Using Time Machine Drive With Another Machine

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  1. anirban, Jan 7, 2010

    anirban macrumors 6502a

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    Hello all!

    I have regularly been using TM with my Leopard. I just wiped my MBP clean and installed Snow Leopard. I have done a manual restore of all the files I need.

    My question is, can I use the old TM hard drive as the new TM backup drive, without losing the old backups? In other words, if I plug in the old TM drive and designate it as a backup disk, would my old backups be removed?

    Thanks!
     
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  2. ElphabaPotter, Feb 12, 2010

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    Sorry for moving this old post up but I can't seem to find the answer for this either.
     
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  3. scaredpoet, Feb 13, 2010

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    You should be able to keep your old backups from Leopard. Though, I've never done a restore from a Leopard time period onto SL, so I'm not sure how that would work out. I imagine as long as you're grabbing individual files you're fine, but a full restore from a period before the SL upgrade might get interesting.
     
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