Hi again Peter, Thinking more on Snow Leopard TM Backups on an older Mac to a New Mac running Lion. I’ve always preferred and found it is safer to use Migration Assistant & Firewire Target Disk Mode to Transfer your Data from your Old Mac to a New Mac. If you didn’t have the old Mac because the hard drive dies, then I would do the TM Restore.
Using TM Backup would work; I’ve done it quite a few times after total Erase of a Computer and re-install of the Operating System, then Restore from TM backup. But as your ‘in the future scenario', the backup has been created on a different Mac and if there happens to be any corruption in the backup there ‘could’ be a problem. When you get a new computer from Apple, it has a specific version of Mac OS X installed on it, and further, a specific "build” number. If it was me, I would use Migration Assistant & Firewire Target Disk Mode to connect the Old Mac to the New Mac to transfer everything across. When the time comes I can give you the link to a Tutorial on my support website that I did some time back showing you “How To Transfer Your Data From Your Old Mac To A New Mac”. Daniel and other Apple Consultants I think will agree with agree with me as I feel fairly sure that they would recommend Migration Assistant and Firewire Target Disk Mode to connect both Macs via Firewire cable, when both the Old and New Computers are available. Ultimately of course it is your decision which way you go, I can only give you advice based on my experiences. Almost forgot to ask you if you are also doing other backups of the computers? Don’t rely on just TM backups, you also need other backups as well. We have covered Backups fairly extensively on WAMUG Mailing list … I know I have, even to the extent that someone suggested I was intimidating ;-)) If people saw as many times as I have how devastated people are when their Data can not be recovered from a totally dead Hard Drive, they would make sure they had in place a ‘Good Backup Strategy’. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 14/04/2012, at 8:55 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > When you setup TM backups on each of the MBs as long as you did not exclude > any items from being backed up, they will be complete system backups. > > System Preferences > Time Machine > click on 'Options' - Exclude these items > from backups: > If there is nothing there on each of the MacBooks or only perhaps something > not important to the system. It is a complete backup that TM is doing. > > Cheers, > Ronni who is on the road now > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 14/04/2012, at 8:05 AM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > >> Thanks Ronnie, that is all nice to know. Seems I am ok to leave as is. >> >> How do I verify the backups being configured as "complete system" backups >> and not just a Users Home Directory backup? >> >> Thanks for the link. >> >> Pete >> >> >> >> On 14/04/2012, at 7:56 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> As long as the Time Capsule drive doesn't die first; you are good. >>> Also I am assuming all the MacBooks are complete system backups (not just >>> Users Home Directory). >>> >>> Each computer has its own Sparse disk Image bundle (sparsebundle) on the >>> backup drive. >>> So you can restore one without harming any of the others. >>> >>> To answer your question: >>> >>>> If I were to buy a new one, it would undoubtedly be a Lion OSx, so does >>>> this make in difference in the restoration process? >>> No not at all. >>> Simply launch Migration Assistant, select your Time Machine backup and >>> select which settings and users to copy. It doesn't care that your backup >>> is a Snow Leopard backup. >>> >>> For more information here is an article about how to use Migration >>> Assistant in Snow Leopard. It is virtually the same in Lion. >>> >>> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/27921.html> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> Sent from Ronni's iPad >>> >>> On 13/04/2012, at 8:53 PM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, this is a question for precautionary purposes. We have 3 >>>> Macbooks in my house all using Snow Leopard, Two of them are the Black >>>> plastic bodied Macbook (2.4 GHz core 2 duo) for kids ~2007 vintage I think >>>> and the other is a White plastic one 2.26 GHz (core 2 duo) ~2009 I think. >>>> They are all set up and using Time Machine for constant back ups. >>>> >>>> My question, if one of them were to have a fatal hard disc failure, can I >>>> either get the hard disc replaced, and restore it to its previous >>>> configuration, or buy a new Macbook and then configure the new Macbook to >>>> the same config? If I were to buy a new one, it would undoubtedly be a >>>> Lion OSx, so does this make in difference in the restoration process? >>>> >>>> When restored, what settings will need further fine tuning - if any? >>>> >>>> Hopefully someone can advise as I want to be sure that I am not living in >>>> a false sense of security thinking that the Time Capsule is my saviour >>>> when it may not be in the event of a failure. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Pete. -- 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>
