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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1835422" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>Yes! An External Hard Drive (EHD) each for Time Machine and a cloned Backup.</p><p></p><p>If you were to put TM and a Cloned BU on the same EHD and it failed, as they all do eventually, you've lost everything. Lose one EHD and you have the other.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure you know this, but modern Operating Systems allow for two TM backups. I have two TM backups on two separate EHDs and another EHD dedicated to a cloned BU.</p><p></p><p>In addition, I BU my libraries (iTunes, Photos) and Documents to yet another EHD.</p><p></p><p>You cannot have too many BUs. Hard Drives fail, sometimes within days of each other.</p><p></p><p>Remember the adage: "Data is valuable and disk is cheap".</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1835422, member: 83420"] Yes! An External Hard Drive (EHD) each for Time Machine and a cloned Backup. If you were to put TM and a Cloned BU on the same EHD and it failed, as they all do eventually, you've lost everything. Lose one EHD and you have the other. I'm sure you know this, but modern Operating Systems allow for two TM backups. I have two TM backups on two separate EHDs and another EHD dedicated to a cloned BU. In addition, I BU my libraries (iTunes, Photos) and Documents to yet another EHD. You cannot have too many BUs. Hard Drives fail, sometimes within days of each other. Remember the adage: "Data is valuable and disk is cheap". Ian [/QUOTE]
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