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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Any catches on restoring from an old Mac OS X v10.8.5 Time Machine HDD backup to new SSD on a 13.3" MacBook Pro (9,2; MD102ll/A)?
Date: 30 Sep 2015 05:08:50 GMT
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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> In comp.sys.mac.apps David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:42 -0500, 
>> in article <g5ednespX9aO0ZbLnZ2dnUU7-QmdnZ2d@earthlink.com>, 
>> Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
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>>> OK, cool. Recovering would be faster and nicer since we don't have 
>>> to reconfigure. I was surprised TM's restore was after a three hours 
>>> restore on Saturday. :)
> 
>> I will point out that simply restoring from a Time Machine will not 
>> install a recovery partition on the replacement disk.  That only takes 
>> place when one first installs the operating system.
> 
> Interesting. How do you put a recovery partition back then onto a new 
> disk? I am surprised it doesn't do that.

Why bother when it's very easy to just install the OS which creates a
recovery partition and then restore from backup? You are making this more
complicated than it has to be.

>> I'd highly recommend running the installer, after which you can 
>> restore from your backup or perform a system migration from the Time 
>> Machine backup.

Yep. It's the best way.

>> I'd also ask, why isn't your account planning on updating to a newer 
>> version of the operating system, while going to all the trouble to 
>> upgrade the boot disk?  It would seem the timing is right.
> 
> Doesn't he have to buy it?

No, the latest versions of OS X are free - since 10.9 (10.10 is the current
release, and 10.11 will be released soon).

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