michaelft77 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I've got a fairly new MacBook Pro over the last 6 mos. Still trying to iron out some kinks in the chain. I also have two large wide screen monitors and getting them into extended mode has been a challenge along with 5 ss drives with orchestral libraries, a backup drive for Time Machine and a project drive also ss 2 terabytes for all of my recording. So question 1..... can I back up my daily session work automatically with Time Machine? I find the directions to backing up an external drive on TM are very confusing. and question 2....... On any given day when I start working, one or two drives simply don't mount which is incredibly stressful since my life's work is on these drives. I have a 2 terabyte account on Dropbox which helps but ultimately you want your drives to mount when you boot up. All of the drives are fairly new as well. any suggestions I would be very grateful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 How are the drives formatted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas007 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I don't use Time Machine, I prefer triggering backups manually. As a rule of thumb, I always start the external components of my system (such as the HD) a little while before booting the Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enossified Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 The Time Machine directions are simple, simply add as many drives as you want to use for backup and TM will round-robin through them. Attached is the Preferences window for my MB Air. I use a NAS as well as an attached USB drive that sits on my desk. When the USB drive is not mounted because I am away from the desk, TM will use only the NAS. Once the USB drive is remounted, TM will start alternating drives again. As seen in the prefs window, a backup will be attempted evey hour unless none of the TM drives are mounted. By default, TM will try to back up every folder on every currently mounted disk other than the one used for TM. There is an exclude list accssed by the Options button in the TM Prefs window. The user can indicate what not to backup (things like caches, for instance). That list can include entire drives if you prefer to only back up your data and not sound libraries, applications, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelft77 Posted July 22, 2021 Author Share Posted July 22, 2021 /Users/michaelterry/Desktop/Screen Shot 2021-07-22 at 8.36.29 AM.png Well I'm not sure I would use the word simple to describe any of this but I admire your courage.... They are all extended journaled except the T5 and the T7 are exphat… whatever that means. As far as Time Machine goes it seems to be backing up the MacBook Pro as well as Macintosh HD- data ( which I’ve never seen before)…. Also a folder called recovery with so many files I’ve also never seen before which leads me to think I’m doing something very wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 except the T5 and the T7 are exphat Alert!! Big no-no for Logic. Ex-Fat is a Windows format. Reformat them to APFS if they are SSDs. Remember a reformat erases everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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