And it is also an exclusive feature that Mac turns any removable storage device into a recovery tool. Please help me 'Restoring Mac from external hard drive on Mac is one of the choices that people apply if they can’t connect to a stable Wi-Fi while restoring a Mac. The maximum size of a Save Files to B2 restore is 10TB. B2 Cloud Storage is priced at 0.005/GB/Month for storage, and the Save Files to B2 option will quote your estimated storage cost.

In the next screen you will see all the backups that you can restore from listed by time and date. I want to restore Mac from an external hard drive. The Save Files to B2 option allows you to move a zip restore to our B2 Cloud Storage service for permanent storage. Select that (in my example 'Time Machine Backups') and click Continue. Select Restore From Time Machine Backup and click Continue.Īfter a search it should show you the Time Machine Backups directory as a volume that contains your backup.

If you return to the prompt the sparsebundle has been opened. From here, hold down Command + R until the Apple logo appears. If your Mac has an Intel processor and doesnt have the T2 chip, restart your computer.

After auto-completing the name, hit return. Select Options to enter the recovery screen.

It may not look the same as above as it escapes spaces and special characters. Hitting tab should auto-complete the Time Machine sparsebundle name. You may enter the first letters of the sparsebundle name and then hit TAB.

Enter: hdid /Volumes/TimeMachine/NameOfYourSparseBundle.

Note the exact name of your sparsebundle. If your password contains wonky characters like use URL encoding to protect them Mount the network share with your admin loginname & password: mount -t afp /Volumes/TimeMachine

Create a sub-directory in Volumes as a mount point for your time machine share:.

The following steps are not required (but are super awesome!). UPDATE: On recent versions of macOS (tested with High Sierra 10.13.4) you can restore from a networked drive directly from the 'Restore from Time Machine Backup' option in the recovery mode.

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