Using an internal mac pro disk as time machine

[sim667]

I am getting a new macbook pro next week, and have a 650 gb media drive in my mac pro which is now full.

My mac pro has time machine on an external raid, but I dont have enough space on there to partition it to make a time machine drive for the macbook pro.

So I was thiking about buying a 1 or 2 tb drive to move all of my media onto, and then to use the old drive in the mac pro as a time machine for the macbook pro.

I'd have to mount the drive over wifi and then set up the time machine..... will that work?

 

[ActionableMango]

I am getting a new macbook pro next week, and have a 650 gb media drive in my mac pro which is now full.

My mac pro has time machine on an external raid, but I dont have enough space on there to partition it to make a time machine drive for the macbook pro.

So I was thiking about buying a 1 or 2 tb drive to move all of my media onto, and then to use the old drive in the mac pro as a time machine for the macbook pro.

I'd have to mount the drive over wifi and then set up the time machine..... will that work?

You don't have to partition a drive for it to be a target for multiple time machine backups.

Your scheme should work if you use that command line trick to enable unsupported drives on time machine. It is not recommended though. Personally I wouldn't do it.

 

[sim667]

You don't have to partition a drive for it to be a target for multiple time machine backups.

Your scheme should work if you use that command line trick to enable unsupported drives on time machine. It is not recommended though. Personally I wouldn't do it.

Woudl you suggest just getting a network drive to do it on?