Clean install of Lion and proper Time Capsule procedure. Advice Please.

Good day all,
I have performed a clean install of Lion. I have previously been using a 1TB Time Capsule to backup my Snow Leopard disk. I did not use the Time Capsule to restore my files to Lion, instead I restored individual files from a backup of my Home folder on a seperate exteral hard drive. I have not yet enabled Time Machine in Lion. Is it advisable to erase the Snow Leopard backups using Airport Utility before enabling Time Machine? If I enable Time Machine without erasing the Time Capsule will it ask me if I want to erase or will it simply begin another set of back up data leaving the previous backups intact?
Thank you!

If you had used Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant to put your data back, Time Machine would do an "incremental" backup, of what's new or changed.
Since you didn't, TM doesn't realize the erased disk has most of the same stuff as before, and will treat your Mac's internal HD as a different one, and will do a new, full backup of it. You cannot prevent that. (If your backups were on an external HD, you could make it "associate" the backups with the "new" disk, but that doesn't work on network backups for some reason.)
So your best bet is probably to erase the TC's internal HD.
If it's quite large, however, you may not have to. If it's at least 2.2 times the size of what's on your internal HD, there will be room for a new backup.

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I have done a clean install of Lion and re-installed all software.
Now I would like to continue backing up this new, clean computer to the same Time Machine I was using before the clean install, preserving previous backups.
Is there any way to do this? I don't want to loose all of the data backed up...will choosing the old Time Machine disk overwrite everyting?
I don't want to try anything until I'm sure.
Thanks,
Margot

Margotvbp wrote:
I have done a clean install of Lion and re-installed all software.
How are you planning to put your data back? If you use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, that should leave a "trail" for the next Time Machine backup to "associate" your "new" (erased) disk with the old backups.
If it doesn't, or if you use some other method to put your stuff back, you should be able to tell Time Machine to do it, per #B6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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Hi All,
I have a new MBP on it's way to be delivered to my house today, and my question is about Time Machine backups. I'd like to restore from my old MBP's Time Machine data, but I'm a little concerend because I've had some issues with Lion. Specifically, very slow at random times, spinning beach balls, etc. I didn't do a clean install of Lion, just the download/upgrade method, and from what I've read, that's caused some problems for people.
Will a restore from a Time Machine backup replace all of the "fresh" system files, etc. on the new MBP, or only move specific files, or files not present in the system (i.e. app preferences)? I'd rather not have to manually copy and install everything if I can avoid it, but I don't want to transfer any old problems to the new MBP. Thanx.

OK, you're right. I wish Apple would get rid of the Applications Folder in the User Folder.
If you haven't read this yet:
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I still believe you are relatively safe in not porting over trouble from your previous System.
What trouble are you having

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Hello everybody,
I have updated from Snow Leopard to Lion over the App Store and now my iMac (the 27" one from last year) seems to suffer from several slowdowns. Quite unusual for a new Mac. So I decided to try a clean install. Of course I would like to keep my data, my programs and stuff. I am doing daily backups with my Time Machine, so this should not be a problem.
But thats my question: Does it make sense to put back all data from the Time Machine from a backup on a clean install? Doesn`t it possibly put back all the old problems with all the slowdowns I experience right now?
The following I intend to do:
- backup all data with Time Machine
- create a Lion install disc
- boot from the disc, delete the HDD
- install Lion from the disc
- boot the new OS and put back the Time Machine backup
I hope someone can verify that this would work. Since those slowdowns became really annoying I would give it a try.
greetings
Michael

the_whispering wrote:
So I decided to try a clean install.
I'd recommend against starting with the "nuclear" option.
First, is there a "pattern"? Does the problem seem to coincide with any particular app(s)?
How full is your internal HD? If it's over about 85%, that can contribute to slowness.
Check for directory damage, by Verifying your internal HD, per #6 in Using Disk Utility.
Check for unusual log messages that can indicate a problem. See the tan box in OSX Log Files to locate your system.log, then the blue box there to decipher it, especially the Other Problems section.
If you suspect a problem with your installation of OSX, download and install the "combo" update, per Installing the"combo" update and/or Reinstalling OSX.
If that doesn't help, try installing a fresh version of OSX (that won't disturb anything else), per the same article.
The following I intend to do:
- backup all data with Time Machine
- create a Lion install disc
- boot from the disc, delete the HDD
- install Lion from the disc
- boot the new OS and put back the Time Machine backup
If you want to restore everything from your Time Machine backup, all you have to do is start up from your Recovery HD and do the restore. That will erase the HD and copy everything, including OSX, from the backups. Thus, it's unlikely to help, unless you had unrepaired directory problems.
Or, after you install Lion, use Setup Assistant to transfer everything except OSX from your backups. See Using Setup Assistant on Lion. Functionally, that's pretty close to just installing a fresh copy of Lion as above.

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Maybe it is not "what has Apple done" You may have jumped the gun a little formatting your system so quickly without ensuring you can actually boot via an alternate method.
The mini has a recovery partition, and instructions how to reinstall the OS from that.
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searched the developer site...
No results were found for librariand. Please try a different search.
NOT what I would call "proper" documentation.
i get this kind of crap ALL DAY long..
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In my sleep depravation from the previous problem I accidentally synced my contacts from mobile me to take my computer contacts (deleting all my contacts from my phone and computer).
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