No need to partition, you can just plug the drive into each Mac and it’ll back up to its own folder.
Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 4 Feb 2019, at 16:21, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, thanks. Very helpful. > > Whilst I've got you on all things TimeMachine, Sam... is it possible for me > to partition an external HDD, and then use each partition for manual > TimeMachine backups for our two Macs, from time to time? > > Thanks > > > > On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 2:36:41 PM UTC, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Time Machine only sees the files provided by the OS, doesn’t matter if the > drive’s encrypted or not. Ideally you’d want to back up to an encrypted > drive, otherwise there’s no point in encrypting the source. > > Regards > > Sam > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 <> > [email protected] <> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > >> On 4 Feb 2019, at 10:29, mac98aop <[email protected] <>> wrote: >> >> Thanks Sam and Toby. >> >> Left it overnight, and that certainly has helped, probably moved about 15% >> further along. Will do that again tonight, and very likely tomorrow night >> too! >> >> Hopefully it won't have a hit on performance, else I'll decrypt it. >> >> As for TimeMachine backups.... if I backup once it's encrypted, and then >> choose to decrypt and then backup, is TimeMachine ok with that?! >> >> Thanks >> >> Adam >> >> On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 10:14:31 AM UTC, Toby Leighton wrote: >> If you were to cancel it (if that’s even safely possible mid way through) it >> would have to crunch through your data decrypting everything it’s done so >> far, so it would likely take as long as it’s been running up until now. Once >> it’s all finished you shouldn’t see a noticeable hit on performance. >> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 00:23, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected] >> <>> wrote: >> You could leave it plugged in and running overnight until completed? >> >> Sam >> >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. >> Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development >> >> Sam Mullen >> +44 (0)7747778022 <> >> [email protected] <> >> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration >> number 8466597 >> >> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain >> privileged or confidential information. >> If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete >> the email immediately. >> >> >> >> On 3 Feb 2019, at 20:36, mac98aop <[email protected] <>> wrote: >> >> I fear I know the answer to this already, but.... >> >> When updating to High Sierra, I accepted the kind offer (!) to turn on >> FileVault as part of the setup process. I've never bothered before, but >> thought "why not?" >> >> It's now been nearly two weeks, and I've realised that when plugged in to >> power, this is what's causing my MBPro to lag (as it stops encrypting when >> on battery power of course). >> >> But it's making slow/no progress (see attached) and I'm not permitted to >> perform a TimeMachine backup whilst it's in progress. >> >> Is there anyway at all I can either cancel it, or jumpstart it? >> >> Thanks everyone. >> >> Adam >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> <Screen Shot 2019-02-03 at 20.31.04.png> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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