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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: dseelig on March 15, 2008, 02:33:32 pm

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: dseelig on March 15, 2008, 02:33:32 pm

I was using time machine to back up my G5 mac . I have switched to a mac pro now it won't back up to my external . Do I need to wipe my external from the g 5 backups to get it to back up again thanks David

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: francois on March 15, 2008, 02:44:51 pm

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I was using time machine to back up my G5 mac . I have switched to a mac pro now it won't back up to my external . Do I need to wipe my external from the g 5 backups to get it to back up again thanks David
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I had the same issue and finally erased my external hard disc... I don't know if you can make it work without erasing the HD but Id diddn't want to spend a day on that problem.

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: Roy on March 15, 2008, 06:59:05 pm

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I was using time machine to back up my G5 mac . I have switched to a mac pro now it won't back up to my external . Do I need to wipe my external from the g 5 backups to get it to back up again thanks David
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Time machine requires a disk with a GUID partition scheme on an Intel Mac and a disk with an Apple Partition Map on a Power PC based Mac.

You need to use Disk Utility to change the partition scheme. Not sure if you can do that without wiping all the data.

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: francois on March 16, 2008, 06:15:47 am

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Time machine requires a disk with a GUID partition scheme on an Intel Mac and a disk with an Apple Partition Map on a Power PC based Mac.

You need to use Disk Utility to change the partition scheme. Not sure if you can do that without wiping all the data.
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Right!
I missed the fact that dseelig switched from a PPC to an Intel-powered Mac.

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: dseelig on March 18, 2008, 12:37:56 am

Hi guys
Thanks for the clue I had a feelign it was abot how the drive was set up in partitiion . David

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: BlasR on March 18, 2008, 04:09:05 pm

You can do it, without wiping all/any the data.

better if you have another hd. then you do not need to use your main one.

BlasR

Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: dseelig on March 19, 2008, 06:30:54 pm

How ???

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You can do it, without wiping all/any the data.

better if you have another hd. then you do not need to use your main one.

BlasR
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Title: 10.5 Time Machine ?
Post by: BlasR on March 20, 2008, 02:31:47 pm

go to your applications, utilities, disk utilities,

restore, were you like to do it.external or internal hard drive.
you can partition it, without loosing any data too

I just did the same.

Good luck

BlasR