External FW Partioning for Back Up

jtnkelly · jtnkelly #1 (**permalink**)

02-21-2007, 11:37 AM

I have purchased a 250GB Mercury Elite Pro FW drive to use for backing up my iMac. I want to be able to have a bootable clone as well as do versioned backups on the same drive. Can I partition the drive into two sections, with one partition used for cloning and the other for versioned backups? I want to do this on the same drive to save some $$ right now. Will this work?

surfwax95 · surfwax95 #2 (**permalink**)

02-21-2007, 12:00 PM

Yes.

Use Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities)

mac57 · mac57 #3 (**permalink**)

02-22-2007, 10:37 AM

Be sure to format it as HFS+.

surfwax95 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 27, 2005 Location: Fayetteville, AR Posts: 2,410 Mac Specs: 15" Powerbook G4 • 24" iMac • iPhone 3Gs	02-21-2007, 12:00 PM Yes. Use Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) I try to Command+Shift+/ when I can. They're - Their - There \| Two - Too - To \| You're - Your \| MAC - Mac I was on the M-F honor roll for October, 2006.
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jtnkelly #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 16	02-21-2007, 11:37 AM I have purchased a 250GB Mercury Elite Pro FW drive to use for backing up my iMac. I want to be able to have a bootable clone as well as do versioned backups on the same drive. Can I partition the drive into two sections, with one partition used for cloning and the other for versioned backups? I want to do this on the same drive to save some $$ right now. Will this work?
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