New iMac setup from Time Machine across network?

I have a new iMac being delivered today, and I'd like to use my Time Machine drive for the initial setup. However, it is an internal drive inside my Mac Pro. Is there anyway I can do this over a network?

You should be able to use Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities) on your Mac Pro.
To transfer your files from your Mac Pro to your new iMac, see > http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html I recommend you to connect the Mac Pro through Ethernet as it will be faster, but Wi-Fi is OK unless you want to transfer a lot of files

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I just got a new 27" iMac. When setting up my new iMac for the first time, Is there any difference in the files & settings which will be transferred if I use the old iMac vs. the Time Machine as a source?
With Time Machine on a G-Tech drive, I plan to use a FW 800 cable with adapter to Thunderbolt. The iMac to iMac transfer appears to only be possible with WiFi. Are there any cables that would work for iMac to iMac transfer?
The time machine backup is new. I wasn't sure if either method is faster? More accurate? Is there any difference at all?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

See Pondini's Setup New Mac guide, for starters.

I reinstalled my system on a new hard drive, from time machine. However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture. iphoto seems okay. Have you heard of this?

I reinstalled my system on a new hard drive, from time machine. However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture. iphoto seems okay. New photos take a long time to load as well.
Have you heard of this?
Thanks

We need a little more information to be able to help.
However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture.
What kind of corruption? And when do you see it? All your images, or only some? Are the images distorted, discolored, or not displayed at all?
Are you shooting in raw? Is your library referenced or managed? Is your library on your system volume or on an external harddrive?
And it would help to know your MacOS version and Aperture version too.
Regards
Léonie

Setting up a new mac lion from time machine backup...how do you do it?

Bought a new macbook pro. Need to install my old disk image to it from Time MAchine. When I tried it...it posted an old backup from 2 years ago...
Help!

Hi Mrs. McD and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
First of all I think you should repost this here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189
That's the Intel iMac forum and you will receive a lot more pertinent information there regarding their experience with the Intel iMacs.
I set up a Mac lab last year at Baker Demonstration School in Wilmette IL. We didn't have your budget so most of our machines are G4 towers with 2 G5 towers and recently 2 iMac G5s. All were donated. So I can't address most of your high end questions. We have been creating a lot of movies mostly using Final Cut Pro and also iMovie.
As to photography I have 2 pro clients who mostly use LightRoom. I personally like Bridge and I think she also uses Photo Mechanic. She originally wanted an iMac but I talked her into a Mac Pro with 2 24" Cinema Monitors. All that extra real estate is very useful for editing photos and also for editing movies. This is pretty much the standard setup. My son edits movies with 4 30" Cinema Displays but he's also doing a lot of rendering.
I've been working with a young pro photographer here in Chicago. We've made a pole attachment for high angle shots and he was recently talking about kite photography.
Actually the IT support guy at the school is also a photographer and I've donated Macs to two photo teachers at the high school level in Chicago so I could ask them.
I agree wholeheartedly about the wireless keyboards and mice. Baker is a preK to middle school and all the keyboards and mice are wired. Less loss. We also use a lot of headphones and have dongles that the phones plug into. This saves wear and tear on the input jack which is easily damaged especially located where it is on the iMacs.
Richard
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MBP died - New iMac -xferring via Time Machine

MBP died. All software was up to date. Everything was backed up via Time Machine. Purchasing 27"iMac today. How do I set the iMAC up via Time Machine? My biggest concern is Aperture (I use referenced files). Please be as specific as possible.

See Pondini's Setup New Mac guide.

Help Restoring New Hard Drive from Time Machine

To replace a failing Macintosh HD, I created an OS X Mountain Lion boot disk on a flash drive, put my new hard drive in a USB external dock, booted to the flash drive, partitioned and formatted the new drive (selecting GUID partition), and have tried and failed three times to restore from Time Machine, which is on a Firewire-connected drive. The error I get is that it's unable to create a restore disk.
I could reformat the new drive and try again, but is there something else I'm missing? For example, should I have left the new drive in the external dock, or should I move it to bay 1 and then try to restore, considering that latency is a possible issue or that Time Machine won't restore to a USB drive?

Why don't you install ML on it and then see?
Better yet use any of the 4 internal drive bays instead of USB - slow and terrrible place!
It does not matter where or what drive bay.
Unable to unmount drive.
CLONE your system - a couple times, pure Apple Mac OS once you have one and later for working copy and one before you install or apply updates or programs or otehr changes.
CCC carbon copy cloner - will create recovery partition when you clone a system.
I assume your flash drive works, not everyone is successful first shot.
I prefer a clean install to start with. Esp as you say your system was failing I don't like relying on the Time Machine for everything.

New Mac, restore from Time Machine

My MacBookPro crashed today- hardware problem and in the process corrupted my email folder- not sure how or why. I bought a new machine and when I restored from Time Machine back-up, discovered that the most recent back-up had the corrupted mail file. Is there any way to go back in time, on a new machine, using a back-up from a different one. In other words, I want to restore from a Time Machine state that is 5 hours previous to the most recent back-up. Hope this makes sense.

yes, you can do it but if you need only Mail then it's simplest to restore just your Mail data rather than reinstalling everything which will take a while.
quit Mail. control-click on TM in the dock and choose "browse other TM disks". scroll back to the time you need and navigate to /Users/username/Library
restore the file /Users/username/Library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and the directory /users/username/library/mail to the corresponding locations on your new hard drive (delete the existing items first). start Mail. it will say it needs to import your messages. this actually means reindex. let it do so and you should be back to normal after it's done reindexing.

Mayor Problems with new installation / restoring from time machine

I encountered several problems while setting up my mac mini, 1,66 Ghz, 60 GB from the start. The following problems occured:
1.) Installing 10.6 upon existing 10.6.4 caused scanner driver to fail. I was unable to reinstall it, so i decided to reinstall 10.6. from the start
2.) clean install of 10.6., after finishing i could not install iWorks. There was an error like "com.apple.installer.pagecontroller" ant installation terminated. With MS Office 2004 I had a problem, too: An error with _ds.store occured, I could not even copy the files to my harddisk. I thought, it might be the optical drive, so i took an external one which caused the same problems. I proceeded to 10.6.4 by update, but that did not make it better.
3.) next clean install (two tries wirth different backups) by my backup from time machine. It worked until it rebootet. I ended in a blue screen with every now and then the rotating cirlce, but could not proceed any further.
4.) tried to repair rights hat no effect. The harddisk is reportet to be functional.
5.) Back to the roots, i thought, installing 10.4. which came on the grey disks with the mini. I encountered the same problems after installing, furthermore, on trying to install flash 10.1 it could not open the .dmg-file.
6.) Installed Win XP. All seems funktional.
So, please, can anyone tell me, what is wrong with my mac mini? to me, it seems to be a problem with hardware, but i cannot verivy this. Please help me.

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3.) next clean install (two tries wirth different backups) by my backup from time machine. It worked until it rebootet. I ended in a blue screen with every now and then the rotating cirlce, but could not proceed any further.
Did you use a Leopard Install disc to restore a Snow Leopard backup? If so, that's the problem. You must use a Snow Leopard Install disc to restore a Snow Leopard backup.
If you did use the right disc, were you restoring backups from the same Mac?
If so, were you having problems before all this started? If you were, it's possible those problems corrupted your installation of OSX, and that was copied to the backups.
So, please, can anyone tell me, what is wrong with my mac mini? to me, it seems to be a problem with hardware, but i cannot verivy this. Please help me.
Try running this: Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test

How do I get a new iMac to inherit Time Machine backups from my old iMac?

After successfully migrating from my old iMac to my new iMac, I connected my Time Machine drive (containing the backup files from my old iMac). Following the instructions from my Apple Genius Desk guru, I opened System Preference>Time Machine and selected the Time Machine drive to be my designated Time Machine for my new iMac. I was presented with a dialog asking if I wanted to "Inherit the backup files that existed on the drive" (or words to that effect). I selected "Yes". I was told that this would create a continuous backup record, so that I would be able, using the "Enter Time Machine" command, to access all the backups going forward for my new iMac, but also all the files from my previous iMac, in a "seamless" chain of backups. However, it didn't work out as I expected. Looking in the Finder at the contents of my Time Machine drive, I saw that both the current and the prior backup files appeared to be there, all inside one folder, as I expected. But using the "Enter Time Machine" command from the Time Machine drop-down menu I could not go back any further than the moment of migration to the new iMac. On the upside, it seems like I will be able to recover old backup files using the Finder, but, on the downside it appears that I will NOT be able to use "Enter Time Machine" to return to search the backup files from my old iMac, in a "seamless" fashion as I had expected. Did I miss something??? Or is this just the way it is???

Without knowing what you have tried please open System Preferences - Sharing - File Sharing and select File Sharing. If you still have trouble you can call AppleCare in the morning when they re-open. You have 90 days of telephone support if you haven't already bought AppleCare.

Can't restore new hard drive from time machine back up

Looking for some help on this one....
Briefly: iMac 24" aluminium early 2008 (model 2134) trying to upgrade the original 320 gb HDD. So I bought a WD Caviar Black 64 mb, 6gb/s 1Tb drive, intalled it pretty smoothly and then using an install disc restored it from a time machine back up. That went fine then I could not restart the mac (kernel panic). So i trouble shooted with an extended hardware test, disk repair and everything seemed fine. I reinstalled my old HDD again and worked perfectly so I figured my iMac doesn't like this Caviar (due to sata3 perhaps??) so I went and bought a Seagate barracuda sata2 1 TB 7200 rpm and repated the whole process. Again everything went super smooth until the restoring process ended and the iMac was restarted. Kernel panic again. Already tried PRAM, option key. Booting from the CD or my old drive is not a problem at all but from the newly installed drive (x2) ... Impossible
Any thoughts ???
Thanks

Booting from the CD or my old drive is not a problem at all but from the newly installed drive (x2) ... Impossible
Disconnect all peripherals from your computer except for the keyboard and mouse. Double check to make sure that you installed the hard drive correctly - http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Browse/iMac#SectioniMac_Num20
Select your imac then select hard drive replacement, and there are the instructions.
Video instructions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuBW3mu7LI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVzYXgUhygI

How to restore new mac book from time machine

i curentley have a mac book and am planing on upgrading to a pro but i have to sell this one first. can i restore my new mac pro using the time machine backup from this mac book or is there another way i have to do this being as i wont have both laptops at the same time??
thanks for any help..

If you can recover the old machine (may not be worth the cost), then you could deactivate directly. A lot depends on what crashed, the HD, mother board, or other. On a PC, the hard drive can sometimes be recovered with SpinRite as long as the crash was not fatal. There are other tricks too, but all of them depend on the crash conditions and what the problem is. If the hard drive is actually good, maybe you could just put it in another machine and run the deactivation. Of course, not everyone has a bunch of machines on hand to play with. For PCs, I often head to the department surplus pile and see if I can find something to work with (not my stock). If I find a working machine there, then I just swap it out. Of course, that is for work machines. For a home machine, I might do it for testing or repair and then put things back after the repair.

Restoring image to a new hard drive from time machine

My hard drive failed and I have installed a replacement. I have followed all the prompts to back up from a recent file on my time machine. Once I select the back up, a screen comes up that says "Select a Destination" in the window, it says "searching for disks..." and never changes. If I go into the disk utility, the new drive shows up just fine. Any ideas?

Partition the drive in GUID format with one Mac OS X data partition.

Just started my new Macbook Pro, from Time Machine backup and the password is not working

Just got home with my new mackbook pro, and going through the startup process I booted from a time machine back up of my 2007 macbook. When I got to the login part of the process, after the new macbook was registered and ready to go, and now my password is not recognized.

Sorry about that.
I just got done posting back and forth with someone with a similar problem (not exact).
Turn the power off by holding down the power button, that is if just one push does not turn it off.
Then turn it back on and hold down the Option key. That will give you a startup screen where you can select which partition on the drive to boot into. Select the Recovery partition. From there you can use Disk Utility to wipe the Macintosh partition of the drive and then do a reinstall of the OS from the Apple website.
You need a internet connection to do this and depending on your internet speed it can take a few hours to complete. If you have a fairly fast internet connection it may still take 1-2 hours to download the 3.5+GB file to do the reinstall.
Before you go through all this try turning the system off and back on a few time to see if Lion can recover on it's own. I doubt it but it's worth a shot.
Again sorry for the condescending tone.
Happy New Year.

AFP error for new hard drive for time machine The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.

Purchased Seagate network drive, ethernet attached to wireless router, set up went well but attempts at backup with Time Machine failed. "Do I need to erase disk and reformat or is this error message "The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features" indicating some other error?

That means the NAS drive's OS isn't compatible with the version of OSX you're running. See if the maker has an update.
See #C16 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

New install - migrate from Time Machine stuck at Transferring Information

Just got a new MBP and hooked it up to my USB drive to let it run overnight migrating my old settings and Applications.
The bar's full, it says "Less than a minute remaining", but appears to be stuck. It's transferring my Applications folder apparently, or so it claims.
It's about 40 GB of data all told.
Any ideas? I'm going to try Firewire next, or copying my Documents folder manually so the amount of data is smaller.

Same issue transferring via FireWire 800 cables form an older iMac to a new one. Stuck at 1 minute for a very long time until the new Mac gave a message that the other Mac had stopped responding. It gave me the option of terminating the transfer, which I did. Then, it congratulated me on a successful transfer. Unfortunately, things are working poorly. For instance, iPhoto can't find my library. iMovie can't find my movies, etc.
Transfer help welcome.

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