I may have started using it before 10.7.2 however. How do I now correct this? Do I need to wipe the drive and start over, or is there some way to initiate a Full backup?
Hello:
This article will help you recover:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
The recovery partition is not visible - as far as I know.
Barry
Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill
You won't see the recovery HD section on a time machine drive. But if you connect that drive to the computer and hold down the option key at startup if there is a recovery hd on the time machine drive it will show up on the boot manager screen that comes up.
If it isn't there then all you need to do is use disk utility to erase or repartition the drive then do a full time machine backup and that should copy the recovery hd files to the drive used as a time machine backup.
My understanding is that I should be able to see the Recovery HD on the Time Machine drive if I start pressing Alt/Option (assuming 10.7.2). I don't see the Time Machine drive at all. Only the internal HD and the Recovery HD.
If that same time machine drive was used for a older version of os x and then just carried over when you ungraded to lion that is why. You have to start with a clean drive and then do the time machine backup for time machine in lion to create the recovery hd files on it.
So, in other words, you can not force Time Machine to kick off a full backup, you need to wipe all your backups and start over?
That seems kind of klunky
Yes you can have a recovery hd on a time machine backup drive but that backup must be made with lion or mountain lion on a clean drive. Not carried over from a older version of os x.
Not klunky at all. If the drive has a older backup from a older version of os x the recovery hd files aren't placed on that drive.
I understand what you say, but still think it's kind of klunky that a backup solution be provided that you have virtually no control over. Apple fans like to ding Microsoft, but at least on my PC I can manually kick off a backup and make choices on what type of backup I'll receive.
Guess each OS has it's plusses and minuses, but having to lose all your backup history in order to simply create a full backup should be considered a bug, IMHO.
You can do that on a Mac also. Just go into system preferences then time machine and you can start a completely new backup. But to have the recovery hd files placed on the time machine drive that drive has to be new, clean, erased from all other time machine backups made from a older os x version. You can even partition your current drive and start a new Lion backup on that new partition.
I know nothing of Windows backup systems and how they work.
Should I add a new partition, will that allow the recovery HD?
Ok I really don't know how else to say it. Making a new time machine backup on a clean drive with lion installed on your mac will create the recovery hd files on that drive. It can't be on the same drive or partition that was used for older backups from a older version of os x. It has to be on a clean, unused, drive or partition.
Sorry but you keep asking the same question that I have answered in almost every one of my replies.
Creating a backup from lion on a drive that has no other backups on it from a older version of os x will create the recovery hd files on that drive and you can then boot from that drive to the recovery hd system.
Running 10.7.5, but don't see recovery partition on time machine drive.
