Time Machine Restoration

[Guardsix]

I had to do a clean reinstall of Yosemite on my MacBook Pro. I have an external hard drive that I had been using for my Time Mache backups. After I restored my Operating system, I want to reconnect my former T-M backup hard drive. But it appears theres only one days backup on that drive. Whats happened to all my previous backups?

I know it was working correctly before because I've gone back in time to restore files before.

Oh, yeah, the HDD says it has only 64GB free on a 2TB HDD.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Weaselboy]

Try to option click the Time Machine menu icon then select browse other backup disks and you should see the old one.

 

[Guardsix]

Try to option click the Time Machine menu icon then select browse other backup disks and you should see the old one.

Yeah, I already did that. I can connect to the previous HDD and I can only see one backfile is there going all the way back to 2013.

But, when I go to Time Machine to try and actually see anything back past a day or two, nothing shows up.

How do I get Time Machine to recognize the entire backup file?

 

[dZp]

Is the 'old' backup still visible and accessible from the Finder?

 

[Guardsix]

Is the 'old' backup still visible and accessible from the Finder?

Yeah, it is. Backups.backupdb is date 16 Oct 2013 and when I access that, it still has files back to 2013.

Yet, when I go into Time Machine to find something, it won't go past 5 Oct. I did a clean re-install of Yosemite on that day. I figured my backups would be gone but if they're not, I'd like to still access them.

 

[dZp]

Have a read of the following article and see if it would apply to your case.
http://simon.heimlicher.com/articles/2012/07/10/time-machine-inherit-backup-using-tmutil

 

[Guardsix]

False alarm. I just needed to let Time Machine catchup.

Today when I tried to look at my Time Machine backup data, it went all the way back, no problem.

Thanks for everyone that tired to help. I guess, lesson learned, is to let the MacBook Pro and it's apps work a little before running around yelling!