I love day Machine, but I still think it’s incomplete. I’d love to be able to back up different stuff to different disks: that way, when I’m home I could back up the whole system on my large 500GB external drive (as I use a PowerBook), and when I’m on the road, I could back up only some relevant folders on my external 30GB hard disk. With day Machine, you can back up to different disks, but you can’t back up different stuff to different disks.

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please understand that the following might be dangerous to your data: please back up on a different disk before proceding. I am not responsible for any info loss you might encouter; that tip has only been tested by me! You should additionally know that that tip causes (I still don’t know why) the deletion of the details restricted in the folder /.fseventsd/. I thought that would cause a big mess, but everything seems to w…

Original post by Michael Rose