More than one time machine backup..

Is it possible to make time machine backup to more than one location? I have a nice big 2TB drive at my office that I use for time machine and it works perfectly but I would also like to run a second time machine backup to a portable 1TB drive that I own so that I have a backup that I can carry around with me as well as the fixed backup I leave at my office.
When I last tried to backup to the portable drive it forgot all about the original backup so when I came to try and back that up again it wanted to run from scratch and ignored all of the files on the external drive.

Chanandl3r wrote:
I then ejected the big 2TB drive and re-connected the smaller 1TB portable drive. I opened TM and clicked on Backup Now
Did you change the destination via TM Preferences > Select Disk? If not, that may be the problem.
Can't I just plug in different disks when I want and the system recognise them and run the appropriate backup for me?
No; you must tell TM when you swap destinations.
Did the new backup complete? Are you sure TM was writing to the 1 TB drive? There are some circumstances where OSX will "forget" that an external drive has been disconnected, and create a folder in the /Volumes folder on your internal HD; then Time Machine (or other app) will write there, instead of to the external HD. See the blue box in Where did my Disk Space go? to check.

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Hi,
With Snow Leo Server I found how to find how to share more than one Time Machine Folder but I can't see how to do the same with Lion Server, could you help me with that ?
The goal of that is to offer one TM folder per user which is located on a dedicated partition in order to limit the size of TM backups per user (150Gig).
In Lion, in can only share one TM folder for everybody and I didn'tfind if I can set a limit size per user...
Thank you in advance,

I have figured out a way to enable multiple backup targets.
However, it's one of these things I wouldn't want to describe to anyone except true programmer types, because everyone else has a 90%+ chance of messing up their system if they do something wrong.
It involves turning off file sharing, and then editing the plist files in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/
The gist of it is this:
a) first create all the share points you later want to use for TimeMachine, and set them up for afp-only file sharing, also create one TM target, which you can either use later, or have there so the system has one entry it knows how to handle. I just made a bogus one that I'm not actively using.
b) turn off file sharing in Server.app
c) turn off TimeMachine in Server.app
d) now you can edit the files, the easiest is with Xcode, so you may want to install that first
e) for each sharpoint you made in a) there will be a corresponding .plist file in the location indicated, these are the files that need to be edited.
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g) make sure all the edited plist files are saved
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If all went well, you now should be able to go to one of your networked client computers and see all the time machine share points just created as options for being a time machine target.
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How do I make Lion Server support more than one Time Machine disk?

Under Snow Leopard Server, I had two disks set up for Time Machine backups. This came about as I'm running a Mac Mini with the 500 GB internal drives which turned out to be insufficient for one of the connected Macs which uses a terabyte drive. I then added an external 6 TB drive and made it a Time Machine destination too. Worked beautifully. When I upgraded to Lion Server the external large drive was no longer available for backups and the interface for configuration within Server only allows for one drive to be in use at a time. Any suggestions (short on reverting to Snow Leopard) as to how to re-enable having both drives available for networked Time Machine access?
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Hi Adam,
Before I even realised that the Server app had a setting for TM, I just configured TM backups on my (SL) clients as I had done in SL.
I shared the drive(s) on the server I wanted to use.
For each client, I mounted the appropriate shared drive containing its sparseimage file, then set TM on the client to use that drive.
Then I unmounted the shared drive and started TM.
It mounted the remote drive (without displaying it in Finder) and opened the sparseimage, showing the "Time Machine Backups" volume on the desktop.
So you could use any drive attached to the server to backup any client.
It worked fine for me.
In the end, I changed my clients to use the (single) shared "Backups" volume which Server.app creates because I can fit all my stuff on one drive.
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Running more than one time machine back up drive

I have a back up drive assigned as my offices time machine back up drive.
I need to set up an off site back up drive too. I know that time machine will only allow a connection to one back up destination at once.
What problems could i encounter if i set up a off site drive as another time machine drive, disconnect on site drive and connect the off site drive to back up.
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That will work just fine, other than the hassle of having to tell Time Machine every time you swap.
Give the drives at least slightly different names (that's for you; Time Machine knows they're different).
Each set of backups will be complete and independent. When you do a backup to either one, it will contain all the changes you've made since the last backup +*to that drive.+*
The first backup after a swap may take a bit longer than usual, as there may be more changes to "catch up" with, but otherwise there should be no troubles.

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Nope. I do not use TM as I find it to be very unreliable and poorly suited to anything other than basic backup for inexperienced users. I use other backup applications that do scheduled backups to my backup drives. I would never try to have multiple backups on a single drive as it is unsafe. If the drive were to fail or become corrupted then both backups are lost. It's not a good backup strategy in my opinion. For backup I recommend:
Backup Software Recommendations
My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
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Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

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Will syncing my iPhone 3GS more than one time daily with Outlook 2007 wear out the battery?
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Do you have any other third party "utilities" on your Mac, such as CleanMyMac or MacKeeper?
Is the RAM you installed the recommended type of RAM for your Mac?
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More on the Time Machine backup folder issue

R C-R has a couple recent posts related to identifying the volume on which the current backup folder for Time Machine is located -- so other volumes can be safely unmounted. He developed a script that may be the best of all possible approaches and has asked forum members to test it in "Does this script work for you? (10.5 users only)". To date the responses have been positive.
I don't use 10.5 but figure that eventually I might. After R C-R's first post I wondered if the most recently modified backup folder might actually be the one he is looking for. Short of forcing Time Machine to do a backup just before running a script (I don't know how), there's no way (for me) to know whether the most recently modified backup folder is of any significance. But I had started fooling around with code to identify that folder and now have a script that seems to work nicely on a 10.4 mock-up of the Time Machine save scheme (or at least I think it is a mock-up). Of course, I find myself without a way to really test it.
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1) Does it run on 10.5?
2) Does it appear to return the name of the volume containing the most recently modified TM backup folder?
and
3) Is there any correlation between the volume name it returns and the result of R C-R's test script? (I won't be surprised if there isn't)
(BTW, through my own stupidity I encountered a number-comparison problem while writing the code, but other forum members quickly got me straightened out.)
--BEGIN (for me, the script runs in a fraction of a second)
set SI_ to system info
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set IntList to {}
set VtrueList to {}
set VtrueList_par to "NONE!"
set minVol to "[Not Applicable]"
set Vlist to do shell script "ls /Volumes"
repeat with v_ from 1 to count paragraphs of Vlist
set VolName_ to paragraph v_ of Vlist
try
set SF_ to do shell script "ls /Volumes/'" & VolName_ & "'/Backups.backupdb"
if SF_ contains CN_ then
if VtrueList_par is "NONE!" then set VtrueList_par to ""
set Vtrue to VolName_
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set Vtrue to ""
end if
tell application "Finder"
set IT_ to item ("" & Vtrue & ":Backups.backupdb:" & CN_)
set MD_ to modification date of IT_
end tell
set Interval_ to ((current date) - MD_)
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set VtrueList to VtrueList & Vtrue as list
set VtrueList_par to VtrueList_par & Vtrue & return
end if
set IntList to IntList & Interval_ as list
end try
end repeat
try
set CI_ to count items of IntList
set MinInt_ to item 1 of IntList
repeat with i_ from 2 to CI_
set NextInt_ to item i_ of IntList
if MinInt_ > NextInt_ then set MinInt_ to NextInt_
end repeat
end try
repeat with q_ from 1 to CI_
set Int_ to (item q_ of IntList)
if Int_ = MinInt_ then
try
set minVol to (item q_ of VtrueList)
end try
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
activate
display dialog "The following connected volumes contain a Time Machine \"Backups.backupdb\" folder at the root level which in turn contains a subfolder with the name of this computer (" & CN_ & "):
" & VtrueList_par & "
The most recently modified of the subfolders is on:
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if button returned of result contains "Unmount all volumes" then
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--END
Note: this is not a competition -- I'm just curious.

Hello osimp,
To distinguish two volumes with same name in plain AppleScript (without denpending upon particular applications such as 'Finder' or 'System Events'), I think you can use either POSIX file object or alias object.
if I'm not mistaken, POSIX file object has typeFileURL data, which contains mount point information. And alias object contains fertile information to track file system object dynamically not only by its path. (In order to create new alias objects for volumes with the same name, however, you'd have to distinguish them by other means, such as by using POSIX file object.)
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If you have two volumes named "Mac HD" and their mount points are:
/Volumes/Mac HD
/Volumes/Mac HD 1
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set f1 to "/Volumes/Mac HD" as POSIX file
set f2 to "/Volumes/Mac HD 1" as POSIX file
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set d1 to modification date of (info for f1)
set d2 to modification date of (info for f2)
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set d1a to modification date of a1
set d2a to modification date of a2
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After all, you might write a script as follows:
--SCRIPT
set CN_ to computer name of (system info)
set IntList to {}
set VtrueList to {}
set curDate to current date (* get curDate, time origin, once *)
set Vlist to paragraphs of (do shell script "ls /Volumes")
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(* get SF_ as string list in order to do exact comparison between each string and CN_ *)
if SF_ contains CN_ then
set pf to (BkDB_ & "/" & CN_) as POSIX file
(* get pf as POSIX file in order to distinguish volumes by mount point. *)
set end of VtrueList to VolName_ -- mount point name
set end of IntList to curDate - (modification date of (info for pf))
end if
end try
end repeat
set CI_ to count IntList
set MinInt_ to item 1 of IntList
repeat with i_ from 2 to CI_
set NextInt_ to item i_ of IntList
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end repeat
set minVol to "[Not Applicable]"
repeat with q_ from 1 to CI_
set Int_ to (item q_ of IntList)
if Int_ = MinInt_ then
set minVol to (item q_ of VtrueList)
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if CI_ = 0 then
set VtrueList_par to "NONE!"
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try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}
set VtrueList_par to VtrueList as Unicode text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
on error errs number errn
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
error errs number errn
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end if
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(* Rest omitted *)
--END OF SCRIPT
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