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From: John <Man@the.keyboard>
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Subject: Re: Transfer USB Time Machine Backup Drive to a New Mac
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 23:52:49 +0100
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On Wed, 29 May 2024 18:41:19 -0400, Colour Sergeant Bourne
<bourne@rorke.za> wrote:

>On 5/29/24 5:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2024-05-29, Colour Sergeant Bourne <bourne@rorke.za> wrote:
>>> For several months, I’ve been backing up Mac “A” to an external USB Time
>>> Machine drive.
>>>
>>> I’m going to sell Mac A and replace it with Mac B.
>>>
>>> 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?
>> 
>> Before you start up your new Mac for the first time, connect the backup
>> drive to it.  When the setup assistant asks if you want to transfer your
>> data, choose the backup drive.
>> 
>> After the new Mac is up and running, go into System Settings > General >
>> Time Machine and tell it to start backing up to the backup drive. It
>> will create a new backup on the drive for the new Mac.
>> 
>> After some time goes by, when you feel confident that you no longer need
>> the old Mac's backup files, you can delete them to recover space on the
>> drive for newer backups.
>> 
>Thanks. I want to keep the "A" Mac backups so I wouldn't delete them later.
>
>As I mentioned above to PG, there's not enough space left on the 
>existing Time Machine drive so I'll need to start a new one...

 Buy a far larger drive. 

 Copy the old drive's data to the new, big one. 

 There should now be space enough. 
 
                                                          J.