moved TM drive from local machine to another machine on network, TM creates brand new archive for same machine

[Kevin Callahan]

On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Charles Jacobs wrote:

> I haven't tried it, but here is a way to do that, apparently:
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071128055047339

thanks ..
in my case, it's the very same drive, the same TM archive --
it's just that the drive WAS hanging off my MBPro, now it's shared off  
an iMac.

The only change is the mount.

Kevin


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> On Dec 16, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>> I moved my TM backup drive from my MBPro to an iMac on the same  
>> network.  I launched TM and told it to use the remote drive  
>> (mounted via sharing off iMac).
>> TM is now creating an entirely new backup file.  Is there a way to  
>> point to the existing backup?  I don't see any prefs allowing me to  
>> point to the archive I'd like to continue using.
>>
>> Kevin
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