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From: Colour Sergeant Bourne <bourne@rorke.za>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Transfer USB Time Machine Backup Drive to a New Mac
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:41:19 -0400
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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...

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