I have reformatted the backup drive and set TM to back up the internal HD to it, but how do I point the live external iTunes folder to the backup drive also? I can't see any way to do that. Thanks again! me
On Sunday, January 17, 2021 at 3:16:29 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Bill Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you both for this information. Unfortunately I am not in a position > to buy another external HD so I will have to manage with what I have. In > reading through your comments, I realized that there's no need for the > iTunes backup to be in a separate partition (at least, I think this is so); > I have no idea why I set things up that way originally. (I continue to > refer to "iTunes" even though it's not called that anymore...one cannot > usually teach old dogs new tricks.) Here's what I think I'll do, subject to > your better advice: > > 1. Reformat the backup drive to APFS without a partition > 2. Set up Time Machine to back up the main HD to the newly-formatted > external HD > 3. Copy the contents of the current iTunes drive to the > newly-formatted backup drive. > 4. Reformat the current iTunes drive to the new format > 5. Copy the backed-up iTunes material back to the newly-reformatted > external iTunes drive > 6. Set up Time Machine to back up the external iTunes drive to the > newly-formatted external HD > > Will this approach work? Or, what do I need to change in that proposal? > Again, my thanks for your input. Bill > > > To re-aquaint myself with the original problem: you have your iTunes stuff > on an external drive by itself, and a backup drive that was used by CCC to > back up the iTunes volume and internal HD’s as separate volumes? You never > actually specified what was on each external volume. > > if it’s like this: > external Disk 1: iTunes > external Disk 2:Partition 1 existing CCC internal backup, partition > 2 existing CCC itunes backup > > 1) reformat backup drive as a single partition. I do not know if the OS > lets you format hard drives as APFS, but it will be offered as an option if > so. (Remember, drive reformats like this are done at the Physical disk > level in Disk Utility the one named Seagate or WD something something, not > the Volume level) > > 2) Set this newly formatted volume as your Time Machine volume and point > both the internal HD and external iTunes **folder** to it for backing up. > > No need to be copying back and forth like you were planning. > > OTOH if the partition drive is your internal backup and your ‘live’ iTunes > volume, I’d reformat the remaining one copy the live iTunes to it and then > reformat the whole new backup drive as a single volume and then point the > internal HD and the iTunes folder on the (now) external iTunes volume to > Time Machine. > > Time machine isn’t picky about the drive formatting it’s backing up, just > the formatting of it’s drive. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/7160b5c5-8522-470f-9498-4ea675121076n%40googlegroups.com.
