Choosing disk to backup to in Time Machine

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Choosing disk to backup to in Time Machine

I am trying to set up an external drive for my backups and when I click on "Select Backup Disk" none appears. How do I find my external drive to do this?

Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 4, 2013 1:01 PM

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BDAqua

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May 4, 2013 4:09 PM in response to timnuse

Hi, did you format this new drive HFS+ Journalled?

How to format your disks...

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html

(To Install OSX on an IntelMac the Drive it needs the GUID Partitioning scheme mentioned at the bottom.)

Thanks to Pondini, Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks...

http://Pondini.org/OSX/DU.html

Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?

http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Can't imagine something not being covered there.

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timnuse Author

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May 5, 2013 12:58 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks for the help BDAqua. This has been useful. My challenge now is that I have about 140 GB of video from various vacations and this will get erased if I partition. Is there a way to accomplish this without losing this video or needing to copy it to another location first? Thanks again!

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BDAqua

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May 5, 2013 1:47 PM in response to timnuse

What fomat is it now?

Partitioning would be dangerous to try without a backup copy, perhaps this would accomplish what you want instead of TM... as long as you don't clone the Drive...

Tri-Backup...

http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html

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