Time Machine Restore is not seeing local hard drive

[brainwave89]

I am trying to restore my 2017 MacBook Pro from a Time Machine backup. The APFS formatted local drive has Mojave. When I access Recovery mode Disk Utility sees the local hard drive but not Time Machine. The Time Machine backup has MacOS Ventura.

Any help on how to have Time Machine see my local drive is appreciated.

 

[kitKAC]

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203981

 

[gilby101]

In general old macOS will have problems with "future" software/data. Mojave does not know about APFS TM disks, so I would not expect to be able to see Ventura TM disk in recovery mode.

Any TM backup is intended for recovery using the same macOS version. A running Mojave system might be able to see the disk in Finder so you could restore some data, but I would not be too hopeful.

You should install Ventura, then you will be able to recover from your TM backup.

 

[brainwave89]

In general old macOS will have problems with "future" software/data. Mojave does not know about APFS TM disks, so I would not expect to be able to see Ventura TM disk in recovery mode.

Any TM backup is intended for recovery using the same macOS version. A running Mojave system might be able to see the disk in Finder so you could restore some data, but I would not be too hopeful.

You should install Ventura, then you will be able to recover from your TM backup.

Thank you, gilby101. Installing Ventura resolved the issue.