Are you attempting to keep the entire Time Machine system, or one specific snap shot of the disk?
If the latter, then I would suggest using carbon copy cloner or super duper. Time machine backups break the rule of never creating har links at the directory level, so I am not sure how programs like tar or cp would handle this. Jonathan On Jul 31, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Evening all, > > Ok I'm no expert when it comes to Time machine. My usual backup strategy > doesn't actually rely on an automated system such as time machine, but rather > uses documents stored in a Subversion repository. However, for reasons far > to boring to go into, I used Time machine to back up an old iMac of mine > about a year ago. This backup is on an external drive which I want to now > use for something else. > > So, I want to take off all documents, and other files, store them on my > Macbook pro then format the external disk. I presume this is feasible? In > other words I'm essentially moving documents from an old iMac, through Time > MAchine to my MacBook Pro? The reason, incidentally that I don't just copy > the docs and other files from the iMac to the external hd and thence to my > Macbook Pro (or indeed copy them from one to another using a crossover > ethernet) is that the old iMac has been formatted many times since as it's > become sort of our lab's generic development/user-testing machine. > > Thanks much, > > Dónal > Dónal Fitzpatrick > [email protected] > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
