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Back Up: Time Machine vs. User folder on separate hard drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="MiddleFingerMan" data-source="post: 739289" data-attributes="member: 70187"><p>Hello Everyone!</p><p></p><p>I'm a Switcher only a few weeks in with his new iMac and I'm wondering about Time Machine. It seems like a beautiful invention but I'm not too sure if I want to use it or not.</p><p></p><p>With my Windows systems, I would have my external hard drive set up and simply relocate my My Documents folder to that hard drive so that if anything ever happened, I would have all my files on my back up drive and no worries.</p><p></p><p>Now that I've got an iMac, I've been doing some reading on Time Machine and wonder if I should be using that instead. I've got my external drive running via USB. It's got 297.96 GB after formatting. Is this sufficient for Time Machine?</p><p></p><p>Should I use my internal hard drive (320 GB) and have Time Machine just in case my system blows up or should I relocate my User folder to the external drive?</p><p></p><p>I guess that my biggest concern is, will my 297.96 GB drive be sufficient for Time Machine.</p><p></p><p>Opinions will be greatly appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MiddleFingerMan, post: 739289, member: 70187"] Hello Everyone! I'm a Switcher only a few weeks in with his new iMac and I'm wondering about Time Machine. It seems like a beautiful invention but I'm not too sure if I want to use it or not. With my Windows systems, I would have my external hard drive set up and simply relocate my My Documents folder to that hard drive so that if anything ever happened, I would have all my files on my back up drive and no worries. Now that I've got an iMac, I've been doing some reading on Time Machine and wonder if I should be using that instead. I've got my external drive running via USB. It's got 297.96 GB after formatting. Is this sufficient for Time Machine? Should I use my internal hard drive (320 GB) and have Time Machine just in case my system blows up or should I relocate my User folder to the external drive? I guess that my biggest concern is, will my 297.96 GB drive be sufficient for Time Machine. Opinions will be greatly appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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