Yes, a partition will keep the TimeMachine backups contained to just one
part of the hard drive. I was just saying that there is nothing magical
about a TM drive other than TM sucking up all available space as it
makes hourly incremental backups. Hope you found the partitioning
process fairly clear.
CB
On 2/25/15 6:08 PM, BBS wrote:
Hi Chris and others. Actually, someone from the Peel The Apple list
called me on Facetime. He showed me how to partition the hard drive so
that my time machine backup and Youtube videos from my PS3 could both
fit on there without any problems. He didn't recommend that I just
copy the videos onto the drive over top of the time machine backup. So
one partition is strictly Mac Journaled format and one is FAT32 so
that my Youtube videos were able to be copied.
Shawn
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My understanding was that a time machine drive is just an ordinary Mac
formatted disk. The main issue is that TimeMachine keeps making
incremental backups until the entire volume is filled. So if you copy
those movies to the disk first you should be ok but later if you delete
one TM might suck up that extra free space.
CB
On 2/12/15 8:37 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
Hey all. Today I bought an external hard drive because of that freak
accident with my Mac a few weeks ago. So I got a few questions about it.
1. I want to do a time machine backup of my entire HD. However, I
have a whole bunch of youtube videos I copied onto another system
other than my Mac. Can I copy over those videos onto the external
drive without partitioning it?
2. If I have to partition the drive, how would I go about doing that?
Thanks in advance.
Shawn
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