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<blockquote data-quote="chemist" data-source="post: 1658332" data-attributes="member: 84235">So suppose I have TM on my desktop EHD and it thus has incrementals for the past month (and further back).&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I bring home my portable EHD, which has been sitting at the bank for the past month.&nbsp; You're saying that, if I do a full TM backup on the portable EHD while the desktop EHD is connected, it will synchronize the TM on the former with the latter, so the portable will now also have all the incrementals for the last month?It might help if I clarified what I'm trying to do, expanding on the what I said in my first post:I'm not planning to use TM as a backup in case of disc failure; that's what the clones are for.&nbsp; If my disk fails or is corrupted, I find being able to boot to, and/or restore from, an external clone, to be far easier and cleaner than using TM.&nbsp; Instead, I just want to add TM as a form of version control -- to allow me to gain access to files I may have deleted (the clones won't help me with that).So, for me, the two different TM's aren't a backup and a backup of a backup.&nbsp; Rather, I think of them as a version-control database, and a backup of that database.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chemist, post: 1658332, member: 84235"] So suppose I have TM on my desktop EHD and it thus has incrementals for the past month (and further back). Now I bring home my portable EHD, which has been sitting at the bank for the past month. You're saying that, if I do a full TM backup on the portable EHD while the desktop EHD is connected, it will synchronize the TM on the former with the latter, so the portable will now also have all the incrementals for the last month? It might help if I clarified what I'm trying to do, expanding on the what I said in my first post: I'm not planning to use TM as a backup in case of disc failure; that's what the clones are for. If my disk fails or is corrupted, I find being able to boot to, and/or restore from, an external clone, to be far easier and cleaner than using TM. Instead, I just want to add TM as a form of version control -- to allow me to gain access to files I may have deleted (the clones won't help me with that). So, for me, the two different TM's aren't a backup and a backup of a backup. Rather, I think of them as a version-control database, and a backup of that database. [/QUOTE]

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