Re: Is it possible to access Time Machine on an older mac OS and PCs?

From	Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.systems
Subject	Re: Is it possible to access Time Machine on an older mac OS and PCs?
Date	2020-11-23 05:10 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnrrmh33.4ht.g.kreme@promini.local> (permalink)
References	<_oGdnST1Ev_kvybCnZ2dnUU7-QPNnZ2d@earthlink.com>

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In message <_oGdnST1Ev_kvybCnZ2dnUU7-QPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Hello.

> Is it possible to access external USB HDDs' Mojave v10.14.6 Time Machine 
> encrypted back up files with an older Mac (e.g., 2008 MacBook Pro's El 
> Capitan v10.11.6) or a PC (Linux, Windows, etc.)?

Not with a PC, they cannot even read the disk format.

I've never tried to access a current TM drive with an older macOS
version. I would guess that generally it would work and in some specific
cases (where TM has changed between versions, for example) it will not.

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Is it possible to access Time Machine on an older mac OS and PCs? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-22 20:46 -0600
  Re: Is it possible to access Time Machine on an older mac OS and PCs? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-23 05:10 +0000
  Re: Is it possible to access Time Machine on an older mac OS and PCs? Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-23 06:54 +0000

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