Upgrading to a new machine
I have an external drive for backing up my laptop and have been backing up with TM. However, I know I'm getting a new machine in about a month. Will I be able to continue my backups as a continuous stream where I left off?
I see two problems. First is that I'm probably going to change the name of the machine. Can I just change the folder name within Backups.backupdb to match?
Second, someone reported that a logic board swap caused the backup set not to be recognized
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1350465
This implies TM doesn't want to be fooled.
I could believe that TM doesn't want to make this easy today. But if there's no way to do this, then it's a serious design flaw. People normally upgrade their machines (particularly laptops) every 2-4 years, and saying that TM won't span an upgrade makes it a lot less useful (or will encourage people to hold off buying a new machine).
In order to continue using the external drive and existing TM backups you must use the same computer name for the new computer.
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