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Copying Time Machine Backup from one external drive to another - taking forever!!!

I've been trying to copy my TM backup folder from one drive to another and it's been taking several days. There's a progress bar that says, "Preparing to copy to G-DRIVE" with a number of files listed. The number does go up, but more importantly, this has been going on for a few days now for a 10TB drive. Is it supposed to take this long? I basically started this simply by using the Finder to move the Backup folder from my current drive to the new one that I'm replacing it with.

macOS Sierra (10.12.5)

Posted on Mar 15, 2018 2:04 AM

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John Galt

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Posted on Mar 28, 2018 6:57 PM

Answering on Kappy's behalf,

1. Can I do this same thing in High Sierra? Is it the same procedure with High Sierra?

Yes and yes.

2. Do I need to restart and enter Recovery mode,

... can I just do this using Disk Utility without having to be in Recovery mode?

Yes.

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