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When Time Machine has finished restoring everything, the Mac will reboot into the restored state from the chosen backup date.

Select the date and time of the Time Machine backup you wish to restore the entire Mac from, and click on “Continue” – this begins the restoration process from the backup you selected, generally you’ll want to pick the most recently made backup but advanced users may choose another date (keep in mind if you pick an earlier date you will lose files and data created from that date onward).

Select the Time Machine volume (either the external back up drive, network Time Capsule, or otherwise).

At the “Mac OS X Utilities” screen, choose “Restore from Time Machine Backup” and click on the Continue button.

Start up or reboot the Mac and hold down the Command+R keys simultaneously, this will boot into the Mac OS Recovery Partition.

Connect the Time Machine backup drive to the Mac if you have not done so already.

Restoring and Recovering an Entire Mac System from Time Machine Backups

If you only want or need to re-install OS X, you can use Internet Recovery for that, which will replace only the system software portion, without any personal files or applications.

Note this aims to recover and restore an entire Mac, including all files, all applications, and MacOS / Mac OS X system software, everything that is made from and contained within a Time Machine backup. Nonetheless, it’s good to understand how this process works, so if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have a new hard drive (or even a new Mac), or you just need to perform a complete restore of a previous backup, this tutorial will cover that restoration process of everything with Time Machine. To be perfectly clear, restoring Mac OS X and all of your personal stuff from a previously made Time Machine backup is really only needed in extreme situations, and fortunately this is not something that is frequently required or necessary.

Typically this happens when either a hard drive fails or a Mac OS X system update goes completely awry, but if you have set up Time Machine backups on the Mac like all users should, then you will discover that restoring an entire systems hard drive from that Time Machine backup is really quite easy. Read more about 10.11, El Capitan, mac, OS X, recovery partition, secure erase, terminal.While Macs have a great reputation for being stable and rarely experiencing major issues, the reality is that sometimes things can go wrong.

Click on the Apple menu and select Shutdown.

You’ll be returned to the OS X Utilities window.

Click on the Terminal menu and select Quit Terminal.

When the erase procedure eventually finishes, type exit in the Terminal window.

A process window, like the one below will be displayed in Terminal.

Sit back and wait many hours for the hard drive to be securely erased.

Listed below are the various Levels permitted, from 0 to 4.

Important Note: For a detailed explanation of this command read this article at OS X Daily about erasing free space from the command line. Type diskutil secureErase freespace 2 /Volumes/Macintosh HD (or replace Macintosh HD with the precise name of your Mac’s hard drive or replace 2 with another “Level”, see guide below) and then press the Return key.Only proceed if you’re comfortable using Terminal. One small typo could lead to the unintended loss of data or lose. Issuing commands requires precision and is unforgiving. Be careful when issuing commands from the Terminal.

Click on the Utilities menu and select Terminal.

You’ll be returned to OS X Utilities window.

Click on the Disk Utility menu and select Quit Disk Utility.

You’ll be asked if you’re sure you want to erase it.

In the right pane of the Disk Utility window, click the Erase tab.

In the left pane of the Disk Utility window, click on Macintosh HD (which is your laptop’s internal hard drive).

Click on the Disk Utility option from the “OS X Utilities” window.

Give your Mac a couple of minutes to startup, at which point you’ll see a window like the one this one.

Once you see the Apple logo appear in the middle of the screen you can release the Command and R keys.

This instructs the computer to startup from the Recovery Partition.

Turn on the laptop and immediately press and hold down both the Command key and the R key.

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