The tricky bit is that Time Machine will continue to grow the size of
the backup set until it fills all available space. After that it prunes
the oldest stuff in prep for new backups. The end result is that if you
don't keep it on its own partition time machine will eventually use up
the entire 2TB drive and you won't have room for anything else. That
also means you can probably go way back in time to recover a deleted
file, but that's probably not your goal. Instead, I would partition that
drive into two pieces. One for Time machine and one for everything else.
Generally I make my TM partitions roughly 2 times the amount of data I
have on my drive. My laptop has a 500GB drive but I only have about
200GB or so on there, so I made the TM backup partition 500GB. Then I
use the rest of the space for other things.
CB
On 7/8/12 12:56 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
My drive is connected via usb.
On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:51 AM, rashantha de silva wrote:
Stacey
I assume you are using Time Machine for backups. You can store what you like on
the drive. To move your music look at iTunes prefs > Advanced tab it will show
the path to your music. Just google moving my itunes library to an external drive.
You haven't indicated how your 2tb is connected. That would be helpful.
Hope that helps a bit.
On Jul 8, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
Hi all,
I now have a drive for backing up my mac running SnowLeopard. I've backed it up
successfully.
This drive is a 2TB drive. Can I also store files on the drive such as music?
Do I need to do something so that my backups are in a different place?
If so what do I need to do and how do I do it?
Step by step instructions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Stacey and GEB dog Chesley
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