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I got an external drive yesterday, and plugged it in, and it asked me if I wanted to use time machine... All fine and dandy...
Anyway, it now has a folder on it called Backups.backupdb, and inside that theres a folder 'My Name imac' and inside that folder is where its doing the backups. OK, all straight forward so far...
Well, Im happy with the state that the imac was in yesterday, and Id like to always keep that as a 'goto' point, if that makes sense. I know thats not the real point in Timemachine, but lets just say that I always want 'yesterday' to be available, as a specific set point in history.
(Edit for Clarification) When I say I always want yesterday available, I dont mean EVERY DAYS YESTERDAY. I mean yesterday being the 16th July 2010 (Just that specific day)
But I also want to continue using timemachine, but keep that folder separate, and to start using timemachine again, from today onwards, but to have it do a backup, and continue using in a diff folder.
The simple way would be to use another drive, but I dont have one available.
So, if I rename the folder 'Backups.backupdb' to 'old-Backups.backupdb' and then restrat time machine... Will timemachine simply generate a new folder, and start doing its buisness in the new folder? Leaving the 'old-Backups.backupdb' alone?
Hope that makes sense.
Anyway, it now has a folder on it called Backups.backupdb, and inside that theres a folder 'My Name imac' and inside that folder is where its doing the backups. OK, all straight forward so far...
Well, Im happy with the state that the imac was in yesterday, and Id like to always keep that as a 'goto' point, if that makes sense. I know thats not the real point in Timemachine, but lets just say that I always want 'yesterday' to be available, as a specific set point in history.
(Edit for Clarification) When I say I always want yesterday available, I dont mean EVERY DAYS YESTERDAY. I mean yesterday being the 16th July 2010 (Just that specific day)
But I also want to continue using timemachine, but keep that folder separate, and to start using timemachine again, from today onwards, but to have it do a backup, and continue using in a diff folder.
The simple way would be to use another drive, but I dont have one available.
So, if I rename the folder 'Backups.backupdb' to 'old-Backups.backupdb' and then restrat time machine... Will timemachine simply generate a new folder, and start doing its buisness in the new folder? Leaving the 'old-Backups.backupdb' alone?
Hope that makes sense.