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Restoring from a Lion Time Machine backup onto a MacBook running Leopard
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<blockquote data-quote="midmarchsnow" data-source="post: 1334746" data-attributes="member: 226193"><p>yeah, Migration Assistant cannot restore from a backup made from a newer operating system, e.g. my new Leopard 2008 MacBook cannot access the backup from my dead Lion 2008 MacBook.</p><p></p><p>I already reinstalled Snow Leopard and updated it to the current version [10.6.8] and tried the internet recovery. No dice, my Mac (I guess since it's never had Lion on it) didn't respond to my command-R hold. I didn't have the foresight to create a bootable USB from my old MacBook, so I'm not sure what my options are now, as I found no online tutorials telling how to do this without buying a copy of lion as the first step. </p><p></p><p>So... am I stuck buying a new copy of Lion?</p><p></p><p>If so, that sucks, seeing as how I just bought it like, 4 weeks ago, for the exact same machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="midmarchsnow, post: 1334746, member: 226193"] yeah, Migration Assistant cannot restore from a backup made from a newer operating system, e.g. my new Leopard 2008 MacBook cannot access the backup from my dead Lion 2008 MacBook. I already reinstalled Snow Leopard and updated it to the current version [10.6.8] and tried the internet recovery. No dice, my Mac (I guess since it's never had Lion on it) didn't respond to my command-R hold. I didn't have the foresight to create a bootable USB from my old MacBook, so I'm not sure what my options are now, as I found no online tutorials telling how to do this without buying a copy of lion as the first step. So... am I stuck buying a new copy of Lion? If so, that sucks, seeing as how I just bought it like, 4 weeks ago, for the exact same machine. [/QUOTE]
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