Multiple Time Machine Backups

31 Dec 2016 15:48:54

Michael Corgan

My iMac internal hard drive is in two partitions, one of which runs Snow Leopard, the other El Capitan.

Is it possible to partition an external hard drive and use two partitions as Time Machine back-ups, one for each iMac partition?

Re: Multiple Time Machine Backups

1 Jan 2017 00:51:21

Tony Still

I don't see why not.

My TM machine has two partitions, one is dedicated to TM and the other has never been offered to TM but just has whatever I choose on it. You wouldn't be doing anything fundamentally different to that - each OS would have no reason to back-up to a partition that it not been offered.

Re: Multiple Time Machine Backups

1 Jan 2017 09:55:37

Eric Jervis

I run El Capitan on one of the four partitions on my external drive, and TM on another.

Re: Multiple Time Machine Backups

1 Jan 2017 11:47:11

Mick Burrell

I think you'd need to tell the SL backup NOT to back up EC and vice versa otherwise both backups would backup everything.