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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: 1162235" data-attributes="member: 38559"><p>Just an update; I went into those old backup.*.* files and trashed two years worth saving only 4-5 from each year roughly spaced about 45 days apart. As noted earlier I saved these particular files before the TM drive died completely and I sent it back to the manufacturer for a RMA's replacement. Since I did not have them on a working TM and have them in a different spot on my main HDD, I figured _NOW_ was the time to get Time Machine working again. So I connected the new external HDD and set it as my TM drive. It immediately went to work and started backing up. Several hours later it seemed to be done, and I _think_ all is well.</p><p></p><p>However, I do have two things to check out.</p><p></p><p>1. My new 1TB Time Machine drive is maxed to the gills with only 23.37GB free. My Main iMac internal HDD is 500GB with 197.18GB free. If TM is backing up 197+GBs, why is that taking up roughly 970GBs on the external drive?</p><p></p><p>2. I'm going to look into whether I need _ALL_ the remaining files on the "old" TM files because I'm thinking if the machine is running fine, why have all that garbage stored especially if it can't be or doesn't need to be accessed? Maybe there's a gazillion redundant files and that's why my TM file is so huge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drgrafix, post: 1162235, member: 38559"] Just an update; I went into those old backup.*.* files and trashed two years worth saving only 4-5 from each year roughly spaced about 45 days apart. As noted earlier I saved these particular files before the TM drive died completely and I sent it back to the manufacturer for a RMA's replacement. Since I did not have them on a working TM and have them in a different spot on my main HDD, I figured _NOW_ was the time to get Time Machine working again. So I connected the new external HDD and set it as my TM drive. It immediately went to work and started backing up. Several hours later it seemed to be done, and I _think_ all is well. However, I do have two things to check out. 1. My new 1TB Time Machine drive is maxed to the gills with only 23.37GB free. My Main iMac internal HDD is 500GB with 197.18GB free. If TM is backing up 197+GBs, why is that taking up roughly 970GBs on the external drive? 2. I'm going to look into whether I need _ALL_ the remaining files on the "old" TM files because I'm thinking if the machine is running fine, why have all that garbage stored especially if it can't be or doesn't need to be accessed? Maybe there's a gazillion redundant files and that's why my TM file is so huge. [/QUOTE]
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