10-08-2011, 03:10 AM
When I bought and set up my Mac Min a few weeks ago, I transferred a couple of my external HDs to it as well, connected them via USB and FW to my new Mini, instead of my old iMac. One of these external HDs contains my Time Machine backups for my MacBook Pro.
When my MBP tried to backup, naturally, it couldn't find that external HD. Because I had moved. So I just now went into Time Machine preferences in System Preferences, to redirect it, so it can find it on the network. So, that worked okay, got it redirected. Then enabled it to begin using that backup location again.
What it's trying to do now, is start backing up on that drive from scratch. When its previous backup is right there, on the drive.
I stopped it, before it transferred 80 GBs of data, as if its backing up for the first time, while I try to remember what one does in this situation.
How do I tell it to pick up and continue using its already-established backup?
When my MBP tried to backup, naturally, it couldn't find that external HD. Because I had moved. So I just now went into Time Machine preferences in System Preferences, to redirect it, so it can find it on the network. So, that worked okay, got it redirected. Then enabled it to begin using that backup location again.
What it's trying to do now, is start backing up on that drive from scratch. When its previous backup is right there, on the drive.
I stopped it, before it transferred 80 GBs of data, as if its backing up for the first time, while I try to remember what one does in this situation.
How do I tell it to pick up and continue using its already-established backup?