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My older backups are deleted on the drive used by Time machine, Can we recover them?

Can we recover older backups deleted by Time machine during auto-backups? Auto backup option was turned on and as the space on my disk was low, Time machine has remove bunch of my old backups from previous years. Is there anyway we can recover those back-ups?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 2:27 PM

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Posted on Jun 16, 2021 2:30 PM

Not unless you have an older Time Machine backup that may also have that same content, or you cloned your hard drive to an external drive at some point. Things removed in macOS stay gone without backup redundancy.

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My older backups are deleted on the drive used by Time machine, Can we recover them?

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