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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1716203" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Time Machine backups are stored on an external hard drive or some type of network storage not internally on the Mac. This is something of a safety measure. If the backups were stored internally and that drive fails then the backup can be lost as well as the initial data.</p><p></p><p>I can only think of two instances where Time Machine backups are stored internally:</p><p>1. On Mac notebooks Time Machine backups are stored internally if the regular external Time Machine is unavailable. As the external drive becomes available backups are moved off of the internal drives.</p><p>2. Some users have partitioned their internal drive and chosen to store their main drive/contents on one partition and Time machine backups on the other partition. I <strong>don't not recommend</strong> this because a drive failure can take out your data and the backup in one fell swoop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1716203, member: 131855"] Time Machine backups are stored on an external hard drive or some type of network storage not internally on the Mac. This is something of a safety measure. If the backups were stored internally and that drive fails then the backup can be lost as well as the initial data. I can only think of two instances where Time Machine backups are stored internally: 1. On Mac notebooks Time Machine backups are stored internally if the regular external Time Machine is unavailable. As the external drive becomes available backups are moved off of the internal drives. 2. Some users have partitioned their internal drive and chosen to store their main drive/contents on one partition and Time machine backups on the other partition. I [B]don't not recommend[/B] this because a drive failure can take out your data and the backup in one fell swoop. [/QUOTE]
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