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Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives?
Date 2016-10-19 15:50 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-10-19, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
> On 10-18-2016 15:15, David Empson wrote:
>> From a quick glance, it appears that Time Machine doesn't back up
>> volumes that are formatted as foreign file systems (e.g. FAT, ExFAT).
>
> Wow, that sucks.  And is not a smart design.

Nonsense. Time Machine was *never* marketed as a backup utility for
anything other than Apple file systems on Macs. If you want to back up
other file systems, use suitable backup software for those file systems.

> I don't remember for sure, but I think I formatted it HFS+.

Obviously not.

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JR

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Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-18 12:17 -0500
  Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-19 09:15 +1300
    Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 00:19 -0500
      Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 15:50 +0000
        Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 17:57 -0500
          Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-20 15:27 +0000
            Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-21 20:13 -0500
              Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-22 01:40 +0000
                Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-22 16:51 -0500
  Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-19 12:46 +0000
    Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 17:58 -0500
      Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-20 04:16 +0000

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