Open Core Legacy Patcher and Time Machine Restore

[aceaceace]

OCLP 1.3.0 OSX Sonoma 14.2 Macbook Pro 13" early 2011 2TB Crucial SSD

Using Open Core Legacy Patcher for a year. All works great except having trouble with Time Machine Restore

The backup function of Time Machine works great.

Issue: click "Browse Time Machine Backups" which opens the Time Machine window and I can navigate thru the different backups from different dates and I can right-click a file, but when I click restore I get nothing. Also, CANCEL button will not cancel. It isn't locked up, I can still navigate to different folders etc, just will not get out of Time Machine. I have to force a power down reboot.

Anyone else have this issue? Any work-a-round.

Would love to keep using Time Machine, it is so easy. Set it and forget it.

 

[tensixturtle]

Could you still open your Time Machine drive in Finder, pick a date of a backup and navigate to the file/folder you need?

 

[aceaceace]

Yes,

click Browse Time Machine Backups
Finder opens
click above and behind Finder to navigate to a previous backup
can navigate to Desktop, Recent, Downloads, etc.
right-click restore a file does nothing (nothing that I can see)
Restore button does nothing (at least nothing that I can see) maybe it is and I can't see that.
Cancel does not get me out (I have to power cycle reboot to get out).

Sometimes the screen will refresh, like maybe it is taking ages for some actions? although navigation is quick

 

[tensixturtle]

Yes, I understand what you mean. However, what I was talking about is just opening a regular Finder window, not going through the Time Machine menu but from Finder in the dock and selecting your backup drive from the sidebar like you would any flash drive, external drive, etc. and then selecting a backup? (don't click "Enter Time Machine" as I would expect it would cause the same issue)

 

[aceaceace]

Sorry for the looong delay.

Yes, on one of my Sanoma OSX open core legacy patcher systems I can open the time machine backups from Finder. I see something like what you have above. A bunch of folders with dates and then a hyphen and then a number. I can open each folder from finder. This is a hard drive connected directly via USB cable.

On another Sonoma OSX OCLP system I only see a folder named Name-of-system.sparsebundle this is an Airport Time Capsule on my local network not connected directly, it is accessed thru local network.

 

[aceaceace]

Goal is to not have to rebuild OCLP systems all the way from my old hardware supported OSX back to OCLP Sonoma or latest OSX.

Have rebuilt a couple of Open Core Legacy Patcher systems that did not upgrade properly for some reason and it takes a while. I have to find the original OSX that will boot the the old hardware then figure out the path to get back to Sonoma or whatever the latest OSX is at that time. Then restore all my data photos etc.

What I want is to be able to reboot and reload my OCLP systems using Time Machine or some other software from a backup back to the state it is now without going thru the rebuild from scratch process. I used to have that with Time Machine but it has broken within the last 6 months with OCLP.

 

[markbmac]

Goal is to not have to rebuild OCLP systems all the way from my old hardware supported OSX back to OCLP Sonoma or latest OSX.

Have rebuilt a couple of Open Core Legacy Patcher systems that did not upgrade properly for some reason and it takes a while. I have to find the original OSX that will boot the the old hardware then figure out the path to get back to Sonoma or whatever the latest OSX is at that time. Then restore all my data photos etc.

What I want is to be able to reboot and reload my OCLP systems using Time Machine or some other software from a backup back to the state it is now without going thru the rebuild from scratch process. I used to have that with Time Machine but it has broken within the last 6 months with OCLP.

I am having the same issue, trying to get my data from an old SSD with Mac OS 14.6 and OCLP 1.5.0 to the newer SSD. CCC, SuperDuper, Time Machine all have let me down with the restore process so far. Considering buying a SSD duplicator unless I hear a better option.

 

[aceaceace]

"Almost" given up on Time Machine with OCLP.

I still have a few TM backups but now relying on:

1) Free File Sync https://freefilesync.org/ to automatically backup to multiple external drives.
2) Home Brew https://brew.sh/ to keep applications up to date. And to reinstall applications quickly after a full rebuild.
3) Many older versions of OSX install on external drives or thumbdrives to install the old OSX needed for each older Mac
4) Syncthing to mirror important directories between OCLP systems where I have the disk space which acts as another backup.

I haven't had to rebuild from scratch yet using these tools, but I'm sure it would work. The advantage is that it would be a clean new install and then pull my important files back into a clean new install and use Home Brew to quickly install applications.

I'm open to suggestions for better disaster recovery.