If I swallow the bitter pill and restore the new machine from the TM backup, will that sync the two? -Carl
> On Feb 15, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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 >>> <http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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