How To Backup & Restore Time Machine on OCLP Mac [FULL GUIDE]

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[richharper]

Have been trying to move my late 2012 MacMini to Monterey and got stuck in the boot cycle, but this video sorted that right out. Reverted patches, migrated from Time Machine, re did patches when migration done. Working! Cheers Mr.M!

[soulinspiration]

OCLP is installing on an old iMac. Although I've used OCLP before, I have never backed up an OCLP installation. Honestly, I've never thought about it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention and showing me how.

[ManuelDaSilva-zx]

I just up updated an 2015 MacBook Pro and a 2012 iMac to macOS Sequoia. All running smoothly. Thank you!!

[gregdoerr]

I LOVE your videos!! Clear and concise information without the added (and unnecessary) baggage of so many other You tubers. Thanks again!!!

[macvideomanlive]

Mr. Macintosh, this is a great tutorial. I knew I was doing something wrong. My 2013 Mac Pro is restore and running prior to me screwing it up. Thank you and keep up the great work.

[DanyGlezer-yies]

You’re a genius! I really appreciate how clearly you explain things. Thank you so much!

[mrmobius]

Hey Mr. Macintosh. I wanted to thank you for this detailed video. I recently updated two 2010 Mac Pros to Sequoia, and my wifi and bluetooth stopped working. I have (using your excellent video) downgraded to Sonoma and things are working perfectly. Thanks again, your attention to detail made a laborious process a lot easier to handle.

[dingr]

Thank you for this video. I attempted to move from Big Sur to Sequoia on my late-2014 iMac six times! While the clean install of Sequoia always worked, the subsequent attempt to restore from TM always failed in some sort of boot loop. Your vid highlighted the need to remove OCLP patches prior to restoring from a TM backup. I had not seen this covered anywhere else. Thank you!

[gtech]

Mr Macintosh, Once again Thank you so much for your informative and precise teachings! You are a gentleman and scholar Sir! I honestly was expecting a reply or two back regarding the comment I made on your sequoia OCLP 2.0.0 video. This video is above and beyond and thoroughly answered all my reservations regarding this subject. Spot On Brother. Have a fantastic day bud! Keep up the excellent work!!!

[chrisbuffington]

Wow and Thank You! I upgraded my med 2012 15 inch MBP from OCLP/Ventura to Sonoma. Folder permissions locked me out, every application lost its serial number and some, were needing to be reinstalled. I did a fresh Time Machine backup before the OS upgrade and the tutorial was perfect to getting me back to a computer that operates perfectly again.

[philtaylor]

Whoa..!!! How did you get from Setup Assistant (09:47) to the desktop at 10:09? Big jump there for us amateurs to follow, Mr Mac!

[musiqtee]

Simply, huge thanks for this thorough walkthrough! 👍

Anecdotally, I’ve done this process successfully several macOS versions back, so being able to observe/see the changes (what to expect as of Sonoma) is just gold. (Or whatever we deem “safe” these days…😅)

[paazpad]

It’s funny because I ran into the boot loop problem 2 days ago after using the migration assistant… You are a life saver !!! Thanks thanks thank you 🙏🙏🙏👌😎 ( just subscribed)

[lettersteve]

Hi there. You video is very clear and concise, thanks so much. I've had my head in OCLP for a few weeks now on various old hardware. It's a wonderful project for which I will be donating to for sure. IMHO, the documentation is not all that clear about the importance of removing root patches prior to importing Time Machine backups. I really appreciate you going through the process. It helped me a great deal :-)

[CosmicHiccup]

Awesome! Thanks so much for the confidence boost upgrading now knowing with detail the restoring from Time Machine Backup process. Haven't needed to do it yet but without this video I don't think I would have done it properly. Can't thank you enough for all your great work!

[VPR]

Waiting for your video on whether to upgrade to mac os sequoia or not.

[spnyc]

@Mr.Macintosh. Excellent! your guides are always very informative. this one is very, very...useful. Thank You.

[albertohernandezserradilla]

Thanks for this great tutorial, nice to know the Migration Assistant method works without the post root patches. I usually don't use Time Machine because I avoid incremental backup systems and use Carbon Copy Cloner instead to backup to external HD's and boot from them the old fashioned way. But this is a great method to downgrade an OS, so thank you very much for your effort in preparing this video. Thank you, dearly appreciated.

[Dochart]

question Mr McIntosh. following these steps can I restore a time machine from Sonoma to a fresh install of Sequoia. I understand I can't downgrade from a Sonoma backup to an OSX before I ie Ventura I'm just wondering if we can go the other way around. Or does it have to be Sonoma to Sonoma?

[POSLifeline]

This worked for me- I took a 5, 1 pro to Sequoia, (took a few days to get that to work then another day to get all of my programs and such loaded onto the new OS - migration to Sequoia = bootloop) only to have strange little bugs pop up (mouse cursor floating away and some other small but annoying ones). So I migrated back to a fresh install of Sonoma.

From Sonoma to Sequoia = bootloop
Sequoia to Sonoma = success


Specs: Mac Pro 5, 1 - RX580, Titan Ridge, 3.0 USB card, updated BT / WiFi, SSD, not PCIe

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