11-28-2007, 04:44 PM
[quote tronnei][quote MacArtist]I am wondering if you couldn't partition your drive and use the partition as a Time Machine backup.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose? If the drive fails, your backup is gone too.
Probably so. I just couldn't think of any other way to use Time Machine without using an external drive.
Time machine doesn't necessarily come into play just for catastrophic loss. It can also be for retrieving files that were thrown away or roll back to a file version prior to modifying it.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose? If the drive fails, your backup is gone too.
Probably so. I just couldn't think of any other way to use Time Machine without using an external drive.
Time machine doesn't necessarily come into play just for catastrophic loss. It can also be for retrieving files that were thrown away or roll back to a file version prior to modifying it.