Re: Transfer USB Time Machine Backup Drive to a New Mac

On 5/29/24 6:24 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-05-29 10:30, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:

For several months, I’ve been backing up Mac “A” to an external USB Time Machine drive.
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I’m going to sell Mac A and replace it with Mac B.
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Is there a way to use Mac A’s external USB Time Machine drive to now backup Mac B AND KEEP the existing Mac A backups on the USB drive?
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 You will have the option of either assuming the old backup so that it continues as a single backup OR creating a new backup for the new system, yes.

Thanks. But it turns out there's not much space left on the existing TM drive so I'll need to start a new one.
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