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Q: Internal Hard Drive Backup + External Hard Drive Backup

Hi everyone and thanks for your attention.

 

My question is about Backup for two different hard disk.

 

I've got an internal 500 gb hard disk and a 4 tb external hard disk and my computer is a Macbook pro 15 Unibody 10.6.8.

 

I need daily (or better hourly) back up for the internal and the external. On the internal I've got system and applications, on the external my work project folders.

 

My solution at the moment are two other hard disk raid mounted as backup drives. They form together 5tb back up space. I'm using time machine, so it manage my internal 500 gb disk and my external 4tb disk together.

 

Today I had to recover my system from Time Machine. The app is recovering the documents, but I have a doubt. Before starting recovering I had to choose the hard drive where to recover the system. I had to decide between the internal and the external, and I've chosen the internal, because the OS was installed there.

 

Will Time Machine put the files, that were on the internal drive, in the internal drive and the ones that were on the external on the external?

 

My complete back up is 2.4 tb so my 500 gb won't surely be enough.

 

Moreover. I'm assuming that is so much better to divide the back up. One backup system for the internal and one for the external. It seems to me that my version of Time Machine (10.6.8) does not allow to assign different back up drive for different is use drive. Eg. an external drive to use for the internal drive and another external drive for the external drive in use.

 

What about next Time Machine versions?

 

Or maybe would be better to use Time Machine for the internal drive with an external drive as back up, and the use an another application such as Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the external drive to another different external drive.

 

To be more clear, the solution I'd like to have is:

 

Internal Drive (500 gb) > time machine > External Drive (1tb)

 

External Drive (4tb) > Carbon Copy Cloner > External Drive  (5tb)

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Nicola

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 25, 2013 5:55 AM

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