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Restoration from Time Capsule
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wilmington, DE
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I have a MacBook Pro that originally came with Leopard and has been upgraded to Snow Leopard and backed up via a Time Machine. While I'm not 100% sure the system files are being backed up, I made no change to the default setting. My Snow Leopard CD is scratched and I need to perform a System Recovery. Is it safe to format my hard disk and install leopard, and then restore the time machine? Will the restoration from the time machine convert it to Snow Leopard or keep it at Leopard?
As long as we're on the subject, I have the exact same situation with my Mac Pro, only it came with Tiger and I upgraded it to Leopard (not snow) and backed it up, but no longer have the Leopard CD. Would a system recovery so Tiger then a restoration from my Time Machine work?
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Time Machine doesn't back up actual OS files. It will be safe to reinstall Leopard and restore with Time Machine, but keep in mind that if you have any applications that were 10.6 specific (and there are a few out there) that they'll be broken.
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wilmington, DE
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Well, guess what? It's not a scratched CD, but a bad CD Drive. I tried to install Leopard and the drive acted up. I inserted the Snow Leopard disk into my desktop and it ran like a charm.
What I am really trying to do is a disk repair. I opted to do the new install because I thought my disk was scratched, and would have copied the new OS off of the Time Machine?
I don't use my CD Drives often. Would I be able to buy an external Drive and perform a disk repair off of that? How about doing a complete install off of an external drive?
Finally, since I am a bull in a china closet with my CD's, if I copied my OS CD's, would the backups work, or is there a code in there that it knows it's a copy? Are they DVD's or CD's?
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wilmington, DE
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Ok, Now, another question. I have files that have been backed up on my time capsule that I no longer need. My Time Capsule is getting full. Do I need to delete these files from the time capsule or will older unused files delete themselves?
If I do need to delete them, (or if I just want to delete them anyway), what is the proper procedure? Usually I go into the Time Capsule and delete them using the gear box, but I don't see any more available space appear.
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