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Help with a WD My Passport? Please? :)
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<blockquote data-quote="MYmacROX" data-source="post: 1119104" data-attributes="member: 92466"><p>That is correctly formatted for your Mac. The very first Time Machine backup will take a long time because it is very large. All subsequent backups will be quicker. Time Machine backups are good for what you are describing as your needs. If something goes wrong or you want to just "go back in time" and revert to the way things were an hour ago, a day ago, whatever... it will do that for you and you can pretty much undo whatever you just did. "Oops, deleted my photos and emptied the trash!" They're gone... nope, just go back in Time Machine to your last backup and restore those photos.</p><p></p><p>Partitioning is where you "split" your external into two separate storage devices (basically). That's not very technical speak, but whatever. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> You would want to partition if say you had more than one machine that you are backing up and want different backups for each machine. Or if you want to use another back up method in addition to Time Machine. For instance, I have my external hard drive partitioned into 3 partitions. One for my Windows machine backup (that partition has to be formatted differently), one for Time Machine on my Mac, and one for a clone of my Mac's drive. The clone will enable you to make an EXACT copy of your entire drive and can even boot from it if your Mac completely dies and you can't get that internal drive to start up. It's more or less a good idea just in case. One of those things you hope you never have to use, but never know if you will. It's also good for replacing your internal drive. You can just move everything onto the new drive using your clone. There are two very good cloning apps - SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner. I'm pretty sure both have free versions. I use SD. </p><p></p><p>Hope that helps. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MYmacROX, post: 1119104, member: 92466"] That is correctly formatted for your Mac. The very first Time Machine backup will take a long time because it is very large. All subsequent backups will be quicker. Time Machine backups are good for what you are describing as your needs. If something goes wrong or you want to just "go back in time" and revert to the way things were an hour ago, a day ago, whatever... it will do that for you and you can pretty much undo whatever you just did. "Oops, deleted my photos and emptied the trash!" They're gone... nope, just go back in Time Machine to your last backup and restore those photos. Partitioning is where you "split" your external into two separate storage devices (basically). That's not very technical speak, but whatever. ;) You would want to partition if say you had more than one machine that you are backing up and want different backups for each machine. Or if you want to use another back up method in addition to Time Machine. For instance, I have my external hard drive partitioned into 3 partitions. One for my Windows machine backup (that partition has to be formatted differently), one for Time Machine on my Mac, and one for a clone of my Mac's drive. The clone will enable you to make an EXACT copy of your entire drive and can even boot from it if your Mac completely dies and you can't get that internal drive to start up. It's more or less a good idea just in case. One of those things you hope you never have to use, but never know if you will. It's also good for replacing your internal drive. You can just move everything onto the new drive using your clone. There are two very good cloning apps - SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner. I'm pretty sure both have free versions. I use SD. Hope that helps. :) [/QUOTE]
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