Yes, very good point! I had forgotten the whole “trick” about TM as Apple promoted it originally was that it used hard links, and thus saved tremendously on hard disk space. Certainly this is something I will try out! -Carl
On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > I always make sure that’s the case, as it eliminates a whole passel of extra > grief that TM can throw at you. > > As for the “many incrementals” issue, remember the magic of hard links. Yes, > an old file is dumped only once, but every “incremental” made since has a > hard link to the original backup image of that file in the proper position in > that folder, so it’s true that if you drag a folder from the latest > incremental, you will get ALL the files as of that time. > > > On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hmm. Perhaps such a method would work if the new user account on the new >> machine not only has the same username but the same user id number as the >> old, ex. 401. I didn’t check that; maybe that is what TM is keying off of in >> order to associate the current user with its backups? >> -Carl >> >> On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Interesting, I was suggested that method by Apple support a few days ago to >>> restore my son’s machine state, but I’m still waiting for the machine to >>> come back from Apple. >>> >>> Jean-Christophe Helary >>> >>> On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:22, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Actually I had tried to do that, but didn’t see how. The TM drive has many >>>> incrementals on it, so dragging my old user account folder from the TM >>>> drive to the new machine wouldn’t be valid, as there isn’t a comprehensive >>>> backup folder to drag. And entering into TM, it shows no backup history >>>> for my account. Did you mean by some other way? >>>> -Carl >>>> >>>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Or you can create a new account on the new machine with the same name as >>>>> the old account and drop the stuff that you want in a way that is more >>>>> selective than Migration assistant does. >>>>> >>>>> Jean-Christophe Helary >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:01, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Yeah, I think you're right. Didn't remember having to do that before, but >>>>>> I'll give it a go. >>>>>> Thx! >>>>>> -Carl >>>>>> >>>>>>> I think migration assistant is the trick you're looking for. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:20 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> My iMac died, and I want to "restore" my user account onto a new >>>>>>>> machine >>>>>>>> from the Time Machine backup I have from the old machine. I don't see >>>>>>>> any >>>>>>>> way to do it. The new machine sees the TM drive, and will use it as a >>>>>>>> TM >>>>>>>> backup drive, but it doesn't present any way to restore from it. Even >>>>>>>> when >>>>>>>> entering Time Machine it shows nothing to restore although the drive is >>>>>>>> half full of TM backups. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Is there a trick to doing this, or am I out of luck? >>>>>>>> -Carl >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
