Maybe your Time Machine drive is full. Maybe you’re worried about an older hard drive dying on you, taking your backups with it. Whatever the reason, you want to migrate your Time Machine files from one hard drive to the other.
Good news: it’s relatively straightforward.
All you really need to do is format your new drive correctly, drag over the files, and set your new drive up to be the backup destination. There are a few details to think about along the way, however, so let’s go over everything step-by-step.| “We create value for our clients by connecting the world’s data” | |
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Step One: Turn Off Time Machine
Before you do anything head to System Preferences > Time Machine on your Mac and uncheck “Back Up Automatically.”
The reason is simple: you don’t want a new backup starting while you’re migrating your files. It will slow you down and potentially introduce conflicts.
Done? Good, let’s keep going.
Step Two: Connect and Format Your New Drive
Go ahead and plug in your new hard drive. It’s likely not formatted properly, so we need to use Disk Utility to get things just right. Open Disk Utility with Spotlight, or by heading to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility in the Finder.
Click your new hard drive in the left panel, then click “Erase.” Make sure you’re not erasing your old Time Machine drive before doing anything.
Write the drive as “MacOS…
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