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Old 02-18-2016, 01:41 PM
keriah keriah is offline
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Can you boot from the backup on another system? It's hard to know what your beachballing is, given what you're saying.
On one of my restart attempts I held down the OPT key but the sparseimage file on the USB-attached HD was not offered as one of the options for a startup drive. (My assumption was that it needed to be 'unpacked' so that it appeared on my desktop as the system image.)

After that, I wasn't able to get that far with any of the modes of doing a restart. I'll try Target Disk mode once I'm back where I have some firewire cables.

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Originally Posted by dnanian View Post
If the mini can run the same OS version, restoration should work, yes.
I'll give it a try, if the partition on the new Mini is large enough to hold the restored system.

Thanks.
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