Time Machine migration with different administrator?

My boss has decided to give me the computer I've been using for about 3 years now. It's been running Leopard and I want to update
it to Lion. He set himself up as the administrator and I'd naturally like to set myself as the administrator on the machine when I install Lion.
I have everything backed up with TimeMachine. My question is: whenI install Lion and I set myself up as the new administrator, will
I get into trouble when I migrate my info from TimeMachine because it is backed up in his name?
If so is there an easier way around all this?
Thanks.

StCySt wrote:
I'd like to start completely fresh. Is it possible to just copy the files in my home folder, ersase the HD, install a fresh copy of Leopard, put my files back in, do updates, then load Snow Leopard and Lion?
You can do that, but there are some downsides. And you don't need to install Leopard -- start with Snow Leopard.
The downsides are:
Applications other than the default ones that come with OSX. That includes the iLife and iWork apps, and all 3rd-party apps. You'd need to reinstall them from the original discs, or redownload them.
Data for apps that you may not know where the data is. Mail, AddressBook, iCal, and many, many others.
Preference and settings files. They'll be recreated automatically, with default values, so you can just reset them, but some are more complex. Mail in particular has all the account names, mailboxes and rules, server names, passwords, etc.
You may also have to set up your network configuration again.
Or will I somehow be missing something if I do that? I've heard there are invisible files, and I don't know if I'll catch them if I do it this way.
Most invisible files won't be a problem, but some may.

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Hello everybody, is it possible to use time machine with two drives and use different settings for each drive?
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I know that I can set up two drives to work simultaneously, but can I say to exclude folder A on drive A, but not on drive B?
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Thanks for the fast reply. II'll try to make things clearer. I have two drives (let's call them drive A and B). Drive A has one partition, and is my primary back up drive. Drive B has two partitions (one with files and one for Time Machine). Currently, the files partition of Drive B is being backed up to Drive A. When I connect drive B, Time machine asks me if I want to replace the existing drive, or use both. Using both is what I want. However, I don't need Drive B to back up the files from it's second partition, as that would not make any sense; I do, however, want drive A to back up the data partition from drive B. I guess the easiest way is to manually change the settings, or just live with a larger backup....

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I'd like to know if I can backup *all my data on 2 different external hard drives*. The aim is to a double backup in case of big issue.
I'd like to process on this way:
- only one of my backup HD at home and the other is at the office
- when I plug one of the backup HD, its data is updated according to the previous backup with this HD (not with the other one)
- if I backup my MBPro just before leaving the office (on the office's HD) and I backup my MBPro just after arriving at home (on the home's HD), my 2 HD should have the state and exactly the same backuped data.
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malphas,
*Using Time Machine with Multiple Destination Hard Disks*
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Secondly, Time Machine *+does not+* ordinarily perform file-by-file comparisons to determine what has changed and thus determine what needs to be backed up. Rather, Time Machine relies on FSEvents notifications. This is a log that the system uses to keep track of changes to directories. Rather than scan tens of thousands of files for changes each time, Time Machine simply looks at this log and narrows its’ scan to only the directories that have experienced changes since the last backup.
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Naturally, for hourly backups, Time Machine does not have to go back very far to find the last known event ID. However, if a Time Machine disk is only being attach for backups every few days, a week, or more, and Time Machine has to go back too far to find the last event ID, then it will give up and simply go into “deep traversal” and do the file-by-file scan on its’ own. There are simply too many events logged by the system for Time Machine to bother looking for the last known event ID. Consequently, expect lengthy “Preparing Backup…” sessions anytime you attach a backup disk infrequently.
Nevertheless, using Time Machine with multiple destination disk will work. If the two drives are routinely backed up then they will always remain in relative sync.
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Cheers!

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In starting TM after trying MA, only one backup was showing in the Star screen (today). None of my previous backups were showing. Since exiting TM it has been "Making Backup Disk Available" ( xGB of 6.29GB). Considering the size, I can only assume that these are my previous backups.
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dman8950 wrote:
Hello
Does anyone know if it's possible to use two separate external drives in Time Machine to backup different parts of my mbp hard drive? That is, I want to use ex.drive1 to back up work files at work and ex.drive2 to back up personal files at home. In time machine options, I can set the folders for exclusion, but currently have to set those each time I back up at home/work.
There's no easy way to do that with Time Machine. As you see, it only has one set of exclusions and one destination drive at a time.
In theory, and if you're careful, you might be able to manipulate the preference file where all that's stored. Set TM up for home, say, then copy or rename that version. Then set it up for work and do the same.
The file is at the top level of your drive, not in your home folder:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
You could probably write an Automator workflow or AppleScript to simplify swapping the files.
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Back up everything in both places.
Use Time Machine at home, and a different app, such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, at work, or vice-versa.

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No. Again, this feature has never been supported by Apple for every generation of AEBSn released.
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Ok, TIme Machine rocks!
I screwed with some applications, I tried to make the dock and desktop my own and F'd things up.
What I was trying to do was to create stacks in doc.
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Plus I wanted easy buttons for kids to pick out games as well.
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Information is not truly clear on line and I called apple.
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When you do a restart from install disk it gives you choice of install, you have to choose from the above drop down menus- reinstall from time mach. NOT install from main instruction on screen. This is a little hidden but for those with some experience should be easy to find.
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Took about 3 hours to back up. I have older iMac and others may go quicker.
I did get everything back and was very happy.
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iphoto and iTunes needed to find their associated files. As when iTunes came up it 1st showed no music, no video, Tv shows, but quickly started to find items.
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This looks like it was a TERRIBLE restore. The whole point of restoring from a backup is that everything should work as it did on the date of the backup. No missing files, no reconfiguration of applications...

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Will Time Machine work with an external hard drive connected (via usb) to Airport Extreme?

Sorry, but this article is about 4 years old, and was printed based on preliminary information at the time.
The bottom line here is that Apple does not officially support Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme.
If it works for you, great.
You might want to review the Apple Support documents below, which are far more recent than the article you reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038
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This is NOT correct. Please do not post false information on the forums.

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Hello Scott,
I tried a sudo cmd from the terminal application and wound up with the same error.
Prior to runnin this cmd, I managed to borrow an external hard drive and backed up all of the data I needed in case the sudo cmd did something to prevent me from seeing data on my hard drive.
Sudo cmd did not work. Time Machine was giving me the same access errors.
Since by now I had made a back up of my data to another hard drive,
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Prior to doing the sudo command (I am a little cautious about doing things I have no idea what the end result will be....)
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used Deja Vu to perform an entire system back up of my workstation as well as another one of everything in my USERID
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So make a top-level Project called "_Circular File". Put Images in there that you what to have out of your way but not discarded.
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