Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/06

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Subject: [Leica] Looking For Simple, Automated, Cross-Platform Back Up Solution....
From: spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:41:34 -0400
References: <CAJ4y7gxUOb9Cw-zJH2unSBw59+neOCF-W=b_tu6Q2dBSDO7gdA@mail.gmail.com>
 
Bob,

The reason that Time Machine doesn't work with FAT32 is complicated. The 
short version is that Time Machine relies on the Mac's native file system 
(HFS+) to keep track of what changed since the last backup. This is not 
possible with non-HFS file systems. It the same reason that Windows backup 
S/W doesn't usually work with HFS+ formatted disks. ;)

I usually format all my external disks are formatted with HFS+ to avoid this 
problem and I don't let Time Machine back up these disks.

If my Mac breaks and I can't wait, I can borrow/beg/buy another Mac within 
24 hours. There are no advantages for me to keeping my external disks 
formatted as FAT32. 

Be aware that FAT32 can NOT handle volumes bigger than 2TB.

/sc
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