Moving Time Machine to a New Hard Drive

Laurent Perrinet

2012-03-13 13:36

There exist some solution to move a time machine data folder to a new drive by making a clone of the drive. My problem is that I already have data on the new drive and that this data can difficultly be moved.

Warning

This post is certainly obsolete...

It try (after switching off Time machine of course) with rsync while keeping hard links:
```
sudo rsync -av -H  /Volumes/tera_enigma/Backups.backupdb /Volumes/2T_un/
```
This takes a while as rsync has to manage a lot of them (may take also a lot of memory, so be patient)