Yes, I was hoping to get the data off the drive. I was unsure how TM drives work when apart from the system they were backing up. If I connect the TM HDD to another system, does TM know the backups on it aren't for that system? Would the TM backup data be available through TM on the new system? Or would I need to cd into the drive and copy files off manually?
-Carl > On Sep 12, 2019, at 6:35 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the qustion. Do you just want the drive to use, or > do you want the data that's on it now? > > If you just want the drive, just erase it. > > If you want the data, you can probably unencrypt it by knowing the password. > It's not like an internal drive on an A4-chip machine, which is tied to that > machine. Cheese grater isn't that recent. > >> On Sep 11, 2019, at 8:59 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> A 2010 "cheese grater" MacPro was decommissioned on us a while back, and all >> that's available to us now is its external Time Machine HDD. >> >> Will it do us any good to requisition the drive? It was likely encrypted. Is >> TM encryption "paired" to the host machine, or can the HDD somehow be used >> apart from the original host? >> >> -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
