![]() ![]() I tried moving Drive A’s Backups.backupdb folder into another another root level folder on Drive B (resulting in /Volumes/Drive B/some other folder/Backups.backupdb. Finder doesn’t allow me to transfer the folder named named after the computer from Drive A’s Backups.backupdb folder to Drive B’s. None of the backups belong to the computer I’m using to do the transferring. of a different computer)? In my particular situation, I want to use my Mac to copy the backup (all the snapshots) from one external hard drive (Drive A) to another (Drive B), but Drive B already has another computer’s Time Machine backup. ![]() What about when the destination drive already has a Time Machine backup (e.g. ![]() They suggest you use the ‘Copy Exactly’ feature but I did it without this (the way Apple suggested) and it worked fine. There’s also a good article about this on c-net. You can read how to do this step by step in an article by Apple here: Transfer Time Machine Backups. Turn on Time machine and select your new drive. (Yes it’s that simple and it actually works – it’s Apple’s recommended way of doing it!) This may take literally a couple of days.Ĥ. Drag the Backups.backupdb from your old Time Machine Backup to your new Drive. Format the new Hard Drive as OSX Extended (Journaled) and make sure ‘ignore file permissions on this volume’ is off.ģ. Thankfully you can move an existing Time Machine backup from one hard drive to another. But starting a new time machine backup on a new hard disk means you lose the continuity with your old backups. If you’re like me after a year or two you may have outgrown your Time Machine backup and with Hard Drive prices dropping it’s time to get a bigger hard disk to host your Time Machine backup. ![]()
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