I would like to check if the following scenario will work.
Present set-up
- Backing up to Time Capsule via Time Machine
- Amassed over 2 TB
- I want to build redundancy to cover for ageing Time Capsule
Desired Outcome
- Keeping existing backup on Time Capsule
- This will be decommissioned when it fails
- Cloning the backup
.backupbundle
image file to new network drive and using that backup in parallel with the existing Time Machine backup XXX.backupbundle
maintained at Time Capsule and new network drive
Steps
Connect new network drive (done)Copy the existingXXX.backupbundle
file from Time Capsule to the new network drive (finishing now)- Adding new network drive to time machine (to do)
- Selecting "use both" to maintain two identical backups at two locations (to do)
Question
With respect to the outstanding points 3 and 4:
- is there anything else I should do to ensure that Time Machine will recognise the
XXX.backupbundle
file that was copied to another location. - any other points worth considering before I start interacting with the Time Machine settings?