Restoring backup to new machine

[jamesm]

Bought a new Mac, have my time machine backup on ReadyNas Duo. When I started trying to recover the old contents, I first went into time machine and turned it on. It seems like that started to create a new time machine backup using all the settings from the ReadyNas. When I try to recover, all I get is the option to see that brand spanking new recover of my new machine.

When I log into the readynas with the readynas username for the backup, I can see the volume and sparsebundle with my old backups, all my old apps, docs etc. inside that I want to restore. Strangely, I can't see a new one.

How the hell do I get migration assistant to see the old backups?

It's also being extremely temperamental about holding the connection and showing the contents of the volume. When I select the AFP share if it uses the cached credentials it doesn't show me the sparse bundle. If I disconnect and reconnect it does show me the sparse bundle. But now it's not opening the sparse bundle to show me the contents... Hmmm. Reboot?

Ideas appreciated.

J

[mdgm]

Do you have a backup of your sparsebundle from before you enabled TM on the new machine
What version of Mac OS X?
What version of RAIDiator?

[jamesm]

Yes I do. Looking into it I can see all the apps, docs etc.
OSX 10.7.4 - absolutely box fresh.
Raidiator 4.1.9, freshly updated...

Just can't make migration assistant see it...

[jamesm]

After I click through migration assistant to restore from time machine or other disk, it sees the readynas, I click continue, I then get the error: some backups cannot be opened. Make sure all of your network devices are connected and turned on. It appears that some backups are already in use. If you don't see the backup you need, make sure it is not currently mounted by another machine and try again.

If I manually go into the readynas, locate the sparse bundle and click on it, it gets mounted as a volume. In migration assistant I see my recent HD backup, and the readyNAS. Click on the readynas to connect then get the same error as above.

When I click the sparse bundle and mount it, I get an error Mac OSX can't repair the disk "Time Machine Backups". You can still open or copy files on the disk but you can't save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can.

I've rebooted the readynas and the mac.

Can I manually restore the file folders???

[mdgm]

What firmware were you running before you were on 4.1.9?
Is the old Mac you were using before still working and does it have your data, apps, etc. on it?