This requires that you completely erase the new drive as part of the copy procedure. Instead, you need to use a Block Copy operation. If you just copy these files in the Finder, you'll create full copies of all the links, ballooning the size of your backup exponentially. Time Machine creates all kinds of "hard links" to the files that aren't changed. As it turns out, you can't just drag your old Time Machine backups to the new disk using a Finder copy. How do I transfer my existing Time Machine backup from the old, maxed-out disk to the new high capacity drive? I'm running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard the steps might be different for other versions of OS X. I used up all the room on my 160 GB Time Machine volume, so I picked up a new Western Digital hard drive to increase my backup capacity.
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