storing Timemachine's data

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I was thinking of buying the Western Digital My Book Pro 1Terra series http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...sp?DriveID=270
for making my backups, but im not sure if Timemachine will cooperate with it successfully. Does anyone know where Timemachine will store to a certain drive/folder all the info that will be used after as a backup? I mean can i plug in the 1terra to the big firewire port and then through timemachine order it to save the backed up info to that external drive?
 
Time Machine will back up to any drive that's not an iPod, AFAIK. You should be good with any FireWire drive on the market -that's not formatted with something that OSX doesn't write to-.
 
Qion said:
Time Machine will back up to any drive that's not an iPod, AFAIK. You should be good with any FireWire drive on the market -that's not formatted with something that OSX doesn't write to-.
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U know this of first hand?
 
Check out the released information about Time Machine at Apple's web site.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html

Additional information beyond what Apple says there may be found in articles on line. Google "Apple Time Machine".

Information you receive will be only what Apple has released publicly, as developer releases of Leopard (read - not available to the general public) are still covered under non-disclosure agreement.

The link above indicates (on the right hand side of the page) that it will be pretty darned flexible with regard to it's backups location.
 
Is Time Machine flexible enough to recover data from the use of an external hd where all the files are worked/saved/opened/closed only within that hd?
 
Basically, it'll be "see-through". You connect your big harddrive, Mac OS X 10.5 asks you whether you want to use the drive for TimeMachine (not exclusively, of course) and will start to back things up on that drive from your internal drive. Once you need to "go back in time", you simply bring up TimeMachine and do so. You don't have to care where the backup comes from. You can also use multiple harddrives AFAIK. Depending on when which one was connected, you'll have a backup of that time or not. The details about it are not widely spread yet, though.

To answer your question in short, though: Yes.
 
It makes you wonder what will happen when you don't have the external drive connected. Presumably you just won't get backups until you do.
 
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