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CFoss

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Feb 26, 2011
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In my hopes of purchasing a MacBook Pro, I wish to use an external hard drive to store my music due to space limitations. However, I want to back that up as well. Using Time Machine, can you backup both the internal HDD AND external HDD?
 
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...can you backup both the internal HDD AND external HDD?

Yes, you certainly can. I have an iMac, not a MBP, but I use Time Machine to back up the iMac's internal 320 GB drive and a 1 TB external drive, no problem.

I'm not sure what the default is, though -- whether the external is automatically included in backups or is it put into the exclusion list by default? Just means you should go into "Time Machine Preferences ->Options..." and make sure the external is NOT in the exclusion list.
 
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