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Time Machine adding external drive

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Mobgr

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I have backed up my Mac & two External drives using a third external drive & TM until a disc failure took one of my external drives out. I have installed a new external drive & retrieved the stuff that was on my original failed drive. I would like to include this new drive into my TM backup but I have no idea how to achieve this. I have considered renaming my new drive to that of the failed drive however I cannot believe that this will work because it seems such a simple process. I have replaced a WD My Book HD with a LaCie.
 
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Mobgr said:
I have backed up my Mac & two External drives using a third external drive & TM until a disc failure took one of my external drives out. I have installed a new external drive & retrieved the stuff that was on my original failed drive. I would like to include this new drive into my TM backup but I have no idea how to achieve this. I have considered renaming my new drive to that of the failed drive however I cannot believe that this will work because it seems such a simple process. I have replaced a WD My Book HD with a LaCie.
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Open Time Machine preferences from System Preferences, click on options and remove the name of the external hard drive from the exclude list.
 
Do you mean exclude my new disc? Then will I be able to include it in my TM process? Sorry to be stupid but I have never done this before.
 
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