Hi Muggers, I have a 1TB Time Capsule which has the backup Sparsebundle files of the 4 Macbooks (my Wife's plus 3 kids) currently in my house. I have bought a MacBook Pro for middle child for school next year and as a result I can have his hand-me-down (hand-me-up??) Black Macbook (not such a bad thing as it has a 120GB SSD). Anyway, the TC is nearing it's 1TB capacity limit as it is, but once I set up the 5th Macbook for me and associated TC backup, it will exceed the capacity of the TC.
My question is, if I attach an external drive to the TC USB port, can I select that external drive as the destination of my 'hand-me-down' Macbook backup OR should I be replacing my TC with a 2TB or 3TB unit? Maybe the external drive needs to be dedicated to Time Machine Backups instead of other data as well, which would be fine. Compounding the above problem, my wife's recent (earlier this year) upgrade to a 13" MBP resulted somehow in a peculiar doubling of the size of the sparsebundle file for her MBP - not sure how it happened. In any case, I am inclined to make a clone of the MBP, then blow away the sparesebundle file, and set up a new TM backup and so reduce it back to the ~230GB of her current data instead of the current 533GB sparesebundle file for a 500GB MBP!! Is this intended action the best way to fix the oversize sparsebundle issue I have for my wife's MBP? I'm not worried about any "lost" data as the cloning in it's current state will be good enough given the data content. I am also interested in knowing what OSX I can get the hand-me-down black Macbook upgraded to. It is a Macbook 4.1 model, currently using OSX 10.6.8, 2.4GHz and 2GB memory. If I have to stay with Snow Leopard, thats fine, for my purposes it will be ok till I get a 13" Retina MBP early next year. Is Mavericks or ML beyond this machines capability? Apologies for containing a number of questions in this but for context, these issues are not able to be completely separated into discrete subjects. Regards Pete -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
