If something terrible happens to any one of those Time Machine backups, there is at least one other volume with a history of recent backups on it, because of the automatic backup rotate feature of Time Machine. ![]() Another old Mac still on the network? Set it up as a Time Machine backup target. Old Apple Time Capsule network backup device in the closet? Stick a bigger old drive in there, put it back on the network, and add it to Time Machine. Empty bay in a 4-bay drive enclosure or NAS? Stick an old hard drive in there and add it to Time Machine. I have reused some as additional Time Machine drives. Over the years, as I’ve upgraded hard drives, I’ve ended up with a collection of older no longer used hard drives. This lets you plug in any number of Time Machine volumes at any time, and it’s not a problem (except for less redundancy) if only some of them are mounted. If any of them are not mounted, it will alternate among whichever volumes are mounted. If you add a third hard drive, it will alternate between drives 1, 2, and 3. For example, if you set up a second hard drive for Time Machine, it will begin alternating backups between drives 1 and 2. ![]() ![]() If you add more volumes to Time Machine, it automatically alternates backups among them. Time Machine makes it easy to keep rotated drives. Another approach is rotating multiple backup drives, which is what I do with Time Machine. Backing up the backup drive is one approach.
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