RAID 10 vs. Time Machine

[benguild]

Hey all:

I have a Mac Pro, and when Snow Leopard comes out I'm going to be migrating from a software RAID 1 (between two drives) to a 4-disk RAID 10 in my Mac Pro.

However, the downside to this is that I:
1) Can't run Bootcamp
2) Can't use Time Machine

So, the question I have is.... can I run Time Machine on the same Partition as my OS X system? Obviously it's not designed for it, but the folder structure is just '/Backups.backupdb' so it could be hacked to work on the main drive array.

But, any solution for running Bootcamp on top of that? Ugh!

 

[superted666]

Its a possibility to perform a 'Hack' however if something affects that partition then you would not be able to recover from it.

Obviousley the best soloution is to use a seperate external drive for time machine howver....

I would suggest using OS X's disk utilities to create a partition on your RAID array and then using that for the backups. Seperating it with partitions will give you more protection than placing the backups on the same volume.

I run a RAID 5 array for my data and then a FW800 drive for backups and it works quite well.