> On Feb 15, 2017, at 4:22 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2017-02-15, at 11:29 AM, 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 > > The real question, that I do not understand: What is your goal? > > Is your goal to restore files from this backup to the new machine? > Is the goal to use this drive with the new machine? > Is the goal to "inherit" the backup database for use on this new machine -- > the backup is a close match to the current machine, that you are willing to > let old archives go poof as the drive is used for current backups? > > What is your goal? What do you want to accomplish?
I want my new system to inherit my old system's TM archives. So when I do a backup, it augments the existing archive, and doesn't make an entirely new one from scratch, which would mean abandoning everything I have archived. Hard for me to believe there isn't a way to do this... -Carl
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