Old Time Machine Back-up.

[Pecator]

I have been reading here about Time Machine. I appreciate it since I was going to rely on it to transfer my iMac to an newer one. I will look into Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner moving forward.

Still, as I prepare for my new(er) machine, I called for "the Gathering" and old hard drives came in droves. On one I found a Time-Machine backup from four years ago. I am curious to see what version of history it contains. I have had a few crashes in these years.

Is there any way to look into this backup? Especially since I will erase my old iMac and be able to experiment with that.

thanks

 

[HDFan]

Are the drives mountable? If they mount and you option click on the Time Machine icon on the menu bar can you browse the disk?

 

[Weaselboy]

Hold down the option key then click Browse Other Backup Disks... and that should let you look over the old TM backup.