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New hard drive has arrived. Time Machine did its first backup last night while I made myself dinner (small pieces of chicken thigh and onions, sprinkled with thyme/cumin/garlic powder/cayenne, deglazed with vermouth and and a wee bit of soy sauce, and served in a bowl of chicken ramen - was good, will try again).

1TB drive has two partitions: the cleverly named Time Machine, which is for automatic backups, and ExternalBrain, for anything that doesn't need to be on my computer all the time (video, possibly my fandom-related picture folders).

ExternalBrain also currently contains my old backups, which were made manually whenever my computer would do something nervous-making. There is a lot of duplication, and it will take a while to sort through the backups to figure out what goes back onto the Macbook, what stays on ExternalBrain, and what can be safely discarded.

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[turlough]

My backup disk is called Bob, and the old external where I keep all music and video files is called Ray :-)

[sofiaviolet]

Heeee. I tend not to name my possessions unless I have to in order to use them.

(My ipod is Patrick 2.0. The previous backup drive, which I have given to my sister, was called IO. I forget what the other hard drive is called, the one I will turn into a bootable backup.)

[moizissimo]

Is the backup program you use specific to Macs? I've had hardly any luck finding something for my PC. Everything has file limits. And I, err, collect.

[sofiaviolet]

Yeah, Time Machine is a part of OS X. :(

There does seem to be at least one workaround for using rsync under Windows. Doesn't seem to put limits on file size or number of files. But I don't know how hard it is to use.