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osx time machine w multiple partions

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Author: Tripnik on May 15 2008

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--> I got a terabyte drive a few weeks ago and made several partitions in hopes of minimizing casualties in the unfortunate event of a crash. I set osx's time machine to back up my laptop's internal hd to one partition, but I'm using another external hard drive as a scratch disk for music and video works in progress. Time machine allows me to back up multiple drives, but I can't figure out how to specify multiple backup destinations. Ideally I'd be able to back up my internal drive to a specified internal partition, and my scratch disk to a specified scratch partition.

Any ideas?

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05/16/08 + Tripnik

or, if anyone has any good mac programs that will handle automated backups without TOTALLY killing computer performance, I'd appreciate any endorsements.

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07/03/08 + antfactor

hmmm. If I'm not mistaken (and I may be!) TimeMachine will only back up data from the home-drive to one external drive. There is probably a script or patch work-around on Google somewhere... but damned if I know. There are loads of free back-up routines that are Leopard compatible. Check under downloads on the Apple web-site, and Google (of course). This could also be done as a fairly simple script as well (don't ask me though... I don't write those - yet!).

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07/03/08 + bodo

I use deja vu easy and very configurable

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07/03/08 + airliner

Super Duper is a great, flexible OSX backup program. I have it set up to run two scheduled back ups: I back up my system drive to a disk image on External Drive #1 once a week, then back up External Drive #1 to External Drive #2 a day later. It's totally seamless and reliable. And it's cheap too.

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