My time machine overwrote my old backups because my external hard drive didn't have enough space. I lost a lot of data from past backups. My question is how can I restore these old backups with the time machine?
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
Time Machine is not an archival system. It guarantees an absolute minimum of one and only one complete restorable system backup. Anything more than that is "nice to have" but not guaranteed.
Whatever you delete from your Mac becomes a candidate for deletion when Time Machine requires the space it occupies.
Time Machine is not an archival system. It guarantees an absolute minimum of one and only one complete restorable system backup. Anything more than that is "nice to have" but not guaranteed.
Whatever you delete from your Mac becomes a candidate for deletion when Time Machine requires the space it occupies.
No way to do that if they were overwritten, but usually the files are there somewhere unless you deleted them in the Finder from your Mac, which files are they?
Well put, thanks. :)
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How can I restore the old backups that were overwritten by the time machine?
