Re: Time Machine Backup following HDD to SSD upgrade

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Peter,

My suggestion is to trash the old sparse bundle and start fresh Time Machine 
backups on the SSD.

Why I make this suggestion is because - what will happen is that TM will 
continue your old backup sequence but it will do a complete new backup of your 
new drive instead of the usual incremental one the first time it backs up. 
So if you want to save space you may want to delete the sparse bundle with the 
old backups from the TC and start a new backup sequence altogether.

Just remove the sparse bundle manually in the Finder by going to the Time 
Capsule Data folder and deleting it.
That is: Delete it via finder and empty the trash.

Be prepared that the first backup is going to take a very long time, so do it 
when you aren't going to use the computer, probably overnight.
Make sure all applications are Quit (not closed) and disconnect anything 
connected to the Mac.

Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


> On 13 May 2017, at 11:03 am, Peter Crisp  wrote:
> 
> My son James has upgraded his MBP internal HDD to a SSD this morning. The TM 
> backup had completed succesfully yesterday prior to the drive change and the 
> Backup was then turned off in TM. We used CCC to make a clone of his HDD onto 
> the SSD including the Recovery partition. This concluded succefully. Then set 
> about the HDD change out to the SSD and RAM upgrade to 8MB. All of this went 
> without a hitch, no problems. Started up on the new SSD and it was as 
> expected light years faster than it was previously. We obviously have the 
> removed HDD also as a backup for future data retrieval if the need arises.
> 
> My question comes about now the continuity of his TM backup. We've turned TM 
> back ON and directed it to the same backup location as previously and it 
> seems to be in a holding pattern. Pressing the clock on the top menu shows in 
> faded font "Waiting to complete First Backup" and the TM window says Latest 
> Backup: None, First Backup: None. My inclination is to leave it to it's own 
> devices - it is connected with Ethernet as the expected first backup may be a 
> full backup again. But I am unsure if it will continue on the previous backup 
> Sparsebundle file or create a new one for James SSD alongside the James HDD 
> Sparsebundle. Also, I may have to delete the old Sparesebundle and have it 
> start over again as though a new machine. This wouldn't be catastrophic as I 
> say we have the retrieved HDD as fallback should it go bad before backup back 
> in order.
> 
> He is VERY happy with the speed of his MBP now - it is as quick as my Retina 
> now.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Pete
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Time Machine Backup following HDD to SSD upgrade

[Peter Crisp]

My son James has upgraded his MBP internal HDD to a SSD this morning. The TM 
backup had completed succesfully yesterday prior to the drive change and the 
Backup was then turned off in TM. We used CCC to make a clone of his HDD onto 
the SSD including the Recovery partition. This concluded succefully. Then set 
about the HDD change out to the SSD and RAM upgrade to 8MB. All of this went 
without a hitch, no problems. Started up on the new SSD and it was as expected 
light years faster than it was previously. We obviously have the removed HDD 
also as a backup for future data retrieval if the need arises.

My question comes about now the continuity of his TM backup. We've turned TM 
back ON and directed it to the same backup location as previously and it seems 
to be in a holding pattern. Pressing the clock on the top menu shows in faded 
font "Waiting to complete First Backup" and the TM window says Latest Backup: 
None, First Backup: None. My inclination is to leave it to it's own devices - 
it is connected with Ethernet as the expected first backup may be a full backup 
again. But I am unsure if it will continue on the previous backup Sparsebundle 
file or create a new one for James SSD alongside the James HDD Sparsebundle. 
Also, I may have to delete the old Sparesebundle and have it start over again 
as though a new machine. This wouldn't be catastrophic as I say we have the 
retrieved HDD as fallback should it go bad before backup back in order.

He is VERY happy with the speed of his MBP now - it is as quick as my Retina 
now.

Regards


Pete

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