Hi there: I’ve got Big Sur installed now, and I’m hoping to be able to use Time Machine to do my backing up rather than Carbon Copy Cloner, which is what I’ve been using for quite a while now. But I can’t see how to configure TM to do what I need. Here’s the setup: I have three physical HDs, one internal to the Mini and two external. One of the externals is partitioned, so the system actually thinks I have four HDs. The idea is to back up the internal to one partition and the standalone external to the other partition. TM isn’t showing me one of the (partitioned) HDs as a possible destination for a backup. It also isn’t showing me the internal HD as a source. The two it's showing (which are for what used to be called iTunes, one the source and the other the destination) are formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled); the two it isn’t showing (for the HD itself, ditto) are formatted as APFS. Is that difference in format a (or the) issue? If I reformat anything I will lose all that data, as you know. How can I proceed? Thanks for any insight, and happy new year!
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