Q: I do not have permission to move TimeMachine backup?
I've been having this issue for some time now. I have several small external storage drives that I would like to re-sort and move some of the backups from TimeMachine onto a new cloud based external drive.
I want to do this for two computers I have regarding the TM backups.
Anyway, my small externals are full and I need to do some resorting and reformatting and putting things in so they actually make sense again. I also need to do this since backups keep failing on this drive I am using and it's been quite a few months now and there is no solution to fix this.
What I want to do is copy the current directory that TimeMachine makes onto the large cloud drive (Backups.backupdb) and keep it there. When I try to move / copy this directory I keep getting an error! How can I have no permissions when it's my computer? Right now if I try to drag and drop it into the new server I get a pop up saying, "The volume is the wrong format for a backup" - this is a new one.
We have the cloud device split up into two areas, one for me and one for my husband. I'm also hoping I can designate a specific area for each of our backups as well.
iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Feb 22, 2015 11:29 AM
