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Make Time Machine use a Local Volume as a Network Volume
Authored by: hamarkus on Mar 11, '14 03:49:43PM

"Time Machine doesn't require the backup volume to only contain backups--other data can be stored on the volume beyond the backups. "

(1) TM requires to be located at the root of a volume (you can only select a volume as the destination in the preferences, not a folder on a volume which in effect cause the TM backup to always be at the top level of volume).

(2) Unless you manually delete older TM backups, TM will fill up the target volume completely eventually. Which in the end means that the volume gets turned into an almost read-only volume for other data because you can only read (or delete/move) other data from it but cannot put other new data onto it because the volume will be filled to close to capacity. Of course, you can always manually delete the oldest backups when you need more space for other data but it is an extra step that has to be repeated periodically.



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