You DO NOT want to put any of your extra file storage into backups.backupdb. For those situations where there’s just one backup drive connected to one Mac, there will be one folder inside backups.backupdb with the name of your Mac on it (i.e., “Bob’s iMac”). That folder contains a folder for each Mac that’s using the drive as a backup drive, so if you’re sharing the drive by connecting it to an Apple AirPort Wi-Fi router, you’ll find multiple folders inside it. Time Machine saves all of the backups for your Mac in a deceptively innocuous folder on your backup drive named backups.backupdb. For the final post this month about the important topic of backups, we’ll take a look at how one drive can be used for both Time Machine backups and for storing your files.įirst, we’ll look at an easy way to do the job, then look at a more complex method that essentially turns your one backup drive into two drives. We also talked about creating bootable backups as a way to get your Mac up and running quickly in the case of a primary drive failure and provided three ways to back up your iOS devices.
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