![]() ![]() I still use Time Machine, which is useful to restore single files. Moral of the story: Do not rely on Time Machine, it's too buggy! I am installing an rsyc cron to sync all files below my home directory to the NAS. enter Time Machine => older backups are now shown!.do another Time Machine backup => this forces Time Machine to clean up the backup and get rid of older snapshots.reduce the quota of the Time Machine user to have 500G free space left.do a backup => latest backup shown as of today.connect Time Machine to the NAS => it'll state no backups.I left it for the whole day, after 8h it reverted back to the screen where you select the server to restore from.Īfter many trials and errors I got the restore finally working: I tried the Migration Assistant approach, I can connect to the NAS, and see the list of backups of all family members. Any idea how to get the backup recognized? I am currently making a copy of the backup to an external 2 TB hard disk (the backup is 1.25 TB), which should finish in 7 hours. I also tried to downgrade the OS from Catalina to High Sierra, but got an error message. I looked at the files in the backup, but none of the content of the XML files indicate the OS version. I think I had High Sierra, but I am not sure. I suspect the reason why the backup does not work is that the OS is different. No luck, same error, so I reverted the name change. backupbundle in Catalina, so I renamed the directory, and tried to restore again. Googling I found that the extension changed from. files info.bckup, ist, lock, token, 4 files starting with com.apple.*.sub-directories bands and mapped, the latest files in there match the day when the SSD failed, e.g.directory Peter's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle.Logging in to the NAS I can see that the backup is there: When I select my "Peter's MacBook Pro" backup as the source, it churns for about 2 min with a "Looking for macOS system backups." message, then shows a "No macOS system backups were found" message. ![]() I can connect to the Synology NAS where I have the TimeMachine backups, and see the backups of our family. I tried to restore from Time Machine backup in the Command+ R mode. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup. The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. ![]()
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