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<blockquote data-quote="Kaham" data-source="post: 1074089" data-attributes="member: 151522"><p>I do believe it is. If it isn't a requirement, the drive should at least be big enough to house all files currently on your system. After all, Time machine will make a copy of the files on your disk. for this reason, the initial backup will be of the same size as your disk at that time. Any next backup will only register changes, so will require less space.</p><p></p><p>I personally advice to use a disk LARGER than the disk you use in your Mac, since that allows Time Machine to create multiple backup-points. This way, if you lose an older file, you can still retrieve it by going back to an older backup. The newer backup may already have dumped this file as well. (Note that Time Machine will at some point start discarding old backups to make place for new ones if the drive fills up.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kaham, post: 1074089, member: 151522"] I do believe it is. If it isn't a requirement, the drive should at least be big enough to house all files currently on your system. After all, Time machine will make a copy of the files on your disk. for this reason, the initial backup will be of the same size as your disk at that time. Any next backup will only register changes, so will require less space. I personally advice to use a disk LARGER than the disk you use in your Mac, since that allows Time Machine to create multiple backup-points. This way, if you lose an older file, you can still retrieve it by going back to an older backup. The newer backup may already have dumped this file as well. (Note that Time Machine will at some point start discarding old backups to make place for new ones if the drive fills up.) [/QUOTE]
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