Hi Peter, >> I dont actually have a problem currently but if my external drive were to >> fail or get lost or stolen, how would I reinstate the contents within the >> backup file of the external drive to a NEW external drive and restore the >> status quo?
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you exactly. If any of the above issues happen - The 'External Drive fails, or gets lost, or stolen'... You would not be able to Restore anything from the Time Machine backup as there is no Time Machine Backup - The External Drive is no longer accessible! This is why we must have a good three parts backup strategy (similar to my backup strategy I've posted numerous times on WAMUG) to help cover drive failures, stolen, or lost computers or backup drives. Also it's best to have iTunes & Photos quit when Time Machine is backing up. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 30 May 2015, at 6:48 am, [email protected] wrote: > > Good morning, I use an external drive to hold my iTunes and Photos library. I > have explicitly selected in 'Options' to include the external drive in the > hourly backup process with Time Machine so the backup file first time around > was quite large (~650GB) and took a long while. > > I dont actually have a problem currently but if my external drive were to > fail or get lost or stolen, how would I reinstate the contents within the > backup file of the external drive to a NEW external drive and restore the > status quo? > > I've never once restored a file from TM (though I am well practiced at > deleting the Sparsebundle backup file!!) so not familiar with the process > anyway but I am keen to understand how I would restore the external drive > associated files (either singly (say my Photos library file) or the drive in > total). > > Regards > > Pete.
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