Time Machine Question

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Say you have everything backed up with time machine, then you put a fresh image on your machine. Is there a way of syncing your last snapshot of files back on to your machine?

Does this make sense to anyone?
 
you could just drag the files to where you want em? not sure if the actual TM interface will work with a file system not the exact one it was running on originally (although i would have thought it would) but you can always just access the drive itself and pull files from it... the beauty of os x i suppose is that there are only a handful of places where important stuff is stored so it wouldn't be tricky at all :)
 
So if i got a time capsule, would i need to backup my files in the traditional way as well as using time machine? Thats what im getting at really.
 
if you had your mac backed up with time machine, then did a fresh install, you could then put your old machine files back on. i think thats what you mean.
 
Aspect said:
How would you do that then?
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like i said above, just access the actual time machine disk, and in there you will have loads of folders that are dated, pick the latest one and copy what you want back to the current os x install...

once you've done that you can format the time machine drive and start a fresh time machine backup :) (or like i said before, maybe even continue the TM backups from that point but i'm not sure as it would work...)

does this make sense?
 
Don't bother with ^

Create a full snapshot with Time Machine.. then when you reinstall Leopard choose to have the data imported "from a Time Machine backup" on the Leopard installation wizard.
 
EVH said:
Don't bother with ^

Create a full snapshot with Time Machine.. then when you reinstall Leopard choose to have the data imported "from a Time Machine backup" on the Leopard installation wizard.
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Ooooh, now I like the sound of that. Gotta get me a drive that I can use for time machine.
 
EVH said:
Don't bother with ^

Create a full snapshot with Time Machine.. then when you reinstall Leopard choose to have the data imported "from a Time Machine backup" on the Leopard installation wizard.
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Thats it, remember its Apple so everything is easy no need to manually get your old system files the program with do it for you.
 
EVH said:
Don't bother with ^

Create a full snapshot with Time Machine.. then when you reinstall Leopard choose to have the data imported "from a Time Machine backup" on the Leopard installation wizard.
Click to expand...

That's exactly what i was after. Glad to know it can be done. Cheers mate :)
 
EVH said:
Don't bother with ^

Create a full snapshot with Time Machine.. then when you reinstall Leopard choose to have the data imported "from a Time Machine backup" on the Leopard installation wizard.
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eh? of course this is the best way if you're doing a fresh install but it sounded like he had already put a fresh copy on and just wanted his files back?

actually after reading his first post again... maybe not, i think i interpreted it wrong...
 
That's the most I've ever been quoted :D

Didn't mean it in a nasty way against you QuiKsiLVeR..
 
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