Copy an external Time Machine HD to an external SSD.
I would like to copy my external Time Machine backup on a HD to an external SSD. How can I fix this in a simple way?
Regards Jos
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
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Thank you for the explanation. I think you have overthought this issue. When you get the new Mac, I would use Migration Assistant to transfer the data I wanted transferred to the new computer. It's easy to do. Carefully read and follow the instructions. Then you can set use Time Machine to do its backups to the new disk. M.A. will not delete any of the data from the old machine. you must do that yourself. I hope this is helpful.
I had trouble with my TM drive a while back. Since I had no files on it that weren't on my boot drive I went ahead and erased and started over from scratch. No problems since then.
Not the same issue as you're having. So keeping the rotational TM drive and starting afresh on the SSD would be my plan of attack.
Please explain why you feel this a good idea to do. It will take up a lot of space on your hard drive and would serve no purpose that I can see.
Dear Ronasara, I bought a new external SSD in order to use this for my Time Machine backups in the future, because a new iMac is arriving soon.
Old Toad, I tried to fix it in the way Kappy wrote, but without any success.
Copy an external Time Machine HD to an external SSD.