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Slydude · Slydude #8 (**permalink**)

04-27-2012, 10:13 AM

Let me see if I understand your question correctly. You are using an external drive for Time Machine backups. You want to know whether Time Machine will keep backing up to the internal drive if the external id disconnected?

Yes the backups continue on the internal drive until you are able to connect with your external drive again. This only applies to 10.7 (Lion). Other versions of Time Machine did not do this.

OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs

Slydude #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 15, 2009 Location: North Louisiana, USA Posts: 3,880 Mac Specs: 2.8 GHz MacBook Pro 10.8,3 8 GB mem, 2.66 GHz Mac Pro - Dead, iPhone 4	04-27-2012, 10:13 AM Let me see if I understand your question correctly. You are using an external drive for Time Machine backups. You want to know whether Time Machine will keep backing up to the internal drive if the external id disconnected? Yes the backups continue on the internal drive until you are able to connect with your external drive again. This only applies to 10.7 (Lion). Other versions of Time Machine did not do this. OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs Sylvester Roque Former Contributing Editor About This Particular Macintosh No matter what time it is where I am it's early morning somewhere in the world. At that hour of the morning follow my advice at your own risk. Anything sounds good before your first cup of coffee
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