Clone Time Machine Hard Drive
Hi ,
Im looking to move my time machine folder to another HD to create a copy but to then also change the destination for my Time Machine to the new drive. I tried the whole drag the backup folder to the new HD however this looks as though it could take some time so have cancelled the copy. I have then read about cloning the HD in Disk Utility - Ive not done this before but seems relatively simple and am lead to believe that this will be somewhat faster than copy + Paste.
Im wondering when i clone the existing Time machine HD will it then erase it once it has copied to the new device or will I be left with both still having the data on?
currently using WD NAS but they are stopping updates and support soon but would like to keep it in reserve to have a "copy" should I ever need it. Im running Montery 12.0.01
Thanks
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0