![]() Every week our Peter Cohen brings you Switch to Mac — a column to help you move from Windows PC to the Mac and OS X! Read more about switching to Mac One option is to back up your old Windows external drive (using Time Machine or another method ). I am a photographer and an owner of a small business. I keep all my photo files and my business files on separate USB drives. I also have a music collection on another USB drive. So, I just decided to buy a large single 8TB Seagate Backup Plus HD, which I plan to use exclusively for backup of the entire Imac and the connected individual USB drives. I will use Time Machine to do automatic backups. My question is how to configure the Backup Drive. Should I leave it as one large volume, or configure it to have several smaller volumes, each of them corresponding with the individual external USB drives?? I should note that the individual drives have a certain size today, but in the future might outgrow its capacity, forcing me to use larger new drives for same group of file types (Business, Photo and Music). At this point I may have only 5TB of external storage drives total. Imac 2013 with 3 external USB drives and 1TB internal Fusion HD. According to the instruction booklet if used as a Time Machine drive, the Seagate needs to be configured for a Mac by downloading their Paragon Mac Driver. At this point when I connect the drive to my Imac, it does mount and shows Start Here Mac App and Start Here Win App. So far I have not yet started playing with it. Any thoughts? I wasn't actually aware that Time Machine has the capability to backup drives other than your main drive. I could be wrong, but that's how I understand it. That said, once you've created a time machine backup (I'm not sure what your Paragon Mac Drive does by the way, but it might be for speed optimization. Maybe) on your 8 TB Seagate, you should have a directory structure on the drive that looks like the following: /Backups.backupdb/[Your Computer Name]/[Various backups] If you drop your external drives files onto the top level root directory, next to Backups.backupdb, you shouldn't have any issues with backing up your main drive. Keep in mind that Time Machine will not automatically pull files from your flash drives onto your backup drive (to my knowledge), as you will need to overwrite those or add to them as needed manually. Thanks, Lunder. Can I actually tell Time Machine to backup a particular drive to a folder which I would create on the backup drive? Does this not happen automatically? TM would create a folder with the name of the backed up drive? Also, is it better to format the Seagate drive using my IMac (without the use of Paragon), or should I use Paragon instead? Here is what the Paragon download website says: This driver provides write access for Seagate external drives in Mac OS without having to reformat. Leave your backup drive as a single volume. Time machine can only process one backup list. You should then open ' Time Machine Preferences' and select the ' Options' button. You will see a list of excluded drives which, by default, will probably contain your external drives. Simply select each drive and use the ' -' button to remove the drive from the excluded-list so it will be included in the Time Machine backup. Then ' Save' the new configuration. Now your primary drive and all the external connected drives will be included in the hourly Time Machine updates to your new backup drive.
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