Using Time Machine without Another Hardrive

[jdoo2100]

this is the worst idea of a backup i heard!!! a backup means you have a BACKUP if your drive FAILS... with this trick, if hard drive fails, all files go bye bye!! sorry but this is BAAAD...

[macheads101]

@jdoo2100 This method does not protect against disk failures, but say for instance you accidentally delete a file that you wanted. You can go back and restore it.

[faralith]

Fantastic video, extremely helpful and informative

[bob93219]

oh god the most risky thing you can do

you could accidentally loose all your memory space just buy a wd my passport best portable hd ever

[MonsterrEnergyy]

WONT WORK! SAYS:

The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.

WHAT DO I DO!

[MonsterrEnergyy]

OH NEVERMIND! NICE!!!!! thanks

[MonsterrEnergyy]

can u unpart it if you decide you need space

[luxenzo]

this was a very helpful video.... you just saved me $50... If i could i would lick your foot...

[axelsaulean]

i already used boot camp to make a windows hardrive.

i currently have 66 GB available on mac and 29 GB on windows

so my question now is what is the minimum amount of space needed for time machine?

[bafifihotmailcouk]

urm... how to do get boot camp?

[macheads101]

it comes with your mac.

[bafifihotmailcouk]

but i cant find it anywhere ... my mac was once tiger and its now leopard... and my mac used to be my dads friends and used it 4 5 years... and then erased every thing so it can be mine...

[shaunpl]

just use disk utility

you dump shit

[ako0oba]

nice tutorial. clear voice and easy to follow. thnx for doing this.

[macheads101]

Your welcome, I hope this helped you.

[ako0oba]

Yes it is. I am now checking more of your video related to mac. thnx again

[macheads101]

you're welcome.

[macheads101]

You're welcome

[thetechroom]

awsome!!!

[macheads101]

Thanks yeah I thought it was cool when I figured it out too.

[Sidekickmac08]

That is feakin awsome thanks!

[macheads101]

You are so welcome.

[Bigbadarmo96]

nice!!!

[macheads101]

Thanks,

[strawberrycoughin]

If i plan to dual boot windows one day can I still do it after doing this?

[macheads101]

Yeah.

[ctmurray]

I like this idea, thanks for the video. Being able to return to a previous version of something is useful. I think I would also bring around my external hard drive once in a while and copy the backup disk to this external HD.

[macheads101]

Sweat thanks.

[Chremonwheels]

now i understand

[Chremonwheels]

If you buckup at your hard drive i think that if you lose all your info you also lose the backup

is this tue

[macheads101]

what do you meen loose all of your info? If you meen that you get a new Hard Drive or your Hard Drive breaks yes this method would not save your stuff. But if you decided to delete a file and wanted to get it back later, you could go into time machine. But if your hard drive got deleted you'd be in trouble!

[ChridoTech]

Why on earth do you use the Boot Camp utility to partition your drive? Why not just use Disk Utility?

[macheads101]

Because I thought that it would be easier for people to do it this way.

[ChridoTech]

Fair enough dude, I have to admit I did consider that basic users might find the Boot Camp wizard easier to follow. I just found it a bit odd to be honest. Anyways, no worries mate.

[johnisironman]

clever!

[macheads101]

Thanks.

[superriku11]

Thanks very useful video because i didn't want to go out and spend 500 dollars on a time capsule hard drive! :)

[macheads101]

Great, I'm so glad to here that. I'm glad this helped you because a lot of people did not like this video.

[MirekMateju]

This solution removes many advantages of Time Machine: You can't get your data back if your HDD crashes or your notebook is stolen. Only one feature remains: You can get back the data you deleted accidentally. But isn't it easier to not empty the trash?

[macheads101]

Yes. But I like emptying my trash. This is just basically to see how time machine works. It's just cool.

[MirekMateju]

I empty trash only if I need disk space. :-)

[rubikssolver08]

i used a usb flash drive 4GB as a backup

[SnowLeopard2008]

this is a dumb idea. what if you need to fresh install leopard and you get to the part that asks you to migrate your data... you're screwed.

[macheads101]

No, because when you install a New OS or reinstall the OS that you have it asks you what Hardrive to install it to so you won't lose anything.

[SnowLeopard2008]

hmm still think it's a dumb idea..

[macheads101]

Whatever.

[SUPERSONICPOOP]

Sweet! I am going to do this when my aunty gets a MacBook.

[macheads101]

Cool, I hope you like your new Macbook when you get it.

[julianjackson24]

but if your internal, fails your screwed. Cuz both your internal partitions will go.

[macheads101]

Yes. But this is just to have two copies of the stuff on your HD.

[MertenNor]

Nice tutorial :D I already have Windows from BootCamp so I thinck I cant do this..

MertenNor

[macheads101]

Ok. Alex too. I think though you could make yet another partition with Disk Utility. But I don't know.

[Chuck67322]

My Boot Camp assistant doesn't work :(

I already partitioned it before I saw this tutorial so I can install Ubuntu.

Then I wanted to uninstall it, so I reformatted the Linux Swap and the Bootcamp partition and tried to delete the partitions with Disk utility.

And now when I open Boot Camp Assistant, it says "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot

[Chuck67322]

Sorry, the comment was too long, here's the continuation:

Camp Assistant for installing Windows."

What do I do?

[macheads101]

Did you set the other partition back to MS-DOS format? You need to do that.

[Chuck67322]

Which one?

[macheads101]

You have to do the same thing that we did at the end of this video to unpartition.

[Chuck67322]

Like I said,

I removed the BOOTCAMP partition, and now boot camp assistant is messed up

[macheads101]

Oh you might need to bring it to the apple store then.

[Chuck67322]

I don't have AppleCare :(

[macheads101]

Just make an appointment with a Genius.

[Chuck67322]

whatever

I already have an external hard drive.

I was just hoping that you could help me with the problem, because I wanted to intall Windows.

[macheads101]

Oh Ok.

[macheads101]

Yeah and it works really well too.