Add to this the unique filing structure of TM backups which are pretty much only readable by the TM app they are pretty much unretrievable if they get damaged. TM backups can become corrupted and/or the EHD's they are stored on can simply crash. If however you regard your TM backup as a sort of archive where unique files (files that are not on your computer) or versions of files can be stored permanently for restoration at any time my experience is you may be disappointed. What with the changing nature of macOS, the move from the HFS+ to APFS filing system, formatting for external HD's the increased popularity of external SSD's etc there seems no point in maintaining a TM backup for much longer than a year. I erase my old TM backups at each major upgrade of macOS so I never have a TM backup older that about a year. ![]() As stated back in my post #2 unless you need the old backups you could just put the old backup drive aside and start a new one.
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