HT201250 How do I restore from Timeline external backup to a different drive?

Good day! Here's my current architecture
1 MacBook Pro OSX 10.8.2
1 Lacie Rugged External Drive (1T)
1 G Drive 2T RAID
1 MyPassport External Drive (2T)
I have been backing up weekly both the MacBook Pro AND the Lacie to the RAID Device.
Lacie Rugged: My Lacie has my iTunes. Recently there have been issues with communicating with the Lacie. Genius bar says there is an issue with the drive itself. I purchased a new Firewire to troubleshoot. Still shows that the drive accidentally disconnects (e.g. not available) after about a couple of minutes.
So I bought a new drive.
Restore: When I plug in my new MyPassport and access my Timeline backups, I cannot see the Lacie backups to restore. It seems that Timeline requires the original drive (Lacie) to be plugged in (which is the one I am having issues with).
Question: How do I restore from a backup(Lacie) to my new external drive(MyPassport)?

I imagine you mean Time Machine, not TimeLine. If you do mean Timeline, I have no idea what that is.
Try Pondini's FAQ#16: http://pondini.org/TM/16.html
And, #18: http://pondini.org/TM/18.html

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Give this a try:
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HT204150 many of my contacts have suddenly been deleted from the cloud how do I restore from a previous backup

Many of my contacts have suddenly been deleted from the cloud, how do i restore from a previous backup?

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Apple is replacing my 27" iMac Hard Drive and when I get it back, I want to know how do I restore from Time Machine to before the hard drive failed

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How do I restore from a previous backup point in iCloud on an iPhone 4s?

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Hello Bobby,
Thank you for providing so much detail about the issue you are experiencing with your daughter's iPad.
iCloud stores the three most recent backups. If you would like to restore from your iCloud backup, follow the steps in the section titled "Restore from an iCloud backup" in the article below:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
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Imac won't restore from time machine backup after HD (hard drive) recall replacement

I have an imac bought in 2011, running Snow Leopard. It required an HD replacement due to the 1 TB Seagate recall - the replacement was done by a certified Apple repair station yesterday. Before the guy left he started a backup/restore from my latest time machine backup set. It failed. I attempted it two times and got error messages that it failed and the computer needed to be restarted to try it again. No luck. I called the guy back and he told me to call Apple Care. Not thrilled about that response since the guy had just left my house I did what he told me to do. (A quick sideline here: I recognize that a time machine backup should be no big deal and SHOULD work everytime, but it doesn't. It irks me that Apple is replacing my HD through no fault of mine and yet they don't allow the restore of data to be a "covered" expense in this process - this isn't just because this was an authorized repair guy - the Apple store would have done the same).
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If you can help me, I would be eternally grateful! I am open to having a phone conversation if you are willing to give me your email to mail you my number. I have so much work to do this week and this was the last thing I needed. Did I mention this was supposed to be EASY?
I used to be quite the geek with my PC - still on the learning curve with the mac but not enjoying it. I am fairly tech savvy and I can follow instructions for a step by step solution if you've got one.

I got a recall and had the drive replaced. I have retored 3 timesa dn even had apple do the job and it is still not right. I still can't get a simple ghost of the data from time machineback tot he new drive.
This is Apple's explaination as taken from their web page.:
Restoring your entire system from a backup
If you are restoring a backup made by a Mac to the same Mac
With your backup drive connected, start up your Mac from the Recovery system (Command-R at startup) or Mac OS X v10.6 installation disc. Then use the "Restore From Time Machine Backup" utility.
Note: If "You can't restore this backup because it was created by a different model of Mac" appears when restoring a backup that was made on a different Mac, follow the onscreen instructions.
I even posted this information on the community and apple removed it... because they don't like the:
Off-topic or non-technical posts
Non-constructive rants or complaints
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Restoring iMovie from a TM backup to a different drive.

My hard drive containing all my media failed today and I want to restore everything from a Time Machine backup to a different drive. Can someone tell what is the best way to do this for iMovie so that iMovie keeps all the links intact?

This happened to me last week, but it was slightly different. OSX warned me that the drive was failing so I was able to get most of the Projects off before it finally failed.
I think this will work for you.
First you need an external drive that will hold your Projects and Events from the failed drive. It must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). You can format it in Disk Utility if you need to.
Note: Since you have a Mac Pro, you probably have an extra internal drive, which is fine, too. Just don't put it on your boot drive.
Open Time Machine, and navigate to the failed drive.
The failed drive is no longer attached so it will not show up in the Time Machine finder view. You will need to click on the top line under "Devices". It should be named something like "MagicPony's Mac Pro". Under this heading, if you go back in time before your drive failed, you should see the drive.
Now, having found the last good version of your Projects and Events, you can restore them to the open drive.
Select the iMovie Projects folder, and click the gear icon in the top bar. Select Restore iMovie Projects to... and navigate to your open drive.
Now do the same thing with your iMovie Events folder.
When you are done, the iMovie Projects folder and the iMovie Events folder should be at the top level of the target drive.
This should work. As long as the Events and Projects are on the same drive, I think iMovie will find them. If you have other Events on a different drive, that is OK too, because they are still at the same path.
You will have to start (or restart) iMovie for it to see the Projects.
If you have trouble, let me know.

HT4859 How do I restore from an iCloud backup that isn't saved on my computer?

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How Do I Restore from a TM backup?

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Do I run the install DVD and using disk utility to erase my HD? After that, do I need to reinstall Leopard first before restoring from Time Machine?
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Using RMAN, how do you restore from an old backup file?

HI,
I use Oracle 9i on Solaris.
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I need to restore a copy of the database backup that was taken a month ago. This file is on tape. How do I go about it using RMAN? The documentation is not too clear as it talks more about Restoring the control file and the latest copy of the database.
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You can recover to the last committed transaction,
provided you have the current controlfile, archived
logs since the backup and the current online logs.
Here's the procedure in a nutshell:
a) Restore datafiles from tape.
b) Recover database using restored files + current
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http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96566/toc.htm
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Can, and how do you restore from ipod back to recently replaced hard drive on a pc not mac?

can, and how do you restore music from ipod back to recently repaced harddrive on a pc not mac?

Note: The information below hasn't been updated since early 2013.
Some of the information below has subsequently appeared in a document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. Examples (check the web for others; this is not an exhaustive listing, nor do I have any idea if they are any good):
- Expod (free) - http://www.headlightsoft.com/expod/ - Mac, universal for 104.+ (newer machines try de-Tune)
- deTune (free) - http://www.headlightsoft.com/detune/ - Mac, 10.5+
- Senuti - http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
- Phoneview - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
- MusicRescue - http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/
- Sharepod (free) - http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2 - Windows
- Snowfox/iMedia - http://www.mac-videoconverter.com/imedia-transfer-mac.html - Mac & PC
- iexplorer (free) - http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ - Mac&PC
- Yamipod (free) - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/ - PC, Linux, Mac [Still updated for use on newer devices? No edits to site since 2010.]
- 2010 Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

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I can't find anywhere in the manual that talks about how to restore from a backup using iCloud. I know how to do it through iTunes with a backup located on my computer but how do I do it using iCloud?

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I have had to replace my iPhone 4S twice this week (long story). I made sure in both cases that I was backed up to iCloud before I replaced the phone. I triple checked to make sure the last back up date/time, backed up again and can see the backups when I login to iCloud online, but when I try to restore from back up it has told me BOTH times that no iCloud backup is available?
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That would explain it. You can not restore a backup made on a newer version of iOS to a phone running an older version of iOS. (If you old phone had 5.1 and your new one has 5.0.1 or 5.0, you will need to update the new phone to 5.1 first).

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