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Time Machine hard drive is failing. Need to save backups on new hard drive

The hard drive that is being used by Time Machine on my iMac is failing. How do I transfer the old Time Machine backups from the failing hd to the new hard drive that I am going to use for time machine backups? I am running Big Sur

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Feb 13, 2021 3:36 PM

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Posted on Feb 13, 2021 3:40 PM

Hi there,


You can only use Disk Utility's Restore Process: Restore a disk using Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support. You must have the new and old drive for this to work.


Cheers,


Jack

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Time Machine hard drive is failing. Need to save backups on new hard drive

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