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Q: Clone Time machine back up onto a new drive?

I am trying to troubleshoot a new Mac. Before, I had two back ups of all my data: on the hard drive of my old iMac and on my external time machine backup drive. Long story, but during a troubleshooting process with the aid of AppleCare support, my iMac was erased. Now I have only the external Time Machine backup.

 

I bought a new, external backup drive for Time Machine on my new Mac. I am very very afraid of  something bad happening to my old Time Machine backup during  this troubleshooting process. My question is, is there a way to clone the back up from my old time machine drive to the new one so I once again have two copies?  If anything happens to my old time machine back up during this troubleshooting process, I will lose all my files.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Apr 27, 2016 7:43 PM

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