Include USB hardrive in time machine backup

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Include USB hardrive in time machine backup

Hi,

I have a time capsule with an external harddrive attached to it through the USB port. The external hardrive contains my iTunes library which I access wirelessly. Id like to include this in my time machine backups.

How do I go about including this drive in my time machine backups?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 22, 2009 7:04 AM

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V.K.

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Mar 22, 2009 7:51 AM in response to Barry Shortt

Time Machine can not back up remote drives. it can only back up directly attached drives. you either have to move the drive and plug it in directly or use a different backup tool. I think CCCloner should be able to back it up for example.

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