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Can you backup Time Machine on MULTIPLE external drives using APFS?

I just upgraded from Catalina to BigSur. On Catalina, I was Time Machine backing up to two separate external drives formatted as HFS+ encrypted.


My question: If I want to move to APFS encrypted drives for Time Machine backups, can I back up to TWO separate external drives? Or does the new APFS Time Machine format only allow backup to one external drive?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Feb 7, 2021 5:21 PM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2021 7:26 AM

The disk format doesn't alter the ability to back up to multiple drives.

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Can you backup Time Machine on MULTIPLE external drives using APFS?

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