can i use this to automatically back up another external hard drive connected to my macbook?
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i have this on my iMac using time machine to back up everything. But, there is the Seagate Dashboard program that may be able to do what you need...here's a link to some tutorials that may help you.. http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/backup-plus-desk-mac/
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Yeah, probably... 2 different file systems, but there is a way. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2518
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No. There IS, however, an external portable drive from WD that DOES work with the Mac. It's called My Passport for Mac and is available 500 GB to 2 TB. Just go to the WD web site. They offer other portable backup drives for the Mac.
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You can. My drive was formatted NTFS via usb and i connect to my Mac via Firewire 800 with no problems.
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if it is continuing backing up, is that the same information being made redundant or does it back up new information. MAC user with Time Machine
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No. It's for transfer from one hard drive to another only... The hardware in the cord does the transfer automatically.
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Yes. It's easy to setup since the drive operates independently from either Windows or Mac.
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If you are used to TimeMachine, which comes free with the Mac OS, then you cannot expect the automation Apple build into the backup process. You have to configure and operate backups manually on this drive. It is somewhat slow. Even though the connection is USB 3.
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I don't think you can use any USB cable, you need to get a clickfree transformer cable, and this cable can be used with any external hard drive to back up automatically.
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If your MBP has thunderbolt ports, yes. I would run the 2big in its native RAID0 mode to get more speed out of it, and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it out to a RAID1 unit or some other redundant backup plan.
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Yes and No...Yes; only if the external drive is a "bare drive" (not in an enclosure)...No; if the hard drive is enclosed in a case.
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To add to that answer, yes, which is how I set mine up. I have 4 3TB Drives from an older MacPro and just popped them in and was good to go!
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Yes you can, its like having two hard drives connected independently only via the same cable.
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@Tony I believe you could. You'd have to create two partitions on the drive, one formatted in HFS+ (for Mac) and the other in NTFS (for Windows). I have never done any such thing but it might be worth a try. Of course, as these drives have come so far down in price, why not just buy two, one for Mac and the other for Windows?
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No. This is to put into your mac book so that it can use two HDD. This is by no means a way to retrieve data. Your going to need to find software to do what you are looking for.
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If you have MacOS 10.4 or later on your laptops, yes you can. Windows 8 has the software to choose the files you wish to backup, not sure about apple.
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I think you saying that you will transfer the data from both macs to this hard drive and then partition the hard drive of both macs and then transfer the information back to the macs. If this is correct, then your answer is yes, you can use this hard drive to help accomplish your end goal.