If I have a prob upgrading to SL, will my Time Machine be able to fix it?
Forgive my ignorance here but I'm a fairly new Mac user. I currently have Leopard on my Mac and I purchased the Snow Leopard upgrade. I'm aware that there is an option to simply upgrade the OS while keeping all your files and applications in place and not doing a complete wipe of the hard drive. That is what I want to do, a simple upgrade, not a full wipe. Here's my concern: should anything go wrong with the install or I lose some info, will I be able to restore everything from my Time Machine? Is the Time Machine a full back up of everything on my Mac so that nothing will be lost? Will my Time Machine be able to restore my old files on the new OS (Snow Leopard) or would I have to uninstall SL and reinstall Leopard so that I could restore from the Time Machine? Its a lot of questions, sorry, just want to be sure before I upgrade.
Cliona23 wrote:
Forgive my ignorance here but I'm a fairly new Mac user. I currently have Leopard on my Mac and I purchased the Snow Leopard upgrade. I'm aware that there is an option to simply upgrade the OS while keeping all your files and applications in place and not doing a complete wipe of the hard drive. That is what I want to do, a simple upgrade, not a full wipe. Here's my concern: should anything go wrong with the install or I lose some info, will I be able to restore everything from my Time Machine?
in principle, yes.
Is the Time Machine a full back up of everything on my Mac so that nothing will be lost?
yes.
Will my Time Machine be able to restore my old files on the new OS (Snow Leopard)
yes.
or would I have to uninstall SL and reinstall Leopard so that I could restore from the Time Machine?
no, that's not necessary. you can do a full system restore from TM. boot from your Snow leopard (or leopard) install DVD and select "restore system from backup" from the utilities menu. this will wipe the hard drive and restore your system from the TM backup. However, TM is pretty buggy and this procedure is known to fail sometimes. therefore a bootable clone is a better backup in this situation as the other poster suggests. you can make one using superduper or cccloner. boot from the clone to make sure it works. THEN you can safely upgrade.
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