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Hi, I have a 2 TB HD Mac mini and a 3 TB Time Machine backup drive.
The strange thing is that the Time Machine backup will restore individual files, but not the whole computer -- even the Genius Bar guys at the Apple store were baffled by this.
Someone here suggested that I use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to backup my Mac mini. My Mac mini's HD is getting full of videos as well.
I had an idea - convert the 3 TB backup drive to a videos drive, free up a lot of space on my Mac mini by transferring the videos to it, and back up both to an external backup drive.
So I bought a 10 TB WD Elements drive as my new backup drive. On the new backup, I want to have:
1. A Time Machine backup of the Mac mini
2. A 3rd-party backup of the Mac mini (in case I have to do a full restore)
3. A backup of my 3TB videos drive.
My question is: should I partition the drive? Anything else I should know? Thanks.
The strange thing is that the Time Machine backup will restore individual files, but not the whole computer -- even the Genius Bar guys at the Apple store were baffled by this.
Someone here suggested that I use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to backup my Mac mini. My Mac mini's HD is getting full of videos as well.
I had an idea - convert the 3 TB backup drive to a videos drive, free up a lot of space on my Mac mini by transferring the videos to it, and back up both to an external backup drive.
So I bought a 10 TB WD Elements drive as my new backup drive. On the new backup, I want to have:
1. A Time Machine backup of the Mac mini
2. A 3rd-party backup of the Mac mini (in case I have to do a full restore)
3. A backup of my 3TB videos drive.
My question is: should I partition the drive? Anything else I should know? Thanks.
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