So I'm planning on upgrading to Lion soon. What are the ramifications for my Time Machine disk? Will I need to reformat that disk before using it as a Time Machine for Lion? Just seems a little weird to have a series of differential backups on there with multiple OS's involved.
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upgrading to Lion - need to reformat my Time Machine disk?
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You don't need to do anything. Just keep on using Time Machine like you always have.
If you want to, you can do what I did. I waited a week with Lion, then deleted the TM backup and started with a fresh one just to reduce the size of the backup, but you don't need to do this otherwise.
If you want to, you can do what I did. I waited a week with Lion, then deleted the TM backup and started with a fresh one just to reduce the size of the backup, but you don't need to do this otherwise.
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The only issue I can think of is if you had your backup drive in a different format than HFS+. but that would require quite a bit of hacking to accomplish.
The only issue I can think of is if you had your backup drive in a different format than HFS+. but that would require quite a bit of hacking to accomplish.