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pedzsan

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May 22, 2016
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I have an old Time Machine Backup. I think it dates to two macOS versions back give or take. It is on a 2TB drive with very little space left. It is “corrupted”. When I plug it in, after a long fsck it gives up and suggests I copy everything off. I would but I don’t know of anything that can take a 2TB TMB and copy it off without consuming a huge amount of space. I could not find anything at the time. I’m wondering if that has changed. And if it hasn’t changed, could I perhaps copy the 2TB disk to a 2TB partition (block by block, not via the file system) on a (for example) 4TB disk, grow the partition, and then have enough space to do an fsck?

TL;DR — how do I recover a Time Machine Backup on a disk that is mostly full?
 
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