Replacing old Time Capsule Drive with New one...how?

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Replacing old Time Capsule Drive with New one...how?

I recently purchased a larger hard drive to be my Time Capsule drive because the current drive was getting close to capacity. Is there a way to migrate/copy/clone/move my backup history to this new drive or do I have to start from scratch. If I start from scratch then it was really no use having the other backups and I don't necessarily want two disks full of backup data. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

alum 20" iMac c2d 2.4, 2GB, 500GB, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iBook 1.42

Posted on Apr 22, 2009 10:44 PM

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VA2020

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Apr 23, 2009 12:38 AM in response to jagron11

Did you purchase a 1TB Time Capsule to replace your 500GB TC or did you simply purchase a larger USB HDD to connect to the previous TC?

If the former, I don't know the best way to clone from one NAS to another NAS. I don't believe Disk Utility works, so it'll need to be a third-party app that can perform that function.

If the latter, you should be able to clone the TC internal HDD to the USB HDD via AirPort Utility -> Time Capsule -> Disks -> Archive. This will erase any data on the USB HDD as well.

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Apr 23, 2009 6:13 AM in response to VA2020

Thanks for the response. Total misuse of terms on my part. They are just external HDs for Time "Machine", think I had been looking at Time Capsules on the sight and just typed the wrong term. Very sorry for the misuse. It sounds like if I can clone the 1TB drive to the new 1.5 TB drive then it should work ok. Can I do that with out a TC?

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Pondini

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Apr 23, 2009 8:45 AM in response to jagron11

Try the Restore tab in Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder). Instructions are in it's Help under +Duplicating a Disk.+

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VA2020

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Apr 23, 2009 9:59 AM in response to jagron11

Ahhh... that's makes a difference. If the drives are both directly connected to your Mac, you can use Disk Utility in the manner Pondini already described to clone your original HDD.

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Apr 25, 2009 9:01 PM in response to jagron11

Thank you all. Restoring the drive from the old to the new via Disk Utility worked great!

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