Time machine backup

I don’t have enough space so I’d like to wipeout my older backups or just reformat my external hard drive to start fresh with my Mac backups. How do I do that?

MacBook, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 4, 2021 10:25 PM

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Owl-53

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Apr 5, 2021 3:09 AM in response to PMCCHelp

Suggest Turn Off Time Machine on computer. Attach the backup Drive to computer. Open Disk Utilities >> View >> View All Devices. Choose the Upper Most Name of External Drive and eRase the drive with HFS Journaled and GUID Partition Map >> Erase. This will format the drive and ALL DATA will be lost forever.

Now, on computer Enable Time Machine Backup and choose the External Drive

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