I wish to replace the current time machine backup hard drive with a larger drive. What would be the correct procedure to accomplish this?
See the section headed
Mac OS X v10.6: How to transfer your backups from your current hard drive to a new hard drive
in this article:
See the section headed
Mac OS X v10.6: How to transfer your backups from your current hard drive to a new hard drive
in this article:
OK Thanks Much.
It is taking many hours to copy the backup to the new drive. How can I lock the screen & keyboard so no one fools with the computer while I am gone?
System Preferences > Security > General > Require password ... after sleep or screen saver begins
System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > Start screen saver ...
So far the transfer has been working over 18 hours to transfer aproximately 365 GB of data. The bit count does't match when I do "file> get info". for the two drives. How will I know when the transfer is complete. Any dialog boxes, ect.?
The Copy dialog will close.
I've tried following the finder copy procedure decribed at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5096 twice now, and both times have encountered problems. The first time I discovered I had made a mistake in specifying what to copy (two different backups in the same Time Machine folder) and had to abort. The second time I hit a hard freeze after the copying of something like 370 gig had been running for about 20 hours and had to restart the Mac. It looks like about 260 gig had transferred, but not the complete Time Machine file.
Is there a way to restart the copying procedure? I tried a 'brute force' drag and drop copy to avoid having to run the machine another 20 hours, but was blocked because of "authentication" problems.
I am running Snow Leopard.
Message was edited by: fiberhome after trying something that didn't work.
How to install a new drive as time machine backup
