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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1803687" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>Firstly, a very warm welcome to our Forums.</p><p></p><p>I may not be reading your request properly, but if you have more than one Mac but don’t want to use a separate hard drive to back up each one, Time Machine can do this.</p><p></p><p>Here are two articles discussing this:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/1131841/storage/multiplebackup.html" target="_blank">https://www.macworld.com/article/1131841/storage/multiplebackup.html</a></p><p><a href="https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/best-way-to-back-up-multiple-macs-to-one-external.2022172/" target="_blank">https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/best-way-to-back-up-multiple-macs-to-one-external.2022172/</a></p><p></p><p>I may, of course, be misunderstanding your intentions.</p><p></p><p>What I would say, however, is that the cost of a spinning platter External Hard Drive (EHD) is negligible in comparison to that of a Mac, let alone two Macs.</p><p></p><p>It would be much better if you had an EHD dedicated to each Mac. Not only is this an inexpensive option; but look at the alternative. One EHD with Time Machine backups from two Macs. Drive fails - they all do eventually - you've lost both Time Machine backups from both computers.</p><p></p><p>The choice is, obviously, yours; but maybe rethink the consequences?</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1803687, member: 83420"] Firstly, a very warm welcome to our Forums. I may not be reading your request properly, but if you have more than one Mac but don’t want to use a separate hard drive to back up each one, Time Machine can do this. Here are two articles discussing this: [url]https://www.macworld.com/article/1131841/storage/multiplebackup.html[/url] [url]https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/best-way-to-back-up-multiple-macs-to-one-external.2022172/[/url] I may, of course, be misunderstanding your intentions. What I would say, however, is that the cost of a spinning platter External Hard Drive (EHD) is negligible in comparison to that of a Mac, let alone two Macs. It would be much better if you had an EHD dedicated to each Mac. Not only is this an inexpensive option; but look at the alternative. One EHD with Time Machine backups from two Macs. Drive fails - they all do eventually - you've lost both Time Machine backups from both computers. The choice is, obviously, yours; but maybe rethink the consequences? Ian [/QUOTE]
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