Is the only way to make the new machine a "clone" of the old one? The old machine is fried and won't boot.
What does TM look at to determine identity? I gave the new machine the same hostname as the old one, but that's not sufficient. Is there a way to "migrate" TM backups to a new host? -Carl > On Feb 15, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > From your message, I can't understand what effect you are trying to achieve. > > At first, I thought you were trying to clone all operation of your dead > machine onto this other machine, but somehow that doesn't seem to square with > your story. > > Then, I thought you were just trying to reuse the drive to be a Time Machine > drive for a different machine, to which the answer is just to erase the > drive; but no, you seem to want to keep the old data around. > > It sounds like you're trying to keep the history of the old machine available > on the new machine, but not make the new machine a clone of the old machine. > If that's so, then where you are is as far as you can be. Time Machine won't > let you access the history of machine A from machine B, because they have no > common history. Yeah you can drag files around via the Finder, but you can't > use the automated GUI. > >> On Feb 15, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> A mid-2010 iMac (Yosemite) mobo flaked out on me so I transferred its >> external TimeMachine drive to a late-2009 iMac (Sierra). In Sys Prefs I >> selected the new drive to be the TimeMachine drive. But when I attempt to >> Enter Into TimeMachine, it gives me an error panel saying: >> "Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk." >> >> What does that mean? I can access the drive and the files on it manually in >> Finder. How can I tell TM to use the drive and the existing backups? The new >> iMac has the same name as the old one. >> -Carl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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