Combine backups using Lion?

I have a complete set of backups for my old Macbook.  I purchased a MBP and transferred all of my files, so the MBP has basically the same stuff that the Macbook did, just on a different machine, although I'm now running Lion (Macbook was running Snow Leopard).
The first time I ran Time Machine on the MBP, it created a new backup set because I didn't use Migration Assistant and I didn't associate the old backup set with the new machine.  So now I have two backup sets, but the new set is really just a continuation of the old set.
I just learned about tmutil under Lion and I associated the old backup set with the new machine.  So what I'd like to do now is combine the two backup sets into one.  I know you couldn't do it under Snow Leopard.  I was wondering whether you can do it under Lion using tmutil.
Thanks.

No, sorry, but even tmutil can't do that. 

Similar Messages

  • I want to reinstall snow leapard and i am using lion now how do i reinstall ?

    I want reinstall snow leapord on my macbook pro and i currently have lion 10.7.1 how can i reinstall ?

    Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard
    1.  Boot from your Snow Leopard 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. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, 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.
    4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
    This will erase the whole drive so be sure to backup your files if you don't have a backup already. If you have performed a TM backup using Lion be aware that you cannot restore from that backup in Snow Leopard (see below.) I suggest you make a separate backup using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1.
    If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.  If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.

  • Restore an individual iphoto event from a time machine backup in Lion

    How can I restore an individual iphoto event from a time machine backup using Lion.
    Thanks

    If you know the file names of the photos you want to restore you can use  Find Any File  to search your Time Machine hard drive for that file.  When it is found you can drag it from the search window to the Desktop and import into iPhoto from there.
    Due to the nature of the Time Machine backup structure each search can take a while.  The search results window will look like this:

  • How do I access my iphoto library on time machine backup external drive using Lion, originally saved from old computer and system

    how do I access my iphoto library on time machine backup external drive using Lion, originally saved off old computer and system.  It's not letting me open the folder???

    Once again here's how to restore an iPhoto Library from Time Machine:

  • I have a Mac Pro using Lion, with a SSD for system.  Restored drive from backup.  Now logon password doesn't work.  Account password still works.  Changing password in user group preferences no longer works to change logon password.

    I have a Mac Pro using Lion, with SSD for system drive.  Drive stopped booting, but otherwise appeared healthy.  Restored from system backup.  Now drive seems to work properly, BUT my logon password no longer works.  Password OK for account; can access system preferences, and change user password there BUT logon still refuses to accept password.  No luck changing password for that account after adding new administrator account and logging on from that account.  Suggestions?  Thanks.

    If you redirect Accounts to another location (not on the Boot Drive) you need to direct them back there again after a restore.
    SystemPreferences > Accounts/User&Groups > ...
    ... Unlock the lock, then hold down Control as you click on an Account to get access to the Advanced Options pane.

  • Can I restore a time machine osx lion backup using snow leopard install DVD?

    Hi.
    I've been using osx lion but my hard drive died. Fortunately I have been making time machine backups.  Since I downloaded lion from the app store I only have the snow leopard install disks. 
    I know there is an option to restore from a time machine backup using the snow leopard disk, but since the time machine backup is of a later operating system (lion) will that  time machine restore work?
    If it won't, can you recommend how to restore from my time machine backup?
    Thanks.

    Once the replacement hard drive is installed, boot from your original Snow Leopard Installation Disk.  From there format the harddrive and install Snow Leopard and then download and install its Updates. Next, navigate to the Mac App Store and login using the Exact same Apple User ID that you did the first time you downloaded Lion.  You will now be able to download and install the Lion OS for Free. Download and install the Lion Updates.  Lastly, using Migration Assistant, migrate your Apps and Data from the Time Machine external hard drive to your internal Lion harddrive.  This method should give you a very stable version of Lion on your internal harddrive complete with all your previous settings, Apps and Data.
    Hope this helps

  • Is it possible to browse a Snow Leopard back-up on a Time Capsule shared with a Lion backup using the Lion-only machine?

    My 2006 Macbook died but was backed up to my Time Capusle. This machine was running the most uptodate version of Snow Leopard at the time.
    I've read that I should be able to access this backup using a different Mac but I can't see it when I CTRL-click the Time Machine icon (in the dock), when using my Macbook running Lion 10.7.1.  It only shows me the current backup for this machine.
    I know the old backup must be there somewhere as the Time Capsule is almost completely full (700 gb of the 1tb was dedicated to the old MA

    If you control-click on the Time Machine icon and select "Browse Other Time Machine Disks" but don't see the other backups, try this: Look in the "sidebar" of a Finder window for your Time Capsule.  If you see it, select it, then look for the Time Capsule's disk (probably called "Data" if you didn't rename it).  Double-click that to mount it.  Now try again to control-click on the Time Machine Dock icon.

  • I recently bought a WD My Book Live to backup using Time Machine, now that I've upgraded to and my old NAS won't support Mountain Lion. The WD drive appears in the Finder, it doesn't appear as an option when setting up the backup disc in Time Machine.

    I recently bought a WD My Book Live to backup using Time Machine, now that I've upgraded to and my old NAS won't support Mountain Lion. The WD drive appears in the Finder, but it doesn't appear as an option when setting up the backup disc in Time Machine. Any ideas please?

    " now that I've upgraded to and my old NAS won't support Mountain Lion. "
    Do you have a few words missing in the original question ?.
    When i upgraded from LION to MOUNTAIN LION it made NO difference at all to my MyBook Live !!!
    reading the original post again and again, do you in fact have two My Book Live units, an old one and a new one ?
    tim

  • Have upgraded to Lion 10.7 from 10.6 and now it keeps logging off abruptly though the power settings are proper and i can not take backup using timemachine. any help welcome...

    Have upgraded to Lion 10.7 from 10.6 and now it keeps logging off abruptly though the power settings are proper and i can not take backup using timemachine. any help welcome...

    Have upgraded to Lion 10.7 from 10.6 and now it keeps logging off abruptly though the power settings are proper and i can not take backup using timemachine. any help welcome...

  • Time Machine: Missing Snow Leopard backups after Lion Upgrade.

    I regulary use Time Machine for backups to my WD drive through my network.  After I upgraded to Lion I could not back up to my network drive   I learned through various forums that my WD drive required a firmware update, to work with Lion.  I upgraded the firmware and now  I no longer have my Time Machine backups from Snow Leopard, only backups from Lion, any idea how I can locate my Snow Leopard backups?

    Pondini wrote:
    I'd be the first to agree that keeping two sets of backups, one a "clone," is prudent.
    But if you have a Snow Leopard clone, then upgrade to Lion, the next time you update the clone you'll lose the Snow Leopard version entirely.
    Yes, I was caught out early, so I have a selection of backup drives now to keep everything backed up as safely as possible. Although at the moment, I'm not seeing any reason to go back to Snow Leopard, and all my media is safe. Hopefully in the near future my SL backups can go and I can get ready for the next OS when it comes along.
    Thanks

  • What is the best way to backup four Lion workstations

    I have several Mac OS Lion Workstations and have used Retrospect in the past to backup, and (with poor success) restore missing files and complete drives. I had a recent failures of this concept/system and would like some advice about what can work better.
    My (client) Mac Systems all on Lion 10.7.1 unless noted otherwise:
    MacPro (1,1) with two internal 500GB, 250GB HD
    MacBook (2,1) 500GB HD
    MacBook Pro (6,2) internal 500GB HD
    MacMini (3,1) <- runs OS X10.6.8 at this time; internal 180GB, 1.0TB IEEE FW800 attached HD of music, movies and documents set up to serve to Apple TV.
    Currently available storage for backup:
    JBOD disks: 2x1.5TB, 1.0T
    GigE network wired connections
    Apple Airport Extreme wireless network 802.11b/g/n
    Currently running backup applications:
    Time Machine using the JBOD disks to backup entire client machine
    Parallels virtual media cloning (CCC)
    Applications cloning (CCC) on each system
    Purpose/needs of a unified network backup:
    Maintain an incremental backup using minimal storage to quickly retrieve missing files for a minimum of 30 days prior to a loss by error or failure of the internal connected storage system.
    Maintain a backup of entire drive snapshot in the event of disasterous failure of the entire system, or cloning a complete system onto a new / replacement machine, with or without a OS installed.
    Maintain (possibly) separate storage of a virtual OS- Parallels 6, as the incremental backup is by design limited to a clone of the virtual machine.
    Maintain a separate storage of items like applications so that space on the incremental backup can be conserved.

    When I was using 10.4.1, which was years ago, I used SuperDuper.
    Allan

  • I have a MacBook Pro running Lion. I need to use Lion to run my Dragon. I would like to partition my drive to use Maverick for everything but the dictation software. I'm a new pie to apple

    I have a MacBook Pro running Lion. I need to use Lion to run my Dragon. I would like to partition my drive to use Mavericks for everything but the dictation software. I'm a newbie to apple

    To resize the drive do the following:
    1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
    2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
    3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.  (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
    4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
    You should now have a new volume on the drive.
    It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss.  Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.

  • Can I use a SD Card rather than a USB stick when using Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

    I'm using a MB Pro 2010, can I use a SD Card in the SD Card slot rather than a USB stick when using Lion Recovery Disk Assistant.  I would like to use the 16GB chip with a single 1GB partition so I can dump a bunch of other backup stuff into the same chipper.

    Yes, you could certainly do that, provided you have a card reader or an SD card slot available on both Macs and what you are copying is smaller than the capacity of your SD card.
    But that's an awfully slow way to transfer GB's of files.  32GB SD cards cost anywhere from about $20 to $90 and of course the cheaper cards will be the slowest cards.  Also need to consider that your iPhoto, iTunes and especially iMovie libraries may be larger than your SD card's capacity, and there is no easy way to 'split' them to save partial libraries and reassemble them on your new Mac.
    A better solution is an external hard drive connected via FW or USB2.  Much faster and without the capacity limit of an SD card.  For example, you could get a 500GB OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini drive (5400 rpm) for $115 and after you are done using it for file transfer it would be a nice backup drive.  Or build your own with an OWC mini case and a 500GB WD Scorpio 7200 rpm drive for about $120.   Both support eSATA, FW400/800 and USB2.
    Or you could just network the two Macs together and use the Finder to transfer files that way.  Cheap, fast, and it works.

  • Trying to stream movie from Netflix. Using Lion, Safari

    Trying to stream a movie from Netflix on macbook pro.  Using Lion, Safari & Silverlight 5.1.  Movie downloads OK & black screen appears with controls.  Movies doesn't play.  When I put my cursor anywhere on the movie progress bar, a still picture and the time of the still beneath it appears.  But the movie itself never plays. Uninstalled and re-installed silverlight.   Called netflix, microsoft and applecare.  No one has a solution and punts to the other!  Can anyone help me please??

    amyandneale wrote:
    thats is your suggestion?
    I disagree...We use apple because we like to use safari.
    why would we download another troublesome browser onto our macs..?
    geez.
    Yes it is & I'm sticking to it!!!!
    Using Safari is your personal choice.  Having backup browsers is the way to go for Mac users.  If one browser doesn't work, use one that will.  Not all browsers are troublesome.
    I use 3 browsers.  None are troublesome.  The browser I use as my default browser has more of what I want to do than Safari.  It's my personal choice.

  • I want to password protect an external dvd. I try using disc utility, but it won't format with encryption as it claims in the Help instructions. I am using Lion. Any ideas?

    I want to password protect an external dvd. I try using disc utility, but it won't format with encryption as it claims in the Help instructions. I am using Lion. Any ideas?
    Using Disk Utility, I select the disc image that contains the data that I want to backup to a DVD and select Burn. The program asks that a blank DVD be inserted.  When I do that, no format pop-up appears as is indicated in the Help instuctions.  If I procede with the burn, there is no password protection.  Before I converted to Lion, I used to use Disk Utility to burn backup DVDs without any problems.

    AFAIK, you create an encrypted disk image and burn that to DVD. There's nothing else to do, but I might be mistaken.

Maybe you are looking for

  • I'm looking for an app to help with math tutoring.

    I doubt that I will find exactly what I am looking for, but if anyone can provide suggestions, I would appreciate it. Groupboard is close, but has a few fatal flaws. Criteria List(required): Whiteboard where I can see what my student is writing in re

  • Display byte array of jpeg  in jsp

    I have a byte array of jpeg image in my jsp. Now I want to display it in my image. I tried but i could not see the image but a red mark image is comming on the screeen Please help me out. I deadly help need ASAP. Thanks in advance. this is how i trie

  • Update to Photoshop Album SE3 from 2 and now cannot email

    My daughter uses Photoshop Album Starter Ablum to send photos to friends. Everything worked fine until she updated to 3. Now she is unable to send pictures by email. She uses AOL. The popup comes up and says to set email client to outlook. In the pre

  • Wpg_docload is not working after branching

    We had an apex page in our apex framework that was meant to save database changes in the form of text-files which contained the queries. This is a very complex process, so it could mean many things when the file did not pop up in our browser. After s

  • How to determine current used ip address is from company wifi

    Hello guys, currently doing an attendance app (ios / android) for user to check in / out (will capture location coordinate, current used IP and etc, then send back to the server). Besides will use C# web as back-end reporting. At back-end reporting h