Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
“It just works!” :-) Glad it’s working!!! On Jan 19, 2021, at 7:13 PM, Bill Spencer mailto:wspen...@jhu.edu>> wrote: Well, I have no idea how it happened, but the iTunes drive is already getting backed up. So I bothered you for nothing, more or less. Thanks! Bill On Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-19 Thread Bill Spencer
Well, I have no idea how it happened, but the iTunes drive is already getting backed up. So I bothered you for nothing, more or less. Thanks! Bill On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 1:45:49 PM UTC-5 john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: > > > On Jan 18, 2021, at 3:05 PM, Bill Spencer wrote: > > I

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 18, 2021, at 3:05 PM, Bill Spencer mailto:wspen...@jhu.edu>> wrote: I have reformatted the backup drive and set TM to back up the internal HD to it, but how do I point the live external iTunes folder to the backup drive also? I can't see any way to do that. Thanks again! me The

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-19 Thread Bill Spencer
I have reformatted the backup drive and set TM to back up the internal HD to it, but how do I point the live external iTunes folder to the backup drive also? I can't see any way to do that. Thanks again! me On Sunday, January 17, 2021 at 3:16:29 PM UTC-5 john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: >

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 17, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Bill Spencer mailto:wspen...@jhu.edu>> wrote: Thank you both for this information. Unfortunately I am not in a position to buy another external HD so I will have to manage with what I have. In reading through your comments, I realized that there's no need for the

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-17 Thread Bill Spencer
ternal 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.

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-01 Thread Bruce Rubin
have to fuss with it ever again. > > Time machine backs up the booted volume (plus any mounted external volume, > optionally, see link below) > > IS the standalone external another bootable drive? Then, unfortunately > what I would do is back it up with CCC (or it’s own Time M

Re: Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
nother bootable drive? Then, unfortunately what I would do is back it up with CCC (or it’s own Time Machine Configuration while booted) That way you can do the back up internal to one partition, the external to another. and be able to recover them both as bootable drives; you cannot use a bootable

Time Machine configuration...?

2021-01-01 Thread William Spencer
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,