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| 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 | 2016-10-20 15:27 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <e6s634FofieU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2016-10-19, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote: > On 10-19-2016 10:50, Jolly Roger wrote: >> 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. > > It's marketed as a backup utility. For Macs, yep. > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250 > > "all your files" Not. Common sense tells me "all your files" doesn't include files that are not on my Mac, like files on your floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and yes, also Windows-formatted USB sticks. And the fact that Time Machine *will* back up Mac-formatted USB sticks is a mere bonus. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. 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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