I forgot to answer one question: > On Apr 9, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > <[email protected]> wrote:
> What happens when someone wants to upgrade to a new Time Machine disk? Isn't > there a way to set up a new disk, copy the old Time Machine backups to the > new disk, and then have Time Machine do incremental backups from there? If > so, is there some way to use that same methodology in my current situation? By and large, Time Machine doesn't handle this. The strategy we use is to safestore the old drive in a vault against later retrievals, and start new backup for everybody. Time Machine is a product designed with infinite no-brainer use features, but regretfully, is extremely short on no-brainer administration features. As long as everything foes smoothly, it chugs along pretty well, but as soon as there is a complication (or you introduce one, like unexpected network operation), things can devolve pretty fast into a puddle of goo. Again, let me recommend the Pondini website. I know for a fact that he has an incantation for reanimating transplanted backup volumes; it's just tedious and overly complicated (Apple's fault, not his) and not guaranteed to work because who can tell what changes Apple has made since Pondini left us? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
