How do you make sure the user id is the same ? Jean-Christophe Helary
On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:40, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
