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Make Time Machine use a Local Volume as a Network Volume
Some thoughts about this hint:
This introduces obstacles to anyone wishing to make copies of a Time Machine volume.Apple's KBase article HT5096 ("Time Machine: How to transfer backups from the current backup drive to a new backup drive") says drag and drop copy of an existing Time Machine backup should be OK, as long as the target disk is formatted appropriately. However a sparseimage backup would be more flexible when copying existing backups to not-appropriately-formatted volumes. Unfortunately, Time Machine will not back up to a local directory, but instead requires an entire volume be dedicated to backups.Time Machine doesn't require the backup volume to only contain backups--other data can be stored on the volume beyond the backups. Or is this statement saying "the only thing Time Machine will back up to is a hard drive (volume) or a network-based Time Machine share, and I want it to back up to a specific folder on a specific drive"? Further, Time Machine will utilize as much free space as possible on the volume.This is also true for network-based/sparseimage backups--they will expand to fill up the file share. However one could set up quotas to limit the size of backups. Can the hint poster expand on the goal(s) for this hint?
Make Time Machine use a Local Volume as a Network Volume
"Time Machine doesn't require the backup volume to only contain backups--other data can be stored on the volume beyond the backups. "
Make Time Machine use a Local Volume as a Network Volume
To my knowledge, Time Machine will back up to: --- Jolly Roger Edited on Mar 13, '14 01:08:53PM by jollyroger
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