| Tip 350 | Move Time Machine to a Larger Disk |
If you use Time Machine, you might find the backup disk beginning to get full. You’ll know this because OS X will start to warn you that it’s deleting old backups to make space. The solution is to buy a bigger disk. Migrating your Time Machine backups to the new disk is easy. Here’s how. (These tips assume the disk is new and blank.)
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Attach the new backup disk directly to your computer’s port, rather than via a hub, to make the whole process of swapping backup disks much faster. Try to have a free USB/FireWire port on your computer ready for attaching to the old backup disk (although you shouldn’t do so at this stage).
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You’ll need to partition and format the new disk in a Mac-compatible way. Many commercial ...
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