I have a current time machine backup on USB from an older machine running snow leopard 10.6. How can I selectively restore applications and data from this time machine disk to a new mac running Mountain Lion 10.8?
MacOS – Selectively restore from a time machine backup created on snow leopard to a different machine running mountain lion
macostime-machine
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Best Answer
You can just copy folders and files from
/Volumes/*/Backups.backupdb/normally. Finder andcpdon't preserve hard links.