If you have a large Time Machine Backup that you want to migrate to another hard drive, can you just manually move the last 5 save (files) and get everything? Or are TM backups sequential so that you'd not get everything?
Thanks!
Thanks!
If you have a large Time Machine Backup that you want to migrate to another hard drive, can you just manually move the last 5 save (files) and get everything? Or are TM backups sequential so that you'd not get everything?
Thanks!
Definitely not. I don't know if you already took care of the problem, but the best way is to open Disk Utility and restore the TM backup to the drive that wish to move it to. It takes a while, but that's the way to do it.
Plan C is to get hold of a Firewire 6pin-9 pin adapter, since I don't have a cable with the required fittings. All of my Firewire drives have either USB or 6 pin connectors. After I get hold of the 6-9pin adapter, I'm going to see if the drive in question will mount when connected via my MBPs 9 pin FW port. If it mounts, then I'm going to take the TB drive, return it to a single partition and start over with my TM backups.
IF the suspect FW drive will not mount, then Plan D to restore it's data is to try to get the backup out of the trash using a faster connection, Firewire on the MBP or a USB 3.0 hub.
Is there such a thing as a Firewire 9 pin to USB cable? Would that be a good option? Thanks!
Are you talking about using a FW 400 external with a FW 800 port on your MBP? If so, that cable definitely exists and would make it much easier than trying to find a FW to USB adapter. In fact, that's the way that I connected all of my externals(well at least the FW 400 one in addition to the usb 2.0 ones before I imply decided to upgrade my internal HDD to 3TB). And if it doesn't mount, then something else is wrong.
That won't work. Give this a read. It explains how TM works and you how what you want to do is going to break the backup.