Claiming Time Machine Backups
Assuming that your old Mac made Time Machine backups, and you want your new Mac to continue doing so, now’s the time to connect that backup storage, if it wasn’t already used as the migration source. When you do, you’ll be offered two options, to claim the existing backups for the new Mac, or to leave them for the old one.
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If you claim the existing backups for your new Mac, then they’ll be used as part of its backup history, but you won’t be able to use them with the old Mac. You may prefer to leave those old backups as they are, and gradually delete them to free up space. Provided that you create the new backup volume for your Mac in the same container, old and new backups will share the same free space on your backup storage.
This apparently replaces the old
tmutil inheritbackupcommand, which no longer appears to work with backups to APFS.
Previously:
- Use a Cloned Drive to Recover From Mac Failures
- Time Machine in Sequoia
- Time Machine Evolution and APFS
