The reference given was interesting but I think it assumes I have those old TN backup files on a working TM EHD (I don't). The initial folder, when I click info started calculating size and after about 10 hours of calculating it says there's 6.65TB of information (6,423,165,175,479 bytes) for 20,714,890 items!!! So those files must be compressed up the ying-yang! I probably should delete them and start from scratch. there are typically folders that show one more folder which when opened has folders like applications, User Guides and Information, System, a disk image file, and some other stuff. I meant the "" which has one folder with 111 sub folders, and of them. OK, I was able to move one (1) backup folder over to my root HDD. I'm probably in way over my head on this LOL.
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Note that the network backup and some aspects of restoring existing backups have improved since I wrote that.Depending upon how you want to restore the backup I may need to dig up the newest info.įound it: If you are running 10.6 the latest info on restoring files from an existing TM backup can be found about 3/4 of the way through this article Mac 101: Time Machine Check out ATPM 15.03 - How To: Time Travel: Introduction to Time Machine for more info It is possible to have it backup all or almost all files but it is also possible to exclude files. Are you trying to do that or simply salvage some of the files?Īs far as what TM backs up that depends a bit on how you set it up in the beginning. When a TM drive is directly connected to a Mac it stores the files in a folder at begins with the name Backups (Don't remember the rest at the moment) If you want TM to pick up where it left off and continue with these backups it can be done but will take a bit of work.
What you can salvage from the previous backup depends in part upon exactly which files were grabbed. It may not be fashionable to say it, but have a Merry Christmas. You could partition the EHD into 2 - one to receive the graphics etc the other the old 2009 stuff.
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I can't see how to integrate these with your new (Quadra) TM. Then, you mention "old backups from 2009". Separate EHD to back up all those other bits, graphics or whatever. Not one has ever failed.Ĭaveat: I have no experience of partitioning the Quadra to allow TM to back up on one partition and data on the other and I'm not sure how you would do this anyway. They've been repeatedly reformatted, partitioned and used over & over again. BUT, just counting now, I have 12 different LaCie EHDs going back 4+ years. Wise people will emphasise that LaCie ONLY makes the enclosures, not the HD which (in theory) could be from any source. Obviously, I attached new TMs to each Mac as I got it, but, in effect, they were copies of my first with whatever new stuff I had added since then - photos, apps, emails, and all the rest. My first ever TM was used to "populate" my three subsequent Macs, restoring them to a situation identical to the first.
The "Big Boys & Girls" of this forum will provide the class.Īs far as I know, TM backs up everything, iPhotos, pictures, iTunes, Aperture 3, emails - the lot. Let me announce my amateur status from the start.
Is it backing up _everything_ on my root drive or just OSX versions or OSX versions and applications, or what? Is it backing up my iTunes, my pictures, my email, and anything else? I'm trying to grasp Time Machine's usefulness and exactly what it's backing up. Do I just move them from the root drive to the Time Machine drive (or partition)? The old drive did die and it won't even spin up now. So rather than formatting as one large partition, do I need to format to two (2) partitions, one for TM and one for data files? Also, since I have a lot of old backup files, how do I incorporate those backups (back to 2009 I think) into Time Machine or is that a lost cause. So I just got a new 1TB Lacie Quadra which I'd like to be my TM drive, but I'd also like to store other material there. They wanted $600 to get everything off the drive and that was too much for me to handle. I didn't get everything, but I got about 18 months worth I think. Prior to my old TM drive totally dying on me, I moved a number of backup files which I assume were its Time Machine files onto my root internal drive.