How to transfer Time Machine backups
Hi,
although there are some answers on this topic, they don't seem to work on macOS Monterey.
I would like to copy Time Machine backups from one external drive to another larger one and use the new drive for my backups from now on. How do I do this?
Some problems I encountered with other suggestions are
- When using cp -R via command line to manually copy the Backups.backupdb folder, it produces a lot of "cannot find file: Backups.backupdb/..." errors.
- When I copy the Backups.backupdb folder manually, I cannot add it as a Time Machine drive afterwards because it wants to format the drive and then the data is gone (even if previously formatted in MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS).
- When I try to use the "Restore" option in Disk Utility to clone the volume, the process fails with the message "Operation not permitted".
- In general, I cannot increase the size of a Time Machine partition since it is marked as macOS core storage.
Do you have a suggestion on how to avoid this?
Thank you in advance!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.2