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Hello folks!
I have finally purchased an external hard drive so that I can use Time Machine (yey).
It's all working fine but I was just wondering, do I have to have the drive connected to my Mac all the time from now on for Time machine to function as I'm aware it backs up the system every hour.
Or, can I unplug the drive when I want and will Time machine sync things back up when its plugged back in?
The reason I ask is because I have bought a Western Digital My Book Premium 500GB drive, but my iMac's hard drive is 250GB. So, I have partitioned the external drive into two drives, one for Time Machine and one simply as an extra dumping drive if you will lol.
Cheers
Chris
I have finally purchased an external hard drive so that I can use Time Machine (yey).
It's all working fine but I was just wondering, do I have to have the drive connected to my Mac all the time from now on for Time machine to function as I'm aware it backs up the system every hour.
Or, can I unplug the drive when I want and will Time machine sync things back up when its plugged back in?
The reason I ask is because I have bought a Western Digital My Book Premium 500GB drive, but my iMac's hard drive is 250GB. So, I have partitioned the external drive into two drives, one for Time Machine and one simply as an extra dumping drive if you will lol.
Cheers
Chris