there.

    My advice:
    Just connect, then restore.
     
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  3. Weaselboy, Jul 26, 2013

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    That will work just fine since the amount of data is less than the new disk size.
     
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