Clean Install of SL, now would like to resume Time Machine Backups
I recently did a clean install of Snow Leopard in an effort to solve some problems I was having with Aperture. Now that I have the clean install up and running, and have reinstalled most if not all of my apps that I need, I would like to resume using Time Machine to back up my system. My old backups are on Time Machine in the backups.backupdb folder. I dont think I want to delete those, as I'm still finding from day to day there's info back there that I would like to copy over. Is there any way to have Time Machine just resume backups using that same folder?
I'm also not able to move that backups.backupdb folder to a new subfolder (I am being told ownership is not enabled, and even when i click the get info button and the little lock at the bottom of the pane I do not see an option for ignoring ownership) and I am concerned if I start a new Time Machine backup of my current system it will replace the current folder. If anyone has any expertise in this area and can help I would greatly appreciate it.
Abbstrack wrote:
I recently did a clean install of Snow Leopard in an effort to solve some problems I was having with Aperture. Now that I have the clean install up and running, and have reinstalled most if not all of my apps that I need, I would like to resume using Time Machine to back up my system. My old backups are on Time Machine in the backups.backupdb folder. I dont think I want to delete those, as I'm still finding from day to day there's info back there that I would like to copy over. Is there any way to have Time Machine just resume backups using that same folder?
I'm also not able to move that backups.backupdb folder to a new subfolder (I am being told ownership is not enabled, and even when i click the get info button and the little lock at the bottom of the pane I do not see an option for ignoring ownership) and I am concerned if I start a new Time Machine backup of my current system it will replace the current folder. If anyone has any expertise in this area and can help I would greatly appreciate it.
NEVER move or do ANYTHING with TM backups by hand from finder. TM will not delete your old backups when you start an entirely new backup sequence. set up TM on the new install. on the first backup it should offer you to continue the existing backup sequence. if you choose that option then it will continue the old backups. but it will make a full system backup on the first run and if it runs out of space it will start deleting old backups.
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