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New Macbook Professional is case-insensitive however Time Machine backup is case-sensitive


There are associated questions right here, however many are dated and none appears to fairly cowl my scenario.

I’ve an early 2015 MacBook Professional that has been stored as updated as potential, at present operating 12.6.7. The file system is case delicate. I’ve all the time used Time Machine to again it up; apparently TM all the time makes use of case delicate file system.

The 2015 machine is dying on account of an increasing battery. So, I’ve a brand new MacBook Professional. I fired it up, plugged within the TM drive and it complained that the brand new machine was case insensitive however the backup was case delicate. Positive. Launched the brand new machine into restoration mode, erased the drive and reformatted as case delicate. Then put in Ventura, which apparently transformed the drive to case insensitive, as making an attempt to make use of the TM backup gave the identical error.

The previous machine reveals the next:

~> diskutil checklist
/dev/disk0 (inner, bodily):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk1⁩         500.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.1 GB   disk1
                                 Bodily Retailer disk0s2
   1:                APFS Quantity ⁨Untitled - Information⁩         411.8 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Quantity ⁨Preboot⁩                 612.1 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Quantity ⁨Restoration⁩                1.1 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Quantity ⁨VM⁩                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Quantity ⁨BryanHD⁩                 15.4 GB    disk1s5
   6:              APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update-...⁩ 15.4 GB    disk1s5s1

and the main points for the related information quantity:

~> diskutil information disk1s1
   System Identifier:         disk1s1
   System Node:               /dev/disk1s1
   Complete:                     No
   A part of Complete:             disk1

   Quantity Identify:               Untitled - Information
   Mounted:                   Sure
   Mount Level:               /System/Volumes/Information

   Partition Sort:            41504653-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   File System Persona:   Case-sensitive APFS
   Sort (Bundle):             apfs
   Identify (Consumer Seen):       APFS (Case-sensitive)
   Homeowners:                    Enabled

   OS Can Be Put in:       Sure
   Booter Disk:               disk1s2
   Restoration Disk:             disk1s3
   Media Sort:                Generic
   Protocol:                  PCI
   SMART Standing:              Verified
   Quantity UUID:               48C0C04E-5D1C-3FA9-9339-93B1BD12E05A
   Disk / Partition UUID:     48C0C04E-5D1C-3FA9-9339-93B1BD12E05A

   Disk Dimension:                 500.1 GB (500068036608 Bytes) (precisely 976695384 512-Byte-Items)
   System Block Dimension:         4096 Bytes

   Container Complete Area:     500.1 GB (500068036608 Bytes) (precisely 976695384 512-Byte-Items)
   Container Free Area:      70.3 GB (70319427584 Bytes) (precisely 137342632 512-Byte-Items)
   Allocation Block Dimension:     4096 Bytes

   Media OS Use Solely:         No
   Media Learn-Solely:           No
   Quantity Learn-Solely:          No

   System Location:           Inside
   Detachable Media:           Mounted

   Strong State:               Sure
   {Hardware} AES Help:      No

   This disk is an APFS Quantity.  APFS Info:
   APFS Container:            disk1
   APFS Bodily Retailer:       disk0s2
   Fusion Drive:              No
   APFS Quantity Group:         48C0C04E-5D1C-3FA9-9339-93B1BD12E05A
   Encrypted:                 No
   FileVault:                 No
   Sealed:                    No
   Locked:                    No

   APFS Snapshots are outlined upon this APFS Quantity.  Snapshot checklist:
   Snapshot UUID:             7EB6E3E4-2450-4FD9-8D86-B698FC2AAADB
   Identify:                      com.apple.TimeMachine.2023-07-03-151546.native
   XID:                       1595566
   Snapshot UUID:             AD44753D-4F92-4295-99AC-F641395D46DB
   Identify:                      com.apple.TimeMachine.2023-07-03-152211.native
[ other snapshots deleted for space ]

This information appears cheap, it is the fashionable APFS system and case delicate as I anticipated.

Now, on the brand new machine, boot into restoration mode, erase and format to AFPS (Case-sensitive), restart, activate mac, reboots again into restoration mode, reinstall macOS Ventura, reply the questions, skipping something I can, then

diskutil information disk3s1

and see that its title is “Untitled – Information” and it’s formatted case insensitive!

I attempted to reformat by way of

diskutil eraseVolume APFSX "Untitled - Information" disk3s1

however this fails as a result of launchd is operating on this quantity.

On the lookout for assist getting this TM backup onto the brand new machine in a case delicate method.

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