Yes, sort of. If you wish to use your drive for other backup purposes as well,
then you should have two or more partitions on the drive. One for Time Machine
backup purposes and the other can be for other backups of whatever you wish.
The problem with putting other files on the same partition
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
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
