Time machine from 10.5 to 10.6 possible?

[iMacMart]

Hi Guys

My boss has an old type MacBook Air and his new 13" MacBook Air arrived this morning, will I be OK to time machine the data back to the new machine even though his old OS X was 10.5 and the new one on Snow Leopard?

Also I purchased a copy of Office 2008 with the 2011 free upgrade, should I install this on the new unit and upgrade then time machine it?

Just looking for the best way to get him up and running as soon as possible really

Many thanks

Mart

 

[NickK]

hmm.

I upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6 using upgrade.

Although there shouldn't be anything stopping you from doing a 10.5 TM 'backup now' before shutting down. On the new machine use the 10.6 disk and do a restore from TM.

I'd do the office install on the new machine.

 

[VFM Addict]

To hell with the Chaplin movie I think we've got one on the forum....

Edited - By lower-casing the t and m in the words time machine in the OP he had me going for a minute there....

 

[FreeStream]

It will ask you if you want to continue using the disk or wipe it and start again.

Plug it in and see what happens.

Edit: And yes 10.6 will be able to see the 10.5 TM backup.

 

[iMacMart]

Well it all worked peachy accept for TM crashing out with a NULL error and not completing correctly, had to run the TM widget and findout what the offending file/s were and delete them and it all worked a treat