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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Transfer USB Time Machine Backup Drive to a New Mac
Date: 30 May 2024 00:47:38 GMT
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On 2024-05-29, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
> 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. 

This is good advice. Generally, Apple recommends your backup drive be
from 2- to 3-times larger than the amount of data you want to back up,
so that multiple versions of every file that changes can be kept over
time, allowing you restore any version of any file back in time to the
very first backup. So, if you have 1 TB of data on you Mac, you'll want a
2-3 TB backup drive.

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