My iMac hard drive recently failed. I had been using an AirPort Time Capsule to back up information from the iMac and a Macbook Pro. When I attempted to restore the backup from the iMac, it only showed the macbookpro and migrated that backup to my iMac.

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My iMac hard drive recently failed. I had been using an AirPort Time Capsule to back up information from the iMac and a Macbook Pro. When I attempted to restore the backup from the iMac, it only showed the macbookpro and migrated that backup to my iMac.

I had been using an AirPort+Time capsule to backup both my iMac and my Macbookpro. When I attempted to restore my iMac backups it migrated my backups for the Macbookpro, but not my iMac. Genius Bar could do nothing to find my iMac backups on the Time capsule. Anything thoughts. Of course the backup has many photographs and some important documents.

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on May 26, 2012 4:34 PM

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Pondini

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May 27, 2012 3:57 PM in response to John4866

There should be two sparse bundles on the TC, one for each Mac. If you click the TC in a Finder sidebar, you should see something like this (in Column View):

If you see the sparse bundle for the iMac there, but not on the window where you do a full system restore (after starting from your Recovery HD or OSX Install disc), they may be corrupted (especially if your iMac was failing at the time of the last backup).

Try repairing those backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Then try the full restore again, per Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14. Note that if you suspect problems on the most recent backup, you might want to select an earlier one.

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