Macbook + time machine

J1234 · 11 Nov 2007 at 21:46

J273 said:
Say if i was to buy a 500gb extrenal hardrive for time machine...Is that all the hard drive can be used for?

or could i install say my music on there?

Does timemachine need the whole of the disk space?

Thanks

Just partition it, 1 half for Time Machine, the other half for music or whatever

Mr Jones · 11 Nov 2007 at 21:49

The more disk space, the further back in time it can back up - over days/weeks/months/years, as you routinely back it up.

I did a partition with my 250GB external HDD, 100GB is used for Time Machine and the other 150GB for my Media - so when I plug in my firewire, 2 HDD is shown on finder, one will auto sync with Time Machine and the other is the usual external drive.

(which will change for me soon, shall repartition it to 250GB for time machine and got me another HDD for my media

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J273 · 11 Nov 2007 at 22:59

Doh........Didnt think of that.

thanks guys

WotDa · 11 Nov 2007 at 23:25

I have a 400Gb drive split 3 ways, 124Gb each;

1 for Time Machine, 1 NTFS partition for Winblows backups and a NFS Partition for big ass Mac files.