New drive to store old back ups

I purchased a new, larger drive to back up my server. I copied the files from the first smaller drive to the new drive in order to have all of the history of back ups on the new drive. The problem is that I can't access the older backups from the old drive on the new drive. What do I have to do to achieve this goal.

how did you copy the files? did you do it by hand? that's a wrong way to do it. you should clone the old drive to the new one using either Superduper or the restore tab in disk utility. then select the new drive as the designated TM drive in TM system preferences.

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