Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
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 Sent From My White MacBook -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
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 Sent From My White Macbook - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions 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 Sent From My White MacBook -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
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 Sent From My White Macbook - Original Message - From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions 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 Sent From My White MacBook -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
Hi, In the past, there was a limitation with Time Machine drives that affected their ability to remove old backups as they got full. It had to do with the occurrence of additional files on the HD. That removal didn’t work properly when other files existed besides the Time Machine sparse bundle. The partition or HD normally needs to be HFS+ Journaled to be used as a Time Machine backup location. Not sure if any of that has changed, but not likely. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 12, 2015, at 18:37, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com 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 Sent From My White MacBook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
If you don't mind a little terminal hacking and your TM volume can be 500GB or less then this article talks about how to create a sparsebundle disk image on an exFAT formatted drive. exFAT means you can read the drive on Mac or Windows and the sparsebundle hack means time machine can mount its own fake drive to do its backups. The 500MB limit comes from the exFAT format not supporting more than 65K files in a single directory. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140415132734925 CB On 2/12/15 8:47 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: from my limited experience with this sort of thing I don’t think you’d have to partition your external hard drive but you might need to reformat it before you start putting stuff on it if it doesn’t work for multiple operating systems. Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com 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 Sent From My White MacBook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
from my limited experience with this sort of thing I don’t think you’d have to partition your external hard drive but you might need to reformat it before you start putting stuff on it if it doesn’t work for multiple operating systems. Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com 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 Sent From My White MacBook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
