This sounds correct, Julian.
On the same Time Capsule I have a Time Machine folder for my MacBook and Time Machine folder for my wife's MacBook, but nothing else.
The TM for my MacBook is updated regularly per day; why so, I can't justify, but it is there so I might as well use it. "TimeMachineEditor" is a useful app for changing the frequency of updates - by hours, days, etc.
As well, on a separate 1TB FireWire HD, there are four partitions, one of which holds a sort-of part-time reserve Time Machine folder. More importantly, one other partition is used solely for a bootable Super Duper! backup done weekly.
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Best Wishes from
Brian Ferguson.
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Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
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OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Nisus Writer Pro 1.4.1
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On 20/09/2010, at 2:17 PM, Julian Gomez wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2010, at 22:11 , Geoffrey Heard wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> I can't find any instructions for Time Machine. The first thing it wants to do, apparently, is to take total control of the HD I want to use for back-ups. Is this normal? Can't it use just part of the HD?
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> My experience is that Time Machine shares the HD. I have a bunch of folders on my backup HD, and Time Machine stores all of its stuff in its own folder alongside.
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