Moving TM backups to another drive?

I want to use a different drive for TM backups, but I do not want to lose the ones in the current drive. Can I just copy them to the new drive and then select it as the TM drive?

cationic wrote:
Seems to be working now - I had to click the "Erase destination" option. I had not done that because the destination drive is new, recently formatted.
that means you didn't reformat it before. new drives are usually formatted with MBR partition scheme and FAT file system which is wrong for TM. make sure you do it with GUID partition scheme as I said and the drive format is Mac OS extended. if you didn't change the partition scheme TM might work for a while but you may run into problems later. see this link
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1550?viewlocale=en_US

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Did you prep the new drive?
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
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Moving TM backups to new drive

I have new larger external drive which i will use to store my video in one partition and for Time Machine backup of my internal drive on the other partition I have created.
Can I move the TM backups from an old drive to the new and then switch on TM to the new drive? In other words, can I move the place TM backs up to the new drive and not lose my history?

Doug Clo wrote:
Okay.
Intel Mac - that would be my processor?
Yes.
I have Intel - and the partition map scheme is Apple Partition Map - so that is wrong?
The partition is formatted Max OS Extended (Journaled).
So if i understand correctly I need to reformat the drive?
I have two partitions on this drive. I've just moved a pile of stuff onto the other partition. Am I going to have to reformat the whole drive to get the TM working properly, and can I format just the partition I need?
Probably not (but it's the whole drive that's either GUID or APM).
Also check the old TM drive; see what it is, especially the Format.
There's some disagreement over this, but TM and most things will probably work on an APM drive. What won't is, if you ever put a bootable "clone" on it, an Intel Mac won't boot from it.
So I'd say, you're probably ok with the drive "as is" unless you intend to boot from it.
And yes, if you didn't specify erase, on the target, do so.
Post back with the results, and we'll see what else you might be able to do.

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I had a 1.2 TB TimeMachine Backup on a 2x3 TB RAID1 Thunderbolt Drive and wanted to continue these on a 1x3 TB MyBook (RAID1 appeared to me not very appropriate for TimeMachine Backups as I have always two redundant external archives for all my data, except system, applications and libraries)
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Although the documentation says you can copy Time Machine backups in the Finder, it's very slow and sometimes doesn't work at all.
First, open the Time Machine preference pane and click the Options button. You may have to unlock the settings first by clicking the padlock icon in the lower left corner of the window. Authenticate as an administrator.
Delete the volume you're going to copy from the list of backup destinations. Then turn Time Machine OFF.
Launch Disk Utility, open the built-in help, and search for the term "Duplicate." Follow the instructions. All existing data on the destination volume will be erased. That shouldn't be a problem, because you don't want to mix backup and non-backup data on the same drive anyway.
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Hi! I need to know if it is possible to use Time Machine to backup to different disks!
We have a RAID module that's already used to keep track of the Server's files, but we'd like another disk that's going to be offsite to track changed files once every 24 hours.
Would it be possible to add such a thing in a configuration file somewhere?
Another acceptable solution would be a cron job telling Time Machine to swap disks, do a backup, and swap disks back.

I don't know. If the TM preference pane is scriptable then you could do it with an AppleScript. Unfortunately, TM is not designed to also schedule different backup times. For example, assume you could automate drive switching, you still need to tell TM to backup to one drive at some time then backup to another drive at a different time.
I suppose the latter could be done via a cron job as long as you did not use TM preferences to turn TM on in which case it will backup each hour automatically.
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2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
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5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
9. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
10. Tri-Backup (Commercial)
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Not all of the above will backup over a network, but most can backup to any mounted device including a network drive except SuperDuper!.
In an enterprise setting your best choice of the above is Retrospect. There are a few other enterprise level backup utilities (costly) that you can track down at VersionTracker or MacUpdate. BRU is an example.
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Time machine osx server backup to multiple drives?

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I've just discovered Time Machine for Mac OSx Server. It can act as a centralizad point for the backups of all the computers in the network, how cool!
I know that Time Machine "client" can back a system up to multiple drives. My question is, can I do something similar with Time Machine "server" so I can have more than one storage product onto which I can back up all the systems? That would be very interestin if I want to implement a off-site backup from all my systems.
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I don't know. If the TM preference pane is scriptable then you could do it with an AppleScript. Unfortunately, TM is not designed to also schedule different backup times. For example, assume you could automate drive switching, you still need to tell TM to backup to one drive at some time then backup to another drive at a different time.
I suppose the latter could be done via a cron job as long as you did not use TM preferences to turn TM on in which case it will backup each hour automatically.
It seems to me you'd be better off using a different backup utility that would allow you to schedule such backups. For example:
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
9. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
10. Tri-Backup (Commercial)
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Not all of the above will backup over a network, but most can backup to any mounted device including a network drive except SuperDuper!.
In an enterprise setting your best choice of the above is Retrospect. There are a few other enterprise level backup utilities (costly) that you can track down at VersionTracker or MacUpdate. BRU is an example.
Oh, and if you know how to use the command line you can use the Unix tools, ditto and rsync.
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I'm intersted in moving my time machine backups from one external hard drive to another with larger capacity. How can I do this and still have access to the older backups? Neither of the drives are Time Capsule and they both have USB and FireWire compatibility.

What I've done - on numerous occassion when moving my TM backups from a drive of a lower capacity to ones with a higher capacity - is use Carbon Copy Cloner to make block copies of the data from one drive to another. I've moved from a 1TB drive to a 2TB drive to a 4TB drive and never had any problems. Just select the 'new' TM drive in System Preferences and the backups just take up where they left off.
ALWAYS turn Time Machine OFF when making the copy - just so it doesn't get 'confused'.
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There are likely other methods, but this one has worked for me.
See http://pondini.org/TM/27.html.
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