Time Machine Question

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  1. dacreativeguy, Jan 11, 2008

    dacreativeguy macrumors 68000

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    I have a question about how to set up my external drive for time machine backups of multiple computers. In the pre-time machine world, I partitioned my backup drive into multiple partitions and cloned my computers to their respective partitions.

    I know that Time Machine doesn't require a partition all to itself, and that all the data is just stored in a folder. Does that mean I can point Time Machine backups of 2 computers to the same partition and they each would backup happily? The advantage to not partitioning is that I don't have to reserve space in advance, so one computer can use more space than the other.

    Will backing up multiple computers to one partition work? Any disadvantages people have found?
     
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  2. EddieZ, Jan 11, 2008

    EddieZ macrumors newbie

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    Backing up to one partition shouldn't be a problem, just realize that each instance of TM will gobble up a heck of a lot of hard disk space.

    I have a Drobo, which is backing up two Macs. I have partition for each Mac (different sizes, the older Mac didn't need as much space to house the TM backup) - and then I have a third partition on the Drobo that I use for my general needs (iTunes library, etc).
     
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