Time Machine - Full Backup Restore Issue (11.6)

[nomad01]

I installed the most recent Big Sur update and it bricked my M1 MacBook Pro. Apple Support advised to wipe it clean, reinstall and restore from backup.

However, when I try to restore I get:
“You must use Migration Assistant
to transfer data from this
backup.
Relnstall macOS If necessary and then
use Migration Assistant to transfer data
from your backup”

As you can see from the screenshot attached, it recognises that there are backups there.

However if I boot up and use Migration Asssistant, it doesn’t seem to see any of these backups. So I can’t restore anything!

anyone have any suggestions for accessing these backups..?

 

[ignatius345]

What happens if you hit the "Install MacOS" button and let it do its thing?

 

[nomad01]

What happens if you hit the "Install MacOS" button and let it do its thing?

It just reinstalls MacOS and I’m back to square one. Migration Assistant still doesn’t see the backups. 😩

 

[ignatius345]

It just reinstalls MacOS and I’m back to square one. Migration Assistant still doesn’t see the backups. 😩

Yikes, that sucks. I guess if it was me I'd call Support again unless someone here has a better idea...

 

[nomad01]

Yikes, that sucks. I guess if it was me I'd call Support again unless someone here has a better idea...

Thanks. I’ve got a call ongoing with support but after 10 days they just came back with the stupidest suggestion so I thought I’d try here.

Unless annoying else has any ideas, I’ll follow up with Apple.

 

[tuckerdogavl]

I installed the most recent Big Sur update and it bricked my M1 MacBook Pro. Apple Support advised to wipe it clean, reinstall and restore from backup.

However, when I try to restore I get:
“You must use Migration Assistant
to transfer data from this
backup.
Relnstall macOS If necessary and then
use Migration Assistant to transfer data
from your backup”

As you can see from the screenshot attached, it recognises that there are backups there.

However if I boot up and use Migration Asssistant, it doesn’t seem to see any of these backups. So I can’t restore anything!

anyone have any suggestions for accessing these backups..?

Exactly what happened to me a few weeks ago. I gave up and got the computer over to the local gurus as fast as I could. $225 later, I got my Mac Mini back (though I'm 2014 and still running Intel). Everything looked great until it got to "40%" and when I attempted to restore, the HD was wiped and then I got this. Very scary as I was restoring 770gb of a 1TB. It's taken another week to get everything sort of back in order; I had to use another External for a TM backup. I still have the Mojave backup on a different HD. And now I'm trying to figure out why it's taken over a hour of "cleaning up" so far on an incremental backup that started at 12:20 and it's now 1:36. It's almost time for the next hourly backup