Restoring from Time Machine from Snow Leopard to Lion

[laurenbanjo]

Hi!

I had to wipe out my whole drive, now I upgraded to Lion.

All my time machine backups are from Snow Leopard.

So, I have 2 questions:

1) How do I back up ALL the files? Everything, including applications. I looked at Apple's website and pressed command + R on startup, but nothing happened.

2) If I do a full restore, is it going to be fine even though I'm going from Snow Leopard to Lion? I don't want files to be all messed up or it to reinstall Snow Leopard or something.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Kaveman]

1) Run Migration Assistant and select all.

2) No Migration Assistant is very smart.

But I personally would only restore the User Accounts and just reinstall the Apps as required, ensuring you have the last Lion versions as you go. Esp. Printer Drivers and the likes.