merge 2 time machine back ups on 1 back up drive?

I've noticed that within the Backups.backupdb folder there are the backups by date. I can copy those and drop them in to the new Backups.backupdb folder, but something tells me that's not going to work.... I don't want to wreck my current back ups, so I wont do it yet. I am copying those folders to the drive in another folder. Hope someone can tell me?

Thanks in advance.

Funny you should mention... it was Pondini's TM FAQs that sent me here 🙂

If they answered this question, I missed it.

I have also read up on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5096

But neither could tell me how to manage the back up files when I had already started another external drive as backup disk.

I am currently copying all the files from the original back up drive to the new drive under another folder, it's taken about 10 hours so far, estimates 6 hours more to go.

And on the apple bulletin, it said I should uncheck "ignore ownership on this volume", which I failed to note.

Thanks for the link though, its a great one. If I missed it there, (and I checked Troubleshooting too) please let me know?

The Pondini pages said to post questions here, so I am hoping he will see this 🙂

Apologies for taking so long to reply. He put so much into those pages, I'd like to save them and host them on my site in case his site goes down.

Thank you for responding, and I am sorry to lose such a generous person.