derekjohnston
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I'm using an external 2TB drive that had a backup on it from 2017, to back up a couple of current Macs. The first backup goes without a hitch. But after moving backup drive to another machine and backing it up, it changes the folder name for the previous backup and adds the backup to it's folder.
Under top level folder "backups.backupdb" I had the folder "Red Machine" from several years ago with proper contents. Today I hook up first machine (computer name "Blue Set") and it creates a sub folder "Blue Set" and then populates the folder with the backup. I now move to the second machine (computer name "White Box") and Time Machine renames folder "Blue Set" to "White Box" and then does a proper backup. Both backups are under folder "White Box" now. When I enter Time Machine it seems to be keeping the two machines straight but why can't I have separate folders for "White Box" and "Blue Set" ?
Under top level folder "backups.backupdb" I had the folder "Red Machine" from several years ago with proper contents. Today I hook up first machine (computer name "Blue Set") and it creates a sub folder "Blue Set" and then populates the folder with the backup. I now move to the second machine (computer name "White Box") and Time Machine renames folder "Blue Set" to "White Box" and then does a proper backup. Both backups are under folder "White Box" now. When I enter Time Machine it seems to be keeping the two machines straight but why can't I have separate folders for "White Box" and "Blue Set" ?