How to use Time Machine after going from Mavericks to Mountain Lion?
Hi all,
I recently installed an SSD in my Mid-2010 MacBook, and I am using Mountain Lion with the SSD. My old HDD has Mavericks and I plan on using it for external storage. I also have a Seagate drive for Time Machine backups of the HDD. After I finish transferring data from my HDD to the SSD, I would like to continue using the Seagate to backup my data with Time Machine. However, I'm unclear about the way the Time Machine will function. I would also like to avoid accidentally restoring an entire Time Machine backup of Mavericks on my SSD as my MacBook really struggled with Mavericks; I've been so concerned about this that I use Finder to drill through backup files in the Seagate to locate data that isn't on my HDD.
If I enable Time Machine on Mountain Lion, will Time Machine, on its own, stack the backups of my current format on top of the older backups from the time I used Mavericks?
Furthermore, if I enter Time Machine to look through my back ups, can I view the back ups from Mavericks?
Can I also navigate through the Mavericks to locate any data I might need and copy it to my Mountain Lion desktop?
If I can continue using the Seagate to look through my data from Mavericks, is there any reason I should consider wiping the HDD clean and using it for Time Machine with Mountain Lion instead (although I don't think I would do this, seems like more effort than it's worth and it might be good to keep a copy of my Mavericks data in a separate drive)?
Thanks for your help!
MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)