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mac hd backup to external hd
Posted on 9/10/14 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 9/10/14 at 2:13 pm
a few fairly dumb inquiries, but i wanted to make myself feel better:
i have a circa 2009 macbook pro that i use time machine with to back up onto a seagate external HD.
question 1: how many backup versions should a guy keep? 2?10?
question 2: right now i have actual photo and music libraries stored as redundancy on the seagate in a folder, but wouldn't these be redundant to the backup versions (i back up once a week and dont load that much new stuff).
question 3: seagate external HD is formatted in HFS+ Mac OS Extended, Journaled. its 500GB and only about 200GB is used. I want to partition with the second partition in FAT32 so that partition can go between mac/windows...is this doable?
i have a circa 2009 macbook pro that i use time machine with to back up onto a seagate external HD.
question 1: how many backup versions should a guy keep? 2?10?
question 2: right now i have actual photo and music libraries stored as redundancy on the seagate in a folder, but wouldn't these be redundant to the backup versions (i back up once a week and dont load that much new stuff).
question 3: seagate external HD is formatted in HFS+ Mac OS Extended, Journaled. its 500GB and only about 200GB is used. I want to partition with the second partition in FAT32 so that partition can go between mac/windows...is this doable?
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Posted on 9/10/14 at 2:24 pm to man in the stadium
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how many backup versions should a guy keep? 2?10?
3 is what I believe is a good number. Time Machine, clone of drive, off site.
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right now i have actual photo and music libraries stored as redundancy on the seagate in a folder, but wouldn't these be redundant to the backup versions (i back up once a week and dont load that much new stuff).
Not following this completely, but it does seem like you have the same files backed up twice on the same drive.
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seagate external HD is formatted in HFS+ Mac OS Extended, Journaled. its 500GB and only about 200GB is used. I want to partition with the second partition in FAT32 so that partition can go between mac/windows...is this doable?
Pretty sure FAT32 is read only on Mac. Read/write on Windows.
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