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klngphtn Author

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Can't copy Time Machine backup to new drive

Hey there,

my old backup drive is ~1 TB and the new one 2 TB. So I tried to copy the Backups.backupdb exactly as described here: Time Machine: How to transfer backups from a current backup drive to a new backup drive - Apple Support

However, the copying process does not stop at 1 TB (size of the Time Machine backup) but continues until it exceeds even the 2 TB and is then cancelled because the drive is full (obviously).

After cancelling the process only three or four backups were copied to the new drive, although there are much more on the old drive.

Has anybody else experienced this problem and found a solution?

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 8, 2019 2:14 AM

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Lexiepex

Level 6

14,102 points

Posted on Jul 8, 2019 2:56 AM

Read and follow the instructions carefully, you might have slipped one step.

Is the first Backup disk still correct, and can you enter it with TM? if yes, start all over again and format the new disk as in the article, and so on. Switch off TM when the instructions say !

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