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Time Machine Drive - Does it need to be formatted first?...
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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I have a standard internal journaled 1TB drive in my Mac Pro, running Snow Leopard. I use it to store files, etc.
I have so much space left that I want to also use it as a Time Machine drive. Can I just activate TM and choose this drive? Or does TM require it to be formatted first? Can it ONLY be used for TM?
Thank
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
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Time Machine volumes must be formatted HFS+, but you can use them for other stuff as well.
If it's already HFS+, just select it - done.
If it needs formatting, it will ask you and note that you'll lose any data on it.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern Ireland
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Spot on Spheric. All Time Machine will do is create a folder called Backups.backupdb within the drive.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Vancouver B.C.
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Remember the backing up the data from the 1TB drive to the Time Machine archive on that drive isn't real backup, since the data and backup are both on the same physical drive.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Oh woah. Missed that!
Yeah, putting it on the same physical drive is a bad idea.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Stoneham, MA, USA
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I don't think it's possible to use time machine to backup to yourself. Not without some hackery anyway. But you can use time machine drives for other things. Usually it's not recommended, but it's doable. And in some circumstances it's just fine. My collocated server has a 750 GB backup drive. Time machine backs up my webfolder ram disk in a standard time machine backup, plus my server's own backup scripts also do weekly backups to the same drive. And I do periodic 30 GB home backups of my most important stuff, and upload that as well. No problems.
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