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<blockquote data-quote="domromer" data-source="post: 833521" data-attributes="member: 38860"><p>I've recently bought a new back up drive and have partioned it into 2 parts. </p><p>The first partition is FAT32. On this partition I keep my photos and music. From my reading this is the only format that can be read by Macs and Windows. On the other partition I have formatted it to extended journaled. On this partition I have used Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable version of my OS and all files on the HD. I set it up this way so I could bring my back up drive to school and still have access to my music and photos. And also I wanted a bootable version and was told this can only be done with extended journaled with Carbon Copy.</p><p></p><p>I was at the Mac store today and told the guy what I was doing in terms of backing up. He said it didn't sound like a good idea but couldn't explain why. </p><p>I wondered if you guys could comment on this backup system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="domromer, post: 833521, member: 38860"] I've recently bought a new back up drive and have partioned it into 2 parts. The first partition is FAT32. On this partition I keep my photos and music. From my reading this is the only format that can be read by Macs and Windows. On the other partition I have formatted it to extended journaled. On this partition I have used Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable version of my OS and all files on the HD. I set it up this way so I could bring my back up drive to school and still have access to my music and photos. And also I wanted a bootable version and was told this can only be done with extended journaled with Carbon Copy. I was at the Mac store today and told the guy what I was doing in terms of backing up. He said it didn't sound like a good idea but couldn't explain why. I wondered if you guys could comment on this backup system. [/QUOTE]
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