Moving Time Machine Backup
Using 10.11.3. I am going to be buying a bigger hard drive for Time Machine to use.
What is the best way to move my current Time Machine backup to the new drive?
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Using 10.11.3. I am going to be buying a bigger hard drive for Time Machine to use.
What is the best way to move my current Time Machine backup to the new drive?
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
According to Apple it is done this way: Time Machine: How to transfer backups from a current backup drive to a new backup drive - Apple Support
Disk Utility usually works better,
Get an external drive with no data on it. Try booting into the Recovery Partition (command - R on a restart) and select the drive in Disk Utility, then Edit/Restore and select your internal drive in Restore from. This will likely reformat the external drive erasing all data.
Moving Time Machine Backup