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Can you restore Time Machine Files to a NEW Time Machine Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="drgrafix" data-source="post: 1156527" data-attributes="member: 38559"><p>I'm probably in way over my head on this LOL. OK, I was able to move one (1) backup folder over to my root HDD. I meant the "Backup.backup.db" which has one folder with 111 sub folders, and of them... there are typically folders that show one more folder which when opened has folders like applications, User Guides and Information, System, a disk image file, and some other stuff. The initial folder, when I click info started calculating size and after about 10 hours of calculating it says there's 6.65TB of information (6,423,165,175,479 bytes) for 20,714,890 items!!! So those files must be compressed up the ying-yang! I probably should delete them and start from scratch... right? </p><p></p><p>The reference given was interesting but I think it assumes I have those old TN backup files on a working TM EHD (I don't). All I have is the above folder which was created in February '08 and last modified on August 22, 2009. So its just a snapshot of time. There's also the possibility that simply dragging and dropping TM files screws up the database or format or something and might make them more useless than useful.</p><p></p><p>Right now the thought of trashing 6.5TB of backups is first and foremost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drgrafix, post: 1156527, member: 38559"] I'm probably in way over my head on this LOL. OK, I was able to move one (1) backup folder over to my root HDD. I meant the "Backup.backup.db" which has one folder with 111 sub folders, and of them... there are typically folders that show one more folder which when opened has folders like applications, User Guides and Information, System, a disk image file, and some other stuff. The initial folder, when I click info started calculating size and after about 10 hours of calculating it says there's 6.65TB of information (6,423,165,175,479 bytes) for 20,714,890 items!!! So those files must be compressed up the ying-yang! I probably should delete them and start from scratch... right? The reference given was interesting but I think it assumes I have those old TN backup files on a working TM EHD (I don't). All I have is the above folder which was created in February '08 and last modified on August 22, 2009. So its just a snapshot of time. There's also the possibility that simply dragging and dropping TM files screws up the database or format or something and might make them more useless than useful. Right now the thought of trashing 6.5TB of backups is first and foremost. [/QUOTE]
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