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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: asmeurer on Jun 17, '08 11:11:48AM

I don't see the need to partition your drive ahead of time, except maybe to make sure that space is available. Disk Utility on the install disk will let you partition once your disk fails.



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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: Felix on Jun 17, '08 11:22:24AM

>> I don't see the need to partition your drive ahead of time, except maybe to make sure that space is available. Disk Utility on the install disk will let you partition once your disk fails.

Thank you!! Just answered my question...I didn't see why that blank partition needed to be sitting there unused either.



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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: carbon60 on Jun 17, '08 12:10:10PM
I suggest that repartitioning the drive your backups are on before doing a restore is absolute insanity.

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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: windrag on Jun 17, '08 01:34:14PM

Except for the fact that Time Machine will keep making backups until the partition its assigned to fills up. At that point, if you you try to repartition, you'll be overwriting data.

Or am I missing something. I think this is a great hint.

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