I’ve a MacBook Professional 2017 that was despatched for alternative. The system was at all times synced with Time Machine.
I’ve a brief MacBook Professional 2017 I’m attempting to revive to, however I am unable to get it to work.
The Time Machine backup is on a NAS partition (Synology DS216).
The trail from the NAS’ perspective is:
smb://SynologyDS216/volume1/TimeMachine
The trail from Finder’s perspective is:
smb://SynologyDS216._smb._tcp.native/TimeMachine
I reboot the pc to macOS Restoration, it finds the NAS, I can hook up with the partition offering the username / password, after which nothing occurs from there. It stays on the identical display screen.
It’s the similar habits whether or not I attempt to use the auto detected path, the NAS’ path, or the trail Finder creates.
No backup seems.
After I linked with the unique Mac, by Time Machine, I can see the information, the historical past, and many others. so the information are there.
Now I’ve two questions:
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Is there such a factor as a ‘machine backup’ vs. ‘just a few folders backup’? I had a whole lot of folders exclusion in my Time Machine settings, so perhaps the information are there however not the OS.
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If I hook up with this backup by Time Machine, as a substitute of the system restore/migration, is there a technique to join as read-only so the non permanent pc won’t begin to edit the backup?
As a facet be aware, the backup is from macOS Catalina (on a MacBook Professional 2017 15″) and the temp laptop computer is working macOS Excessive Sierra (on a MacBook Professional 2017 13″), if that makes a distinction.