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Archive a TM backup to a different but in-use USB drive
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Wade Garrett
Sep 1, 2021, 10:29:45 AM9/1/21
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I have a year’s Time Machine backups on USB hard drive “A”.
Is there a way to archive the Backups.backupdb folder for storage onto
USB drive “B” which is in use and has data on it that I need to keep there?
Maybe create another partition on drive B?
Is there a way to archive the Backups.backupdb folder for storage onto
USB drive “B” which is in use and has data on it that I need to keep there?
Maybe create another partition on drive B?
nospam
Sep 1, 2021, 10:53:13 AM9/1/21
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In article <sgo2ol$env$1...@dont-email.me>, Wade Garrett <wa...@cooler.net>
wrote:
> I have a yearąs Time Machine backups on USB hard drive łA˛.
you will need to create a new partition and clone it with superduper,
which is designed to clone time machine drives. the free version will
suffice if you don't already own it.
finder is suppose to be able to copy time machine drives, but it's not
reliable. you could try that first but it's probably not worth the
trouble, as it will likely fail.
wrote:
> I have a yearąs Time Machine backups on USB hard drive łA˛.
>
> Is there a way to archive the Backups.backupdb folder for storage onto
> USB drive łB˛ which is in use and has data on it that I need to keep there?
> Is there a way to archive the Backups.backupdb folder for storage onto
>
> Maybe create another partition on drive B?
do not mix the two.
> Maybe create another partition on drive B?
you will need to create a new partition and clone it with superduper,
which is designed to clone time machine drives. the free version will
suffice if you don't already own it.
finder is suppose to be able to copy time machine drives, but it's not
reliable. you could try that first but it's probably not worth the
trouble, as it will likely fail.
Wade Garrett
Sep 1, 2021, 11:38:41 AM9/1/21
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On 9/1/21 10:53 AM, nospam wrote:
> In article <sgo2ol$env$1...@dont-email.me>, Wade Garrett <wa...@cooler.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a year¹s Time Machine backups on USB hard drive ³A².
> In article <sgo2ol$env$1...@dont-email.me>, Wade Garrett <wa...@cooler.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there a way to archive the Backups.backupdb folder for storage onto
>> USB drive ³B² which is in use and has data on it that I need to keep there?
>> Is there a way to archive the Backups.backupdb folder for storage onto
>>
>> Maybe create another partition on drive B?
>
> do not mix the two.
>
> you will need to create a new partition and clone it with superduper,
> which is designed to clone time machine drives. the free version will
> suffice if you don't already own it.
>
> finder is suppose to be able to copy time machine drives, but it's not
> reliable. you could try that first but it's probably not worth the
> trouble, as it will likely fail.
>
Yeah, the more I think about, your first sentence is probably the best
>> Maybe create another partition on drive B?
>
> do not mix the two.
>
> you will need to create a new partition and clone it with superduper,
> which is designed to clone time machine drives. the free version will
> suffice if you don't already own it.
>
> finder is suppose to be able to copy time machine drives, but it's not
> reliable. you could try that first but it's probably not worth the
> trouble, as it will likely fail.
>
advice.
I think I'll abandon the project and pop for an additional external USB
drive- they're cheap enough...
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- Yiddish proverb
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