Moving Time Machine Backup

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MyApple8MyPC Author

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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)

Posted on Feb 6, 2016 9:50 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 6, 2016 9:57 AM in response to MyApple8MyPC

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

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Answer 2

Eric Root

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Feb 6, 2016 5:31 PM in response to MyApple8MyPC

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.

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