SINC

Here is my quandary.

I have a MBP as my main machine that I back up every evening with Time Machine. (You can't have an external plugged into a laptop all day.)

The RapidWeaver file that builds my website is my main reason for daily backup. But what if my MBP HD fails? Or any other component that makes the MBP inoperable?

I also have a Mac Mini that is brand new. I do not have Time Machine configured on it, nor do I intend to ever use an external. I bought it specifically to have a back up machine to my MBP should it ever quit and only use it for surfing and photo editing on it's 21 inch monitor while sitting at my desk.

Suppose my MBP packed it up tomorrow and I wanted to access the latest RapidWeaver file on the MBP's external Time Machine backup?

Could I set up Time Machine on the Mini to retrieve that latest file so I could use it to build the next day's web site without destroying all of the backups I have built over months and months?

Or do I now need to transfer the daily RapidWeaver file over to the Mini, or to .Mac to be safe?

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Adrian.

You will be able to see it.

I transferred all of my music from the "timemachine.backups" file on the external HD that was connected to a white macbook with time machine to my new macbook pro. I just wanted the music since I had all of my files and programmes already transferred.

I think you can only manually access the most recent backup, but you can go in to the folder manually from another computer.

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ehMax

Hey SINC, there is a convenient way to do this.

Either control click (Or right click) the Time Machine app, or hold down the option key while going to the Time Machine menu in the top right of your Mac. You'll see an option "Browse Other Time Machine Disks". Select that, and a pop up menu will show you available Time Machine disks. I haven't tried this with a Time Capsule, but I'm assuming that will work.

I think that should work.

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Andrew Pratt

I just tried the option click on Time Capsule but it just lets you browse other physical media...it wouldn't let me see the backup from my wife's iMac.

I can see the sparsebundle file on the TC unit though so there may be a way to mount from that?

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