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crewmark Author

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How do I restore a failed drive from time machine?

I have been successfully backing up my external work drives to a backup drive via Time Machine. This has worked fine in the past and when I have needed to restore a file I could just do into TM, selected the drive and look for the file. Problem is that one of my external drives died overnight and when I go into TM, as the drive is not loaded, TM doesn't give me the option to restore... its as if the external drive backup has suddenly disappeared!

How do I find the backup with no corresponding drive?

Mac Pro

Posted on Jun 15, 2020 4:32 PM

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steve626

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Posted on Jun 15, 2020 8:40 PM

Here is a Guide that explains how to restore from a Time Machine backup of an external drive that has failed or is not connected at the time you wish to restore it (say to a new drive).

https://tommyang.github.io/pondini.org/TM/E3.html

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