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10.5: Use multiple drives for Time Machine backups
Another side note, just for the archives: one can easily use multiple drives for backup.
10.5: Use multiple drives for Time Machine backups
(As per the original hint, it is of course not sufficient to have a file name that matches the MAC address, and contents that match /var/db/.TimeMachine.Cookie, to make a drive being used for a specific computer. The extended attributes must be set as well. All of these will be fine when copying an existing backup onto a second drive.)
10.5: Use multiple drives for Time Machine backups
10.5: Use multiple drives for Time Machine backups
As for the 10.5: Use multiple Time Machine disks for redundancy hint mentioned above: be sure to read its comments for more insight about, for example, the extended attribute And for whoever is reading these comments (about using multiple drives) through deep links posted on some other sites: please note that these comments are part of a much longer story: 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes. (Reading the whole story you will learn many more details, like how you might run into "Volume at path /Volumes/TM does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer. (Cookies do not match)", and like selecting another drive for Time Machine (through System Preferences) might change the timestamp and contents of /var/db/.TimeMachine.Cookie as well.) If you initially want to clone a drive to get your second backup drive, then see A Bigger Time Machine without Changing History.
10.5: Use multiple drives for Time Machine backups
...but after cloning a Time Machine disk you may want to take the extended attribute com.apple.backupd.SnapshotVolumeUUID into account as well.
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