Is it OK to change the name of a boot disk that time machine is backing up? I had been backing up a disk called Boot, did a clean install on a new disk named Macintosh HD and migrated my data from the old disk. Can I just add "Macintosh HD" to time machine prefs for backup and continue using the same backup?
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Time Machine- change backup disk, name OK?
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It uses the "computer name" from the sharing pref pane to ID TM backups, so I think you should be okay just changing the volume name.
Thanks! So as long as I'm backing up the computer with that name, which was set when I migrated settings and data into the clean install, it will just consider the new disk as being the same system? That makes it super easy. I do love my Macs.