Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.portables 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 06:30:03 GMT Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net I9ZQsU1r6K6OWU+l/nLODghg0mVSnPIzvLHOkFflm/9sEX2wKo Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= sha1:UibAFj4dCl0QjJl3fALWHNagFGQ= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.0 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:32254 comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:953 comp.sys.mac.system:81164 comp.sys.mac.portables:897 Ant wrote: >>>>> 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. > > Because I thought TM puts the recovery partition in it. :( More > time wasted since TM erases that Mac OS X partition. :/ Time Machine doesn't erase anything. You did that yourself in Disk Utility after *booting* on the Time Machine volume, which I would avoid personally. I wouldn't boot on the backup disk, personally. >>>> 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. > > Argh. More work to do. I am also surprised you can't make a recovery > partition after doing a full TM restore. Bah! I didn't say it wasn't possible. It's just way simpler and easier to make the USB installer which you do with a single terminal command and only takes a few minutes. Manually creating a recovery partition is more complicated. >>>> 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). > > Hmmm. Those newer versions could break his old stuff to have more work. > Grr. Nah, not much broke from 10.8 to 10.10. -- Sent from my iPhone