Time Machine Multiple External Hard Drives...problems!
Hi,
So, I just got a new 2012 Mac Mini Server. I'm having multiple issues, but the most pressing one involves backups.
I have a 1TB external drive which I've set up with Time Machine to backup the Mini's hard drive. No problem.
Now, I have two 2TB drives which I've been using with my old white Santa Rose MacBook running Leopard to store Movies/Music/TV Shows and to back those up. I was using Time Machine for that and had no issues.
I, also, had two 2TB drives on which I was storing and backing up my own films/artwork/writings and these were connected to my ancient PPC G5 running Tiger. As Time Machine does not run on Tiger and the built in WD SmartWare did not run on it either, I was rather carelessly just trying to remember to copy stuff over to the 2nd drive after I'd made any major additions or changes.
Now, the WD SmartWare is only giving me the option to backup the Mac Mini hard drive which I have no need for nor interest in as Time Machine is taking care of that; I cannot seem to make the WD SmartWare software allow me to choose any external drive to back up any other external drive.
When I attempted to add the backup drives to Time Machine as backups and the other two as primary drives, I was told there was not enough space which there clearly is as I've been using them to back up all along and none of the drives are full.
What are my options here? I have Time Machine backing up the Mac Mini hard drive to Back Up Drive 1. I have Primary Drive A not being backed up by Back Up Drive A and Primary Drive B not being backed up by Back Up Drive B. Is there other software which will let me do what I need to do? I need regular, reliable backups of this data.
Thanks
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), OS X Server