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<blockquote data-quote="pannix" data-source="post: 1400536" data-attributes="member: 227361"><p>I have decided to pay more attention to my backups. I have Mac mini with 500 GB.</p><p>What I normally do: </p><p>- data that I need across several computers is stored on Dropbox</p><p>- older stuff is stored on an aging external hard disk</p><p>- all my email accounts are imap</p><p>- data that I won't be using in a while is stored on DVD and cloud storage</p><p>- for everything that I want version management I use an online svn account</p><p></p><p>If I would buy an external hard drive and use it for Time machine. How much bigger does it have to be than the internal hard drive? I have read that with Time machine you can go back to previous versions of a document, which means more data. Does Time machine use the entire external hard drive? Because I would like to use the external drive to backup and share data between my mac mini and linux box. What are the advantages of time machine when you don't care about previous versions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pannix, post: 1400536, member: 227361"] I have decided to pay more attention to my backups. I have Mac mini with 500 GB. What I normally do: - data that I need across several computers is stored on Dropbox - older stuff is stored on an aging external hard disk - all my email accounts are imap - data that I won't be using in a while is stored on DVD and cloud storage - for everything that I want version management I use an online svn account If I would buy an external hard drive and use it for Time machine. How much bigger does it have to be than the internal hard drive? I have read that with Time machine you can go back to previous versions of a document, which means more data. Does Time machine use the entire external hard drive? Because I would like to use the external drive to backup and share data between my mac mini and linux box. What are the advantages of time machine when you don't care about previous versions? [/QUOTE]
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