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How does Time Machine deal with multiple drives?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lastmboy" data-source="post: 1402717" data-attributes="member: 246992"><p>ok... so Time Machine needs its own special partition for the backup? If I have a large external raid setup, how would I configure Time Machine to backup to it (without losing all the space)? Do I just figure out what the maximum size the backup could be, and allocate that much to a partition, or does Time Machine somehow allocate what it needs?</p><p></p><p>The reason for my question is that I haven't decided what to use for backups, yet. If I could scrounge up enough cash, I was pondering one of those over priced multi-drive Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt units. I'm a software developer, and this would give me lots of space to store all my libraries, graphics, etc. in a raid protected environment. It would make the idea more viable if I could also have my backups stored there. Maybe that's not possible, though. What types of hardware/environments is Time Machine compatible with?</p><p></p><p>Awesome that it will work better in Mountain Lion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lastmboy, post: 1402717, member: 246992"] ok... so Time Machine needs its own special partition for the backup? If I have a large external raid setup, how would I configure Time Machine to backup to it (without losing all the space)? Do I just figure out what the maximum size the backup could be, and allocate that much to a partition, or does Time Machine somehow allocate what it needs? The reason for my question is that I haven't decided what to use for backups, yet. If I could scrounge up enough cash, I was pondering one of those over priced multi-drive Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt units. I'm a software developer, and this would give me lots of space to store all my libraries, graphics, etc. in a raid protected environment. It would make the idea more viable if I could also have my backups stored there. Maybe that's not possible, though. What types of hardware/environments is Time Machine compatible with? Awesome that it will work better in Mountain Lion. [/QUOTE]
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