Using TM to migrate to new drive

My original MacPro Hard drive is about 3 years old so I decided I would proactive a just install another SATA drive in my MacPro. I have a TM backup, can I use that to migrate or use migration assistant. MA wants a start-up drive to migrate to. This is a blank drive. I must be missing something.

Yes, but you must first install the Mac OS X system software on the new internal hard disk though. Use your Macs original OS X DVD to Erase & Install. During the installation you will be given the opportunity to migrate your user data over form the Time Machine backup.
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New machine has name "name (2)" and old machine was "name". Is there someway to let T Machine "know" that I want to use the same archive to maintain continuity?

Bob Adler wrote:
Just switched from previous gen MB Pro to new MB PRo...Used TMachine to back up and Migrate NOW new MB will not recognize my "old" MB archive and wants to start a new TMachine archive.
New machine has name "name (2)" and old machine was "name". Is there someway to let T Machine "know" that I want to use the same archive to maintain continuity?
As Mr. Boyd says, TM has been enhanced in Snow Leopard to let you do this easily, but it's a problem in Leopard.
Some folks have tried the procedure in #C8 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum. It may not work well, or at all, in this case, since it's two rather different Macs, not the same Mac with a new logic board.

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Drag those folders to the desktop, click Authenticate, provide your administrator password, and move the contents of the folders on the desktop to the corresponding parts of your current home folder.
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I need to change my hardware, is it possible to use the migration tool to change from one hardware with OES linux to a new hardware with also OES linux just as we did from Netware to Netware ?

Thanks, that was the information I was looking for, I had migrated this hardware from Netware to Linux, now I needed to change the hardware and migrate from OES linux to OES linux
Originally Posted by Marcel_Cox
Yes, but you need to use the migration tool provided with OES2/Linux, not the "old" NetWare migration tool.
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- the destination server must be installed with the premigration pattern as well as with all services you want to migrate
- the "temporay" installation is done into the main tree, not into a temp tree like for NetWare migrations
- you run the migration GUI tool from the destination server. There is no workstation involved
Apart from these main recommendations, follow the documentation of the migration tool found here:
Novell Doc: OES 2 SP2: Migration Tool Administration Guide - OES 2 SP2: Migration Tool Administration Guide

Data migration from rescued drive to new internal drive

Need assistance! I recently experienced a hard drive failure on my MacBook (OS 10.5). Apple replaced my hard drive with a new one (running 10.6), and a data recovery company was able to resuce the data from my failed drive; they put it all on an external drive. I then used migration assistant to get my old data back onto the new drive. The problem is that my old home folder was encrypted with File Vault, so that data would not transfer -- i.e., my photos, music, bookmarks, old emails, etc.
I've tried booting up from the external drive, but no dice. The laptop sees the drive and looks like it attempts to start up from it, but it just keeps spinning. Are there any other tricks to access my old home folder in order to turn off File Vault so that I may transfer that data onto my new hard drive?

I tried it and i got the runtime error with "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library"
When I tried a part of options, that is no problem at all. However, when i select all options, the memory usage is increase and then the error will be returned.
The server is Win2003 with 4GB memory.
From Samson
Edited by: samson leung on Sep 21, 2009 6:40 PM

Migrating old information to new laptop with new drive

I tried searching for this but also wanted a specific answer.
Here's what happened: my old Macbook (first version, from 2006) failed, but I had all its information backed up on to a Time Machine drive. The drive was a firewire drive. When my 2006-era Macbook failed, I bought a new one. However, the new laptop did not have a firewire port. I used the laptop for a few months until I could afford a new, USB external drive. Now, I've got the new computer (with some new information but no firewire port), my old firewire hard drive -- with info, and a new USB hard drive, that is completely blank.
What I intended to do was find a Mac at my university's library with both a USB and firewire drive and copy all the information to my new drive from the old one. From that point, can I just use migration assistant to merge my new Macbook and the old Macbook's information? Will it make more sense to load any new documents on my Macbook onto a flash drive, wipe its hard drive, and restore from the old Time Machine backup then add the information from the flash drive?
I don't want to have two separate accounts, either.
Thanks for your help with this annoying dilemma! I miss all my old music, photos, and videos...

plourens wrote:
Thanks for the information. Instead of using a flash drive, would it work for me to partition the drive and place any new information on the second partition of my external hard drive?
Sure (if there's room). See #3 in [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Using Snow Leopard+ forum).
If there isn't enough room to make the partition, but enough total space, you can put the files in the same partition as your backups.
You must be careful, though, as that isn't generally a good idea. You must leave enough room for Time Machine to operate; it doesn't need a lot, perhaps a hundred MBs, but if you fill it past that, your backups will crash before they can start deleting old backups to make room for new ones.
Similarly, do not add anything that way while a backup is running.
And, be very careful not to move, change, or delete anything in your backups via the Finder, as that can corrupt them.

Install and migrate to a new drive part 2

Hi -- I know someone else asked and was answered a very similar question to this tonight, but I hope someone can add a little info.
I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on a 300 main drive. I want to install Leopard, and I want to install it on a new 500 gig main drive.
I think the answer to this is to take out my current main 300 gig drive, install the 500, then install Leopard via the discs. Then I should use Leopard's Migration Assistant, right? My understanding is that Migration Assistant typically facilitates the moving of info between an older computer and a new computer, right? But if I put my original main 300 drive in my second drive bay, will Migration Assistant let me copy everything over from drive 2 to the new drive 1?
Thanks!
jennie

Jennie Hale wrote:
Hi -- I know someone else asked and was answered a very similar question to this tonight, but I hope someone can add a little info.
I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on a 300 main drive. I want to install Leopard, and I want to install it on a new 500 gig main drive.
I think the answer to this is to take out my current main 300 gig drive, install the 500, then install Leopard via the discs. Then I should use Leopard's Migration Assistant, right? My understanding is that Migration Assistant typically facilitates the moving of info between an older computer and a new computer, right? But if I put my original main 300 drive in my second drive bay, will Migration Assistant let me copy everything over from drive 2 to the new drive 1?
yes, you can do it that way.
Thanks!
jennie

Install 10.6 New Drive Migrate from Original Drive

I have a Mac Pro running 10.5.8 on it's factory original drive. What I'd like to do is install 10.6 on a new drive and migrate my account with all settings and apps to that new drive. Both drives are installed internally on the Mac Pro ready to go, Leopard Install disk at hand and waiting.

A much better step would be to
1: Clone the existing 10.5 to a Disk Utility HFS+ journaled formatted external drive using the free Carbon Copy Cloner
2: Hold option and boot from the clone, check it out. Disconnect.
3: Upgrade 10.5 to 10.6 on the orignal drive using the 10.6 upgrade disk, see how everything works (if not you can hold option and boot from the 10.5 clone and even reverse clone if necessary)
4: If the 10.6 upgrade went well, then clone that to the new larger drive (formatted HFS+ journaled first of course)
The reason for this is you avoid ANY issue with using Setup or Migration Assistant, which isn't exaclty perfect or even close.
You also get a external clone as a backup.
If your thinking, "I'm going to install 10.6 so it's fresh" all that goes to HELLO when you use Setup or Migration Assistant, you migrate all the crap from 10.5
If you really want a fresh install of 10.6, you need to do 10.5 install first so you get your free iLife, then upgrade to 10.6, then install programs from original sources, finally just copy the files from the 10.5 drive.
If your doing what your doing to optimize/defrag the drive, cloning back and forth does that as CCC copies folders/files alphabetically via the root directory.

I just had to buy a new computer because my "vintage" Mac died. after migrating my backup drive over my Adobe creative suite no longer wroks I get a 150:30 error code HELP!

I just had to buy a new computer because my "vintage" Mac died. After migrating my backup drive over to my New mac book my Adobe CS no longer works. I get a 150:30 error code HELP!

You need to reinstall it properly, not use migration.
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I am trying to restore my old Macbook Pro data using Time Machine to a new Macbook Air from an external hard drive, but when I restore I get two diferrent loggin accounts and I only wnat one loggin account to access all my data/files?

This web site might answer all of your Time machine questions:
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I built a website, using iWeb. I backed up daily with Time Machine and OS 10.6. My HD crashed. I replaced the HD and installed 10.5. But now I can't restore iWeb and my domain file. How do I restore my site files on the new drive?

I obviously dont know how to use this forum...my question to the community seems to be the truncated phrase in the title block above..you can scroll thru it to see my whole question....basiclly,.my question is: How do I restore my iWeb domain files which are kept in user>library>applicationssupport>iWeb>domain in my Time Machine date listings...to a newly installed disc. I had a disk crash, removed the failed drive and installed another. I then installed OS 10.5 (I didn't have a copy of my 10.6). Now I'm having difficulty figuring out how to get the iWeb files from the Time Machine external drive used with the 10.6 to the new drive running 10.5...any help muich appreciated....!!
bob in St. Peters Nova Scotia...

Go to to your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder in the Finder and then enter Time Machine. Go back to the last backup that has the domain file, select it and use the Restore button.
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HT3275 I continue to get the following error message: Unable to complete back up.an error occurred while creating backup folder. It's a brand new drive. When I attempt to repair it using disk utility I get:unable to repair disk cannot unmounted

I have been trying to use time machine on a new lacie 2tb usb 2 drive for back up. I continue to get: "unable to complete backup.An error occured while creating backup folder". When I use disk utility to repair I get another error message: unable to repair disk unmountable.
Help me Obie One Canobie you are my last hope

I have confused myself with the facts! Started out keeping track of every step and every variable but have sort of lost it as we progress here. First I quit all applications then swapped connections between mouse port and backup disk port to influence possible bad connections question. Changed power outlet receptacle for the backup disk. Disabled the put-the-HD-to-sleep option. Then powered down the computerator.
Next started up computerator. Turned Time Machine ON and experienced multiple successful backups! Then I started up a few applications, Mail and Text Edit (but not Safari so far). Had a few more successes. After each backup, I used Disk Utility to verify the backup disk is still OK. This because the error about unable to unmount the backup disk seems to go hand in hand with Disk Utility finding the backup disk to be bad.
Put computer to sleep for the night. Upon starting up in the morning, and before doing anything else, I did a backup disk verification... BAD! Did a restart and verified the backup disk... OK.
Did a few Sleep-bad, Restart -OK repetitions.
It seems consistent: Sleeping the computer apparently messes up the backup disk but doing a Restart "repairs" it.
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Now then, I don't understand everything I know here. Methinks that maybe keeping the HD from sleeping during lulls in activity has allowed successful backups through the day but manually putting everything to sleep for the night causes a return to the problem of spinning-back-up-too-slowly (which was explained earlier). Is there any truth in this?
I may abandon this Seagate thing for something more compatible. What's out there that we know works reliably for us?

HT2433 I purchased an external CD drive because the internal one died. When I try using the new drive I get the following msg "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device is not accessable, probably because it was removed"

I purchased an external CD drive for my MacBook,the internaldrive had died. When I tried using the new drive I got the following msg "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device is not accessable, probably because it was removed" I contacted OWC and tried to work the issue with them, we gave up and OWC sent me a replacement. I connected the replacement and am getting the same message. Any thoughts?

Try resetting the SMC and PRAM first, if that doesn't help try a cleaning disc.....and then buy an inexpensive external burner. Slimline super drive failures are all too common.
To reset the SMC
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord.
Wait fifteen seconds.
Attach the computer's power cord.
Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.
Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

Using time Capsule to replace new hard drive on MacBook Pro?

I am replacing the internal hard drive on my MacBook pro (early 2008). I have a time capsule that I would like to use to restore the entire back-up on the time capsule to the new hard drive. What is the procedure to do this? Thanks.

First, prep the new drive:
Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive.
Second, install Snow Leopard on the new drive.
Third, after Snow Leopard starts for the first time you will be in the Setup Assistant. When you complete the registration you will be presented with the options for continuing or restoring from a TM backup or another Mac. Select the TM option and restore your data.

Using Time Machine on the new MacBook after migration

Hello,
I have an external hard disk that I use for time machine. I changed my laptop from Macbook Pro 15" to Macbook Pro 13" and I used this external hard disk to migrate from my older Macbook to the new one. Now I want to use my external hard disk to back up my new computer but the problem is that I think when I try to backup it makes the backup on top of everything from my older computer. The back up on the new Macbook takes 250GBs on top of 600-700GBs. I don't think that my backup should take 900GB of space. I think 600-700GBs is from the older computer and I don't want to have an unnecessary backup on top of what I actually need...
So what should I do to get rid of that 600-700GB properly , and then set the external hard disk as the new time machine for my new Macbook ?
My OS is 10.8.4.
Thank you

Michek wrote:
I used this external hard disk to migrate from my older Macbook to the new one.
Exactly how did you do that?
If you used Setup Assistant when the new Mac started up (preferred), or the Migration Assistant app later on, and let it transfer Computer Settings, when the next backup started, you should have been asked if you wanted the new Mac to "inherit" the old Mac's backups. See #B5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for more explanation and details.
If you did something else, or answered the prompt with Create New Backup, you may be able to do that manually. It's a bit geeky, though. See #B6 in the same link.

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