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Geo 09-23-2009 10:57 AM

Partitioning an External for two machines
 
Having been told by all-and-sundry that SD is wonderful, I have just downloaded the trial version and after reading the FAQ, have two questions (I shall post them separately).

Current set-up: 2 x PPC machines — laptop partitioned into 3 and the 2 internal drives on the desktop into a total of 5.

I also have a Seagate FreeAgent Firewire 1TB external drive.

Should I partition the external drive into 3 (partitions 1 & 2 for the Clones of the OS of each computer and the third partition for all the data from the other partitions — placed there through regular copying)

OR partition the external into 8 partitions, which seems a bit over-the-top? (I use Synk to synchronize the various separate data files, by the way.)

dnanian 09-23-2009 11:09 AM

Well, you have five source volumes, so you should have five destination partitions/volumes. Not quite sure where the 8 came from...

Geo 09-23-2009 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 27069)
Well, you have five source volumes, so you should have five destination partitions/volumes. Not quite sure where the 8 came from...

Sorry, I did not make it clear enough. Laptop 3 and desktop 5 (2+3 over two internal drives) = 8 over both machines.

dnanian 09-23-2009 11:19 AM

Ah. Well, then, 8 it is. You can't effectively combine the partitions into one for backup - just unwise...


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