Hello,
I recently treated my Mac Mini to an SSD and moved its old HD to a USB3 enclosure to keep my music and other not-so-sensitive data. I decided to have Time Machine keep a backup of it, which was as easy as removing the exception from its Preferences.
Everything works great and I can get to the files on the external hard drive just fine... as long as that drive is correctly mounted.
My question is: how does one access the Time Machine backup of a *missing* disk?
Say my HD dies, I know that a full backup is available on my TM disk but it won't show in the sidebar when I enter TM, nor it will get me there if I hit cmd+G and type in the full path (/Volumes/Mydisk). Even going to "Computer" (cmd+shift+C) only shows the boot SSD and TM's own disk.
Am I missing something very obvious here?
Thanks in advance!
I recently treated my Mac Mini to an SSD and moved its old HD to a USB3 enclosure to keep my music and other not-so-sensitive data. I decided to have Time Machine keep a backup of it, which was as easy as removing the exception from its Preferences.
Everything works great and I can get to the files on the external hard drive just fine... as long as that drive is correctly mounted.
My question is: how does one access the Time Machine backup of a *missing* disk?
Say my HD dies, I know that a full backup is available on my TM disk but it won't show in the sidebar when I enter TM, nor it will get me there if I hit cmd+G and type in the full path (/Volumes/Mydisk). Even going to "Computer" (cmd+shift+C) only shows the boot SSD and TM's own disk.
Am I missing something very obvious here?
Thanks in advance!