Moving Time Machine to new disk after disk issues
Hi all,
I'm not sure what to do, after my 2 TB USB-disk with my Time Machine back-up ran in to trouble (possibly after a power interruption). The computer (MacBook Air 2013 with Catalina 10.15.7) gives a notice "macOS can't repair the disk...", I can however still access the back-up and this seems to work fine (I could of course only try a limited number of files) and the drive sounds normal and healthy, so it seems worth to try and migrate the data to a new 3 TB USB-disk for future back-ups.
Last night I cloned the disk using Disk Utility with my Mac in recovery mode (it did let me do it in normal mode due to permission issues on the source disk, so I booted while holding cmd+r) and although the computer reported success, the new clone did not want to play ball (it did not mount). I assume it copied the fault from the original disk. I tried disk repair in Disk Utilities on the new clone, but it was not able to repair the disk.
So I'm ready to try something else, but what?
Some other notes:
If I attach the old USB-disk, it takes a very long time to mount (while being obviously busy in the mean time), but does eventually show up. The cloned disk did more or less the same thing, but did not show up in finder (you could see it with system information and Disk Utility).
The old USB-disk is Case-sensitive HFS+ with a GUID partition-table (which was the format chosen by the Mac at the time I started the back-up)