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

[LuKreme]

On 17-Dec-2007, at 20:47, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> 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.


Which means it is, for all intents and purposes, a completely  
different machine to Time Machine. Heck, Time Machine writes a  
completely different type of backup for networked mounts, as I recall.

I mean, let's say I have a machine named 'Macintosh' and I take my TM  
over to my <insert person here> so I can make a backup of their  
machine, also named 'Macintosh'.  Do I want Time machine to overwrite  
the existing backup, or create a new one?

And if you say that's stupid, I agree.  But it's no stupider  
(considerably less stupid, I'd say) than naming your boot drive "Name  
with a space" and naming another drive "Name" but evidently that  
little bug in an itunes update hit a lot of people with that exact  
type of configuration several years back.

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