Sd tm apfs sxs
Hello,
Any recommendations on backing up using Time Machine and SuperDuper side by side (SXS) on the same disk and using APFS for the SuperDuper backup? [I have two separate drives and rotate one offsite weekly, in addition to continuous cloud backup for important work] In the past, I always used one HFS drive for both TM and SD and it worked out just fine. I read Practice Makes Perfect, but didn't really see an answer there, other than "don't be a Goofus". From near as I can tell, the options are to stay with one giant HFS volume (ie, not use APFS) or split the drive into two partitions: one for TM on HFS and the other for SD on APFS. Thoughts? |
You indeed have to partition the drive into two physical volumes, one for HFS+ (Time Machine requires HFS+) and then a second one for the container that has the APFS volumes. You do this with Disk Utility as you'd expect - you can't store an HFS+ volume in an APFS container, but they can exist side-by-side without trouble.
My general advice, as you know, is to |
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I think you were going to advise separate drives. Many years ago, you had said using TM and SD can easily co-exist on the same drive. I took that to mean it was a reasonable practice. Did I misunderstand or maybe that advice is out of date? (that was probably at least 5 years ago). Thanks |
Don't know what happened there!
My general advice is to have hardware redundancy, so two separate drives. But you can do as I said, with partitions. |
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