Time Machine Migration - Restores

If you use the migration assistant using a time machine backup you will be able continue using the same backup drive and access the old data months back. Having said that I did that method yesterday and it didn't go as planned. When trying to continue backing up with the same drive it kept saying "preparing backup" and never changed. Maybe I was impatient and should have waited much longer but I ended up restoring the whole system using the time machine backup which worked fine. But, I think that was a one off (hopefully).
Anyway I'll be using the migration assistant when I install Mountain Lion later this month so fingers crossed.

 

Yes you may have been impatient, although understandably After I moved to a new Mac recently using Migration Assistant, the first Time Machine backup asked me if I wanted to re-use the old backups for the new Mac. I said yes and it churned away saying Preparing Backup for about an hour (450GB on my MBP). After that it worked fine.