Time machine restore Time Machine error 112

Is that why, if you do get connected to the TM disk, and select it, then I see the backup (name of previous system), but then it says there are no back ups on it?

I can login to the TM disk with an SFTP type app and I can see that the back ups are there.

I was forced to restore my Mac to Yosemite. I thought I could then restore the old back up is this true?

So I’m guessing that you were telling me to go into the Yosemite applications folder, and find a migration assistant?

And that then it will accomplish the back up?

I’m going to try that right now.

Btw, the reason this happened was because the menu bar disappeared.

Usually that happens when the scaling on the monitor is wrong and it’s easily adjusted. This time the menu bar was definitely disappeared. I could not force quit the finder. There was lots of things I could not click on I could open windows, but then not close them I decided that I must’ve been attacked. ?

to over complicate the last year, I bought the exact same Mac mini, used. Just a run a strip down website, more or less just a place to put files with HTML files in front of them. Nothing fancy.

I went to check something on that machine the other day, and I rebooted it. It would not boot past halfway of the load bar.

I thought well, the hard drive must have died. I had a lot of insurance on it, so I already sent it back, but maybe I was the victim of some kind of attack on both machines?

so much for your assistance I haven’t quite read all your post yet but let me just say nothing was repaired.

The menu bar was not there and I could do nothing to make it come back and I’ve been around Max for a while so when I couldn’t back it up, I couldn’t back it up then nothing was operating. I wanted to force quit the finder and I couldn’t do that.

So finally, I got to start it up in a mode that I could do that install of Yosemite with. That’s still where I’m at so now go read the rest of your post but I wanted you to know that as soon as possible because you’ve been so helpful. Thank you very very much.

wait, I saw your part about if there’s older back ups made with newer systems. So what I should do first is update with Mac systems. As far as it was before these minis won’t go to the latest system. I think the previous one and suddenly you can’t find those on the App Store. I think there’s an archive somewhere where you can get those. Do you know where that is??

I think once you get up to a certain system, then the App Store updates will find it even a newer system. — OK I see that you’ve answered that, about updating pre migration app.

do you happen to know where the apple archives are for the old systems after Yosemite?