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Luba

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Apr 22, 2009
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I have a MacBook Pro with a small SSD (128GB) which I haven’t been using Time Machine. BTW, I am using File Vault. I could create a volume in one of my HDD on my Mac Pro to use as a TM backup? How would I connect the 2 machines together, use Target Disk Mode on MacBook Pro so that the volume on the Mac Pro is the Target Disk (Time Machine)? And connect using an ethernet cable? Would this work, even though very cumbersome?

Could I also use an external USB hard drive and clone my SSD on MBP?
 
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