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<blockquote data-quote="porthoss" data-source="post: 1803843" data-attributes="member: 400876"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>First off, thank you for the welcome and thank you so much for your replies, I wasn't expecting any as my question was a bit odd. Sorry for the delay in replying I've had a couple of busy days.</p><p></p><p>I should probably explain what I was thinking when I asked the original question, this is all based around being a bit paranoid of losing my data. I have a cheese grater Mac Pro that is at an office I rent. It has a dedicated 4TB TM drive fitted internally that I back up everything to. I then have a 4TB portable drive that I use as a 2nd TM backup that I then bring home with me in case someone broke in to the office or there was a fire etc. So I have the original data and 2 backups (one kept offsite) which is probably enough for most people.</p><p></p><p>What I then started thinking was that when I took the portable drive to the office, all of my backups and the original data is all in the same place, at the same time (which worried me a bit). So I thought I'd buy another drive (as they are so cheap nowadays) that I could keep at home which could then be a clone of the portable 4TB portable drive. I appreciate it's overkill but the data means a lot to me. When I went to buy the new drive I got an 8TB desktop one. I then thought of how I could use the extra drive space instead of it only ever being able to store the same 4TBs of data from the portable drive. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully you're still with me...</p><p></p><p>So what I wanted to do was plug the 8TB home drive and the 4TB portable drive into my home laptop (which doesn't really have anything that important stored on it) and use the TM on the 8TB to backup the 4TB drive as if it was just a normal drive attached. That way, when my 4TB starts to overwrite the oldest TM backups, my 8TB doesn't and still has them saved. </p><p></p><p>I hope that makes sense. </p><p></p><p>Although, now I've written it all out it does seem like I'm trying to complicate things more than they need to be. It might be best to partition the drive and have a smart (updatable) Superduper clone of the 4TB drive instead and use the extra space for something else (as already suggested).</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for your replies, I do really appreciate you taking your time to help.</p><p></p><p>Ta</p><p>J</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="porthoss, post: 1803843, member: 400876"] Hi, First off, thank you for the welcome and thank you so much for your replies, I wasn't expecting any as my question was a bit odd. Sorry for the delay in replying I've had a couple of busy days. I should probably explain what I was thinking when I asked the original question, this is all based around being a bit paranoid of losing my data. I have a cheese grater Mac Pro that is at an office I rent. It has a dedicated 4TB TM drive fitted internally that I back up everything to. I then have a 4TB portable drive that I use as a 2nd TM backup that I then bring home with me in case someone broke in to the office or there was a fire etc. So I have the original data and 2 backups (one kept offsite) which is probably enough for most people. What I then started thinking was that when I took the portable drive to the office, all of my backups and the original data is all in the same place, at the same time (which worried me a bit). So I thought I'd buy another drive (as they are so cheap nowadays) that I could keep at home which could then be a clone of the portable 4TB portable drive. I appreciate it's overkill but the data means a lot to me. When I went to buy the new drive I got an 8TB desktop one. I then thought of how I could use the extra drive space instead of it only ever being able to store the same 4TBs of data from the portable drive. Hopefully you're still with me... So what I wanted to do was plug the 8TB home drive and the 4TB portable drive into my home laptop (which doesn't really have anything that important stored on it) and use the TM on the 8TB to backup the 4TB drive as if it was just a normal drive attached. That way, when my 4TB starts to overwrite the oldest TM backups, my 8TB doesn't and still has them saved. I hope that makes sense. Although, now I've written it all out it does seem like I'm trying to complicate things more than they need to be. It might be best to partition the drive and have a smart (updatable) Superduper clone of the 4TB drive instead and use the extra space for something else (as already suggested). Thanks again for your replies, I do really appreciate you taking your time to help. Ta J [/QUOTE]
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