Just to be clear, you must dedicate a drive or partition to Time
Machine. It will take over whatever you give it and keep archiving until
it uses up all available space on that drive or partition. Once it runs
out of space it will prune the oldest backups first. As Tim points out,
if you start putting other stuff on or taking stuff off the Time Machine
storage space yourself it can cause Time Machine to get confused and
stop working.
CB
On 6/24/13 12:03 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
In order for Time Machine to work, the external HD must be formatted
MacOS Extended Journaled. You should have either an HD dedicated to
these backups or a partition on the HD dedicated to the Time Machine
backup. There should be about twice as much space available on the
backup drive as space on your internal HD. Time Machine does backups
on this HD and will get rid of older portions of backups as the drive
gets full. If there are other things on the drive besides the Time
Machine backup, it cannot do this properly and thus when it gets full,
your backups will just stop happening.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-06-23, at 9:46 PM, jean parker <radiofore...@gmail.com
<mailto:radiofore...@gmail.com>> wrote:
All:
I want to use time machine to back up my computer. I opened it up
and it wants a disk drive connected. I have an external disk drive
for backup files. What is the procedure from there? What else do I
need to know?
Jean
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