Restoring from Time Machine backup to a smaller drive. Size of backup is more than data on source drive. how can I fix this?
Hey folks,
I posted this in the MBP section and realized I posted in the wrong forum so hopefully this is better. Sorry for the x-post.
Heres the situation:
I have MBP (a) and MBP (b) and am trying to put the contents of (b) onto (a). The problem is that (b) has a 320gb HD and (a) has a 256gb HD. I have lowered the contents of (b) to around 150gb and tried a timemachine backup but it's saying it's backing up 280gb of content inthe initial backup ((b) doesn't do regular timemachine backups so it's just the one). This causes a problem when trying to load the backup onto (a) because it says there is not enough free space.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is?
Thanks!
As long as there is sufficient space on a drive you can restore to any drive. However, be sure the drive is properly partitioned and formatted. In your case you can not fully restore 70 GBs to a 64 GB SSD, but you can restore the operating system and some of your data. That means you cannot do a full restore but will need to pick and choose after you install OS X.
Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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