Hi Ronni Thanks for the reassurance.
I will turn T.M. "on" after doing some neglected domestic chores. Thanks also for your Spotlight comment - email arrived as I was writing this! Its been a full day exercise to get to this point, so a night of Spotlight indexing will be a bagatelle. Cheers Alan On 02/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: Hi Alan, My comments in situ below. On 02/08/2012, at 6:39 PM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Hello all > > I have upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and was about to switch > Time Machine back "on". But Time Machine in System Preferences shows oldest > backup = none and latest backup = none. WAMUG discussion on the Lion upgrade > stated that T.M. backups would just continue to accumulate as normal. Does > this hold true with Mountain Lion? I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion but I'm fairly sure it is the same from SL to ML. Time Machine indicates that oldest backup & latest back is "none' until after it completes the first full backup. If I remember correctly it took some moments after the first backup before it changed to oldest backup date and latest backup. > > The last step in "Ronni's tutorial" is to let Time Machine complete a full > backup. Does this mean it will not be a normal incremental backup, but a > new backupdb? It takes longer as it gives the impression of a full backup as it is a new operating system (upgrade) and needs to check all files and changes to the system, but it will carry on from your previous backup. > > A simulated Restore from Time Machine in Mountain Lion seems to show the > history of Snow Leopard backups, so the data is presumably still accessible. Don't touch it; just let Time Machine do its job. Don't interrupt the first backup, let it complete the backup. I quit all applications an just let TM do its first backup. Cheers, Ronni > > (The 4 GB OS X download was fine - but then another 3 GB of App upgrades was > too much!) > > Regards, Alan > > Alan Smith > iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 > iPad2; ATV2 > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
