Time Machine backup on main drive

[Eliott69]

If I reduce the size of my MacBook Pro 16 inch 8 TB drive to 3TB and create a 5TB HFS+ partition, can I use that for Time Machine?
Please note that I have an external backup solution (not Time Machine), so my question is not about the 'real' backups at my office. I travel a lot, and I'd like to have an 'in-between' solution and Time Machine would be convenient.

 

[Ifti]

Yes that should work OK - although personally I would rather purchase a Samsung T5 and use that instead of of using more then half my internal drive for backups.....

 

[mollyc]

If something happened to your main drive you wouldn't be able to access TM on it?? Unless you are only concerned about retrieving accidentally deleted documents....

 

[Eliott69]

If something happened to your main drive you wouldn't be able to access TM on it?? Unless you are only concerned about retrieving accidentally deleted documents....

That's the idea.