2 Time Machine drives; one's read-only, and has a different folder path...

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2 Time Machine drives; one's read-only, and has a different folder path...

I've looked for this online, but i don't see the answer anywhere. I backup my Osx 11.2.3 MacBook pro via Time Machine to two (supposedly) identical G-Drive 10TB USB-C drives.

Drive #1 (older) is writeable (I can create folders in the root folder make temporary manual backups to the drive), and the dated backups have a path of:

/Volumes/G-DRIVE 10TB USB-C #1/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro/2021-03-29-140008

Drive #2 (newer) is not writeable, and the dated backups appear in the root folder:

2021-02-03-164258

Copying and pasting the path of the same object yields:

/Volumes/.timemachine/C44AA0D9-994B-4352-ACFE-E14D3F367E1B/2021-02-03-164258.backup/2021-02-03-164258.backup

Is one of them newer / better? I'd prefer the first one.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Mar 29, 2021 10:21 PM

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Apr 11, 2021 5:02 PM in response to Barney-15E

Generally it’s useful to know whether a thing can be done so that later on if you End up having a need for that thing, you have the option.

But my reason for now: it’s good to have the option to do a manual back up of a particular item or folder to external hard drive, as well as Time Machine back ups. But the intended way to do that seems to be to create a separate volumes on that external drive. (It’s cool that the two volumes can share the same capacity.)

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