How to format a drive for multiple time machine backups and movies

[Weerez935]

I recently upgraded the SSDs in my air and my wife's macbook. So now we have an extra 320 gb hard drive laying around and I was thinking about using it for movies and time machine backups. Currently this drive is a clone of her original drive.

If I want to do this should I make 3 partitions? one for both time machine backups and one for dvds?

Or should I just delete everything on the drive and start ripping dvd's?
I have my OSX on my old 64 gb drive that was in my air.

 

[justperry]

1 Partition will do, both Machines will get backed up with TM without problems, for Videos you could for instance make a Folder called Videos at the root level, you could even leave the copy of her old System on it, it would still backup as long as there is space.

 

[Weerez935]

Ok cool

1 Partition will do, both Machines will get backed up with TM without problems, for Videos you could for instance make a Folder called Videos at the root level, you could even leave the copy of her old System on it, it would still backup as long as there is space.

Thanks !

 

[Fishrrman]

Instead of "multiple Time Machine backups", what you should consider is at least one partition for a "bootable cloned backup" which can be created with either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper.

There's nothing as handy as having a bootable backup "close-at-hand" when you have a "moment of extreme need"....

 

[justperry]

Instead of "multiple Time Machine backups", what you should consider is at least one partition for a "bootable cloned backup" which can be created with either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper.

There's nothing as handy as having a bootable backup "close-at-hand" when you have a "moment of extreme need"....

Although I prefer to have a bootable Backup most people don't really need it anymore since Apple includes the Recovery Partition to do maintenance, reinstall amongst other Utilities.