General Mac software discussions: Time Machine Partitions

Perfectly safe,

by mrmacfixit  - 4/26/09 6:03 AM

just make sure that the partition that you use for Time Machine is large enough to contain your, large, initial backup with plenty of room to spare for the incremental backups that follow. The larger the partition size, the further back you will be able to go when attempting to recover lost files.

The Time Machine backup lives in a folder called Backup.backupdb on the TM drive. It is also possible to NOT partition the drive and still use it for both TM and file storage.
Each new backup is added to the Backup.backupdb folder without getting in the way of anything else.

Hope that helps

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