I have had a failed hardrive and now have a very precious time machine back up on an external hardrive. I want to back up this back up on another external while I wait for return of my laptop (afraid the external might fail itself) but am getting an ownership error message. How do I back up time machine back ups themselves? Thanks!
MacBook Pro
You need a working computer to do that.
I'd try carbon copy cloner: Mac Backup Software - Carbon Copy Cloner
Although the documentation says you can copy Time Machine backups in the Finder, it's very slow and sometimes doesn't work at all.
Launch Disk Utility, open the built-in help, and search for the term "Duplicate." Follow the instructions. All existing data on the destination volume will be erased. That shouldn't be a problem, because you don't want to mix backup and non-backup data on the same drive anyway. Turn Time Machine OFF in its preference pane while copying the volume.
Thanks for your suggestion! -
Kate
Thanks for your help- on my disk utility there was no help subject called duplicate so wasn't sure what to do. I went through the instructions of how to back up through the finder and seems to have worked. FIngers crossed (tried carbon copy cloner and that didn't work at all for some reason).
Appreciate the help both
Kate
I've made copies of Time Machine backups from smaller drives to larger using Carbon Copy Cloner using the 'block copy' method and it works great.
I would suggest that you try CCC again, this time selecting the block copy method. It should work (it's always worked for me!).
Clinton
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