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Internal Hard Drive for Time Machine
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That will help protect against accidentally deleted files, but it's not a backup solution, as if something physically happens to that drive, you have lost your backup and original data. Making it pretty redundant.
Well, not thay way at least. You can with bootcamp, then maybe erase the windows partition and use it for TM
I would just go and buy the external anyway, they're relatively cheap; whatever backup solution you go for you will need it. I really wouldn't recommend not having a backup in place.
you can always just buy an enclosure for your internal...relatively cheap $20. just look for some deal with some reputable company.
then...if you have an enclosure...which any of these external are...you can buy just the internal drives and have multiple backups that you stowe away and put back in the enclosure when you need em.
then...if you have an enclosure...which any of these external are...you can buy just the internal drives and have multiple backups that you stowe away and put back in the enclosure when you need em.
Disk Utility can't partition a drive you're currently booted to. Boot to your OS X disc and use disk utility from there to partition.
You may a well check for iPartition before, for partition need, it's a good app for partitioning OSX.
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php
I wish there will be more tools in disk utilities. Hope ZFS come sooner then later for this reason. Like many have already say earlier, you shouldn't backup on a partition over the same drive, it's pretty much useless, except for bad deleting or reverse a file to previous state. If the disk crash your still screw.
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php
I wish there will be more tools in disk utilities. Hope ZFS come sooner then later for this reason. Like many have already say earlier, you shouldn't backup on a partition over the same drive, it's pretty much useless, except for bad deleting or reverse a file to previous state. If the disk crash your still screw.
Assuming you have an Intel Mac, you can partition the drive with Boot Camp, and then once it's partitioned, go into Disk Util and format it from FAT32/NTFS to HFS
You can backup to a partition, but you can not backup the TimeMachine drive. Therefore, you can not use TimeMachine if you only have one drive.
Dedicated Disc For Timemachine?
I have a Mac Pro, can timemachine use a dedicated internal HDD (in my case 250Gb) for the backup disc? Surely it wouldn't make any difference whether it's in an external case or in the MP enclosure? The only difference is the interface - SATA2 vs Firewire/USB...
I have a Mac Pro, can timemachine use a dedicated internal HDD (in my case 250Gb) for the backup disc? Surely it wouldn't make any difference whether it's in an external case or in the MP enclosure? The only difference is the interface - SATA2 vs Firewire/USB...
Well external HDD's are not very expensive anymore. I bought a 250GB Seagate Free Agent at Best Buy for $59.99 minus a $10.00 Rewards Zone coupon that I had.
Granted 250GB is not huge, but will work fine for Time Machine considering I still have a lot of space left on my built-in 250GB hard drive.
Granted 250GB is not huge, but will work fine for Time Machine considering I still have a lot of space left on my built-in 250GB hard drive.
People were saying that because TimeMachine will backup to a partition on a drive they would test it first by partitioning their internal drive. However, TimeMachine can not backup any part of the drive it is on. Therefore, you need more than one drive. It can be an internal, if you have more than one or boot from an external (which makes no sense to me). It can also be a drive on a server or another machine with file sharing turned on. However, you can not use TimeMachine to backup a drive to itself. You must use another drive. I hope this is clearer.
You can't erase the windows partition without restoring the whole drive back to one partition.