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Quick Question: Time Machine and external hard drive

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chalmers4three

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Jul 15, 2012
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ok, so I have a 500 GB external hard drive and i would like to use time machine but i do not need 500 GB worth of backups. when I first start time machine it says that it will erase the hard drive, does it use the entire hard drive for the time machine? If so, is there a way I can partition my hard drive using half for time machine and the other half for regular use? does my question make sense? thanks for the help
 
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UnSainted

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Jan 23, 2008
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Drive Size

How large is the drive you are backing up? If its say, 160GB, then yes, you could partition the drive and use only 1 partition for Time Machine. I would leave double the size of what you are wanting to back up though to make sure you have plenty of good backups.
 
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