Comments on: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

By: john

john — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:41:28 +0000

15 hours for a 1TB->2TB migration

By: elektek

elektek — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:55:40 +0000

i have tried to do this but the destination partition is to small. my old drive alows me to alter the size of partition but my new one doesn't. any ideas on how i can alter the size of the parts to my new hd without erasing the data..i have just spent 2 days transferring filesand don't want to loose any more time… help please

By: If Disaster Strikes, My Data Will Live On In My ioSafe Time Machine « David Chiu

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:50:47 +0000

[...] suggest using Super Duper, Carbon Copy Cloner or Disk Utility to move a Time Machine backup from one drive to another. After spending an hour trying to use Disk Utility to copy the old Time Machine disk I gave up. I [...]

By: Atlanta Yankee

Atlanta Yankee — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:38:30 +0000

I had a similar error today but finally got it to work. Not sure if this will help you but it's the only thing I did differently.

I had initially selected my original HD (in the left column) and clicked on the Restore tab not thinking it would make a difference since you drag and drop the source and destination anyway. When that scenario provided the error, I instead selected the new HD in the list at the left and used the Restore tab from there. Probably a silly mistake but hope that is all it is for you.

By: trcdarker

trcdarker — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:21:01 +0000

I followed your tutorial to the letter, but got the error message:

"Could not restore - Operation not permitted"

I am transferring data from a 250GB external harddrive to a new completely zero'ed 1TB Iomega external harddrive, this is what my log says:

2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Restore Disk
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Source: “Darkers HD”
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Destination: “Untitled”
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Erase Destination: No
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000:
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Starting Restore…
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Validating target...
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: done
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Validating source...
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: done
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Validating sizes...
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: done
2009-12-27 17:12:32 +0000: Copying
2009-12-27 17:14:01 +0000: could not copy /Volumes/Untitled/Backups.backupdb/Mac/2009-04-15-054708/Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional/Acrobat Distiller 7.0.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeACE.framework/AdobeACE; Operation not permitted
2009-12-27 17:14:01 +0000: Bom copy exited with error 1
2009-12-27 17:14:01 +0000:
2009-12-27 17:14:01 +0000: Could not restore - Operation not permitted
2009-12-27 17:14:02 +0000: Could not restore - Operation not permitted
2009-12-27 17:14:02 +0000:

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Justin Scott

Justin Scott — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:37:06 +0000

click the level below the actual drive, then you can drag it over.

By: Justin Scott

Justin Scott — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:37:06 +0000

click the level below the actual drive, then you can drag it over.

By: msarcher

msarcher — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:53:43 +0000

my old drive will not stick in the source line? I have tried dragging it over and I dont get a plus sign??
I unmounted, remounted, turned off TM etc? Advice?

By: phillipduran

phillipduran — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:25:53 +0000

I bought a 500g drive to copy my 500g Time Machine drive to. My source partition was 499.97 Gb and the destination was 499.71 . Because of this the destination drive wasn't large enough to take the restore even though I only had 450Gb of data on the source drive. It wouldn't allow me to continue with the restore. What I was able to do is click on the source drive and adjust the partition size down to 499.31 which is now small enough to fit on the new drive.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:01 +0000

“And that should have read BOAT not BOOT…”

If you're canadian, it works just as well.