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Time Machine missing previous backups

  • 04-09-2012 03:47PM
    #1
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭


    I had a hard drive incident a couple of months ago on my imac & needed to wipe the boot drive. I used it as an opportunity to upgrade to ML.

    I just checked time machine & my backups are now only dated back to the 30th July (when it happened) & I can see nothing previous to this.

    Is it all gone ?

    Also, the time machine icon in finder appears to have disappeared, not sure if this is a "feature" or not


Comments

  • #2
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Time machine backups are automatically deleted (oldest first to go) when the drive or volume you use as a backup becomes full.

    Is this the issue?


  • #3
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭OU812


    No, it's not that. 1.5TB drive only had about 600 GB used


  • #4
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Humm.

    I am guessing that TM didn't recognise your previous backups as being belonging to your mac after you had to reinstall.

    So it created a new backup.

    Can you browse through the backup disc manually and see what is in the backups folder. If there are 2 folders then it's one for each mac which shows that it in effect started from scratch.


  • #5
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭OU812


    Just been checking it there & it appears that the install wiped my time machine as well as my boot drive. Luckily I'd a "double bag" backup done to an external which had what I needed. There's about two weeks missing between the two, but I guess I can live with that.


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