Hi,
Some applications won't run on my current OS which forces me to upgrade to Mountain Lion. When I do this I'll also erase my entire disk (it is way to full). But, before I do this I want to make sure that Mountain Lion will be able to use a Snow Leopard Time Machine backup and that I can retrieve my files (pictures, movies etc).
Thanks
Steve -
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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There are no problems doing it. Furthermore, the problem would be that you want to restore the backup made in Mountain Lion onto a computer with Snow Leopard, but in this case, you can do it without any problem.
During the initial setup, Mountain Lion will ask you to restore a backup, so follow its steps. It will ask you to restore whatever you need. See > http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html
Do note that there are apps which run in SL that won't run in ML. IMO, you should make a bootable clone of your current installation to another volume or ext HD and then upgrade either one. That gives you the option of running either OS. I currently run three, since I prefer SL over the lions.
Mountain Lion using a Snow Leopard backup?
