Can one ‘re-link’ previous Time machine drive to access pre-crash data

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iMac Intel 27" EMC 2639

Model A1419 / Late 2013 / 3.2 & 3.4 GHz Core i5 or 3.5 GHz Core i7 Processor, ID iMac14,2

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Frederic @fdewulf

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Can one ‘re-link’ previous Time machine drive to access pre-crash data

My mom’s iMac internal HD drive failed. I had setup used TM in 2015 to backup her internal drive AND a 4TB external drive with all her media work on it. It worked well.

3 years later, Just came back for the holidays from sailing around the world and disaster: iMac no longer boots. Her external 4TB RAID-0 SSD array is no longer readable. I replaced Internal 3TB HD with new Toshiba 10TB 7600 rpm HD and rebuilt the Fusion drive with it. Installed Mojave on it. Got her account restored with her internal files on it.

NOW trying to restore external 4TB drive from Time Machine but it is not showing up with migration tool. I suspect it is on the 10 TB Time Machine drive BUT on an older backup on the 10TB time machine ext drive.

When I try looking at Time Machine from her restored account on the NEW 10TB Fusion Mojave drive, it does not allow me to go back in time and asks me to select a drive for Time Machine. This would I suspect wipe out the data I need on the 10TB Time Machine ext backup drive.

Is there a way got me to ‘re-link’ the before failure Time Machine 10TB drive so it lets me go back in time until I see a backup of the external 4TB media files drive?

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Frederic @fdewulf

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I found the answer: I opened the Time Machine 10TB external drive in Finder. On it were folders dated by each of the backup dates. I found these folders both the Macintosh HD 3TB drive backups AND the external 4TB backup. Al lI had to do is to take the lates of the backups and copy the files over with simple drag and drop to the NEW internal 10TB fusion HD drive I installed on the iMac.

It is now copying all 3.45TB of media files that my mom had created over the past 20 years.

We are now looking for a good cloud solution capable to store that much data without spending too much annual fees for it. iCloud is currently limited at 2TB.

Dropbox offers unlimited space at $240 a year.

Google offers 10TB at $1200 a year

Mega.nz offers 4TB for $276 a year

SpiderOak offer 5TB for $300 a year

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While it's not a bad idea for a backup. Keep in mind you internet connection speed will make it almost impossible to backup a full backup in a timely fashion! I had a customer give it a try it took 3 1/3 days! as the upstream was less than the down stream rate. You'll want to test your service first.

I think you've got a good solution with your external drive. I use two drive sets, one which I store at the bank (just in case). I don't use web server based offerings (cloud) for my bulk stuff only my iPhone & iPad stuff which is much smaller in scale (iCloud).

Apple offers a competitive storage as well iCloud storage plans and pricing

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While it's not a bad idea for a backup. Keep in mind you internet connection speed will make it almost impossible to backup a full backup in a timely fashion! I had a customer give it a try it took 3 1/3 days! as the upstream was less than the down stream rate. You'll want to test your service first.

I think you've got a good solution with your external drive. I use two drive sets, one which I store at the bank (just in case). I don't use web server based offerings (cloud) for my bulk stuff only my iPhone & iPad stuff which is much smaller in scale (iCloud).

Apple offers a competitive storage as well iCloud storage plans and pricing — Dan