On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Dan Crutcher <[email protected]> wrote:
I have external hard drives both at home and at work and I want to
use both as Time Machine backup drives for my MacBook Pro. It
appears that Time Machine will only let me select one disk at a time
to use as my backup disk, which means that I will have to set up the
other drive in TM's preferences each time I want to use it.
Is that correct, and if so, does anyone know of a way to set up Time
Machine so that it will automatically back up to whichever drive is
currently available without further setup?
I don't have an answer for that particular issue for you, Dan, but I
have made good use of several (at different times) of those little bus-
powered USB and/or FW 2.5" drives for my TM drive. They throw into a
computer bag and hardly up take any room.
Buffalo makes an inexpensive USB enclosure that they put a variety of
mechanisms into that hardly weighs anything and takes up barely more
room than the mechanism itself:
<http://www.buffalotech.com/products/external-storage/ministation/ministation-turbousb-portable-hard-drive-hd-pfu2/
>
Other World Computer makes my favorite Firewire 800 drive enclosure,
but it is a little larger and heavier:
<http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go>
j.
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