Oct 18, 2019 If using Time Machine to back up to a network disk, you can verify those backups to make sure they're in good condition. Press and hold Option, then choose Verify Backups from the Time Machine menu. In OS X Lion v10.7.3 or later, you can start up from your Time Machine disk, if necessary. Press and hold Option as your Mac starts up. Select the first one, which reads From a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk and click Continue. In the next screen choose the drive that holds your backup and then click Continue.
- If the system doesn't boot up (it was due to this issue), is it better to reinstall OS X Lion, or restore from a Time Machine backup? I do see a Time Machine backup from 3 AM last night, so if that is used to restore the machine, will it read all 600 GB from the external backup drive and copy it to the iMac's hard drive, or will it just do the selective restore, kind of like Windows 7's.
- 'The system can't be restored onto this disk because HFS systems can't be restored to space sharing APFS volumes. Reinstall macOS on this disk and then use Migration Assistant to transfer data from your backup assistant.' I think the 'accidental' disconnect from Time Machine backups due to HFS/APFS incompatibility was intentional.
Hi all. After a particularly disastrous week I decided to back my iMac up and restore the system but, when I'm reinstalling the OS no destination disk appears. I've left it for ages just in case it takes a while to find it but to no avail. I've run disk utilities and it says the disk is fine but.. When I try to select the startup disk, nothing appears.
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I also tried reinstalling from a Time Machine backup but, despite find the backup on the external drive, it still can't locate the destination disk.
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Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?
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