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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Transfer Time Machine backups to new external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1887964" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Probably won't find one. The challenge is that TM uses a database to keep the backups. It LOOKS like files, but they are actually special link files to make the backup smaller. Won't go into the technical details, but when you copy from one drive to another, all of those links have to be recalculated and rewritten. That is what takes the time. No way to speed it up that I've been able to find.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1887964, member: 396914"] Probably won't find one. The challenge is that TM uses a database to keep the backups. It LOOKS like files, but they are actually special link files to make the backup smaller. Won't go into the technical details, but when you copy from one drive to another, all of those links have to be recalculated and rewritten. That is what takes the time. No way to speed it up that I've been able to find. [/QUOTE]
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