As you figured, this will copy all the backups in the Backups.backupdb folder but each computer will have a unique subdirectory which will contain a dated folder for every backup for that computer. I also checked by browsing my old backups using Time Machine.Įdit: I re-read your question and noticed that you also found this article. Instead, it was incremental and quick and that gave me the assurance that the old backups were intact. After I selected the new disk in Time Machine Settings, I was worried that the next backup was going to take forever (like a new backup from scratch). Similar to you, I used these steps this week to save my TM backups for 2 household Macs from a failing 2TB external HDD which I copied to a new 4TB external SSD. These steps are described with more detail and screenshots in the article titled How to Move Time Machine to a New Backup Drive. to select the new external HD and re-enable "Back Up Automatically".
In Finder, select Get Info for the new external HD and make sure "Ignore ownership on this volume" is not active.Use Disk Utility to format the new external HD as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".But this raises a related question: is there a way to delete a backup of just one computer from a TM drive containing backups of multiple machines? Is this even possible? If not, I guess my next-best solution is to do a fresh, from-scratch TM backup of the chosen computer onto the new drive, and then delete the old backup from the old drive.
But I have yet to find any instructions on how to clone the backups for just one computer from an external drive that is used for multiple Macs. There are multiple articles online explaining how to clone an entire TM backup volume from one external drive to another (many of them explicitly contradicting one another). I want to move the TM Backup for one of my 5 computers onto the new hard drive. It has now filled up, and I have purchased a 5 TB external HD.
The situation: I'm running Ventura (13.1) on an M1 Macbook Air (2020) and I have a 3 TB external HD, format Mac OS Extended (Journaled), that I use as a Time Machine backup volume for 5 different household computers (not using a LAN - I physically connect the external drive to each computer when I want to run a backup).
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