Yes, sort of. If you wish to use your drive for other backup purposes as well, then you should have two or more partitions on the drive. One for Time Machine backup purposes and the other can be for other backups of whatever you wish. The problem with putting other files on the same partition as the Time Machine backup is that Time Machine will not properly clear up things when it needs more backup space.
Hope this makes sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-24, at 5:19 PM, jean parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok this helps a lot. So to be clear, I can partition my drive for time > machine. Then once it is backed up I can use the rest of the drive as usual? > In other words, time machine doesn't prohibit me from backing up and > retrieving files from the rest of the drive, right? > Jean > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
