can I use a Time Machine backup on another mac?

Can I use my backup Time Machine for a Mac Mini on a 2nd Mac Mini?

Yes.

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    Searched the forums and can't seem to find an answer. With the help of El Capitan 10.11.6. You want to transfer backups Time Machine 4 years on an external USB drive on my new Time Capsule. Any ideas would be MUCH appreciated.

    There is no official method because it has problems.

    There's no official way.

    Here see Q18. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

    We recommend that people not me there. It has not proven reliable long-term. Start a new backup on the TC and keep the USB stick in the form of archive. After a few months or a year you won't have it.

    You have to understand the Time Machine backup otherwise locally the CF network. It is easy enough to move the backup network local but much harder the other way around.

  • My mac reboots, even in safe mode or using my time machine backup?

    When I try to install Yosemite in utilities, I don't have enough hard disk space. How can I access my hard drive?

    Time Machine backups are not bootable. What happens when you try to start safe mode?

    You can boot into recovery?

  • I can't remove the time machine backups, I put it in the trash

    My backup disk is almost full, and I want to take on a value of years of backup files until I can get a new backup drive to perform other files that I want to keep. I tried their erasure of the finder inside the time machine, but nothing happened. I sent them to the trash, and they seem to have disappeared from my external backup drive, but are now stuck in the trash. I left the machine running all night to see that it says it cannot remove these files because they are locked. Can you please tell me what I should do now?

    Thank you

    Hello Suzanne,.

    Go to the trash and use "Put" place files back where they belong. Time Machine is designed to remove automatically the old backup when it is full.

  • New iMac, Time Machine backup

    I'm moving to a new iMac. On the new iMac, I can't use the Time Machine backup of old Mac. I "removed" the time of the old iMac Machine. Every time I try a backup on the new iMac, I get a "backup failed" the Time Machine backup is already in use. »

    He is a former...

    TM must control the sparsebundle to the backup... He must disassemble at the end of the backup cycle... and back at the beginning of the next cycle... I assume you are using a TC.

    The solution is to disassemble the TM properly... or to put it in simple terms... Restart the TC.

    I highly recommend not to inherit the old backup... but start a new... If the drive is not large enough we can make suggestions on get more space or recovering from it.

  • FTP settings can be retrieved from a Time Machine backup?

    I had to nuke my Mac and reload the OS, but I did not export the managed sites and FTP of Dreamweaver settings before you do; However, I have a Time Machine backup of the computer before I wiped the drive. Anyone know if I can recover the backup settings and copy them into the new installation? Two copies of the DW are the same and have been installed since the creative cloud. The only difference is the operating system where the old machine has the new El Capitan and Yosemite.

    I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, Mac, so a little extra detail on explanations will be very appreciated. Thanks for any help provided.

    Yes, they can.  In your time machine backup, you will need to go to the library: Application Support: Adobe: commune: {Version}: Sites.  Just take this file 'Site' Time Machine to restore and you should be good to go.

  • NAS Time Machine backup

    Drive external hard must it be physically connected to my mini or can it be a NAS device? I can do a restore from Time Machine wireless for my laptop from a NAS device? Can I do a Time Machine restore for my laptop from a remote location using the time Machine SIN?

    Start here with the disks that can be used with Time Machine.

    Backup disks, you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support

    Good day.

  • restored my time machine backup mac - restarts not successfully

    After virus/malware unusable safari, I used my 'time machine' backups to restore my entire system (10.10.5).  I had the "restore msg."

    By design, it restarts.  I get the apple logo and progress indicator, but the bar spend about a third of the way and restarting stops there.  I tried

    reboot several times with the same results.  I then repeated the procedure for restoring above with a backup taken a week before and got the successful restore msg

    but had the same result with the reboot.  Don't know what to do next.

    Starts in recovery (command-R) Mode and choose the option Install OS X. Have it reinstall the OS without wiping the drive. Who should make the drive to be bootable again.

  • You can use migration assistant to transfer the time machine backup external hard drive?

    Hello. I just bought a new macbook pro with a 256 GB flash drive to replace my previous macbook pro that had a breakdown of all the systems. My problem is that I have a time machine backup that is greater than 256 GB (it's almost 450 GB) and I try to find out if I can use migration assistant to transfer all the content directly on an external hard drive, then move the content I want on my hard drive from the external hard drive? My goal is to let my music and photos on the external hard drive and for all port hardware I need for work.

    I don't have access to another mac with storage well enough that I have the old HD so could potentially be installed in an external enclosure and extracted files directly from there if it's easier.

    What I intend to do in the long term is to buy a big external hard drive network and put all my photos, music etc over there and use the laptop as expected - that is for files from day to day - then it will be just a short-term problem.

    Any advice would be really appreciated.

    Thank you

    Nick

    Migration Assistant is user to transfer data from one computer to the other.  If I read your post correctly, you want to copy your data from Time Machine on another HARD disk.  Thia may be useful:

    http://pondini.org/TM/18.html

    Pondini website covers virtually all aspects of Time Machine.

    Ciao.

  • Can I use Time Machine backup of my 2011 MacBook Pro (el Capitan) to set up my new (2016) MacBook Pro? How?

    Can I use Time Machine backup of my MacBook Pro 2011 (15 "/ 500 G HD/El Capitan") to set up my new (2016 13 "/ 1 TB HD) MacBook Pro? How? I want to pretty much recreate my whole installation/files.

    See this discussion of Migration Wizard. You will notice that the Time Machine is one of the sources that you can connect your new Mac to transfer what was on your old Mac that TM was back up.

  • Can I use a Time Capsule 2 TB model a1409 as a backup hd

    Can I use a Time Capsule 2 TB model a1409 as a backup hd?

    Potentially Yes. Your goal is to use the time Capsule to back up or duplicate Macintosh HD to your MacBook Pro? In the first case, you would use just Time Machine. For the latest, you can use third-party utilities, such as Carbon Copy Cloner or data backup to name a few.

    Whatever utility use you it can work with the Capsule of time as a backup destination.

  • My Clickfree automatic backup drive has stopped working, with my iMac, what is the best replacement to use with Time machine

    My Clickfree automatic backup drive I had for many years stopped working with my iMac, what is the best replacement to use with Time Machine.

    I can't even reformat the drive to try to start over, then think its time I invested in a high today but don't know where start looking so any advise would be a great help.

    Thank you guys

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  • How can I restore mac Time machine backup to most recent?

    So, I recently met several problems with my old mac. He started acting upward with the blinking folder and question mark more often. So I did multiple time machine backups and have since then tried to reinstall the OS and many other options, but it looks like my mac middle of 2007 has had its day. So I bought a new mac and tried to restore the back upward on the external hard drive. I get the message that his back is an older version and it cannot be restored and I should use from the other mac migration assistant.

    So the question is: If the first mac is burned and I can not restore settings etc of the time external hard disk machine, how to restore the whole upward? Can I transfer files only?

    Very much appreciated.

    g

    Hi Sir,

    You cannot restore data in time machine just like that. You use the data transfer assistant to recover your old records to your new Mac.

    The data that you used time machine made to your old mac are not available to your new mac. There is limitation of the system.

    Hope this could help you.

  • How can I know if an external drive has been used for Time Machine and what computer it came with too?

    How can I know if an external drive has been used for Time Machine and what computer it came with too?

    I have several laptops and iMacs. I spent the relocation of the year and only used the MacBook Pro.

    Now I'm trying to figure out which drive goes with which computer

    I connected just a disk seagate 1.5 t and the first thing he did was to ask if I wanted to use it as a Time Machine drive.

    (1) if it is the TM disk accompanying this computer don't would not it have just started upward automatically?

    (2) what happens if I would have said yes?

    (3) I don't even know if it's been activated for TM. Is there a way to tell? It may hold just for iMovie files and other programs associated with a computer from my past.

    All readers of backup Time Machine contains a folder named: Backups.backupdb. If you open this folder, you'll find another folder with the name of the computer that has been saved. If several computers have been saved on the same disk, you will have several folders.

  • I bought my 2009 year Adobe Creative Suite 4 for Mac OS. Now I have bought me a few weeks ago a new Apple iMac 27-inch with new ElCapitan Workprogram. I turn all my dates with a time machine backup of my old iMac 27. But now I can't start my photosh

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    Help download and installation to Prodesigntools links can be found on the most linked pages.  They are essential; especially steps 1, 2 and 3.  If you click on a link that does not have these listed steps, open a second window by using the link to Lightroom 3 to see these "important Instructions".

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