Hi - my iMac has 2 hard drives, 250 Gb solid state and a 2 Tb drive. I'm backing up using time Machine to an Airport time Capsule but only the 250 Gb drive comes up in hte list? All my photos are on the 2 Tb drive (about 120GB worth) and I want a back up for these. I'm running under OS X 10.9.1 Maverick
Any help would be greatly appreaciated!
OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), back up of 2 hard drives
The secondary drive might be in the exclude list.. so open the TM preferences / options and remove the 2TB from the exclude.. on the next backup the 2TB will be included and you should notice a fairly long backup..
The idea of removing an item from exclude list is a double Negative kind of thinking.. I have no idea why you would have such a method.
Wow - that was quick! I've had a look and I don't have anything in the 'Exclude' area. My problem is that only the 250 Gb Machitosh HD is showing up in the 'Available Disks' window? cheers Rayjac
Ok.. I am surprised..
What did you format the 2TB drive.. I find it hard to imagine you formatted an internal drive anything but Mac OS extended journaled (HFS+) .. but you could have.
Time Machine can only backup HFS+ format drives.
Of course this Mavericks.. and in Mavericks the bugs rein supreme in Time Machine.
Reset TM setup.. See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Make sure the 2TB drive is mounted when you redo the TM setup.
To be honest.. I would also buy CCC and do a full clone of the drive..
TM is great for the occasional file loss.. but it is lousy to restore a drive. CCC at the moment is $40 or so and IMHO money well spent.
I use it but just to say I have no connection to them..
Hi
Not sure if it related or not, but I had a minor issue (I stuffed up) permissions. After my son reset these, I can now see that the 2Tb drive is being backed up!
I've bookmarked the TM site and found it very useful and thanks for the info. I had a quick look at Carbon Copy Cloner and it looks pretty good, so again thanks a lot!
cheers
how do I connect both iMac (2011) hard drives to backup with Time Machine and Airport Time capsule?
