I am fairly certain that Time Machine places all the backup information into a very specific directory on your back-up drive. If this is the case, and if this directory does not exist on your Primary disk then you should be OK.
I know that Carbon Copy can co-exist if it is run first. Perhaps you want to get a coppy of the take Control book on backups. Take control books are 50% off this week. (Read the instructions in Tidbits.com for how to get the discount). Jon [And no, I get no kickbacks from the Tidbits / Take Control group, I have just found them always to be useful and current] On 21/07/2010, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't see any replies to this yet. I haven't used carbon copy cloner. > Does it make it's backup into a single file? If so you could probably > store that on the 1TB drive. That said, Time Machine's backup folder > simply stores incremental backups until it fills up the volume and then > starts deleting the oldest backups. So sooner or later that volume will > fill up. I just put a 2TB drive in my other machine for TM backups and > partitioned it into two 500GB volumes and a 1TB volume. The two 500s I > use for two time machine backups, my laptop over the network and the > local machine. Then the 1TB volume is just for general use. That seems > to work well. I haven't done enough re-partitioning to know if you can > resize or not without losing data. Even if you did, you could just run > another time machine backup after you're done. Chances of failure of > your machine at the same time that you're reconfiguring backups is > pretty small. Because everything should just be files on the backup > volume you shouldn't have anything stepping on anything. > > CB > > Mary Otten wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have a 1 tb hard drive which is being used by time machine. But I would >> also really like to have a bootable back up, and I know TM does not do >> this. I have carbon copy cloneer, which will make bootable back ups. >> Question is, and perhaps its a stupid one, are the applications smart >> enough not to step on each others data? If the drive were partitioned, >> that would be an obvious way to solve the problem. But it isn't, and I've >> got several months worth of time machine backups on it already, so should >> think partitioning at this time would not be possible without data loss. >> is that correct? >> Mary >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
