Hi,
Time Machine recommends that you use a dedicated Drive or volume.
I have a 500 GB HD that I've created several volumes on. Only one of
those volumes has been assigned to Time Machine. Now when that Volume
gets full, only the oldest backup will be deleted and nothing on the
other volumes will be erased.
Dan
On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Hi all.
On one of my Mac minis running leopard, I have a 160GB external
drive attached. I used superduper to put a backup of Tiger on the
hard drive and then when Leopard was installed, time Machine also
started using the hard drive. As the time Machine database gets
bigger, is it going to erase my Tiger installation. If so, to
prevent this, would I go in and delete the whole database and let
Time Machine start over or can I just delete the earlier backups or
will that confuse Time Machine? I'm also wondering: if I eventually
use superduper to do a backup of Leopard and thus delete the old
Tiger installation, can superduper do this without erasing my Time
Machine database? I would think the answer to this would be "Yes",
that as long as the Leopard backup isn't too large for the empty
space I should be able to replace the Tiger superduper backup with
the Leopard one without endangering my Time Machine database.
On top of this, I'm getting a new 320GB external disk for the Intel
Mac mini; obviously I don't want Time Machine to use the whole hard
drive. If I start time Machine first, can I then also use the
external disk for other data at the same time?
Tia.
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."
