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I recently discovered via DriveDX that my Seagate Ultra Touch which I use for Time Machine backups had command timeout errors that could be due to an oxidized data cable. This sounded worrying so I managed to persuade Seagate to replace the drive, but I have to send them the old drive first.
So I wanted to copy the backups I already have to another external drive (WD) I have of the same size. Various searches indicatated this is a very lengthy process and the best way was to use SuperDuper!. So I downloaded the free version and have repeatedly been trying to copy from one drive to the other but the process completes after a certain amount of time (up to hours) without copying all the files. Latest go copies about 245 gigs when I have about 900 gigs and when I click on the WD drive in finder the window is empty. After a lot of googling I’m wondering if the problem is that my source drive, the Seagate, is formatted as APFS while the new drive is formatted by SuperDuper! as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and possibly it is not possible to copy from an APFS using SuperDuper! (and other apps?) I am using a MacBook Pro 16 inch, 2019, with an 8-Core Intel Core i9 processor and Monterey OS.
Edit: SuperDuper! Have confirmed it is not possible to do this with SuperDuper!, but I'm wondering if anyone has found a way to do it?
So I wanted to copy the backups I already have to another external drive (WD) I have of the same size. Various searches indicatated this is a very lengthy process and the best way was to use SuperDuper!. So I downloaded the free version and have repeatedly been trying to copy from one drive to the other but the process completes after a certain amount of time (up to hours) without copying all the files. Latest go copies about 245 gigs when I have about 900 gigs and when I click on the WD drive in finder the window is empty. After a lot of googling I’m wondering if the problem is that my source drive, the Seagate, is formatted as APFS while the new drive is formatted by SuperDuper! as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and possibly it is not possible to copy from an APFS using SuperDuper! (and other apps?) I am using a MacBook Pro 16 inch, 2019, with an 8-Core Intel Core i9 processor and Monterey OS.
Edit: SuperDuper! Have confirmed it is not possible to do this with SuperDuper!, but I'm wondering if anyone has found a way to do it?
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