You're wrong. When connected to a single volume, time machine uses
the entire volume.
The correct solution is erase and partition, so you have one volume
per backup. Just moving the folders won't alter the internal DB
structure Time MAchine uses to keep track of things.
Thank you. I have erased and partitioned.
An academic question (or two) to help me understand Time Machine
better: Why the different folders for each computer if TM is not
equipped to keep track accordingly? Even though the backups from both
OS's were all incorrectly lumped into the MiniLion folder (presumably
because of my own little snafu), subfolders did correctly identify the
backups as either Leopard or Lion. When I experimentally began an
"initial" TM backup of Leopard, I saw that it was showing as a file
"in progress" in the correct G4Leopard folder. How can it be that TM
creates differentiation and then fails to recognize it? Unfortunately,
I never got as far as seeing whether Lion's TM would show all the
Leopard backups, since I couldn't "Enter Time Machine" there for some
unknown reason (maybe the disk problems on the external HD that had to
be repaired with DiskUtility). Are you saying that I wouldn't have
seen those backups in Lion no matter what, or that Lion's TM couldn't
be entered because I was attempting to use the same volume for
different TM backups? I was able to enter TM in Leopard, though there
was nothing there from which to restore, of course.
Sean
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