Will Time Machine back up all users on my Mac or just the one that set it up?

When I set up Time Machine to back up to a local disk Will it back up all users on that machine or just my profile?

Posted on Jun 15, 2020 11:02 PM

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rkaufmann87

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Jun 15, 2020 11:15 PM in response to MET791

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