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9:21 AM

Q: How to move time-machine backups to a new external disk?

My 4TB external hard drive has 2x2TB volumes. I use one of these for time-machine backups. I have ~6 months of backups on here. The drive is beginning to die so I want to transfer the data from each of the 2 volumes on the old drive to volumes on the new drive. I was able to use rsync to move th...

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Shadow9

11:51 AM

@JonEricson you can see as Room Owner, I've asked a mod to do it... how come you're not owner to begin with?

@JonEricson good to hear! What you mean "again"? You weren't in touch while you both worked for SE?

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Journeyman Geek has added Jon Ericson to the list of this room's owners.

Journeyman Geek

@JonEricson made you RO :D

Blame @Shadow9

rene

Congrats !

Shadow9

lol

Now he can see in the darkness here. ;)

But not unfreeze, so let's all keep this room warm!

rene

It is cozy

Shadow9

12:01 PM

That's because you're on the couch.

rene

Am I?

Shadow9

Not now. ;)

rene

right

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Quack Overflow

9:19 PM

Q: Using a HFS+ formatted Time Machine backup in APFS Catalina

I've updated to MacOS Catalina on my MacBook Air. The system drive has been formatted as APFS now. I want to revert back to an older state of the system with an older MacOS (I believe it's Yosemite) and I have it as a Time Machine backup on an external drive, but in a HSF+ format. If I reboot the...