you could keep an ongoing rich fill-in of not just your startup loudness with Time Machine but any qualifying drive you connect to your Mac . The provisos ? It has to be initialize as HFS+ or APFS , and can not be a Time Machine intensity .
But what happens if you do n’t always have one of your outside drives plugged in — how do you get at its Time Machine accompaniment if you ca n’t use the Time Machine system of rules card ’s Enter Time Machine option with the volume overt in a Finder window ? Easy : use the backups direct on your Time Machine book .
With a Time Machine volume directly connected to the Mac , you’re able to simply browse its shot list . Look through the date and fourth dimension in the snapshot names to find the one that is as recent or as long ago as you require , and then click the enlargement triangle or double click the snapshot ikon .
If Time Machines is backing up multiple volumes , each appears a separate entry . Double - fall into place the drive in question , and you could graze its backup and then copy any or all of it to another book .
For networked Time Machine backups , it may be easier to go to the machine that ’s hosting the Time Machine files because you have to mount a disk image corresponding to your computer ’s sharing name . It may take a while to perform the mounting mathematical process across a electronic connection . Once mounted as a record image , however , you will have the same access to snapshots and volume within snapshots as above .
This Mac 911 article is in response to a interrogative submitted by Macworld reader Greg .
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