If you don't mind a little terminal hacking and your TM volume can be
500GB or less then this article talks about how to create a sparsebundle
disk image on an exFAT formatted drive. exFAT means you can read the
drive on Mac or Windows and the sparsebundle hack means time machine can
mount its own fake drive to do its backups. The 500MB limit comes from
the exFAT format not supporting more than 65K files in a single directory.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140415132734925
CB
On 2/12/15 8:47 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote:
from my limited experience with this sort of thing I don’t think you’d have to
partition your external hard drive but you might need to reformat it before you
start putting stuff on it if it doesn’t work for multiple operating systems.
Lorie McCloud
[email protected]
On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Shawn Krasniuk <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey all. Today I bought an external hard drive because of that freak accident
with my Mac a few weeks ago. So I got a few questions about it.
1. I want to do a time machine backup of my entire HD. However, I have a whole
bunch of youtube videos I copied onto another system other than my Mac. Can I
copy over those videos onto the external drive without partitioning it?
2. If I have to partition the drive, how would I go about doing that?
Thanks in advance.
Shawn
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