Time Machine Volume

Im trying to store a time machine volume on an NTFS hard drive. Now I dont want any functionality off of this back up, other than having it incase my HD goes bad or wiped. Finder tells me that the hard drive dosnt support the volume, so I am trying to find a way to compress the back-up to a .zip or .rar. When I try to do this, finder tells me that i dont have permission to acess certain files like .backup.log or .files

Any ideas?

Time Machine backup files are already compressed nor can they be stored "as is" on any drive other than HFS+ formatted. Why would you want to store them on a NTFS drive anyway? And what good are they if you can't restore from them?

As a bit of info, you can backup to a network drive but not by default. There is a work around, however.

chscag said:

Time Machine backup files are already compressed nor can they be stored "as is" on any drive other than HFS+ formatted. Why would you want to store them on a NTFS drive anyway? And what good are they if you can't restore from them?

As a bit of info, you can backup to a network drive but not by default. There is a work around, however.

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Well the FAT32 drive i have them on is my buddy's so I can't keep them there. But if I have them on my drive i can always move them back over to his if need be. So i dont need them to function on the NTFS drive, just be able to function again once moved back on to an FAT32.

That's OK, but keep in mind that FAT-32 is limited to a file size no greater than 4 GB. A Time Machine backup could easily exceed that.

chscag said:

That's OK, but keep in mind that FAT-32 is limited to a file size no greater than 4 GB. A Time Machine backup could easily exceed that.

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Oh, sorry, I meant MAC OS Extended, not FAT-32

As cheap as hard drives are right now why go through the hassle we have 1TB's on sale
for under 80 dollars from places like BB and Micro Center.

osxx said:

As cheap as hard drives are right now why go through the hassle we have 1TB's on sale
for under 80 dollars from places like BB and Micro Center.

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This might be an option in the future, but im pretty low on cash at the moment, and my hard drive is 2tb as it is

Partition the drive and format for each purpose.