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Can I use an external hard drive, as both a back up, and save files & photos ?
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1815521" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>If I may add a word of caution. If you use an External Hard Drive (EHD) to create a Backup (BU) of your Mac (that could be with Time Machine or a Clone), and then start to add Files and photos to that EHD, you face at least two difficulties:</p><p></p><p>1. You may start to run out of space on the EHD.</p><p></p><p>2. All drives fail sometime (fact!) and if you lost that EHD, you'd not only lose your BU from the Mac, but all the Files and photos as well.</p><p></p><p>The third, possibly less likely, is that there could be a conflict between your various BU strategies.</p><p></p><p>So, as a general rule:</p><p></p><p>An EHD should be dedicated to one specific BU - a Time Machine backup for example.</p><p></p><p>The EHD should have a storage capacity of around 1.5 times the storage capacity of the Mac it's backing up. Time Machine is ideal for this as the BUs are incremental and don't need any specific input from you, apart from connecting the EHD to the Mac.</p><p></p><p>If you want to BU Files, Photos, Videos etc, that, ideally should be to a separate EHD - and you will need to keep these BUs current, ie up to date, and do so manually. </p><p></p><p>Hope that adds some background.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1815521, member: 83420"] If I may add a word of caution. If you use an External Hard Drive (EHD) to create a Backup (BU) of your Mac (that could be with Time Machine or a Clone), and then start to add Files and photos to that EHD, you face at least two difficulties: 1. You may start to run out of space on the EHD. 2. All drives fail sometime (fact!) and if you lost that EHD, you'd not only lose your BU from the Mac, but all the Files and photos as well. The third, possibly less likely, is that there could be a conflict between your various BU strategies. So, as a general rule: An EHD should be dedicated to one specific BU - a Time Machine backup for example. The EHD should have a storage capacity of around 1.5 times the storage capacity of the Mac it's backing up. Time Machine is ideal for this as the BUs are incremental and don't need any specific input from you, apart from connecting the EHD to the Mac. If you want to BU Files, Photos, Videos etc, that, ideally should be to a separate EHD - and you will need to keep these BUs current, ie up to date, and do so manually. Hope that adds some background. Ian [/QUOTE]
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