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How to move TM backups from Local drive to the NAS
I am trying to move my old backups from a local USB connected drive to my Mac to my Pro 6. But I cant erase/reformat the TM Share so that it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Frontview creates the shar...
Hi,
Thanks for the link but I tried this method and it does not work.
This wont work if the TM volume on the NAS is smaller than the USB volume I am trying to copy from.
Mac disk utility will only restore to a bigger disk.....and I think they both have to be formatted the same...i.e., both Mac OS Extended (journaled) since I cant change the format on my USB drive and that is the format I used on that drive.
I have a 2TB Mac OS Extended (journaled) disk in a USB drive connected to my Mac. In the past I used this drive (as a single 2TB volume) for my TM backups. I have used up about 750GB of it already. I also used ths disk to store other stuff which I have moved to the NAS now.
I have created an 1TB TM volume on my NAS and so I want to copy all my old backups from this 2TB disk into my 1TB TM volume on my NAS so that old backups will be available via the NAS.
When I have succeeded in doing this, I will put the 2TB disk that is in my USB drive in a bay slot on the NAS since it uses a HCL compliant disk.
I know the best solution is to just keep the USB disk for backups and for any future backups just use the NAS. But I want to put everything on the NAS and then expand the volume with this 2TB disk.
Sorry to be so negative, and I really want to be positive but every time I try to do something with this Pro 6 it doesn't seem to want to work or its too bloody hard.
Thanks for the link but I tried this method and it does not work.
This wont work if the TM volume on the NAS is smaller than the USB volume I am trying to copy from.
Mac disk utility will only restore to a bigger disk.....and I think they both have to be formatted the same...i.e., both Mac OS Extended (journaled) since I cant change the format on my USB drive and that is the format I used on that drive.
I have a 2TB Mac OS Extended (journaled) disk in a USB drive connected to my Mac. In the past I used this drive (as a single 2TB volume) for my TM backups. I have used up about 750GB of it already. I also used ths disk to store other stuff which I have moved to the NAS now.
I have created an 1TB TM volume on my NAS and so I want to copy all my old backups from this 2TB disk into my 1TB TM volume on my NAS so that old backups will be available via the NAS.
When I have succeeded in doing this, I will put the 2TB disk that is in my USB drive in a bay slot on the NAS since it uses a HCL compliant disk.
I know the best solution is to just keep the USB disk for backups and for any future backups just use the NAS. But I want to put everything on the NAS and then expand the volume with this 2TB disk.
Sorry to be so negative, and I really want to be positive but every time I try to do something with this Pro 6 it doesn't seem to want to work or its too bloody hard.
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