Inherit Backup History?

I recently had repair work done by the Genius Bar on my MacBook Pro. Now, when I go to back up to external hard drive, I get a warning message asking:
"Would you like this computer to inherit the backup history from “x’s MacBook Pro” on the “FreeAgent GoFlex Drive” backup disk?
The backup was created on a different computer. If you inherit this backup, it can no longer be used by the original computer."
How should I proceed? The options are: Create New Backup or Inherit Backup History
It seems that my MacBook does not recognize that it has been backed up before on my ext. HD.

When the logic board is replaced, it is as if you have a different MBP, hence the message. The choice is yours, restore the data and the history or do a new back up. The 'original' computer no longer exists since it is the old logic board.
Ciao.

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If i selected to "Create a new backup" and then cancelled that option but want to go back and select "Inherit backup history"; how do i go back and do that since now when i plug in my HD, that option doesn't appear anymore?? Any Help?

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Thanks for sharing this link.
I've posted a question here https://discussions.apple.com/message/22049103#22049103 describing my situation. Are you able to suggest me the right option?

Can I inherit backups from TWO drives onto a new Mac?

I am currently backing up my Macbook Pro to a Time Capsule which has a backup history of over a year. I am also backing up to a USB External drive.
I will be getting a new Macbook Air soon and I know that if I perform a full restore from my Time Capsule I will then be asked if I want to Inherit the backup history - which is what I want.
But what about the backup history on my USB External Drive? Can I also inherit the backup history of that?
The main reason I am asking is I have been thinking it would be much faster to perform a full restore from my USB External Drive - but if I did so would I still be able to inherit the backup of both my External drive AND my Time Capsule? As my Time Capsule has a much larger backup history on it.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Yes you can. When you set up the system again you can add the second drive as another Time Machine destination, and when you do so the system should ask you whether you would like to inherit the backups just as it does for the first TM drive. Select yes and it will maintain the drive as a separate backup destination but continue backing up to it.

How do I link the backup history from old mac to new? I cannot seem to do this through migration assistance.

I want to transfer the backup history associated with my old mac (which is on my airport time capsule) to my new mac. I used migration assistance to transfer everything from my old mac to new, but the backup history did not link. I tried using migration assistance again but it does not seem to allow me to link my backup history to the new mac. I am running out of ideas and please help.

The late James Pond wrote a treasure trove of Time machine tips, including this one:
Time Machine - Troubleshooting
B5. Would you like to inherit (or re-use) the backup . . . ?

Inherit backups in a unique migration situation

We had two Macs running Snow Leopard. Old Mac A (2006 MacBook Pro 17") was connected direclty to an external drive and used Time Machine there. Old Mac B (2006 MacBook 13") mounted the same drive to use for Time Machine backups by first connecting to Old Mac A across the network, and so its Time Machine backup was stored in a sparsebundle on that drive.
We upgrade both Macs, New Mac A (2012 MacBook Pro 15") replacing Old Mac A, New Mac B (2012 Mac Mini) repalcing Old Mac B. However, because of some changes we wanted to make, the Time Machine backup drive is now connected directly to New Mac B (stationary Mini allowing it to stay connected permanently).
I discovered information in places like http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html and http://simon.heimlicher.com/articles/2012/07/10/time-machine-inherit-backup-usin g-tmutil that pointed me to tmutil which could help me with inheritbackup and associatedisk. However, New Mac A was not able to inherit Old Mac A's backup across the network, and I'm concerned more generally about the fact that the machine's have swapped roles in terms of which one is connected directly and which is connected across the network.
Any advice on exactly what steps I should take to properly connect New Mac A to Old Mac A's Time Machine Backup, and New Mac B to Old Mac B's? Could this possibly include moving Old Mac A's backup into a new sparsebundle (for use across a network) and/or moving Old Mac B's backup out of its sparsebundle to the drive's root directory (for use with a direct-connected drive)?

The pondini.org link says that sometimes the associatedisk command will work over a network. More importantly, the only reason I even disocvered there was such a thing as the possibility of inheriting a backup is that when I first connected the external drive to the Mini, fully expecting to have to start a new TM backup from scratch, TM suddenly popped up asking me if I wanted to inherit the backup. It found it on its own, somehow knew there was an association between the backup set and the data on its on drive (which I had restored via Setup Assistant), even though the backup it had found now direct-connected was the very same one that was in a sparsebundle and used to only be run across the network.
I haven't yet allowed the computer to actually backup, since I wanted to be sure about everything being connected/inherited/associated properly first. However, the fact that TM found that used-to-be-across-the-network backup on its own, asked me to inherit it, and the fact that I did successfully run the inheritbackup command on the Mini, all lead me to believe that there is somewhat more to the story than what you just said, even if that may be the official claim about how TM works.

Time Machine backup history present but inaccessible after Mountain Lion clean install

Hi all,
A few days ago, I took the Mountain Lion plunge and after performing all the preliminary data copying to external hard drives as well as on last Time Machine backup to my dedicated Time Machine external hard drive, I booted from my ML recovery USB thumb drive, reformatted the internal HD, and proceeded to perform a clean install of OS X 10.8.
The ML install and initial setup completed without a hitch, and I had no difficulty in reconnecting to my existing Time Machine EHD and performing an initial backup of the freshly upgraded Mountain Lion system. It took several minutes in the "preparing backup" phase; but once it got through that, it backed up my entire system (which was basically nothing more than the new OS and iLife at this point) within an hour or so. Time Machine has since worked reliably in performing the automatic backups every hour.
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How did you put your data back after the erase?
I didn't, or rather I haven't yet. Basically, all I have done so far is:
Reformat Lion HD and install ML clean from USB thumb drive
Run through initial virgin boot setup, e.g. enter my Apple ID and desired user account info
Change a few preferences (the "use right side of mouse for secondary click" setting first and foremost!)
Configured Time Machine to use pre-existing Time Machine Backups EHD and let it do initial backup (which it simply added on to the existing backup history as I had hoped)
Drag-and-drop copied my saved iTunes library (~50 GB) from my ext. FW drive to my new Home Music folder and confirmed that iTunes was working and able to sync with my iPhone and iPad
Installed the iLife suite from my Bundled Applications DVD and then updated those apps via the App Store
Obviously the iTunes folder is an exception to "I haven't yet", but basically, the Lion's share (pun intended) of my previous data has not yet been copied back from the temporary storage on the EHD.
The reason you can't see the backups of the old home folder from the new one is simply that they have different names.
Yes, I know that now. Everything was fine all along. I just didn't realize that TM [quite sensibly] grays out any backup history finder windows and right-hand-side tick marks that contain no backup of the folder currently in focus. Since the folder I had in focus was one that didn't exist before I installed Mountain Lion, there was nothing to access except for the most recent post-upgrade backups.
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Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is you could not restore a backup in the test server farm.
I suggest you do as the followings:
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2. If it still doesn’t work, you can restore the web application via Power Shell Command.
A detailed article about restoring via PowerShell:
http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/backup-and-restore-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell
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> I am looking for an automatism to recover an instance from a specific item from backup history, because we test ower deliverys with import in stms - see return codes.
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When you want your initial instance again - just restore the SNAPSHOT once again.
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> content for script:
>
> 1. stopsap r3 in sidadm context
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==============
db_admin
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torbu_us wrote:
I have been using Time Machine on my iMac for backups for quite some time. The disk I've been using is a single disk connected via USB. Now that I got an AirPort Extreme base station, I wanted to switch the disk drive to the AirPort Extreme, but continue to use my existing backup history and not start a new one.
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Have you tried making a backup of your main.db file then try viewing it with Skype log viewer or Sqlite database viewer?
http://nirsoft.net/utils/skype_log_view.html
http://sqlitebrowser.org/
https://suurjaak.github.io/Skyperious/
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