http://kenclark.me/2009/09/my-snow-leopard-install-checklist/ a technology journal Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:27:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://kenclark.me/2009/09/my-snow-leopard-install-checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-8737 Ken Clark Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:18:29 +0000 http://www.kenclarksblog.com/?p=375#comment-8737 <p>I wouldn't recommend erasing your old backups as you lose the history of all your data. If you have a major hard drive meltdown, the way you will restore from Time Machine is: 1) do a clean install of Snow Leopard on the affected (or new) hard drive; and then 2) import your data off the Time Machine HD via the OS X installer or Migration Assistant. On a full restore there isn't an option analogous to the file restore where you can request a restore from a specific period of time.</p> I wouldn’t recommend erasing your old backups as you lose the history of all your data. If you have a major hard drive meltdown, the way you will restore from Time Machine is: 1) do a clean install of Snow Leopard on the affected (or new) hard drive; and then 2) import your data off the Time Machine HD via the OS X installer or Migration Assistant. On a full restore there isn’t an option analogous to the file restore where you can request a restore from a specific period of time.

]]> http://kenclark.me/2009/09/my-snow-leopard-install-checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-8691 Robert Mestdagh Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:34:34 +0000 http://www.kenclarksblog.com/?p=375#comment-8691 <p>Thank you for this list of recommendations. I read somewhere before that it is best to have a dedicated drive for Time Machine backups. The question I am left with is: I have such a dedicated hard disk for my (automatic) TM backups. When I want to install Snow Leopard, is it best to erase this drive with all of my current backups so that the upgraded system can again use the dedicated drive and only contain the new system's backups, or can I just leave the current Leopard backups on the drive. I wonder whether this last option would not have a negative effect should I ever have to us the backups for a full restore later. Thank you.</p> Thank you for this list of recommendations. I read somewhere before that it is best to have a dedicated drive for Time Machine backups. The question I am left with is: I have such a dedicated hard disk for my (automatic) TM backups. When I want to install Snow Leopard, is it best to erase this drive with all of my current backups so that the upgraded system can again use the dedicated drive and only contain the new system’s backups, or can I just leave the current Leopard backups on the drive. I wonder whether this last option would not have a negative effect should I ever have to us the backups for a full restore later. Thank you.

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