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Can I use Time Machine to back up onto Seagate or EasyRestore external drive?

Can I use Time Machine to back up onto Seagate or EasyRestore external drive?

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Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

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Nov 10, 2021 11:52 AM in response to Chris-shlagor

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

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Nov 10, 2021 10:45 AM in response to Chris-shlagor

As long as you chuck any mfg software and format as APFS.

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Nov 10, 2021 11:34 AM in response to Keith Barkley

Thank you. I’ll have to find out how to do that since I haven’t done that before but I’m sure I can figure it out.

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