Backup external hard drive to Time Machine external drive
I'm trying to back up my external hard drive (formatted as Mac OS Extended [Journaled]) to my Time Machine external drive (also formatted as Mac OS Extended [Journaled]).
The only thing that Time Machine recognizes is my MacBook Pro. When I go into the options menu in Time Machine, I can see the external drive that I want to back up, but it's greyed out, so I can't select it. I also can't add it, it shows up as greyed out.
I've read that you can't back up external drives to Time Machine if it's in a different format, but both external drives are formatted the same.
Has anyone got a solution to this? I ended up copying the external hard drive's contents to my desktop and it got backed up by Time Machine, but obviously I'd like to store things on my external hard drive which has a greater capacity (1 Tb). Otherwise it's an expensive paperweight.