Hi Stephen, Did anything like this happen?
under Snow Leopard, Apple has allowed for this. When you turn on TM for the first time, it will ask you: Would you like to reuse the backup [..] with this computer? (The backup was created on a different computer. If you reuse this backup it can no longer be used by the original computer.) If you are running Leopard these is this work-around: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080128003716101 Yours Mark Mark Schofield, Hove On May 28, 2:03 pm, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Having connected up my existing TM backup drive to my new iMac it's now run > out of space attempting to complete the backup from my new iMac. > > The TM disk is 500GB. The data on my new iMac - transferred from my old iMac > - is 164GB so there should be plenty of space with 90GB remaining. However, I > suspect that it's doing it's best to make a brand new backup of everything as > it's a new computer instead of just making an incremental backup to the final > TM backup from my old iMac. Looking on the Apple Community it seems that OS X > uses the MAC address to determine which TM backup belongs to this iMac and at > the moment TM will not even display my old backups! > > Is there any way that I can just get it to recognise my previous backups and > add an incremental backup or do I need to remove one or all of my previous > backups to continue? Eeek! > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > ...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the > soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from > man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here > is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense > intelligence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
