HOW DO I Move time machine to a larger hard disk

My time machine disk has two partions for the twp OS I am running --Snow leopard on internal and Lion on external disk
Error message saying that there is not enough room toback up Lion. How to I move the contents of time machine to a larger disk?

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    Hello UmeshNB,
    Thanks for the question. Based on what you stated, it seems like you are not able to move a backup to another drive. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you isolate or resolve the issue.
    Time Machine: How to transfer backups from the current backup drive to a new backup drive - Apple Support
    If it is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a GUID partition. If you do not know how, see the steps in this article. 
    If the drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended but without journaling, OS X may state that "the volume has the wrong case sensitivity" to be used as a back up disk.
    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
    Cheers,
    Mario

  • How to restore a Time Machine Backup onto two Hard Drives?

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    Time Machine should restore to the disks from which the backups were made as long as each has the same name as before. For more help on this see Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help.

  • How to reinstall from time machine onto a new hard drive?

    how to reinstall the system from time machine to a new hard drive?

    If you are connected to the internet you can do this.
    Boot your computer and immediately hold down command, option and R  (three keys together). This gets you connected with internet recovery.
    See this article for more directions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718.
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  • How to restore a time machine backup from a corrupted disk

    Hi.
    I have quite a problem. I recently downgraded to os x 10.5.4 due to the requirements of Digidesign's Pro Tools. I did so with a clean install in order to have the most optimized computer possible without loads of unused data. I had backed up my data using Time Machine on an external hard-drive (LaCie, 1 TB) so I wasn't worried about losing important data.
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    +Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.+
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    +Volume check failed.+
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    I went out and bought "Data Rescue II" at once to try to recover my data. It works fine with the stuff I've manually dragged to the disc but the Time Machine backup folders seem compressed in some way (It's only about 86 MB). And when I click a file restored from one of the Time Machine folders it seems like it's just a shortcut to an "original file". I get this error when double-clicking such a file:
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    Is there some way for me to get Time Machine to understand the back up disk even though it's corrupted? Or some other way to retrieve my data?
    I have TONS of extremely important data on the disk so it would cost me a huge amount of work to format the disk and start from scratch.
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    ohnoono wrote:
    Hi.
    I have quite a problem. I recently downgraded to os x 10.5.4 due to the requirements of Digidesign's Pro Tools. I did so with a clean install in order to have the most optimized computer possible without loads of unused data. I had backed up my data using Time Machine on an external hard-drive (LaCie, 1 TB) so I wasn't worried about losing important data.
    However, when I inserted my external hard-drive after the clean installation it turns out to be corrupted in some way. It is only recognized in Disk Utility, it doesn't mount on my desktop.
    Disk Utility is unable to repair the disk. The errors are:
    +Verify and Repair volume “Kristoffer's back-up disk”+
    +Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.+
    +Invalid node structure+
    +Volume check failed.+
    +Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.+
    I went out and bought "Data Rescue II" at once to try to recover my data. It works fine with the stuff I've manually dragged to the disc but the Time Machine backup folders seem compressed in some way (It's only about 86 MB). And when I click a file restored from one of the Time Machine folders it seems like it's just a shortcut to an "original file". I get this error when double-clicking such a file:
    +The alias "filename" could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found.+
    Is there some way for me to get Time Machine to understand the back up disk even though it's corrupted?
    no, that's quite impossible. you may try using Disk warrior on that drive. it's known to be able to fix the kind of error that DU is reporting. if that doesn't work your only hope is data recovery. If Data Rescue II doesn't work you can try other data recovery software like Filesalvage or try professional data recovery services (those can can a fortune).
    Or some other way to retrieve my data?
    I have TONS of extremely important data on the disk so it would cost me a huge amount of work to format the disk and start from scratch.
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  • Time Machine not recognizing external hard disk

    I am trying to set up backups via Time Machine on my external hard drive but as I go through the process the my hard drive is not recognized in the dropdown menu. It the external hard drive is recognized in the Finder but not by Time Machine. What gives?

    do you know how the disk is formatted? it may be in a format that time machine does not support, but which the finder can see. just like this guy:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1241053&tstart=0
    (solution included in that thread as well).

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    When you are ready to pass the 320GB drive on, I would format it. That will make the entire drive available to him to use as his TM. I would be sure that each drive has a unique name so that there will be no confusion for TM as to which computer goes with which drive. If you want to start fresh with the 500GB drive, I'd format it as mac-extended-journaled. When you connect it the first time to your computer, you will be asked if you want to use it as your TM. If you are not prompted to select it as your TM, you can configure TM by opening system preferences, click on TM, click on "change drive" and choose your new drive.
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  • How do I move time machine backup on filled time capsule to  external disk

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    oops, I just found how to find backups.backupdb by myself, or at least with help from:
    Pondini's excellent resource.....Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions
    http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html
    See #18.
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  • How do i move time machine backup to a new, bigger external drive in lion?

    i did some research and cma across severla different ways to transfer my time mashine backup from an old hd to a bigger one. i dont want to lose my backup and i just want to make sure im doing the right thing. also there were different ways of doing it in leopard and snow leopard so now im wonderign if there is another way of doing it in lion, which im usung.
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    I would suggest you partition your new external drive and create a 2nd partition that's large enough to hold files you want to off load so you can free up space.
    Or if you're using Time Machine, each backup is suppose to allow you to go back in time and restore files that have been deleted or modified since the last backup. So, if you were to start using your new external drive and performed an initial full backup in Time Machine; then delete your iPhoto file and do another backup, you should be able to go into Time Machine and restore your iPhoto file from your first backup. I would still off load the files to a 2nd partition just to be on the safe side and if Time Machine backups were to somehow become corrupted. Any important files, in my opinion, should be backed up in more than one place... just in case.

  • How much space does time machine take up on hard drive?

    Can anyone let me know how much hard drive space time machine takes up?

    Hi, and welcome to the forums.
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    Subsequent backups will copy things you've added or changed, but doesn't delete the copies of the old versions, or of things you've deleted, so you can restore them if you find you've deleted or changed something in error, or something has gotten corrupted. Thus Time Machine will need considerably more space. IIn most cases, it won't delete it's copies until it runs out of room.
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  • How large should a disk for time machine be vs the hard disk

    Can anyone tell me how large a disk for time machine be vs the size of the hard disk?

    I usually say 2x or more but your milage may vary on that based on how much your hard drive is actually used, what sort of data (how large the files are) you typically handle and how far back you want your TM backup to go.

  • HT3275 how do you uninstall time machine on an external hard drive?

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