Where is the backup.backupdb folder in Time Machine on M1 macbook running monterey?

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Where is the backup.backupdb folder in Time Machine on M1 macbook running monterey?

Where is the backup.backupdb folder in Time Machine on M1 macbook running monterey? I have used many macs and time machine always had a backup.backupdb folder. Now, when I look at the contents of the time machine drive, they show a series of folder with time machine icons for each backup time.

Is this working correctly? did they change the file system for backups? how would you go about switching your time machine backups to a larger drive?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.4

Posted on Jun 29, 2022 6:53 PM

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picas

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Jun 29, 2022 7:02 PM in response to timothy103

That's working correctly. That's how it is now. If you need to use a larger external hard drive: Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac – Apple Support (AU)

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Jun 29, 2022 8:12 PM in response to picas

hi, thanks for the reply- if you are transferring to a larger drive, how do you do that? with the old structure, it was quite complicated with permissions.

Can you suggest any sources so that I can read about this change?

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Jun 30, 2022 4:45 AM in response to timothy103

That is now the standard APFS Time Machine backup, and the Backups.backupd folder is a relic of HFS+ Time Machine drives.

There are no means to transfer APFS Time Machine backups to another drive as there was with HFS+ Time Machine drives.

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picas

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Jun 29, 2022 8:18 PM in response to timothy103

I think you just need to keep your old external hard drive as is in case it's needed in the future and format a new external hard drive for future backups.

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tbirdvet

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Jun 30, 2022 4:39 AM in response to picas

+1

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Where is the backup.backupdb folder in Time Machine on M1 macbook running monterey?

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